Blender Keyboard Shortcuts

Cancels Blender functions without changes

• Esc

Open the toolbox

• Space

Start or quit edit mode

• Tab

Loads a Blender file, changes the window to a file window

• F1

Appends parts from other files, or loads as library data

• Shift
• +
• F1

Writes a Blender file, changes the window to a file window

• F2

Exports the scene as a DXF file

• Shift
• +
• F2

Exports the scene as a VRML1 file

• Ctrl
• +
• F2

Writes a picture, if a picture has been rendered, and the file format is as indicated in the display buttons

• F3

Saves a screen dump of the active window

• Ctrl
• +
• F3

Saves a screen dump of the whole Blender screen

• Ctrl
• +
• Shift
• +
• F3

Displays the logic context

• F4

Displays the shading context, light, material, or world sub-contexts

• F5

Displays the shading context and texture sub-context

• F6

Displays the object context

• F7

Displays the shading context and world sub-context

• F8

Displays the editing context

• F9

Displays the scene context

• F10

Hides or shows the render window

• F11

Starts the rendering from the active camera

• F12

Go to the previous frame

• Left

Go to the first frame

• Shift
• +
• Left

Go to the next frame

• Right

Go to the last frame

• Shift
• +
• Right

Go forward 10 frames

• Up

Go back 10 frames

• Down

Change the current Blender window to animation playback mode, the cursor changes to a counter

• Alt
• +
• A

Change the current window and all 3D windows to animation playback mode

• Alt
• +
• Shift
• +
• A

Insert key menu, this menu differs from window to window

• I

Toggle the render buffers

• J

Opens the last saved file

• Ctrl
• +
• O

Quit Blender

• Q

Timer menu, this menu offers access to information about drawing speed

• Ctrl
• +
• Alt
• +
• T

Save user defaults, current project settings are written to the default file that will be loaded every time you start Blender

• Ctrl
• +
• U

Write file without opening a file window

• Ctrl
• +
• W

Write videoscape file

• Alt
• +
• W

Erase everything except the render buffer, the default scene is reloaded

• Ctrl
• +
• X

Redo

• Ctrl
• +
• Y

Undo

• Ctrl
• +
• Z

Redo

• Ctrl
• +
• Shift
• +
• Z

All objects in the visible layer are displayed completely, centered in the window

• Home

Select the next object key, if more than one is selected the selection is shifted up cyclically

• PgUp

Add to selection the next object key

• Shift
• +
• PgUp

Select the previous object key, if more than one is selected the selection is shifted up cyclically

• PgDn

Adds to selection the previous object key

• Shift
• +
• PgDn

Select all layers

• `

Revert to the previous layer setting

• Shift
• +
• `

Start or stop edit mode

• Tab

Selects or deselects all

• A

Apply size and rotation

• Ctrl
• +
• A

If the active object is automatically duplicated, brings up a menu for actually creating the objects

• Ctrl
• +
• Shift
• +
• A

Brings up the add menu, the toolbox items that start with ADD

• Shift
• +
• A

Border select, draws a rectangle with the left mouse to select objects

• B

Render border, this only works in camera view mode

• Shift
• +
• B

Center view, the position of the 3D cursor becomes the new center of the 3D window

• C

Convert menu, depending on the active object a popup menu is displayed enabling you to convert certain types of ObData

• Alt
• +
• C

Copy menu, this menu copies information from the active object to selected objects

• Ctrl
• +
• C

Center zero view, the 3D cursor is set to zero and the view is changed so all objects can be displayed

• Shift
• +
• C

Display draw mode menu

• D

Add duplicate, the selected objects are duplicated

• Shift
• +
• D

Add linked duplicate, linked duplicates of the selected objects are created

• Alt
• +
• D

Draw the texture image as wire

• Ctrl
• +
• D

Start or stop edit mode

• Alt
• +
• E

If selected object is a mash, toggles face select mode on or off

• F

Sort faces, the faces of the active mesh object are sorted based on the current view in the 3D window

• Ctrl
• +
• F

Grab mode, or translation mode

• G

Clears translations, given in grab mode

• Alt
• +
• G

Group selection

• Shift
• +
• G

Insert object key, a keyposition is inserted in the current frame of all selected objects

• I

Join objects, all selected objects of the same type are added to the active object

• Ctrl
• +
• J

Show keys, the draw key option is turned on for all selected objects

• K

Display popup menu for showing and selecting all keys

• Shift
• +
• K

Makes selected object local, makes library linked objects local for the current scene

• L

Link selected, links some of the active object data to all selected objects

• Ctrl
• +
• L

Select linked, selected all objects somehow linked to the active object

• Shift
• +
• L

Move selected objects to another layer

• M

Mirror menu, it is possible to mirror an object along the X, Y, or Z axis

• Ctrl
• +
• M

Number panel, the location, rotation, and scaling of the active object are displayed and can be modified

• N

Clear origin, the origin is erased for all child objects, which causes them to move ot the exact location of the parent objects

• Alt
• +
• O

If the selected object is a mesh, toggles the subsurf on or off

• Shift
• +
• O

Make selected objects the children of the active object

• Ctrl
• +
• P

Clears parent relation, user is asked if they wish to keep or clear parent-induced transforms

• Alt
• +
• P

Rotate mode, works on selected objects

• R

Clears rotation, the X, Y, and Z rotations of selected objects are set to zero

• Alt
• +
• R

Size mode or scaling mode, works on selected objects

• S

Clears size, the X, Y, and Z dimensions of selected objects are set to 1

• Alt
• +
• S

Opens the snap menu

• Shift
• +
• S

Texture space mode, the position of dimensions of the texture space for the selected objects can be changed in the same manner for grab and size mode

