Summary

And that's it. This thimble-sized mug taught a majority of the basic tools that will continue to be used in future 3D modeling projects. Some of those tools are:

• File operations such as saving and creating new directories

• Adding basic objects (Shift + A)

• View rotation with the number pad

• Scene navigation with the middle-button on the mouse

• Wireframe and Solid view modes (Z)

• Selection operations such as Circle (C) and Box (B) select

• Manipulation operations such as Grab/Move (G), Rotate (R), and Scale (S)

• Edit mode (Tab) for manipulation of the individual elements that make up a shape

• The Extrude (E) operation

• The loop-cut (Ctrl + R) operation

• Object modifiers such as Multiresolution and Boolean operations

• Exporting STLs for print

That is a long list. Have a drink.

The next chapter will teach a different tool set for modeling similar objects using lines and lathes, but the skills of vertex selection and manipulation learned in this chapter will still come in useful!