How To Use Blender Without A Mouse
Please follow the instructions from the video to use your keyboard as a mouse will be really helpful if in an emergency you lost your mouse.
How to use blender without a mouse. If you like thi. But before we begin using it we ll need to tell blender that we don t actually have a regular three button mouse attached to the system. This function appears to be well supported in blender in conjunction with modifier keys. Moves the view up down left and right. To pan the view hold down shift and drag mmb in the 3d viewport.
Don t have a 3 button mouse or are you on a laptop. Close the preferences window. Option mouse button middle mouse button. Using a trackpad in blender. Blender has alternate methods that can be used instead of using a scroll wheel.
Now you can rotate by holding down alt and the left mouse button. Shift alt lmb will do the pan. To rotate the view press option mouse button and drag. In blender go to edit preferences. To do that head over to your user preferences and explore the input section and choose emulate 3 button mouse.
You can use blender without a number pad by either using the view menu or by enabling number pad emulation. The first thing we need to do is turn on 3 button mouse emulation. If you want to try and emulate the mmb press down alt and the lmb. To select an object press command apple mouse button. Command apple mouse button right mouse button.
Go to edit preferences input and enable enable 3 button mouse. You can replace ctrl with shift. For discrete steps use the hotkeys ctrl numpad8 ctrl numpad2 ctrl numpad4 and ctrl numpad6 as with orbiting note. Using blender without a 3 button mouse is not really recommended but sometimes you have to get by with the tools you have available. If you enable number pad emulation then you can select the different views from the number keys at the top of the keyboard and you can select the visible layers in the footer of the 3d view window.