How to Use the Mouse with Blender 3D Animation

Part of the Blender For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Blender, on top of providing a platform for your animation urges, offers shortcuts that combine mouse action and keystrokes to achieve effects, choose an image, move things around, and much more. This list tells you what mouse action to take to get the desired result with Blender software:

Common Blender Mouse Actions
Action	Result
Left-click	Place 3D cursor
Ctrl+left-click	Quick extrude
Right-click	Select
Shift+right-click	Add to selection
Alt+right-click (edit mode)	Edge/Face loop select
Middle-click+drag	Rotate view
Shift+middle-click+drag	Pan view
Ctrl+middle-click+drag	Zoom view