Using Blender

A reference of common Blender operations, with natural language instruction examples.

Object Creation

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Create a mesh	Add a Cube	add_mesh
Create a curve	Add a Bezier curve	add_curve
Create an empty object	Add an Empty	add_empty
Create text	Add 3D text	add_text
Duplicate an object	Duplicate the selected object	duplicate_object

Mesh Editing

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Move vertices	Move the selected vertices up by 1m	edit_mesh
Extrude faces	Extrude the selected faces	extrude_faces
Add loop cuts	Add 3 loop cuts in the X direction	loop_cut
Merge vertices	Merge the selected vertices	merge_vertices
Recalculate normals	Recalculate normals to face outward	recalculate_normals

Materials

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Create a material	Create a red material	create_material
Change the base color	Set the material color to blue	set_material_property
Set a texture	Set an image texture	set_material_texture
Change metallic value	Set metallic to 1.0	set_material_property
Connect nodes	Connect the noise texture to the bump	connect_shader_nodes

Modifiers

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Add Subdivision	Add a subdivision at level 2	add_modifier
Add Mirror	Add a mirror modifier	add_modifier
Add Boolean	Cut a hole with a boolean	add_modifier
Apply a modifier	Apply the subdivision	apply_modifier
Add Array	Arrange 5 copies with an array modifier	add_modifier

UV

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
UV unwrap	Do a smart UV unwrap	uv_unwrap
Mark seams	Mark the selected edges as seams	mark_seam
Check UV map	Show me the UV map	get_uv_info
Reset UV coordinates	Reset the UVs	reset_uv

Animation

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Insert a keyframe	Insert a keyframe at the current frame	insert_keyframe
Set frame range	Set the frame range to 1-120	set_frame_range
Play animation	Play the animation	play_animation
Delete keyframes	Delete all keyframes	delete_keyframes
Change FPS	Set the frame rate to 30	set_fps

Rendering

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Render	Render the image	render_image
Change engine	Switch the render engine to Cycles	set_render_engine
Change resolution	Set the resolution to 1920x1080	set_render_resolution
Change sample count	Set the sample count to 256	set_render_samples
Set output path	Set the output path to /tmp/render	set_output_path

Armature

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Add an armature	Add an armature	add_armature
Add a bone	Add an arm bone	add_bone
Weight paint	Set up automatic weights	auto_weight_paint
Move a bone	Rotate the right arm bone 90 degrees	pose_bone
Set up IK	Set up IK on the leg	add_ik_constraint

VRM

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Import VRM	Import the VRM file	import_vrm
Export VRM	Export as VRM	export_vrm
Set expressions	Set up the smile blend shape	set_vrm_expression
Set spring bones	Set up spring bones for the hair	set_vrm_spring_bone

Import / Export

What You Want to Do	What to Say	Tool Used
Import FBX	Import the FBX file	import_fbx
Export FBX	Export as FBX	export_fbx
Import OBJ	Import the OBJ file	import_obj
Export glTF	Export as glTF	export_gltf
Import an image	Import the texture image	import_image