Blender Shortcuts

CTRL-D Display alpha of image texture as wire
result (as image, the texture is uv mapped but it doesn’t have to be)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nwinters99/seldomkeys/wirefromalpha.png

It uses the alpha of the image texture, not the image applied to the face. Also, it starts at a pixel at the edge, and the wire is generated of that area, if there is a hole in the image it will not be noticed.

ALT-F Beautify fill
http://home.earthlink.net/~nwinters99/seldomkeys/beautyfill.png
normal filll on the left, fill after beauty fill (you do a fill with shift+f, then alt+f) on right. It tries to fill better, by making the faces more “even” which results in fewer of the faces sharing one vertex. This isn’t the best example though.

Numeric input, N key
In case you want to clear the size or rotation in one direction this is your key. Also useful for placing objects at particular locations.

Proportional vertex editing O key
Also a button on the 3d window header.
Proportional vertex editing allows you to move (scale or rotate) vertices in a gradual manner based on the selection. Umm, if you select one verticie you can move the ones around it based on the proportional editing size (changed with pad+ and - as well as the scroll wheel while in an editing function). Proportional vertex editing can be a fast way to make changes to a mesh seamless without adding the gradual part yourself. Procedural vertex editing can be toggled with Shift+O

ALT-S Edit mode: Shrink/fatten (Scale along vertex normals)
This will scale the selected vertices based off of the direction they are facing. Try it, interesting results.

CTRL-S Edit mode: Shear
Useful if you need to shear something, it allows someone to for example turn a plane into a parallellogram, or a cube into a parallelopiped without using the grab tool. (I don’t make this stuff up). I can’t explain well what it does (even with an image) but it is necescary to know that it shears across the view’s horizontal in direction and your chosen editing center (cursor, boundbox center…).

CTRL-T Make selected object track active object
You don’t need a constraint for it unless you want to track with a bone, or control the amount of tracking with an ipo curve.

CTRL-ALT-T Blenchmark
Blenchmark? (should be benchmark)
will draw (or draw and swap, depends what you specify) the scene a number of times (10). Reports the number of milliseconds it took. Useful for checking if OpenGL in blender is faster in linux or windows or on osx on another machine.

CTRL-U Save current state as user default
say you have materials, or display settings you want in your default blend file (the one you get when you start or hit control+x), this is the way to get it.

SHIFT-W Warp/bend selected vertices around cursor
can let one wrap something around something else
best explanation (and tutorial) available on
http://download.blender.org/documentation/NaN_docs/Manual2.0/Warp.html 63

L and scene-releated keys
scenes are useful things, the L key will allow you to link an object to/from a particular scene.

check in the display buttons (on left, under paths for rendering save and stuff) for the option to “Set link to scene as Set”
this will allow you to have one constant scene as a background in as many other scenes as you like, that is still visible while editing that scene, but can’t be messed up from one separate from another. (it can’t be changed from any scene)

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Control+F Fly Mode
press control+f while in a camera view to enter fly mode. This will allow you to aim and move the camera in a flight like manner. the left mouse button increases speed (tap it multiple times to go faster), and the middle mouse button decreases speed (again, tap it to go slower). You can also go backwards. the right mouse button and escape will cancel. press the space bar to stop the camera, and keep it where you put it. You can aim by moving the mouse. The control key will move down, the alt key will move up. The speed of all of this depends on your grid settings. With a larger grid setting (in view buttons, press shift+f7 for buttons window, view buttons has eye icon [leftmost one]) you will go faster [relative to the same absolute sized geometry].

Control+F3 and Control+Shift+F3 Save a Screenshot
respectively save a screenshot of the current window, and of the entire blender screen. The file type is the same as specified in the display buttons.

Any more?

hey, and can someone explain “CTRL-K Make skeleton from armature”