Blender 3.3

Question 1

How do you Select items in Blender?

Answer 1

LMK (Left Mouse Key)

Question 2

How do you get items to Play in Blender?

Answer 2

Play = Spacebar

Question 3

What peripheral is HIGHLY recommended for use with Blender?

Answer 3

A 3-Button Mouse

Question 4

How do you emulate the middle mouse button on a laptop?

Answer 4

AFTER switching to emulation mode in Settings you can use Alt + Click for the middle mouse button

Question 5

Where do you go to change your graphics processor settings in Blender?

Answer 5

Edit - Preferences - System

Question 6

How do you turn on Auto-Run Python scripts?

Answer 6

Edit - Preferences - Save & Load

Question 7

What can you do if Blender crashes?

Answer 7

Go to File - Recover - AutoSave
Then you can reload the last AutoSave

Question 8

How often does Blender normally AutoSave?

Answer 8

Every 2 minutes

Question 9

How can you free up memory if Blender is running slowly?

Answer 9

Go to the file on your computer where Blender stores the AutoSaves and delete some of the older ones

Question 10

What is the Viewport in Blender?

Answer 10

The Viewport is the center area of the interface. This is where you will set up your 3D scene

Question 11

How do you ORBIT?

Answer 11

Middle Mouse Button (MMB) + drag
OR
Left Click + drag on the Gizmo

Question 12

What is the difference between ORBIT and PAN?

Answer 12

Orbiting is rotating the VIEW (NOT the object) inside the Viewport. Panning is shifting the view left, right, up, or down WITHOUT rotating.

Question 13

How do you ZOOM inside the Viewport?

Answer 13

Scroll the mouse wheel
OR
L Click + drag on the Magnifying Glass Icon

Question 14

What are 2 different ways you can navigate around the Viewport?

Answer 14

You can Orbit, Zoom, or Pan with the MOUSE
OR you can use the Gizmo, Magnifying Glass, and Palm icons in the upper right corner of the Viewport

Question 15

How do you PAN in the Viewport?

Answer 15

Shift + MMB + drag
OR
L Click + drag on the Hand Icon

Question 16

Why would you click on the Camera Icon?

Answer 16

To see a shaded view in the Viewport of what the Scene Camera is “seeing”

Question 17

How do you switch from Orthographic view to Perspective view?

Answer 17

Click on the “Star Wars Title Crawl” grid icon

Question 18

If you get stuck how do you find out what a tool does?

Answer 18

Hover the mouse cursor over the tool icon

Question 19

What can you do in Object Mode?

Answer 19

You can Move, Rotate, and Scale objects.