⚡ Shortcut Cheat Sheet

A compact collection of useful shortcuts, tips, and workflows for daily production.

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🧭 Quick Navigation

• Blender
• Plasticity
• Substance Painter
• DaVinci Resolve
• ComfyUI
• Windows
• MacOS
• Command Line (CMD & PowerShell)
• Notepad++
• VScode
• General Tips

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🟠 Blender

General

• Alt + Q — Switch between shapes (Press in weight paint mode or in edit mode to switch between shapes. Press ALT hover over another mesh and press Q)

• Shift + R — Repeat last operation

• Ctrl + Shift + R — Korean Bevel
  (Creates two proportional loop cuts around an edge)

• Ctrl + Space — Fullscreen current editor

• Window → New Window — Open a separate render window that stays on top

Animation & Graph Editor

• Alt + D — Open interpolation menu (Graph Editor)
• Shift + E — Set in-between pose (animation)

Modeling

• Ctrl + E → H — Clear Sharp edges
• Ctrl + H — Hook to object
• Select edge/vert + V — disconnect edge/vert

Object / Pose Mode

• Ctrl + Alt + C — Copy attribute (Object / Pose) (This is a custom shortcut I use to preserve Ctrl + C for standard copy, while still being able to use the Copy Attributes Menu add-on. Since the add-on uses the same shortcut by default, I reassigned it to Ctrl + Alt + C.)

Bone Edit Mode

• ALT + LMB — Select one bone from overlapping bones Shows a list of bones when several overlap; choose the specific bone you want

• SHIFT + ALT + LMB — Add one bone from overlapping bones to selection Shows the same list, but the chosen bone is added to the current selection without deselecting others

UV Editor

• Ctrl + B — Create custom packing region
• Ctrl + Alt + B — Clear custom packing region

Node Wrangler

• Alt + S — Switch texture channels
• Ctrl + Shift + Click — Preview node output

Skin Modifier

• Ctrl + A — Adjust skin radius scale
• Alt + S — Smooth skin result

Subdive Modifier

• place before Armature Modifier - lumpy mesh 😶‍🌫️
• place after Armature Modifier - smooth mesh 👍

Blender Baking Tip

To bake from high-poly to low-poly with different UVs:

• Bake: Diffuse
• Disable Direct and Indirect
• Enable Selected to Active
• Set Metallic = 0 on source material

Metallic values above zero may cause very dark textures.

Blender MacOS location Tip

in finder press CMD + SHIFT + G in following window paste this ~/Library/Application Support/Blender/5.0(or your version)/config

that is a config folder that contain all blender configurations. This folder can be saved as a backup

Blender Batch Rename Win\MacOS Tip

select your objects\bones\ets in the Outliner, Posemode or 3D Viewport, then press Ctrl + F2(WIN)/CMD + F2 (or go to Edit > Batch Rename)

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🔵 Plasticity

• J — Join
• F — Quick menu (similar to Shift + A in Blender)
• Shift + J — Patch (creates surface from selected curves)

Selection

• 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 — Selection modes
• Ctrl + 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 — Convert selection

Boolean & View

• Q — Boolean operation (cycle Join / Cut / Intersect)
• . — Isolate mode
• / — Focus view

Modeling

• Ctrl + R — Loop cut
  • Tab — Switch direction
  • Shift + Scroll — Change cut count

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🟢 Substance Painter

• Alt + Shift + drag LMB — Align camera view
• Ctrl + move right\left RMB — Brush size
• Ctrl + move up\down RMB — Brush hardness
• Ctrl + move right\left LMB — Brush flow
• Ctrl + move up\down LMB — Brush rotation
• Shift + move up\down RMB — HDRI rotation
• Shift + move up\down LMB — Draw straight line

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🟣 DaVinci Resolve

• Alt + Y — Select all clips after playhead
• Ctrl + Y — Select all clips before playhead
• Ctrl + Shift + < — Move clip left and swap
• Ctrl + Shift + > — Move clip right and swap
• (clip shoul be deselected in UI) Alt + left click + move — Duplicate only selected part of linked clip

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🟢 ComfyUI

• Ctrl + Enter — Queue prompt
• Shift + Enter — Queue without clearing
• Ctrl + . — Stop processing
• Ctrl + 0 — Reset zoom

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🪟 Windows

• Win + . — Emoji & symbols panel
• Ctrl + Win + T — Always on top
• Win + Ctrl + Caps Lock — Enable zoom
• Win + Ctrl + Tab — Draw / sketch mode
• Win + Ctrl + S — Screen shot
• PRNT — Screen shot
• CTRL + MMB scroll - Size of desktop icons (works only when you hover mous on a main desktop)

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🍏 MacOS

• Fn + E — Emoji & symbols panel

Blender MacOS location Tip config folder that contain all blender configurations for backup

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💻 Command Line (CMD & PowerShell)

CMD

- **cd** — Verify disk
- **cd C:\Users\username\Desktop\temp_SSD_blends** — go to the folder in the same directory
- **cd /d C:\Users\username\Desktop\temp_SSD_blends** — go to the folder in new directory (/d - change directory)
- **cd /d %USERPROFILE%** — back to default directory
- **mkdir TestFolder** — new folder named "TestFolder"

PowerShell

- **Get-Location** — Verify disk
- **cd "C:\Users\username\Desktop\temp_SSD_blends"** — go to the folder (do not need /d to change directory but need "" around the path)
- **cd ~** — back to default directory
- **mkdir TestFolder** — new folder named "TestFolder"

Linux (Bash – generic)

- **pwd** — verify current directory
- **cd ~/Desktop/temp_SSD_blends** — go to the folder ( "~" — is here for /home/username)
- **cd ~** — back to home directory
- **ls ~** — list files in home directory
- **ls -lah** — detailed list (including hidden)
- **mkdir TestFolder** — create a new folder named "TestFolder"

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

• wsl --shutdown — completely shut down all running WSL distributions
• wsl --terminate — terminate a specific WSL distribution
  Example: wsl --terminate Ubuntu
• wsl --list --verbose — list all installed WSL distributions with status and version

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📝 Notepad++

Enable Word Wrap

1. View → Word Wrap

Enable by default:

• Settings → Preferences → Editing → Word Wrap

⚠️NO longer use a Notepad++ i have moved to VScode⚠️

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📝 VScode

• ALT + Z — Enable Word Wrap

• CTRL + SHIFT + P — Search bar

Look for settings in search bar:

• Type this > in the start (exmpl: >customize layout)

Save UI by default:

• File → Save workspace as...

to use Comment Anchors:

• type // in the beginning of the line and select prefered one from the drop down list.

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💡 General Tips

• Eyes open twice as fast as they close (animation timing rule)

Related Repositories

• CMD Repo — additional CMD shortcuts for batch render in Blender