Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Selecting Objects

In order to do anything in Blender, you need to select objects. What you’ll notice first is that you select objects with the mouse’s right click! Users often go crazy when they learn this because most programs use a left click. There are at least a couple of reasons (probably more) for the RMB selections:

It’s ergonomic: Research over several years has shown that about 90 percent of the time, you use only left clicks in most programs. Blender’s right-click selections share the workload between two fingers, so in the long run your hand is healthier.

Blender is different: Blender doesn’t follow conventional software standards ...