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Extrusion Polybuild

• e to extrude edge and vertices
• f to build face of selected vertices
• Polybuild tool all for drag and drop of faces and edges
• Can turn on vertex snap with icon on top middle of viewport
• Can turn on auto merge vertices with icon at top right in viewport

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Spin Tool

Misc

• Shift + c cursor back to the center of the world
• Hold Alt + Middle Mouse Button to focus where you pressed

How to use the spin tool

• Go into face mode
• Select a face
• Select the spin tool
• Choose axis on top
• Press shift and right mouse button to place the manipulator
• Choose clock-wise or counter clock-wise direction
• Can move it with the left bottom menu or the move manipulator

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Bridge, Fill, Bevel

Misc

• Shift + d to duplicate components
  • Press x, y, or z to constrain the move onto that axis

Bridge

• Select edges (can be faces or holes)
  • Ctrl + e
  • Edge -> Bridge Edge Loops
  • There are other options in the bottom left HUD of the screen

Fill

• Select a hole with edges and press f or

  • f

    • Vertex -> New Edge/Face from Vertices
• `Face -> Fill` - `Alt + f` - `Face -> Grid Fill`
• Only work if the selected hole have even number of selected edges

Bevel

• Ctrl + b
• Use the bevel tool in the tool bar
  • The manipulator shows up for you to move the edges
  • There are other options in the bottom left HUD of the screen

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Extrude and Inset

Extrude a Face

• Alt + e
• e extrude
• Go to edit mode
• Select the faces you want to extrude
• Choose the Extrude Region in the toolbar
• You get an icon to extrude
• If you extrude, you get a manipulator
  • There are options on the top right to make the manipulator Normal or XYZ
  • XYZ is affected by the Transformation Orientation at the top (i.e. Global, Local, Normal, ...)
• If you press and hold the Extrude Region icon, you can choose different modes like
  • extrude along normal
  • extrude individual
  • extrude to cursor

Inset a face

• i shortcut
• Select a face and choose inset face tool
• LEFT MOUSE BUTTON CLICK AND HOLD THE CIRCLE OUTLINE of the manipulator and click and drag towards the center of the insert
• You can multi-select faces and do an insert.
  • The bottom right options lets you choose individual
  • The option is also at...

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Combine and Separate Geometry

Combine Meshes into One Mesh

• First, Shift + Left Mouse Button Click all the geometry object that you want to be joined
• Second, Shift + Left Mouse Button Click the last geometry object that all the other geometry object will be joined to.
• In the 3D Viewport menu, do Object -> Join
  • You can also use Ctrl + j

To Separate

• In edit mode, hover the mouse over a linked area (also known as in other 3D packages as shell, element, island) press the l key to select the linked faces
• While in Edit Mode In the 3D Viewport menu, do Mesh -> Separate -> Selection

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Delete Components in a Mesh

 Delete Vertices, Edges, and Faces

• Select object's component (either vertices, edges, or faces) in edit mode in the viewport
• Press the Delete key or x key
• A floating menu shows up to choose what to delete
  • Deleting with the first part of the menu deletes all the geometry components to it
    • Try delete vertices, edges, faces. You will see that the components that cannot exist without them will be deleted.
  • Dissolve just removes that component but leave the surrounding components intacted.
• Ctrl + x and Ctrl + Del dissolves edges

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Add Edges to Mesh

 Loop Cut Tool

• Go to edit mode
• The tools and icons on the right change
  • If you float over them, they tell you what they are
• You can drag the side of the icons to put them
  • side by side
  • or by seeing the name
• Icons with a triangle on the bottom right corner have sub-menus
• You can use the loop cut tool to add edges
  • Ctrl + r
    • You can see short cuts if you hover your mouse and leave it for a few seconds over the icon.
  • By default, it is in the middle of the two parallel edges
    • If you left click the mouse button and hold and drag, you can position where it goes
• When you let go of the left click and have the edge loop, there is a menu on the bottom left to configure things like the
  • number of cuts....

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Edit Multiple Objects and Workspaces

 Edit mode

• Ctrl + Tab select in wheel the mode
  • Can use numbers hotkey in keyboard and numpad
• Tab to go to toggle edit mode
• Shift + a to add objects with pop-up menu
• Can create multiple objects and edit them

 Workspaces

• There are pre-defined workspaces.
  • They are not new modes, they are just custom layout streamlined for your workflow
• You can duplicate a workspace, rename it and customize it
• Switching modes go to edit the selected objects in the contextual edit mode
  • Modeling goes to edit mode
  • Sculpt mode on selected

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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...

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Polygon Mesh - Drawing Polygons in Blender

• Create a mesh object
  • Lets use a plane
• Go into edit mode and delete all vertices
• Go to top view
  • 7 on the numpad
  • Hold alt and orbit in viewport to snap to a view
  • Click on the positive z-axis in the top right corner
• To add a vertex
  • Ctrl + Right Mouse Button Click in Edit Mode
  • NOTE: If the last vertex is selected it will draw a edge
    • You can click an empty area in the viewport to unselect
• Select all the vertices and press the f button to create a face
• Can check orientation of faces with Overlays -> Geometry -> Face Orientation
  • Make sure Overlays is enabled
  • Make sure backface culling is off
• You can check backface culling with ...