We will go over all of the buttons/tabs/keys that I have (personally) found to be relevant, but I imagine there are many more shortcuts or other ways to do things. what buttons/tabs should I concerned about? The wiki for Blender (also for 2.6x, but works for 2.7x) is also a good resource although, like most wikis, it does not do the nice step-by-step examples.įor those of you that are interested, I will be covering the following topics: His particular version of Blender (2.6x) is older than the one I am using (2.71), but I have not seen any major differences (at least not yet).

You can download Blender for your appropriate system here.Ī lot of what I learned on how to use Blender came from the extensive application-specific tutorials done by Neil Hirsig for his Blender 3D Design Course. Keep in mind that this is scratching the surface so-to-speak and that there are many other things that Blender is capable of such as texture, lighting, animation, and physics. the stuff that I know how to do) on designing your own 3D model.

Nevertheless, I still think it is a great 3D modeling software and hope to alleviate some of the frustration by showing you today some of the basics (i.e. While this did happen to be true (hence this Instructable), learning how to use Blender the first time took longer than I expected and was (and still is) a little frustrating at times.

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