---
title: "Blender keyboard shortcuts — the full list"
description: "80 Blender keyboard shortcuts, grouped by what they do. Windows, macOS and Linux, with the Mac equivalents where they differ."
url: https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/blender/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Blender keyboard shortcuts

**Blender keyboard shortcuts: 80 shortcuts**

Windows, macOS and Linux

Blender is the open-source 3D creation suite. Its keymap is aggressively context-sensitive: the same key does different things depending on which editor the mouse is hovering over and which mode you are in, so I inserts a keyframe in the Timeline and insets a face in Edit Mode. These are the 4.x defaults with left-click select; the 2.7x keymap and the Industry Compatible keymap are both different.

## Navigation and view

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| MMB | Orbit the view |
| Shift + MMB | Pan the view |
| Ctrl + MMB | Zoom the view |
| Numpad . | Frame the selection |
| Home | Frame everything in the scene |
| Numpad 0 | Look through the active camera |
| Numpad 1 | Switch to front view |
| Numpad 7 | Switch to top view |
| Numpad 5 | Toggle perspective and orthographic view |
| Numpad / | Isolate the selection in local view |
| ` | Open the view navigation pie menu |
| Shift + RMB | Place the 3D cursor |

## Selection

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| A | Select everything |
| Alt + A | Deselect everything |
| Ctrl + I | Invert the selection |
| B | Box select |
| C | Circle select |
| Shift + Click | Extend the selection and make the item active |
| Shift + G | Select grouped items such as children or siblings — Object Mode only |
| Ctrl + Numpad +  Ctrl + Numpad - | Grow or shrink the selection |

## Object mode

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Tab | Toggle Edit Mode |
| Ctrl + Tab | Open the mode pie menu |
| Shift + A | Open the Add menu |
| Shift + D | Duplicate the selection |
| Ctrl + J | Join the selected objects into the active one |
| Ctrl + P | Parent the selection to the active object |
| Alt + P | Clear the parent relationship |
| H | Hide the selection — Shift + H hides everything else, Alt + H reveals |
| X | Delete the selected objects — Delete removes them without the confirmation menu |
| Ctrl + A | Apply location, rotation or scale |
| Alt + G  Alt + R  Alt + S | Clear location, rotation or scale |

## Edit mode (mesh)

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| 1  2  3 | Switch between vertex, edge and face select — Edit Mode only |
| Alt + Click | Select an edge loop — Edit Mode only |
| Ctrl + Alt + Click | Select an edge ring — Edit Mode only |
| Ctrl + L | Select all linked geometry — Edit Mode only |
| E | Extrude the selected region |
| Ctrl + B | Bevel the selected edges |
| Ctrl + R | Add a loop cut and slide it |
| K | Start the knife tool |
| I | Inset the selected faces |
| M | Open the Merge menu |
| P | Open the Separate menu |
| U | Open the UV unwrap menu |
| Ctrl + M | Mirror the UVs on an axis — UV Editor only |
| X | Open the Delete menu — Edit Mode only |

## Transform

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| G | Grab and move the selection |
| R | Rotate the selection |
| S | Scale the selection |
| R then R | Trackball-rotate the selection |
| X  Y  Z | Constrain the transform to one axis — Press after G, R or S |
| Shift + X  Shift + Y  Shift + Z | Constrain the transform to a plane — Press after G or S |
| Ctrl (held while dragging) | Snap to coarse increments |
| Shift (held while dragging) | Move in fine increments |
| Shift + S | Open the Snap pie menu |

## Animation and playback

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| I | Insert a keyframe on the hovered property |
| Alt + I | Delete the keyframe |
| Shift + Alt + I | Delete every keyframe on the property |
| K | Add the property to the active keying set |
| Alt + K | Remove the property from the keying set |
| Spacebar | Play or pause the animation |
| Shift + Ctrl + Spacebar | Play the animation backwards |
| Up arrow  Down arrow | Jump to the next or previous keyframe |
| Shift + Left arrow  Shift + Right arrow | Jump to the start or end frame |

## Editors and workspace

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Ctrl + O | Open a file |
| Ctrl + S | Save the file |
| Shift + Ctrl + S | Save under a new name |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo the last action |
| Shift + Ctrl + Z | Redo the last action |
| F2 | Rename the active item |
| F3 | Search the menus |
| F9 | Reopen the last operation panel |
| F12 | Render the current frame |
| Ctrl + Page Up  Ctrl + Page Down | Switch to the next or previous workspace |
| N | Toggle the sidebar |
| T | Toggle the toolbar |

## Sculpt mode

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| F | Resize the brush by dragging — Sculpt Mode only |
| Shift + F | Set the brush strength by dragging — Sculpt Mode only |
| [  ] | Decrease or increase the brush size — Sculpt Mode only |
| Ctrl (held while sculpting) | Invert the brush direction — Sculpt Mode only |
| Alt + A | Open the auto-masking pie menu — Sculpt Mode only |

## Common questions

### How many keyboard shortcuts does Blender have?

This page lists 80 shortcuts across 8 groups, covering the ones people actually use day to day rather than every binding the application defines.

### Are Blender shortcuts the same on Mac and Windows?

Mostly. The usual difference is that Ctrl on Windows becomes ⌘ on macOS, which is why the shortcuts here are written as "Ctrl/⌘". Where a binding genuinely differs beyond that swap, it is spelled out separately.

## Related pages

- [Microsoft Excel shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/excel/)
- [Windows 11 shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/windows/)
- [macOS shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/macos/)
- [Microsoft Word shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/word/)
- [Visual Studio Code shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/vscode/)
- [Google Chrome shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/chrome/)
- [Adobe Photoshop shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/photoshop/)
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- [Google Sheets shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/google-sheets/)
- [Gmail shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/gmail/)
- [Microsoft Outlook shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/outlook/)
- [Vim shortcuts](https://atoneplace.net/shortcuts/vim/)

## Sources

- Official vendor product documentation — At One Place (/about/)