Introduction to the Blender Manual¶
This manual aims to be a complete and concise source of information to help you to become familiar with the application.
Conventions¶
Keyboards¶
Hotkey letters are shown in this manual like they appear on a keyboard; for example,
G
- refers to the lowercase
g
. Shift
,Ctrl
,Alt
- are specified as modifier keys.
Ctrl-W
,Shift-Alt-A
, ...- indicates that these keys should be pressed simultaneously
Numpad0
toNumpad9
,NumpadPlus
- refer to the keys on the separate numeric keypad.
Other keys are referred to by their names,
such as Esc
, Tab
, F1
to F12
.
Of special note are the arrow keys, Left
, Right
and so on.
Mice¶
This manual referrers to mouse buttons as:
LMB
- Left Mouse Button
RMB
- Right Mouse Button
MMB
- Middle Mouse Button
Wheel
- Scrolling the wheel.
Contribute¶
The Blender Manual is a community driven effort to which anyone can contribute. Either if you found a typo or if you want to improve the general quality of the documentation, there are several options for helping out. You can:
- Fix problems, improve the documentation and write new sections – see how to contribute.
- Report problems in the documentation.
- Get involved in discussions through the mailing list
and
#blenderwiki
IRC channel.