Blender Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac
Blender runs almost entirely from the keyboard, and most of its speed is muscle memory. Here are 141 shortcuts as they work on macOS, where Cmd replaces Ctrl in a few surprising places.
All shortcuts
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Add Constraint (with Targets) | ⌃⇧C |
| Add Menu | ⇧A |
| Add Selected To Active Group | ⌃⇧G |
| Align Camera To View | ⌃⌥0 |
| Bend | ⇧W |
| Border Select | B |
| Center View to Cursor | ⌥Home |
| Center View to Mouse | ⌥F |
| Circle Select | C |
| Clear Location | ⌥⇧G |
| Clear Location | ⌥G |
| Clear Object Constraints | ⌃⌥C |
| Clear Origin | ⌥O |
| Clear Parent | ⌥P |
| Clear Render Border | ⌃⌥B |
| Clear Restrict Render | ⌃⌥H |
| Clear Restrict View | ⌥H |
| Clear Rotation | ⌥⇧R |
| Clear Rotation | ⌥R |
| Clear Scale | ⌥⇧S |
| Clear Scale | ⌥S |
| Clear Track | ⌥T |
| Clipping Border | ⌥B |
| Convert to | ⌥C |
| Copy Selection to Buffer | ⌘C |
| Copy Selection to Buffer | ⌃C |
| Create New Group | ⌃G |
| Create Orientation | ⌃⌥Space |
| Cycle Proportional Edit Falloff | ⇧O |
| Delete | ⇧⌫ |
| Delete | ⌫ |
| Delete | ⇧X |
| Delete | X |
| Delete Keyframe | ⌥I |
| Dolly View | ⌃⇧= |
| Dolly View | ⌃⇧- |
| Dolly View | ⇧- |
| Dolly View | ⇧+ |
| Duplicate Linked | ⌥D |
| Duplicate Objects | ⇧D |
| Insert Keyframe Menu | I |
| Join | ⌃J |
| Local View | / |
| Make Duplicates Real | ⌃⇧A |
| Make Links Menu | ⌃L |
| Make Local | L |
| Make Parent | ⌃P |
| Make Parent without Inverse | ⌃⇧P |
| Make Proxy | ⌃⌥P |
| Make Single User Menu | U |
| Make Track | ⌃T |
| Mirror | ⌃M |
| Move to Layer | M |
| Object Apply Menu | ⌃A |
| Object Specials Menu | W |
| Paste Selection from Buffer | ⌘V |
| Paste Selection from Buffer | ⌃V |
| Properties | N |
| Remove From All Groups | ⌃⌥⇧G |
| Remove From Group | ⌃⌥G |
| Resize | S |
| Resize | ⌥⇧T |
| Rotate | R |
| Select Grouped | ⇧G |
| Select Less | ⌃- |
| Select Linked | ⇧L |
| Select Mirror | ⌃⇧M |
| Select More | ⌃+ |
| Select Orientation | ⌥Space |
| Set Active Keying Set | ⌃⌥⇧I |
| Set Active Object as Camera | ⌃0 |
| Set Origin | ⌃⌥⇧C |
| Set Pivot: Active Element | ⌥. |
| Set Pivot: Bounding Box Center | , |
| Set Pivot: Cursor | . |
| Set Pivot: Individual Origins | ⌃. |
| Set Pivot: Median Point | ⌃, |
| Set Render Border | ⌃B |
| Set Restrict Render | ⌃H |
| Set Restrict View | ⇧H |
| Set Restrict View | H |
| Shear | ⌃⌥⇧S |
| Snap Element Menu | ⌃⇧⇥ |
| Snap Menu | ⇧S |
| Start Game Engine | P |
| Toggle All Layers | ` |
| Toggle Object/Edit Mode | ⇥ |
| Toggle Pose Mode | ⌃⇥ |
| Toggle Rendered Shading | ⇧Z |
| Toggle Select All | A |
| Toggle Select All | ⌃I |
| Toggle Show Manipulator | ⌃Space |
| Toggle Use Pivot Point Align | ⌥, |
| Toggle Use Proportional Edit Objects | O |
| Toggle Use Snap | ⇧⇥ |
| Toggle Vertex Paint Mode | V |
| Tool Shelf | T |
| Transfer Mesh Data | ⌃⇧T |
| Translate | G |
| Translate | ⇧T |
| View All | ⇧C |
| View All | ⌃Home |
| View Camera Center | Home |
| View Lock Clear | ⌥. |
| View Lock to Active | ⇧. |
| View Navigation | ⇧F |
| View Numpad | ⌃⇧1 |
| View Numpad | ⌃1 |
| View Numpad | ⇧1 |
| View Numpad | 1 |
| View Numpad | ⌃⇧7 |
| View Numpad | ⌃7 |
| View Numpad | ⇧7 |
| View Numpad | 7 |
| View Numpad | ⌃⇧3 |
| View Numpad | ⌃3 |
| View Numpad | ⇧3 |
| View Numpad | 3 |
| View Numpad | 0 |
| View Orbit | 8 |
| View Orbit | 4 |
| View Orbit | 9 |
| View Orbit | 6 |
| View Orbit | 2 |
| View Pan | ⌃8 |
| View Pan | ⌃4 |
| View Pan | ⌃6 |
| View Pan | ⌃2 |
| View Persp/Ortho | 5 |
| View Roll | ⇧4 |
| View Roll | ⇧6 |
| View Selected | ⌃. |
| View Selected | . |
| Viewport Shade SOLID/TEXTURED | ⌥Z |
| Viewport Shade SOLID/WIREFRAME | Z |
| Zoom Camera 1:1 | ⇧⏎ |
| Zoom to Border | ⇧B |
| Zoom View | ⌃= |
| Zoom View | ⌃- |
| Zoom View | - |
| Zoom View | + |
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FAQ
How many Blender keyboard shortcuts are there?
This guide lists 141 Blender shortcuts as they work on macOS, read from the app itself and kept up to date by Shortcut Flow.
Do Blender shortcuts use Cmd or Ctrl on Mac?
Mostly Ctrl, matching other platforms, but a handful of system-level commands use Cmd on macOS. This list shows the Mac defaults.
What is the fastest way to learn Blender shortcuts?
Not by reading the full list. Shortcut Flow watches which commands you actually use in Blender and drills you on those first, one minute a day, so the shortcuts you need most stick within days.