Boxcutter hot keys and top tips

A rundown of the hot keys for efficient use of Boxcutter including some "hidden" ones that aren't on the shown menus.
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[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

You've explained Boxcutter better in this video than any others in an hour or more of time!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks man 😁 Always good to know the videos are clear 👍🏻

[@MarcoMaso]

It's true!

[@richardokeeffe8375]

Incredibly useful! Really looking forward to the workflow tutorial!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Glad you think so. I really think they need to make some of the "hidden" hotkeys more clear in the N panel. I mean its there in the documentation but I know lots of people don't check it. But maybe they are relatively new so havent had time to add them in yet.

[@danieljewett9970]

Really really appreciate your videos- the clarity and pace is excellent.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁 Great to hear. That's always tricky to get right so thanks for taking the time to comment 🙏👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@ThoughtsFew]

Excellent tutorial! Every now and then I have to dust off the ol' boxcutter and to date your videos have made it the most painless.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Lovely to hear they are helpful.

[@dougwarner59]

Another great video on Boxcutter! Straight-to-the-point information. Need to watch it again to get all the information, but I believe it will be worth the time. Love the tab/ e option. thanks again and I look forward to watching your other videos.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much. Its great people are finding them so helpful and thanks for taking the time to both watch them and comment, really appreciated.

[@beaustine6093]

This is so intricate and precise. You are a godsend. 🙏 Thank you for your hard work, please keep up these tutorials!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁 Thanks so much and I will do.

[@chaos-design]

The bevel of the edges at the end is great to know. Very nice explained. You are the man !

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much. Yeah its a great little thing to be able to do.

[@Remowylliams]

I am subscribed since the second tutorial of yours I watched. The live option has eluded me with BoxCutter all this time. but now I know. So useful a tutorial I can't thank you enough. Cheers

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Firstly thanks for subscribing. Second, it's lovely to hear that these tutorials are being useful to people. 😁

[@anibalcastro4070]

It's the best boxcutter tutorial I've ever seen. I hope you do one about hard ops. Thanks.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much. I will do one on HardOps at some point for sure, there's just so much to cover there its almost hard to know where to start. I'll probably do a series of little ones so that people can find what they want more easily but it will happen!

[@Jackripster69]

Ive used both addons for a few months and learned a few things, thanks!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Great to hear and thanks for the comment 😁

[@barriejones1461]

Your tutorials are truly amazing. I wondered why you didn't cover editing non destructive booleans in your last video and now I know. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, expertise and talent.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much, lovely to read a comment like that. Really happy the video layout/ordering makes sense as well, very much appreciated 😁👍🏻

[@javadahmadi]

Excellent video, very helpful

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Cheers

[@chrislister3009]

Thankyou very much for your tutorials.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

My pleasure Chris. 😁

[@MarcoMaso]

Thank you very much for this tutorial! 🙌

[@ArtisansofVaul]

My pleasure Marco, glad its helpful.

[@Giant_Aboba]

This explained alot to me thank you so much

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁 Glad it helped 😁😁😁

[@Khlyn]

Great tut !

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much

[@johanherein6956]

Very good! Thank you!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Cheers.

[@cyberburnzy]

Wow, using the middle mouse button to adjust individual edge bevels is very cool. Toggling dots with alt-d is good to know. I really like having dots on, and a while back I had somehow turned them off and couldn't find the setting to turn them back on again.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁 Thanks so much. There does seem to be a lot of "hidden" functions like this. Having the tool menu open to see what the different shortcuts are really help. Honestly I can't keep track of all of them myself at times if I haven't used it for a while 😅

[@TacoSlayer06]

Hey, I'm just learning right now from scratch from your videos, but incase you didn't know, you can bevel the outside AND the inside in one operation. Under the D menu, while the cut is tabbed with a basic bevel applied, click the drop down ">" next to "main bevel" then select "bevel both ends" and "bevel back face" (located just to the right of the "main bevel" title in any order). Finally, click the “double arrow” “flip” option next to the 2nd bevel title to make the outer bevel appear. 2nd bevel now controls the outside and main bevel controls both interior bevels. If you keep clicking those two options in weird combinations you can get some really wacky bevels, for instance you can bevel the inside of the outside edge (think the cutter is a generic cube beveled on all edges). Anyways thanks for teaching me so far!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Awesome tip! Thanks so much! I'll have to check thag out and incorporate it into a video somewhere as that's REALLY handy to know. You're a legend 👍🏻😁🙏

