Blender
From Mike Beane's Blog
This is mostly for reference:
- My 1st attempt at Blender (1/21 - 14 hours): https://twitter.com/betamountain/status/955232060599390208
- My 2nd attempt at Blender (1/28 - 2 hours): https://twitter.com/betamountain/status/957378931677716480
2.9
- Screencast Keys
- Rain for rigging
- BisectPlus
2.8x
Keys
- Mouse 4 to rotate (custom)
- Select Toggle: A\ALT+A
- Wireframe View: Z-4
Ref
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1od08qJn9Q - Beginners Blender 3D: Tutorial 10 - 3D Logo Ident Process: BMW Badge
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plhyqG-vEXk - [HD] Displacement Modifier tutorial Blender 2.56
- https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/34037/how-to-merge-vertices-in-blender
- https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/734/how-to-smooth-shade-an-object-while-retaining-hard-edges
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gRUUeFteQg - how to apply textures in blender 2.7x (beginners)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbU1bGOzWM - How to Cut A Hole in an object
Removing Non Manifold
- Edit Mode -> Select -> All by Trait -> Non Manifold -> DELETE VERTICES [1]
Splitting Objects
Knife
- Rotate the body so the cut follows an axis (make note of the angle)
- Edit Mode
- Knife (K), Cut Through (Z), Constrain Angle (C) <for straight cut>
- Make the cut line
- LMB to stop cut
- Enter to finalize
- Select -> Select Loop Inner Region
- Mesh -> Separate -> Selection
Older
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3J-oYFdyqQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfLdbzSZdw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pCf3DjsEBg&list=PLD1lGauXeE2NNaNHIjTd3XHFIBMcIUBrO&index=14&t=0s <--- Learn Bisect
- Duplicate the object
- Obj 1: Bisect the upper (fill\clear inner)
- Obj 2: Bisect the lower (fill\clear outer)
- https://daler.github.io/blender-for-3d-printing/printing/mesh-problems.html
Blender Guru
Probably the most useful series that I found was by Blender Guru. He's patient and walks through the items. Do the tutorial bits, they are handy. He has a handy PDF (you have to sign up to get it) for shortcuts.