Blender 1-12-21

Blender 1-12-21

Welcome to Blender. Today we introduced Blender 2.91. It can be downloaded here: https://www.blender.org/ and click on Download

Today we covered the following keyboard shortcuts:

F12 - renders frame
shift A - to add a new object at the 3D cursor point
s - scale
g - grab
r - rotate
sx - scales along x axis
gx - moves constrained to x axis
rx - rotates about x axis
tab - toggles between Object mode and Edit mode
z - quickly lets you pick from wire frame, solid, material preview, or rendered mode
x - deletes selected object
ctrl s - saves under current filename
Numpad 1 3 7 to get sides and top view
Numpad 2 4 6 8 to rotate view
Numpad 0 - camera view
Numpad . - find and center selected object
Numpad 5 - toggles between orthographic and 3D perspective views
ctrl Z - undo (as many times as needed)

Know where Properties viewport is. We also pointed out the Outliner/Collections viewport and 3D viewport.
In Edit mode know how to enter into Vertex Select tool, Edge Select tool, Face Select tool.
In edit mode know how to use Vertex select, Edge select, and Face select.
Methods for camera control: Numpad 0, select camera frame (in object mode) and grab g, gx, gy, gz, gzz.
We tabbed into edit mode and selected a face and hit E to extrude it outward

We used "Shift-A" to add one of each mesh objects and placed them along the x-axis. We also created the monkey sculpture shown below.