Being More Productive in Blender with Custom Hotkeys

by Jonathan Williamson

Learn how to be more productive in Blender by creating custom hotkeys for your favorite tools.

In this Citizen tutorial I am going to show you several different way you can create custom hotkeys for all of your most used tools in Blender. This can dramatically speed up your workflow, making you more efficient and productive.

You’ll learn how to assign or change hotkeys with just a few clicks for most tools. You’ll also learn how to set custom hotkeys for more difficult tools that are context sensitive or that have more than one mode or setting by finding the Python data path.

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11 Responses to “Being More Productive in Blender with Custom Hotkeys”
  1. Daniel
    Posts: 1

    First!!!
    Yay

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     Nov 1, 2012 at 3:43 pm
  2. Ben Amend
    Posts: 78

    You might want to change the rotation angle of the thumbnail. It just looks kind of weird to see 2 tutorial images in a row tilted in the exact same way. Just a suggestion :P

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     Nov 1, 2012 at 4:47 pm
  3. Artie Dlugokenski
    Posts: 6

    I did not watch the video yet but I am guessing this tut is coming from the comment you made at the blender conference , ” I really wish There was a hotkey for x-ray ” LOL

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     Nov 1, 2012 at 4:51 pm
  4. John Garrett
    Posts: 16

    Thanks, Jonathan! I was not sure how to create a new shortcut. It would nice if there was a debug function to highlight the syntax error.

    ~John

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     Nov 1, 2012 at 7:18 pm
  5. riverdog
    Posts: 4

    Thanks Jonathan, I have one question. Is there a way to make a hot key to act as a mouse key. I have a cheap tablet I use and the keys on the pen are hard to use. And the pad has no buttons on it. It would be nice if I could use a hot key to act as the mouse keys.
    Mike

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     Nov 2, 2012 at 10:34 am
  6. Jeremy Deighan
    Posts: 263

    Sounds like Jonathan was dropping some *hints*! :D

    Great little video, going to add Edge Slide now. How about a list of your most used hotkeys??? ;)

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     Nov 2, 2012 at 9:22 pm
  7. Geofrey Mayollo
    Posts: 7

    nice tutorial

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     Nov 3, 2012 at 12:46 am
  8. Epliza
    Posts: 16

    Need a citizen tutorial for setting shortcuts?! O.o

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     Nov 6, 2012 at 10:22 pm
  9. abdelsidi77 cheikh
    Posts: 14

    thanks great tutorial

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     Nov 8, 2012 at 4:54 pm
  10. crdrhaxxxxcr
    Posts: 1

    Is there a way to have one shortcut, cycle through the mesh selection options. eg. alt numpad 1 (first press = vertex mode. second press = edge mode. third press = face mode and then go back to first press)?

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     Nov 9, 2012 at 8:07 am
  11. Wolfgang Becker
    Posts: 8

    … coming from another app to Blender, one of the first things that will be missed is a series of hot keys for vertex, edge, face (selection wise)!

    Looked for this at Idon’tknowhowmanyplaces >>> so the second half of this tut is just better then sliced bread. Thanks a LOT for this!!

    Cheers, Z

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     Nov 15, 2012 at 6:17 am

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