• T

Makes selected objects track the active object

• Ctrl
• +
• T

Clears old style track, constraint track is removed as all constrains are

• Alt
• +
• T

Makes object single user, the inverse operation of link

• U

Switches in and out of vertex paint mode

• V

Object image aspect, this hotkey sets the X and Y dimensions of the selected objects in relation to the dimensions of the image texture they have

• Alt
• +
• V

Opens the object booleans menu

• W

Deletes selected objects

• X

Toggles solid mode on or off

• Z

Toggles shaded mode on or off

• Shift
• +
• Z

Toggles textured mode on or off

• Alt
• +
• Z

Start or stop edit mode

• Tab

Start or stop edit mode (alternative)

• Alt
• +
• E

Switches between vertex select, edge select, and face select modes

• Ctrl
• +
• Tab

Select or unselect all

• A

Circle select

• B
• +
• B

With vertices selected, this creates a hook object

• Ctrl
• +
• H

Number panel, simpler than the object mode one

• N

Switch in and out of proportional editing

• O

Toggles between smooth and sharp proportional editing

• Shift
• +
• O

Separate, you can choose to make a new object with all selected vertices, edges, faces, and curves

• P

Make vertex parent

• Ctrl
• +
• P

Shear, in edit mode this operation enables you to make selected forms slant

• Ctrl
• +
• S

Undo

• U

Displays specials popup menu

• W

Warp, selected vertices can be bent into curves with this option

• Shift
• +
• W

Adds to selection all vertices connected by an edge to an already selected vertex

• Ctrl
• +
• +

Removes from selection all vertices of the outer ring of selected vertices

• Ctrl
• +
• –

If using curve deformation, toggles the curve cyclic mode on or off

• C

Extrude selected

• E

Crease subsurf edge

• Shift
• +
• E

Mark LSCM seam

• Ctrl
• +
• E

Make edge or face

• F

Fill selected, all selected vertices that are bound by edges and form a closed polygon are filled with triangular faces

• Shift
• +
• F

Beauty fill, edges of all selected triangular faces are switched so equally sized faces are formed

• Alt
• +
• F

Flip faces, selected triangular faces are paired and common edge of each pair swapped

• Ctrl
• +
• F

Hide selected, all selected vertices and faces are hidden

• H

Hide not selected, all non-selected vertices and faces are hidden

• Shift
• +
• H

Reveal, all hidden vertices and faces are drawn again

• Alt
• +
• H

Join faces, selected triangular faces are joined in pairs and transformed to quads

• Alt
• +
• J

Knife tool menu

• K

Select linked

• L

Deselect linked

• Shift
• +
• L

Select linked selected

• Ctrl
• +
• L

Mirror, opens a popup asking for the axis to mirror

• M

Merges selected vertices as barycentrum or at cursor depending on selection made on popup

• Alt
• +
• M

Calculate normals outside

• Ctrl
• +
• N

Calculate normals inside

• Ctrl
• +
• Shift
• +
• N

Scales each vertex in the direction of its local normal

• Alt
• +
• S

Make triangles, all selected faces are converted to triangles

• Ctrl
• +
• T

Undo

• U

Redo

• Shift
• +
• U

Undo menu

• Alt
• +
• U

Special menu

• W

Erase selected

• X

Split, this command splits the selected part of a mesh without deleting faces

• Y

Set the selected curves to cyclic or turn cyclic off

• C

Extrude curve

• E

Add segment, a segment is added between two selected vertices at the end of two curves

• F

Toggle handle align or free

• H

Set handle to auto

• Shift
• +
• H

Calculate handles

• Ctrl
• +
• H

Select linked

• L

Deselect linked

• Shift
• +
• L

Mirror selected control points exactly as for vertices in a mesh

• M

Tilt mode, specify an extra axis rotation for each vertex in a 3D curve

• T

Clear tilt

• Alt
• +
• T

Vector handle

• V

The special menu for curves appears

• W

Erase selected

• X

Toggle cyclic menu

• C

Extrude selected

• E

Add segment, a segment is added between two selected vertices at the end of two curves

• F

Select linked

• L

Deselect linked

• Shift
• +
• L

Mirror selected control points exactly as for vertices in a mesh

• M

Select row, starting with the last selected vertex

• Shift
• +
• R

The special menu for surfaces appears

• W

Erase selected

• X

Move text cursor one position forward

• Right

Move text cursor to the end of the line

• Shift
• +
• Right

Move text cursor one position backwards

• Left

Move text cursor to the start of the line

• Shift
• +
• Left

Move text cursor one line forward

• Down

Move text cursor to the end of the text

• Shift
• +
• Down

Move text cursor one line back

• Up

Move text cursor to the beginning of the text

• Shift
• +
• Up

Reload original data

• Alt
• +
• U

Paste text

• Alt
• +
• V

All vertex colors are erased, they are changed to the current drawing color

• Shift
• +
• K

Undo, press twice redos the undone

• U

Shared vertexcol, the colors of all faces that share vertices are blended

• W

LSCM unwrapping, launches on the faces visible in the UV editor

• E

Pin selected vertices, they will stay in place on the UV editor when executing an LSCM unwrap

• P

Un-pin selected vertices

• Alt
• +
• P

Switches to edit mode

• Tab

With multiple, co-planar faces selected, this will merge them into one FGon so long as they remain co-planar

• F

Select linked UVs

• L

Calls a menu allowing to rotate the UV coordinates or the vertex col

• R

Calls the UV Calculation menu

• U