How to build a keyboard in Blender- Part 1

[@helix0606]

15:33 You don't need to separate them one by one. In edit mode, select all, go to the mesh menu > Separate > By loose parts (this part may take a while depending on your computer and your object). >> credits to Surfaced Studio

[@edwinbates2920]

I was just coming to comment this lol

[@AaronLoomis-n5w]

This was super helpful. Helped me understand several really useful mechanics in Blender. I now have my first DSA profile keycap model. I bought a DLP Elagoo Mars 4 printer and I am going to test printing it. Thanks a bunch!

[@FantasyMimic]

Your totorials are amazing! Thank you kindly

[@Hako_exe]

Dude I love this!!!! Id love to see you do more in the mech community. Keep up the great work!!

[@SwedishBadger764]

9:38 you can press CTRL + ALT click instead of doing that.

[@MyNamesTim]

Nice channel! I'm your 30th sub because your explanations are so detailed and easy to follow along with!

[@sonimochammads5334]

thanks man, i really enjoy to watch this tutorial and you make it easy for me learn blender

[@myzx5564]

I just finished the entire tutorial and followed it to a T, it was great and concise. You don't ramble on which is a major pet peeve of mine with other tutorials. Now the question is: Is this accurate for 3d printing? Resin Printing to be exact.

[@tjsbear1102]

Interesting idea! I did not model this to fit with any keyboard components like switches ect so I cannot confirm that they would fit immediately, but you could model them to a compatible specification.

[@daniildobelis9702]

Best tutorial of keyboard making , I thing a new in blender can do that with ur help and videos

[@allabouttechnologyandgaming]

I didn't understand what you were doing from 18:17 till 18:25 please give me the exact key binds thanks.

[@Hausburgh]

Really good tutorial, thanks alot! I was able to follow your guiding with beginner understanding of blender. I will try to improve my skills with your other keyboard tutorials.

[@MrKartac]

I have a problem after I extrude the bottom part of the key and then when I want to scale it it scales whole object including the outer part of the key as well instead of just the extruded part as shown on 7:23

[@MrKartac]

The problems was that I had proportional edit mode turned on

[@MrArtschannel]

@@MrKartac Thank you, I was having the same problem and I almost gave up.

[@bobsnyder9001]

Thank you, great video!

[@Sergiosios]

what buttons are pressed at 4:32? cant figure out how to move it down

[@radityasans]

G

[@TeamHuanimal]

great! for the back space, i just stretched the keycap just outside of the cylinder. this way the cylinder doesnt get stretched

[@cptechno]

Hi! It's a great video because I want to do the same thing. I suggest you make available the Python script that creates this keys and keyboard. Some users, like me, use Python scritps to create Blender object. It's easy! As you know Blender generates a Python script for each of your actions. See Info view. You can choose to publish the Info logs raw (now editing) or if you are a Python programmer you can simplify it and structure it by separating parts of the construction into functions. Either way is good for me. That would be very useful to many viewers.

[@andrewb-bz8tc]

Why do you have so little views on others and little subs you deserve well more

[@iamhere9573]

Subbed. Thanks. I am a beginner and cannot wait to try this!

[@danishaiman701]

at 7:30 how do u scale inward like that? i cannot do that

[@tjsbear1102]

Hi. Sorry for the late reply - are you still having this issue. It should just work the same way as normal scaling but you move your mouse in the opposite direction. If this doesn’t work try entering values directly into the relevant field in the bottom left after scaling up, you’ll want the scale to be less than 1 but more than 0 for it to be scaled in.

[@danishaiman701]

@@tjsbear1102 oohh i seeee, i think i’ll try drag the opposite way first and continue with ur another suggestion. anyways thank u for your reply! i really appreciate that! 😊

[@threciamiemangubat10]

how many inches of your keycap? 3 inches or 2 inches? how to identify the inches size of one keycap?

[@ohgosh5315]

Thank you so much for the tutorial

[@ryze7700]

Can you the secound row by using the array modifier? if so how?

[@iam.2022]

Thank you for your tutorial

[@tjsbear1102]

No problem. Glad I could help

[@GOXAND]

you don't need to extrude objects if they're short, you can just move (G) the selected face in the direction u need it, otherwise good stuff

[@dennis___2660]

Hey, big thank you for your videos. When i change into edit mode, only the one cap of the array is selectable. do you know how to fix that?

[@tjsbear1102]

Thanks for the interest. Any modifications to an object using modifiers including the array one do not show in the edit tab until they have been applied. To fix this you should apply the modifier, but this is non-reversible so make all the changes you need to the original key first. Thanks.

[@dennis___2660]

@@tjsbear1102 Thanks!

[@maio691]

Can u put the link to this blender file please :(

[@prebenleus7062]

If you add this later on in the unreal engine will it be a huge memory eater? Dont know how to explain but you have so many sides (faces) for just 1 object.

[@tjsbear1102]

Hi, this is not a model intended for game engines since it is so high poly. If you want a lower poly version you could reduce the amount of segments on the bevels or even remove them completely with a normal map. That would mean you just need 6 faces for a single keycap. Theres a video by Blender Guru where he shows you how to do this, here: www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwil0PXKle_yAhULgf0HHaoEAtEQwqsBegQICxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0r-cGjVKvGw&usg=AOvVaw13oTTW59P75PtCaIZSBrG_ Hope this helps.

[@agustinmartinez8031]

can i use this to print the keycaps later? thanks

[@jasonli7377]

Sorry I was wondering how do you use the proportional editing, I tried everything from dragging to spamming my keyboard but I can't seem to curve it. I followed every step you did, but it doesn't seem to work, can you give a step by step? Thanks!