[@TacoSlayer06]

@@ArtisansofVauli’ll edit my comment because i forgot to mention you have to select the flip option next to the 2nd bevel title to finish it off and get it to work. 👍

[@ensayoyerror2441]

Muy bien explicado !!!! tenés tutorial de HardOps + Meshmachine + MACHINETool ??? Sigue así !!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I range of videos use each. Check out the playlists- Machin3 Tools Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLnqmLZKRm5CYGKLbXGa3l74XPxTi45ft2 Boxcutter Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLnqmLZKRm5CajsNlyFbieVyGxzdbBN-jo Hard Ops Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLnqmLZKRm5CbwbAbNabT1z4SrJiiWhbSd&si=HkaZUF-Sjmq_C66g Mesh Machine Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLnqmLZKRm5CbXvERNjPPdu7jvZ6eCQUxr

[@wayoutthere907]

Thanks!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Cheers wayoutthere, really appreciate the super thanks 👍🏻👌🏼 It takes a lot for people to put their money behind their messages of thanks and its always really humbling when people do. 😁👍🏻

[@gsr34gh_74]

Thanks to this video i will be able to learn a lot once I start experimenting around, thank you for this! Also I have a question, how do I turn a single object into a cutter using shortcuts? Because ctrl - Never works for me it just zooms out

[@ArtisansofVaul]

It's "-" on the number pad, not on the main keyboard 👍🏻

[@k4x4map46]

new subscriber...been watching your vids for a long minute, great stuff!! you mentioned ....powerful computer--what are you using stats wise? pc? I want to remix an item from thigiverse (originator is FalconRad FPV) to hold a larger gps compass unit...using a MAC iteration of blender, do these paid add-ons function on various platforms or are they windows based (the add-ons)? Thanks in advance!!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I think they should work on all platforms but I have to say that I haven't tested that. At the time of recording this I was working on a laptop so it worked fine and was pretty decent but I wouldn't say it was hugely powerful as it was about 3 years old.

[@CosplayZine]

Another option with the array is to hold alt and move one booleans to the other side then roll the mouse to create a perfectly spaced amount between the two booleans. But I'm finding if you do not add a sub surf with at min 32 sub D and apply it before hand it is warping and other craziness w/ the mesh around the booleans after it's applied after smoothing the mesh. Auto smooth seems to not have this problem.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I hadn't seen that alt trick. I'm going to have to try that for sure!

[@spechtmaxime4201]

Hello Artisans of Vaul ! Thanks you for all your contents it’s help me a lot ! I’m just trying to learn to sculpt some Space marines for warhammer 40k and I want to know wich addons is the best for sculpting efficiently. Have a great day !

[@ArtisansofVaul]

If you're talking the armour and using hard surface techniques I would really recommend Boxcutter and Hardops (there is a link in this video description). I would also say Mesh Machine but that has quite a high cost. I'd say its worth it but it depends how much you're going to use it. I'd start with HardOps and Boxcutter personally.

[@spechtmaxime4201]

@@ArtisansofVaul thanks you ! I’m gonna buy it like you said. Trust you a 1000%. Your contents help me so much it’s incredible ! The best video on KZbin for me about blander !!!

[@spechtmaxime4201]

And sorry to borrow you like this 😅 A small question for you ! I’ve seen lots of different ways to work bodies. For you, with your experiences, what do you think is the best ? Lots of different poses will be make so, maybe create hands, arms, legs and after being able to put them and link everything together ? I don’t know 🤷 What do you think ? Again thanks you for your time, it’s rare to find someone who help is viewers so much like you :)

[@falxonPSN]

I am not able to get G to do anything while holding Ctrl to enable snapping dots. I am testing on Blender 4.0. There appears to be hotkeys assigned by blender to Ctrl+G, for collection grouping, but even disabling those does not work. Is there an option I missed to be able to access the grid like that without explicitly turning it on/off in the top bar?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

So I think this is a conflict with Machine Tools, so you would want to turn off the grouping option in there.

