How To Use Blender Without A Mouse
Go to edit preferences input and enable enable 3 button mouse.
How to use blender without a mouse. Now you can rotate by holding down alt and the left mouse button. 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. Close the preferences window. To pan the view press shift option mouse button and drag. Option mouse button middle mouse button.
To rotate the view press option mouse button and drag. Shift alt lmb will do the pan. For discrete steps use the hotkeys ctrl numpad8 ctrl numpad2 ctrl numpad4 and ctrl numpad6 as with orbiting note. In blender go to edit preferences. You can replace ctrl with shift.
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. If you want to try and emulate the mmb press down alt and the lmb. To do that head over to your user preferences and explore the input section and choose emulate 3 button mouse. Using a trackpad in blender. 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.
Command apple mouse button right mouse button. Don t have a 3 button mouse or are you on a laptop. You can use blender without a number pad by either using the view menu or by enabling number pad emulation. Alt lmb will emulate the mmb s view rotation function. Moves the view up down left and right.
Blender has alternate methods that can be used instead of using a scroll wheel. If you like thi. Zoom in and out by holding the ctrl alt and left mouse button and moving the mouse. To pan the view hold down shift and drag mmb in the 3d viewport. This function appears to be well supported in blender in conjunction with modifier keys.