Keyboard shortcuts for Blender → UseTheKeyboard

Universal

Cancels Blender functions without changes

Open the toolbox

Space

Start or quit edit mode

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

Appends parts from other files, or loads as library data

Shift
F1

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

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

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

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

Displays the shading context and texture sub-context

Displays the object context

Displays the shading context and world sub-context

Displays the editing context

Displays the scene context

Hides or shows the render window

Starts the rendering from the active camera

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

Go back 10 frames

Down

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

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

Toggle the render buffers

Opens the last saved file

Ctrl
O

Quit Blender

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

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

Ctrl
X

Redo

Ctrl
Y

Undo

Ctrl
Z

Redo

Ctrl
Shift
Z

Object Mode

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

Selects or deselects all

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

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

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

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

Add duplicate, the selected objects are duplicated

Shift
D

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

Draw the texture image as wire

Ctrl
D

Start or stop edit mode

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

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

Clears translations, given in grab mode

Group selection

Shift
G

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

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

Display popup menu for showing and selecting all keys

Shift
K

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

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

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

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

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

Rotate mode, works on selected objects

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

Size mode or scaling mode, works on selected objects

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

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

Makes selected objects track the active object

Ctrl
T

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

Makes object single user, the inverse operation of link

Switches in and out of vertex paint mode

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

Opens the object booleans menu

Deletes selected objects

Toggles solid mode on or off

Toggles shaded mode on or off

Shift
Z

Toggles textured mode on or off

Edit Mode - General

Start or stop edit mode

Start or stop edit mode (alternative)

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

Ctrl
Tab

Select or unselect all

Circle select

With vertices selected, this creates a hook object

Ctrl
H

Number panel, simpler than the object mode one

Switch in and out of proportional editing

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

Make vertex parent

Ctrl
P

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

Ctrl
S

Undo

Displays specials popup menu

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

Shift
W

Edit Mode - Mesh

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

Extrude selected

Crease subsurf edge

Shift
E

Mark LSCM seam

Ctrl
E

Make edge or face

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

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

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

Shift
H

Reveal, all hidden vertices and faces are drawn again

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

Knife tool menu

Select linked

Deselect linked

Shift
L

Select linked selected

Ctrl
L

Mirror, opens a popup asking for the axis to mirror

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

Calculate normals outside

Ctrl
N

Calculate normals inside

Ctrl
Shift
N

Scales each vertex in the direction of its local normal

Make triangles, all selected faces are converted to triangles

Ctrl
T

Undo

Redo

Shift
U

Undo menu

Special menu

Erase selected

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

Edit Mode - Curve

Set the selected curves to cyclic or turn cyclic off

Extrude curve

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

Toggle handle align or free

Set handle to auto

Shift
H

Calculate handles

Ctrl
H

Select linked

Deselect linked

Shift
L

Mirror selected control points exactly as for vertices in a mesh

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

Clear tilt

Vector handle

The special menu for curves appears

Erase selected

Edit Mode - Surface

Toggle cyclic menu

Extrude selected

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

Select linked

Deselect linked

Shift
L

Mirror selected control points exactly as for vertices in a mesh

Select row, starting with the last selected vertex

Shift
R

The special menu for surfaces appears

Erase selected

Edit Mode - Font

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

Move text cursor to the beginning of the text

Shift
Up

Reload original data

Paste text

VertexPaint

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

Shift
K

Undo, press twice redos the undone

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

UV Editor

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

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

Un-pin selected vertices

FaceSelect

Switches to edit mode

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

Select linked UVs

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

Calls the UV Calculation menu