For my part, I do hope they retain the shortcut keys. They have become intuitive (G for Grab, B for draw a Box to select, P for seParate mesh, A to select all - or none). I really hope they keep them as an option (and I can't imagine they would expect the VAST Blender community to suddenly re-train... that would be soooooooo...... MICROsoft... :LOL:

There is still a lot I need to learn, and the tutorials teach you the right way to do it, and shows you shortcuts to doing things more cleverly, but I find knowing the shortcut-keys one of the best things about Blender. People fly through making quite elaborate mesh because of this hotkey vs menu-click approach... once you know the hotkeys - and learning them takes less time than you think - you wish other programmes worked this way. Seriously, you do.

I know I'm not alone in thinking this.

Main Hotkeys: (select an item first - you start in object mode)
TAB - toggles edit-mode / object mode
A - selects all vertices / edges / faces or none
Click on a vertex or edge or face...
G - Grab to move it... constrain movement to an axis with G and X (or Y or Z)
O - proportional edit... you can distort your mesh in a number of ways with this - it's awesome
CTRL W - save!
SpaceBar - all the cool mesh stuff is in this (adding mesh, duplicating, making all normals go one way... sheesh, everything!)

Okay, how many keys? 6 (9 if you count the X,Y, and Z constraints)

Good to start with.... there's a lot more, but those should get you started.

Geeeeeeez I hope it's not going to go to menu driven in 2.5+. Poser is SUCH a drag to go back to when you've worked in Blender for a while... almost like it's a kiddie interface.

Stick with it, Laurie. Seriously, two sessions with hotkeys, and you never go back... you will find other interfaces tedious and long-winded.

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

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