A Blender cheat sheet for the non-3D specialist user of Blender Plug-In

[vincentmarchetti]

As some of our use cases are centered on the non-3D specialist, it may be useful to have a document that emphasizes the Blender operations that would be required to execute case. Blender has a complex user interface and much of it is opaque or idiosyncratic, pick your favorite term. Another alternative or enhancement of this idea would be to prepare the short video clips that demonstrate the user interface interactions as screen recordings

[vincentmarchetti]

A first example of a Blender operation that could be listed in a cheat sheet, illustrated in a screen recording

Label: Checking the view from a camera annotation
The Blender interface allows for arbitrary moving around the blender scene with the view as rendered on the Blender 3D Viewport . Eventually the user will want to verify that the properties of a camera annotation, the placement of the camera, the field of view, give the desired visualization. The UI to examine how a camera annotation will work is:

1. Select the camera, either in the "3D Viewport" or in the "Scene Outline"
2. Choose the menu selection: View > Viewpoint > Camera

Discussion topics -- is this a useful way to present the UI interaction needed, in particular is the way step 2 is presented just as opaque as the Blender UI itself?

Am attaching a screen shot of what is visualized when steps 1 and 2 are executed.

[gjcope]

I think this will be very helpful and I would be glad to contribute. In my opinion, step 2 is definitely less opaque as it is guiding the user through the process. To augment it, we could always add some contextual information if we want the user to get a better understanding of how/why they are doing something.