The ULTIMATE Blender Notes

•  Along an axis
• Hold x,y,z
• Selecting loops
• Hold alt while selecting
• Camera-based selection
• I think just be in wireframe node tbh
• extruding
• E
• Bevel
• Ctrl+B, hold middle mouse to increase chamfer, scroll to add divisions
• Applying modifiers
• Ctrl + A
• Image planes
• Edit > Preferences
• Click the Add-Ons tab
• Search “Image”
• Activate the “Import-Export: Import Images as Planes”
• Close User Preferences window
• File > Import > Images as Planes, or in the 3D Viewport press Shift+A > Images > Images as Planes
•  Find and select an image to import
• Click Import Images as Planes in the bottom right of the window
• NOTE: You need to change the viewport shading to "texture" instead of "material"
• edge constrained rotation
• Rotates edges while keeping it constrained to attached geometry
• Alt + R
• selecting between points
• Press ctrl when you click the end point
• Using shift you can select more than one at a time
• Isolate
• / on the number pad
• shift + H does smthn lol
• Merge verts by sliding them
• In edit mode, next to the symmetry options click this button to turn on merge verts moved to the same position
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• Press G two times to slide the vert to the other one
  
• Switches between object and edit mode
• Press tab
• Duplicating objects 
• Independently
• Shift +D
  
• Dependently (editing one edits the other)
• Alt + D
• Select from one point to another
• Hold ctrl
• Open the side panels
• T for the one on the right
• N for the one on the left
• selecting edges that are the same length going in the same direction
• crtl+alt+left click
• Applying transformations
• ctrl+a 
• auto-smooth
• vertex thingy (green)  -> normals
• the degrees refers to if angles are over that number they will smooth separately 
• duplicate w/out moving
• shift + D then right click to cancel the grab
• scale evenly
• S then hold alt
• shortcut to the add menu
• shift+A
• booleans
• click on the cutting object, then the one that gets cut
• Ctrl+shift+B (brush booleans from scifi terminal
• union works better than join
• select the one you are going to attach and then the one you are attaching it to
• troubleshooting
• change the solver to fast
• change clamp over ride
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• Using the bevel modifier
• check harden normals to prevent shading issues
• the guy in tut always uses 3 segments
• triangles on corners causing shading issues?
• change miter (outer) to arc
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• order of modifiers
• make sure your modifiers are in the correct order!
• goes from top down (runs to top one first and the bottom one last)
• Usually the bevel modifier will be at the end