How To Use Blender Without A Mouse
Moves the view up down left and right.
How to use blender without a mouse. Go to edit preferences input and enable enable 3 button mouse. To rotate the view press option mouse button and drag. To select an object press command apple mouse button. To do that head over to your user preferences and explore the input section and choose emulate 3 button mouse. Alt lmb will emulate the mmb s view rotation function.
There are a few ways however to make blender work better with just a trackpad. Don t have a 3 button mouse or are you on a laptop. The first thing we need to do is turn on 3 button mouse emulation. 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. This function appears to be well supported in blender in conjunction with modifier keys.
If you want to try and emulate the mmb press down alt and the lmb. Using blender without a 3 button mouse is not really recommended but sometimes you have to get by with the tools you have available. You can replace ctrl with shift. In blender go to edit preferences. 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.
It s a nice two hand operation hold down the alt and lmb with your left hand and use the touchpad with your right hand to navigate. How to use blender without a scroll wheel. For discrete steps use the hotkeys ctrl numpad8 ctrl numpad2 ctrl numpad4 and ctrl numpad6 as with orbiting note. If you like thi. Close the preferences window.
Zoom in and out by holding the ctrl alt and left mouse button and moving the mouse. Option mouse button middle mouse button. Now you can rotate by holding down alt and the left mouse button. Blender has alternate methods that can be used instead of using a scroll wheel. Command apple mouse button right mouse button.