{"id":678,"date":"2013-01-24T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T23:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=678"},"modified":"2021-09-11T09:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:40:44","slug":"blender-on-a-mac-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2013\/blender-on-a-mac-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 2.7 on a Mac Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>2021 note: this is not necessary for Blender 2.8+.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Blender has a reputation for being difficult to navigate, but you can get around just fine with Mac trackpad gestures\u2014you just need to set things up properly:<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1.<\/b><br \/>\nGo to <b>File<\/b> \/ <b>User Preferences<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/blender_on_mac\/step01.png\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2.<\/b><br \/>\nGo to the <b>Input<\/b> tab.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/blender_on_mac\/step02.png\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 3.<\/b><br \/>\nMake sure the <b>Presets<\/b> drop-down menu is set to <b>Blender<\/b>. (An option for Maya controls was a nice idea&#8230;but it&#8217;s Maya&#8217;s older control scheme that requires a middle mouse button. So it&#8217;s not going to help us.)<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/blender_on_mac\/step03.png\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 4.<\/b><br \/>\nCheck <b>Emulate 3 Button Mouse<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/blender_on_mac\/step04.png\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 5.<\/b><br \/>\nChoose <b>Save As Default<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/blender_on_mac\/step04b.png\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 6.<\/b><br \/>\nYou should now be able to navigate using your trackpad:<\/p>\n<p><b>Pan:<\/b> Two-finger scroll<br \/>\n<b>Rotate:<\/b> Alt + two-finger scroll<br \/>\n<b>Zoom:<\/b> Two-finger pinch<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/blender_on_mac\/step08.png\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 7.<\/b><br \/>\nIf, like me, you don&#8217;t care for the default Blender keyboard shortcuts, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2016\/blender-keyboard-shortcuts\/\">these instructions.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 note: this is not necessary for Blender 2.8+. Blender has a reputation for being difficult to navigate, but you can get around just fine with Mac trackpad gestures\u2014you just need to set things up properly: Step 1. Go to File \/ User Preferences. Step 2. Go to the Input tab. Step 3. Make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}