Blender keyboard shortcuts

Press F9 to change the options of what you just didf9

Almost every operation in Blender has hidden parameters. Right after adding a cylinder, doing a bevel, or subdividing, press F9 to pop up the Adjust Last Operation panel under your cursor — change the vertex count, bevel width, or number of cuts and watch the result update live. It only works until you perform another action, so tweak before moving on.

Type exact numbers in the middle of any transform

Transforms accept typed math while they are active. Press G to grab, then X to lock to the X axis, then type 2 and press Enter: the object moves exactly 2 units along X. The same works for rotate and scale — R, Z, 90, Enter rotates 90 degrees around Z. You never need to drag precisely or open the sidebar to enter coordinates.

Isolate the selected object with Local View/

Press Slash on the numpad to enter Local View: everything except your selected objects disappears and the view frames what remains, letting you work on one mesh inside a crowded scene. Press it again to bring the rest of the scene back exactly as it was. If your keyboard has no numpad, enable Emulate Numpad in Preferences > Input to use the regular number row.

Repeat your last action anywhere with Shift+R⇧+R

Shift+R repeats the last operation, including its exact parameters, at the current selection or cursor position. Extrude a face by 0.5, select another face, press Shift+R and it extrudes by the same amount. It shines in modeling loops — one carefully adjusted inset or loop cut can be stamped across the mesh in seconds.

Search every command by name with F3f3

Press F3 to open the operator search menu and start typing: every command Blender knows — Shade Smooth, Merge by Distance, Recalculate Normals — appears in a filtered list you can run immediately. When you know an operation exists but cannot remember which nested menu hides it, this is faster than hunting through headers, and it also teaches you the hotkey shown beside each entry.