Blender Cheat Sheet
Common Shortcuts (Key Bindings)
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To bind an icon to a key, right-click and choose Assign Shortcut. Don’t forget to unbind those keys from any other shortcuts in Preferences > Keymap.
ALERT: The Industry-Compatible Keymap is not recommended because it reconfigures commonly needed key bindings, such as the N key to toggle the Sidebar.
Viewport Navigation
Viewport Display
Commands
Transforms
ALERT: To invoke the Move, Rotate, and Scale transform tool gizmos with hotkeys, go to Edit > Preferences > Keymap and set the Tool Keys option to Active Tool. The default Immediate mode uses Blender's unique transform tools, which are not recommended for many reasons.
Also, setting the Keymap at the top of the page to anything other than Blender will break the Active Tool transform hotkeys. The best practice is to modify the existing Blender Keymap. Otherwise, you will need to manually bind keys to the transform tool buttons.
Selection
Modeling
Sculpting
Rigging
Animation
Mac users:
The ALT key is labeled OPTION on the keyboard.
The CTRL key is labeled CONTROL.
Don't assume that the COMMAND key can be used instead of the CONTROL key. COMMAND may be bound to something other than CONTROL. Blender doesn't always follow the standard Mac convention, which is that COMMAND is reserved for the operating system. Usually, when a user presses COMMAND while an application has focus, the OS-level commands are ignored. The application interprets COMMAND as the same as CONTROL. That's the normal way of things. But Blender sometimes ignores this convention and uses the COMMAND key for specific application commands, independently of the CONTROL key.
By default, function keys are reserved for macOS operating system commands. To use the function keys in Blender, we have two options:
1. Hold the FUNCTION key, labeled FN on the keyboard, sometimes with an icon of a globe. Then press the desired function key, such as F1.
2. Enable the option Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys. In macOS Ventura or later, this is found in Apple menu > System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts.
