Hey everyone!
I’m fairly new to Blender and currently focusing on 3D modeling in Blender 4.3. I’m in the process of gathering resources and was hoping to tap into the collective wisdom here. Does anyone have a list of their favorite and most useful keyboard shortcuts for beginners?
I’d love to compile a handy reference that I can print out and keep by my side while I’m working. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Just for modeling: install F2 addon.
These are my common shortcuts while modeling (maybe i’m missing one or two):
S - scale
G - move/grab
R - rotate
E - extrude
F - create
M - join
Ctrl+B - bevel edge
Ctrl+Shift+B - bevel vertex
Ctrl+Click - extrude to mouse position
V - split
Ctrl+R - loop cut
X - delete
I dont believe there can be “shortcuts for beginners”. Basically, as a beginner itsprobably would be better to stick to default one, since 99% of tutorials will use default one.
Despite this, im personally doesnt recomment to anyone use blender/blender 2.7 keymaps, since G, R, S for interacting with objects are “blender thing”. If in the future you will wanted to switch to different DCC, or expand your app suite with something else - there will be a gizmo, not the “GRS” things. For 99% of the cases.
The way how you interact with objects or their components like edges and polygons, for most people becomes their “second nature” and people bound to it pretty closely. Switching from 3ds max to maya or c4d - is not a problem, because they use gizmo. Using unreal engine or unity paired with 3ds max, maya or c4d - is not a problem because they also use gizmo.
Switching from blender “grs” - would be a problem with any other DCC.
So using this is only a building a blender bubble around you and the whole world of other app which you might want to learn in the future.
There is someone who made it as an infographic.
Images are downloadable free of charge, and vector files have a cost.
Also this:
or even that:
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Ups… that would be 127 EUR
@Okidoki the cheat sheets and keyboard are awesome! I’m brand new to this. I’m currently pursuing blender as a hobby…hopefully that changes one day…I already love it. I really appreciate everything you shared with me!!
Best to you!
You can probably do this with stickers without changing your keyboard.
I think I saw this on Amazon before. 
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Blender keyboard shortcuts or cheatsheet - markoze arts and web design
At least it would be much cheaper… also when blender changes some shortcuts you simply can change it.
Nice (and also not cheap) would be this:
or even that:
…but i better don’t even look at how much this will cost…
They are people who enjoy looking at keyboards. 
And they have properly standard one to type on because otherwise they can’t see what’s on their see-board / watch-board !? 
