25 Useful Blender tricks that aren’t so obvious

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25-blender-tricksBlenderGuru.com, the new site of freelance Blender artist Andrew Price, has published a list of 25 useful Blender tricks.  A couple of them made me go ‘wah!’, so even after ten years of using Blender there’s plenty to learn ;-) Check it out.

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    • Gr8!

      Nice!

    • Agile

      WOW. I knew that Blender has more features than is described in the manual, but how they were revealed?

    • oxigen

      Indeed, cool collection! I also didn’t know for some of the tricks from this nice collection. It’s really amazing how many options are in Blender!

    • http://www.svingo.com Christian Lehmann

      Now that is a great ressource. Thanks for posting.

    • Gryphon

      Win.

    • STart_blender

      I have a problem on ubuntu 9.04 layers shortcuts on keyboard doesn’t work exept ~ this button showing all layers.

    • http://www.steam-train.de/en/countdown/ Haunt_House

      Two of the tips were new to me or forgotten, the rest is old news. But still a very useful compilation. There’s also a thread on CGtalk for blender features that aren’t so obvious.

    • tmr232

      This is simply fantastic.
      Just a small Q, how do people get to know these things? It is not even in the hot-key reference inside Blender (which deserves some updating)…

    • Ben

      Win +1

      Knew half of them anyway, but they are all great!

    • Aka

      No 1′s readin’ manual or what??

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    • redbyte

      Glad you liked the list everybody! The blog will be updated regularly so check back soon :)

      @tmr232
      I was wondering that myself. Most of the tricks I listed, I learnt from reading the ‘Cool tricks that aren’t so obvious’ thread at CGSociety: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=91&t=52560. But it would indeed be interesting to know where everyone picked these things up. I imagine it makes it’s way down the grapevine after a blender dev tells a rookie :)

    • Fire Angel

      While I think some of those are obvious if you’ve bothered to read the manual, some aren’t in the manual and really should be! A superb little collection of simple but effective ways to speed up your work in Blender.

    • Moremun

      Very helpful for the beginners,not for long-time users…