2. Scrolling the mouse wheel zooms in and out in the active view.

3. Press the G key to show/hide the grid.

4. Holding the Ctrl+Alt keys while holding the mousewheel and dragging the mouse zooms in and out in the active view.

5. holding down Alt while holding the mousewheel lets you rotate the current view (very useful in the perspective window).

6. You can use the x,y,z buttons on the top toolbar to lock which direction you want to move something.     Alternatively, when the x,y indicator arrows appear on the sellected object, you can drag the object by grabbing the x or y axis which still locks the direction you are dragging. Like holding down shift when you want to draw a straight line in photoshop.

7. Here are a few more:
    F1: Brings up the help menu
    F2: shade selected faces (makes the faces you selected red)
    F3: switch between Wireframe and Smooth+Highlights
    F4: view edged faces toggle
    F12: Transform type-in dialog - same as right clicking the select and move tool.

8. Holding down the Shift key while moving an object allows you to Clone the object.

9. Extruding lines and shapes: What can I say, but they can be a pain..
When you create a shape from lines and curves to extrude, you have to attach all the elements together then zoom in on each node that occurs where one line meets another. Select the overlapping nodes by dragging a box around them and then select weld.

More to come.

I am keeping graphics to a minimum, so I have room on the site for important stuff.
          
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