[@jasepotts2865]

Hi, I am a great fan of your teaching style it's helped me alot. I have found a glitch with the Grid section of the video and wondered if you could repeat it. I have the cube and I am able to take one cube away from every face. If I try to use the same technique to do a second on any face it doesn't extrude correctly and leaves the shape of the extrude with a grey face. I tried applying all previous boolean cuts and trying again but I get the same result. Any ideas? Thanks I tried it with a rectangle and it allowed 3 cuts on the long face and then the same issue occured. Even after applying the numerous booleans it wouldn't allow any more.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I'm trying to picture the issue. Is there any chance you can make a video of the issue and find me on Instagram?

[@jasepotts2865]

@@ArtisansofVaul Thanks for getting in touch. I will do my best. I've found it to be persistent. Try doing more than one "grid cube" cut using the grid on a standard Cube.

[@MartinJamesLittle]

I think my brain is full now.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Haha. Yeah. Maybe I should do shorter but more of them instead of longer ones. I'm not sure what people want.

[@Phazon_ZNL]

I prefer long and complete over short and scattered information. It makes it easier to come vack to the vid and watch what you didn't understand in the first pass. Was a really helpful vid, thnx!

[@caracal3892]

Is it possible to at a later point access the nice gizmo with the blue control points? For example when cutting, and pressing tab, it displays a gizmo with blue points. Is there a way to access that later?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Not really after you've confirmed the cut. That would be good if you could. With Hard Ops you can easily access the cutting object using everscroll though.

[@caracal3892]

​@@ArtisansofVaulDoes changing the cutting object offer fewer options than using the gizmo?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@caracal3892 If you got Boxcutter with HardOps you have all the options VERY quickly accessible and even more. You can do all the boolean type changes, bevel, add a thickness and array plus a LOT mode.

[@blackswan6386]

hi, this is so nice - but can you help me, i want to adjust the cutter in center of object by drawing. example: i push mouskey and hold ALT but its not in center of the object, i need this exact symetrical for a window, thanks sir !

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Do you mean the cutter you are drawing is not symmetrical or the position is not centred in the object you are cutting it on. To get the dots up to draw in the centre you need to press ctrl first to have the dots appear.

[@blackswan6386]

@@ArtisansofVaul yes i need centred it, do i need origin bounding box ? thanks sir

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@Black Swan The bounding box shouldn't matter but if the shape you are putting it on is too complex boxcutter might not be able to work out the centre. In this case I normally just add an edge loop to use as a guide.

[@blackswan6386]

@@ArtisansofVaul so epic help - thanks sir ! preciate that ! your videos are awesome, i need to watch it again ! hehe - thank you

[@savinomarinelliblock]

How do you get that lighting on the edge of the red matcap? And how do you change the color of the wires? nice tutorial by the way :)

[@savinomarinelliblock]

found it... for anyone wondering, on viewport shading there is an option called cavity. Enable cavity.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

There is also a few more things you can do to make it even clearer. I'll drop a video on Monday to go through them. Sorry for the delayed reply. You might also like these videos as they have some other settings you might like and how to make them work automatically on startup: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3WYiaithrSJntU kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYqzhHyIobljr6M

[@savinomarinelliblock]

@@ArtisansofVaul Thanks! I´m a begginer using blender and you're tutorials help a ton :)

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@savinomarinelliblock Thats great to hear 😁

[@user-gn3wq7ec2g]

I'm confused, In 10:22 you hit L ctrl to show the little cube that can let u cut in the center, what's that, my L ctrl doesn't work, is that other addon or sth?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Ctrl brings up the "spots" at corners, middle of edges and centre of the face. Or it does it you have the settings at the top as I have. Importantly your mouse needs to be over the object as you press it.

[@D3ck4rd87]

how do you export as FBX while using box cutter without it including all the cuts? Trying to import into Unreal and it includes all the cuts made in box cutter

[@ArtisansofVaul]

What do you mean by all the cuts? Surely if you have cut in boxcutter you want those cuts?

[@rmacfarland1]

Has the "G" Grid hotkey been removed from the current version? Also I don't get the center dot as well, only the outside perimeter.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Ive just downloaded the new version to check this out and the centre dot is there for me. Are you should you have the mouse over the face you want when you press Ctrl? Thats the only reason I can think it wouldnt work unless you have found an odd setting somewhere. Same with still having the grid option (you have to have your mouse over one of the dots to press G and it bring up the grid as it centres on that dot.

