Before getting all hot and heavy, a side note about Keyboard
Shortcuts. I'm a huge fan of shortcuts. If I had to move the pointer to each of
the buttons for all the things in the GUI I interact with, I'd be going much
slower. So remember: Keyboard Shortcuts are your friends. Assuming you haven't
redefined your own, the following default keyboard shortcuts are some of my
most used:
Keyboard
Shortcuts - Not a full list. See Tools->Customize...->Keyboard for the
rest. |
4 |
View model Left |
5 |
View model Top |
6 |
View model Right |
2 |
View model Front |
7 |
View model bird's eye |
8 |
View model Back |
0 |
View model Bottom |
r |
Rotate |
t |
Turn model |
s |
Scale model |
n |
Translate model |
l |
Lathe spline |
o |
Round spline through CP |
p |
Peak spline through CP |
g |
Group |
shift-g |
Lasso Group mode |
z |
Zoom |
shift-z |
Zoom to fit the current model in the current
window |
F2 |
Rename bone, group, model, choreography,
etc |
/ |
Group Connected - Select everything attached
to the current selection |
. |
Complement Selection - Take the opposite of
the current selection |
, |
Group Spline - Get the rest of the current
spline |
ctrl-c |
Copy |
ctrl-v |
Paste |
ctrl-x |
Cut |
Keyboard Shortcut Fact
#1 |
You can redefine any of the above to other
keys (Tools->Customize...->Keyboard). |
Keyboard Shortcut Fact
#2 |
Lots of other useful functions (Lock Mode)
have no default keyboard assignment but can be assigned unused keys like some
of the function keys. |
Keyboard Shortcut Fact
#3 |
Government statistics from 1999 indicate that
a record 5.37 million hours were saved by the use of keyboard shortcuts. |
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