Chap. 5 Using Hot Key F9 – or Shift Ctrl Z, Doesn’t Work with 4.0!

[Patty Hatfield]

Time 6;47 – After selecting a plane, I find my mmb works to magnify the plane, but it doesn’t actually enlarge or change its size. I attempted this because F9 is not active. There is no redo panel either, or I can’t see it at lower left bottom of screen.
When I go to Edit, scroll down , I do not see F9 only see an inactive Shift Crtl Z which neither of them work.
What am I missing? I do remember I was never able to get F9 or F2 to work several years ago when I was using 3.1 – Please explain.

[Patty Hatfield]

Oh…..I remember! the redo Plane only appears right after you add an object, but as soon as you click on the screen , the redo panel disappears. However…  pressing Shift Ctrl Z at same time brings up  four ways to view object: wire, solid, material, rendered.  But  does not activate hot key F9 to change size!  has this changed within 4.0?

[Patty Hatfield]

Regarding my original post:  Since the F9 disappears once I touch something else on the page or window…. if I do needed to change the properties later, I can always use the Tool Bar or go to Object  Properties and use the transform section! However, the F9 and/or F2 key doesn’t works. Is there a reason?

[Patty Hatfield]

ONE LAST Observation: I just found my mistake. I have been pressing the F key, then the 7 key….. I didn’t see the ‘F9′ and F2’ keys on the top of the keyboard.. The keyboard has a shadow casting  over the F key  section……so sorry everyone. 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Just to be clear,

You understand everything now, right?

[Omar Domenech]

There’s an updated Blender Basics course for Blender 4.0, link below:

https://cgcookie.com/courses/blender-basics-an-introduction-to-blender-4-x

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