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• You can duplicate with the copy and paste command
  • In Blender, select the object, in 3D Viewport, you choose Copy Objects Ctrl + c
    • Then choose Paste Objects Ctrl + v
  • They are copied and pasted in the same location.
    • See it in the outliner
    • Move it to see it
• You can use the duplicate command to work on the object selected.
  • in 3D viewport Object -> Duplicate Objects
    • Hotkey: Shift + d
  • The difference is that you can move the object right away as if you pressed the g hotkey, which is the grab command.
  • The g command allows you to grab the object and move it. In older versions of Blender, this was the main way to move the object. The move manipulator wasn't so prominent.
    • Press either x, y, or z to restrict movement al
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Reset (Clear)

• Reset transformation values to default.

  • Translation (move), and rotate back to zero
  • Scale back to one.

• Transform side bar on the right of the 3D viewport

  • Hotkey: n

• Reset is called clear in Blender

  • Located in 3D Viewport menu:
    • Object -> Clear -> Location
      • Hotkey: alt + g
    • Object -> Clear -> Rotation
      • Hotkey: alt + r
    • Object -> Clear -> Scale
      • Hotkey: alt + s

• Can reset all by right clicking in the transform side bar and choosing Reset All to Default Values for Move (Location,) Rotation, and Scale individually.

  • Can do the same thing in the Properties editor.

• Hotkeys for manipulators

  • Select Box
    • Hotkey: Shift + Spacebar -> b
  • Select Circle
    • Hotkey: Shift + S...

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• Transformations
  • Consists of
    • Move
      • translation
    • Rotate
    • Scale
      • In math, dilation
    • Shear
      • or skew
    • Reflection
• 3 Ways to do so
  • Manipulators
    • Use icons on the left side of the screen
    • Also known as transform gizmos
• Move tool
  • Also known as translating
  • Use the axis
  • Use the plane
    • Color indicates that the object does not move in that axis with that color
  • Left mouse clicking and dragging outside the axis or planes will move the object in screen space, parallel to the view.
    • The effect is if you are moving the an image in the canvas in photoshop.
  • Cancel movement by right clicking with the right mouse button before letting go of the left mouse button.
• Rotate tool
  • Use the axis
  • The ob
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• Select box top left toolbar
  • Can click objects in the scene.
    • As you click last selection will be gone.
  • Can box select.
    • If you click and hold the selection button
      there will be options
      • Select
        • You can click and drag with this one
      • Select Box
        • Make a box to select
        • Hotkey b
          • Middle mouse button exclude what is
            inside it.
      • Select Circle
        • Paint and select what was hit
        • Click and hold the left mouse button and
          scroll the middle mouse wheel to increase or decrese the radius
        • Hotkey c
          • Temporarily puts in select circle mode
          • Hold Shift + left mouse click to deselect object
      • Select Lasso
        • Make a lasso to select.
        • Ctrl + Right click mouse button to add to selection
        • Ctrl + Shift + Right click mouse button to re
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• To frame all in 3D Viewport:

  • View -> Frame All
    • Hotkey: Home

• To frame the selected object in the Viewport:

  • View -> Frame Selected
    • Hotkey: Numpad .

• To orbit around selection

  • Edit -> Preferences... -> Navigation -> Orbit & Pan -> Orbit Around Selection
    • The orbit point is the selected object. Therefore, it will always stay visible in the viewport.

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• Navigation in the 3D environment

  • Pan
  • Zoom
  • Orbit

• Pan

  • Move up, down, left, and right.
  • Shift + Middle mouse button

• Zoom

  • Zoom in and out of the environment
  • Roll the middle mouse scroll wheel
    • OR if CTRL + middle mouse button

• Orbit

  • Rotate around the environment
  • Middle mouse button

• Top left corner in the 3D viewport tells you what your current view is.

• Icons in the top right corner of the 3D viewport

  • Camera Icon uses the camera that is active in the scene.
    • Click on it again to toggle back.
  • You can toggle perspective and orthographic projection
    • Perspective is similar to how we see the world
      • Visually, parallel lines converge to a vanishing point
    • Orthographic view, lines do no
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• Default layout is split into 4 with 4 different areas.

  • 3D Viewport (Shift F5)
  • Outliner (Shift F9)
  • Properties (Shift F7)
  • Timeline (Shift F12)

• Every editor have a header at the top of the editor

  • It is context dependent on the editor
  • Top left will have the Editor Type selector
    • If you just hover over the editor type selector, it will give an
      description of the editor

• 3D Viewport Here is where we affect the 3D environment.

  • You can
    • model
    • uv unwrap
    • texture
    • light
    • rig
    • animate
    • simulation
    • groom

• Timeline plays animation and has transport controls like a video editor

  • Transport controls
    • Works when mouse is hovering over the 3D viewport area or the time line area
    • Play (Spacebar)
    • Play reverse (Shift +
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• Blender has
  • top menu bar
  • bottom status bar
• Top menu bar has menu items
  • Blender Icon
  • File
  • Edit
  • Render
  • Window
  • Help
  • Tabs for different layouts
• Status bar gives information on how to use the active tool
  • You can hide it if you click and hold and drag down on the bottom margin and drag down.
  • To show it again, click on the bottom border of the interface and drag up.
• To maximize an area, hover over it and press CTRL+Spacebar, if you are on Windows. There should be something equivalent on each platform, such as possibly COMMAND and Spacebar.
• Each area that is for viewing has an editor.
  • You can control and view scene information with it.
• You can join, split, and scale areas.
  • This is very specific to Blender
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• When you open Blender, you will get a Splash screen.

• In the splash screen, there is quick setup where you can choose

  • Language
  • Shortcuts
    • Blender
    • Blender 27x
    • Industry Compatible
  • Select with
    • Left or Right
  • Spacebar
    • Play
    • Tools
    • Search
  • Theme
    • Blender Dark (Default)
  • You might have the option to load settings from previous versions of Blender as well.

• You can click Save New Settings

  • Next time you open blender, the Splash Screen will look different.

• You can change the options again in Blender Preferences

  • (Edit -> Preferences)

• The default splash screen will have the option to choose the type of interface you can use.

  • It is just a pre-set layout designed to streamline specific tasks.
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• Go to Blender website (https://www.blender.org/) to download Blender.
• You can click on the Download (https://www.blender.org/download/) link.
  • It should auto-detect your platform and start downloading.
• If it does not autodetect your platform, you can click on Previous Versions (https://www.blender.org/download/previous-versions/) in the navigation bar.
  • There should be a download (https://download.blender.org/release/) button that links to every previous version of Blender.
• For version 3 of Blender, download here (https://download.blender.org/release/Blender3.0/)
  • Using Blender 3.0.1 for these examples.
    • You can download it for
      • Windows
        • windows-x64.msi (https://download.blender.org/release/Blender3.0/blender-3.0.1-windows-x64...