Modeling > Meshes > Editing

 Blender provides a variety of tools for editing meshes. These are tools used to add, duplicate, move and delete elements.

These are available through the Menus in the 3D Viewport header, and context menus in the 3D Viewport, as well as individual shortcut keys.

Note

All the “transform precision/snap” keys Ctrl and/or Shift also work for all these advanced operations, but most of them do not have axis locking possibilities, and some of them do not take into account the pivot point and/or transform orientation either.

These transform tools are available in the Transform section of the Mesh menu in the header. Note that, some of these can also be used on other editable objects, like curves, surfaces, and lattices.

Accessing Mesh Tools

The mesh tools are found in various places, and available through shortcuts as well.

Menus

These menus are located in the header. Some of the menus can be accessed with shortcuts:

• Ctrl-F brings up the Face tool menu

• Ctrl-E brings up the Edge tool menu

• Ctrl-V brings up the Vertex tool menu

Mesh Tools

Transformation

Move, Rotate, Scale

Reference

Mode

Edit Mode

Tool

Toolbar ‣ Move, Rotate, Scale

Menu

Mesh ‣ Transform ‣ Move, Rotate, Scale

Hotkey

G, R, S

Once you have a selection of one or more elements, you can move G, rotate R or scale S them, like many other things in Blender, as described in the Manipulation in 3D Space section. To move, rotate and scale selected components, either use the Move, Rotate, and Scale buttons, the transform gizmos, or the shortcuts: G, R, and S respectively.

After moving a selection, the options in the Adjust Last Operation panel allow you to fine-tune your changes, limit the effect to certain axes, turn Proportional Editing on and off, etc. Of course, when you move an element of a given type (e.g. an edge), you also modify the implicitly related elements of other kinds (e.g. vertices and faces).

Pressing G twice enters either Edge Slide or Vertex Slide tool depending on the selection. You also have in Edit Mode an extra option when using these basic manipulations: the Proportional Editing.

Transform Panel

Reference

Mode

Edit Mode

Panel

Sidebar region ‣ Transform

When nothing is selected, the panel is empty. When more than one vertex is selected, the median values is edited and “Median” is added in front of the labels.

Vertex

The first controls (X, Y, Z) show the coordinates of the selected vertex or the median point.

Space

The Space radio buttons let you choose if those coordinates are relative to the object origin (local) or the global origin (global).

Global, Local

Vertex Data

Bevel Weight

This vertex property, a value between (0.0 to 1.0), is used by the Bevel Modifier to control the bevel intensity of the vertices, when the Only Vertices option is active.

Edge Data

When an edge is selected, the following options are available. More buttons appear:

Bevel Weight

See Edge bevel weight.

Crease

The crease value of the edge.