How To Use Blender Without A Mouse

Zoom in and out by holding the ctrl alt and left mouse button and moving the mouse.
How to use blender without a mouse. Alt lmb will emulate the mmb s view rotation function. Shift alt lmb will do the pan. Command apple mouse button right mouse button. To pan the view press shift option mouse button and drag. Go to edit preferences input and enable enable 3 button mouse.
There are a few ways however to make blender work better with just a trackpad. Using blender without a 3 button mouse is not really recommended but sometimes you have to get by with the tools you have available. To do that head over to your user preferences and explore the input section and choose emulate 3 button mouse. Please follow the instructions from the video to use your keyboard as a mouse will be really helpful if in an emergency you lost your mouse. The first thing we need to do is turn on 3 button mouse emulation.
Option mouse button middle mouse button. But before we begin using it we ll need to tell blender that we don t actually have a regular three button mouse attached to the system. If you like thi. Close the preferences window. Blender has alternate methods that can be used instead of using a scroll wheel.
If you want to try and emulate the mmb press down alt and the lmb. Don t have a 3 button mouse or are you on a laptop. To pan the view hold down shift and drag mmb in the 3d viewport. Moves the view up down left and right. In blender go to edit preferences.
You can use blender without a number pad by either using the view menu or by enabling number pad emulation. For discrete steps use the hotkeys ctrl numpad8 ctrl numpad2 ctrl numpad4 and ctrl numpad6 as with orbiting note. Using a trackpad in blender. You can replace ctrl with shift. If you enable number pad emulation then you can select the different views from the number keys at the top of the keyboard and you can select the visible layers in the footer of the 3d view window.