Learn Blender 3 - Modeling Tools Introduction

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Modeling tools introduction

• You can toggle to the orthographic view, click on the grid in the top right corner of the viewport.
  • Perspective view is when there is a vanishing point
  • Orthographic view does not have this vanishing point
• Polygon tools only works on meshes
• Must be in edit mode
  • You are deforming and manipulating
    • vertices (points, verts)
    • edges (lines, sides)
    • polygons (faces)
• You can't select other objects while in edit mode
• You can go into edit mode from
  • the top drop down
  • Ctrl + Tab
    • Tab only will toggle Object Mode and Edit Mode
  • 1, 2, 3 on the top keyboard
    • 1 vertices
    • 2 edges
    • 3 polygons
• You can select the component in edit mode
  • vertices
  • edges
  • polygons
• NOTE: You can use the shift key to multi select different components
• a select all
• alt + a clear selection
  • double tap a quickly to also clear selection.
• Can use the different selection tools to select components
  • b select box
  • c select circle
    • Must use the right mouse button to disable circle selection mode
  • Ctrl + right and drag to select with the free lasso
• Turn on x-ray mode to select components that are occluded (not visible)
• Hold Shift key to multi select
  • Shift key also excludes from the selection
• Ctrl + (NumPad) expand selection
• Ctrl - (NumPad) shrink selection
• Alt + Left Mouse Button Click on edge to select edge loop
  • Works on any component (vertices, edges, polygons)
    • For polygons, Alt + Left Mouse Button Click near the sides dictates the direction of the loop
• Alt + Shift + Left Mouse Button Click to add multiple selection of edge loops
• Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button Click edge ring select
• Ctrl + Left Mouse Button Click from one component to a range (i.e. edge loop or edge ring)
  • Works on components
    • Vertices
    • Edges
    • Polygons
• L place cursor of a shell piece in edit mode and just press the L key (do not need to Left Mouse Button Click)
  • Hovering over other shells and pressing L will add to the selection