Nice post about 25 Useful Blender tricks that aren’t so obvious | Blender Guru.
Summary :
- Automatically add a number to the end of your .blend filename
- Preview textures
- Changing the camera
- Copy any attribute of another object
- Switch to the opposite side of the viewport
- Loop select
- Change brush size and strength on the fly
- Camera Flytrough
- Quickly compare changes by storing a render in the buffer
- Render a small portion of your scene
- Reset 3D cursor
- Change the default blender scene
- Merge vertices
- “Beauty Fill” a hole in your mesh
- Select an object behind another
- Quick switch screen modes
- Select all connecting vertices
- Rotate object as trackball
- Reveal alpha mask
- Select vertices with Lasso Tool
- Resize objects base on their texture dimensions
- Scroll through frames
- Select more than one editing mode (vertex/edge/face)
- Subsurf objects on the fly
- Move sliders in 0.1 increments