[@rmacfarland1]

@@ArtisansofVaul I don't think I've disable/changed anything in the settings. I figured out how to get the center dot back. If I press control (MACOS) and hover over a dot and press "G" it wants to create a new collection. If I click the dot it vanishes so I can't press "G". It must be a setting somewhere or it's a macos issue.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@rmacfarland1 Ah... I don't have a mac so really can't comment, sorry. I have heard Blender is a bit of a pain with Macs... No experience with it though. Sorry I can't be of more help.

[@rmacfarland1]

I figured it out. Static dots have been enabled. By default it's off. Once enabled the hotkey "G" works. Thanks for the quick response. Your Boxcutter videos are the best I've seen and there are allot of videos out there..

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@rmacfarland1 So glad you got it figured out. Well done and glad you enjoyed the video 😁👍🏻

[@potionofknowledge]

did the shortcuts change cuz when I hold CTRL then press G it tries to create a new collection. Also you should make a discord channel! :P

[@ArtisansofVaul]

👍🏻 I have a Discord channel for the Patreon 👍🏻

[@TheAkafa]

Hello. How to edit previous cuts with boxcutter interface?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Edit in what way? Generally the standard of editing the object that it creates as a cutter. This becomes really easy if you have HardOps as well (I always suggest getting them together ad the bundle is cheaper) as you can press Q then everscroll to scroll through the cutters acting on an object. Otherwise you can just find the cutter in the object outliner, boxcutter should have made a seperate collection called "cutters" they will be in.

[@TheAkafa]

@@ArtisansofVaul I just start learn that addons and decided to start individually with boxcutter. But now I understand what you mean. Just select cut from outliner and edit with hard ops. Thx.

[@envision6331]

when i press V for Radial Array, it just completes the operation as finished. Any reason why it does that?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I've never had that happen to be able to help. Is there a chance you have V mapped to another function for maybe a different addon and it's confusing Blender? If not it may need contacting the creator as I've never experienced anything like that. Sorry I can't help more.

[@envision6331]

is there a menu where i can change the key mappings of the add on at least? @@ArtisansofVaul

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@envision6331 Good question. I have never tried for the addon but having had a look in the addon menu I cant see one, which is a bit frustrating. I would suggest contacting the creator.

[@scottpadbury5370]

Middle mouse to adjust individual bevels does not work for me. I don't know if it has something to do with a Wacom tablet but clicking middle just finishes it off, no bevel.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

It shouldn't be to click, its scrolling the middle.

[@scottpadbury5370]

@@ArtisansofVaul It does not work with a Wacom tablet anyway.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@s padbury That's annoying. I can only comment on using a mouse I'm afraid

[@falxonPSN]

@@ArtisansofVaul Late reply, but in general, hard surface modeling with a tablet can be more annoying than helpful, unlike sculpting or vertex painting.

[@alealeale74]

Good video! But i have a problem, when I press ctrl + g it does not activate the grid, but instead creates a collection, thanks in advance

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks. So it looks like they have added that as a shortcut in general Blender. If you go to preferences, keymap and then in the search type "collection" you can find the shortcut that causes that and delete it or change it to something else. You can always bring it back with the "restore" button.

[@alealeale74]

Sorry to bother you again, but after deleting as you said it didn't work for me, I searched the boxcutter documentation and the keymap to see if I could assign it manually but I didn't find anything, nothing happens if I press ctrl g above the dots@@ArtisansofVaul

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@alealeale74 it's no bother at all. Can I check that you're doing this with the same bits on/off at the top (the grid should be turned off but the dots on from memory - sorry I'm on my phone).

[@alealeale74]

Yes the snap is on (magnet simbol) and the grid is off, and a i have select the object@@ArtisansofVaul

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@alealeale74 I'm at a bit of a loss then I'm afraid. It might be worth contacting the creator as without seeing it it's really hard for me to tell.

[@SwedishBadger764]

i have a problem where it draws instead of cutting even though i changed to cut

[@ArtisansofVaul]

From that description I would guess you have not selected/clicked on the object you want to cut before you start drawing the cutter shape.

[@SwedishBadger764]

@@ArtisansofVaul I will try that when I get home, thanks!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@SwedishBadger764 Let me know how it goes 😁

[@SwedishBadger764]

@@ArtisansofVaul It worked thank you 🙏

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@SwedishBadger764 😁 Awesome 👍🏻

[@roshanmuklis7540]

why does the blender application come out by itself when i try it,tool box cutter

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Not sure I understand...