[@tjsbear1102]

Hi jason, sorry for the late reply. first turn on the proportional editing option (either the graphical button in the top centre of the 3D viewport or hotkey "O") then you'll need to select the vertices you want to move and scroll out a large amount change the radius of verticies, intitially this radius is incredibly large so you'll need to reduce it a lot, you can see the radius changing in the top left corner of the screen when you scroll in or out, its the final piece of info on the row. Once you have the correct sized area just move the vertice to the desired location and the others around it it should follow. This should work as shown in the video. Thanks.

[@AnhPhan-qj1og]

Love it brooo

[@MYTHICALLY3D]

good work T J

[@hansolo2383]

So uh i did the array and the same amount of key you did but then i was having 279 models and uh 3 of the keys the front part of the stem kinda fall off i cant undo back pls help im very new to this .

[@tjsbear1102]

Hi hansolo, can you clarify what your problem is and I’ll do my best to help

[@hansolo2383]

@@tjsbear1102 I deleted the file and restarted it the file is messed up its fine now

[@hansolo2383]

@@tjsbear1102 yeah apparently it worked im actually taking reference from your videos to make the keyboard for my business studies project. Im making tenkeyless so some parts i would improvise by myself. Tqsm for the video i cant rlly find videos like this anywhere that much :)

[@tjsbear1102]

Happy to help.

Great job ! Love Blender and I'm always happy when people design technical stuff on it. I noticed that you don't really seem to follow accurate dimensions. Do you differentiate the R1/R2/R3 keycaps ? Thank you ! :)

[@tjsbear1102]

I’m glad you enjoyed the video, to answer your question I did in the original model. However in the tutorial I did not go into detail about the different heights and profiles of key caps and kept them all the same to simplify the model slightly. However the model I sell does contain different profiles of key caps. Thanks.

[@patek2385]

is it ready for printing?

[@shakaama]

QUESTION: - this seems overly detailed - there is another tutorial that models the entire keyboard and texture emissive RGB in one video - so my question is, is this for a professional product demonstration for commercial use? vs the other one for a game asset?

[@tjsbear1102]

Hi Shakaama, this keyboard tutorial series followed a showcase video of my own personal Blender project, which was an animated assembly of the keyboard. When making the keyboard in Blender, I wanted it to be as realistic as possible, so I modelled the inside and outside components in detail(which may be unnecessary for others, but not in my use case). The video tutorials just mirrored what I did in my project, and I aimed to provide an insight into why I did certain things and how to avoid the issues I came across. Hopefully this answers your question. Thanks for the feedback.

[@ifarrafi652]

can u make a couston key caps for meh? plz

[@zxorxscootz]

yo thanks man!

[@rox2475]

16 horas intentando hacer solo una keycaps y aun no me sale...

[@waylonwuhu477]

正需要这个，十分感谢

[@PushinP884]

what ur keyboard mate ?

[@tjsbear1102]

Built it myself about a year ago. Made a video about it if want to know more. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3iYn5l8qNh0iM0 Thanks.

[@ixtirochiavlodlar]

THANK YOU

[@knoxangry]

next time please add keystrokes so we know what will we press

[@NERO-ez1mn]

i suub. can you make an artisan keycap? how to make it?

[@tjsbear1102]

Yes, it’s entirely possible to make a completely custom shape and style of keycap. You would start with a simple keycap (like the one in my video) and then add the various extras on to it using boolean modifiers. For more organic shapes you should use sculpting to get a more realistic shape. The only problem I can think of is with texturing because they tend to be quite detailed, I’d recommend doing a texture map for character models or anything with more than 6 shaders because after that it becomes difficult to manage. I probably won’t make a video tutorial on this because it is quite niche and the they’re all different. Thanks for the interest

[@NERO-ez1mn]

@@tjsbear1102 true. that is why this tutorial is good for beginners but i hope soon in the future you may grant my request. even a simple design like pikachu or mario with curvatures please. are they using blender for that or just being exported to blender?

[@Chsstickss_]

make a tutorial cat paws please 🥺

[@reuben4]

Great video but i'm so confused at how to make an enter key

[@tjsbear1102]

Hi I am Bread , can you tell me more about your problem and I’ll see if I can go into more detail. Thanks

[@reuben4]

@@tjsbear1102 umm ok so I have a rectangular keycap as shown in the video but I don't know how to change it into kind of a L-shape for the enter button on the keyboard

[@reuben4]

Sorry, I'm not the best at explaining

[@tjsbear1102]

Ok, so you'll need to make a seperate keycap instead of one thats been copied from the others, it should be the exact same process apart from the first step where before you would add a plane and thats it, - for a L-shape its a little different. You would start by adding a plane but then go into edit mode (tab) to alter the shape of the plane, to do this add a single loop cut (ctrl+r) so it spits the plane along the x axis. Then extrude bottom right and bottom middle vertices to make a rough shape. Then you can adjust the position of each vertex to fine tune the shape to be more like the key you want. From there it is the exact same process as with the other keycaps. Sorry for the delay.

[@reuben4]

@@tjsbear1102 Thanks, ill try that and no problem for the delay, I know a lot of people wouldn't even reply to a video this old

[@fuseboosefuseboose1289]

except buying a keyboard, I MODELED IT IN BLENDER

[@JonqsSimulationsOfficial]

Why do you have so few subs?

[@404NamaN]

dude your workflow has lot of problems but great tutorial btw

[@theend4512]

i can make a keycap in 15 seconds...

[@WhiteWilma]

"how to build" but nah not a tutorial, bruv it aint a how to build then

[@WhiteWilma]

worst tutorial ive ever seen, thank you tho

[@AJ-mw4nb]

Your space bar modelling sucks. Everything else was fine