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How to cut and paste part of a mesh to another mesh?

Hi im new to Blender and i want to know when im in edit mode if i can copy or cut a selections of polygons faces and paste to another mesh. Thanks in advance for any help
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How can I manage multiple animations in one .blend file?

The way I currently use animations is just one long timeline. All my separate animations are lined up back to back on this single timeline. I keep the start/end frame numbers in a separate file. This becomes a problem when I want to expand, shrink…
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How do I make animations a steady speed?

When I make an animation, it always starts out slow, then speeds up, then slows down at the end. I cannot figure out how to fix this.
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Cannot find Background Images feature in Blender 2.8

Cannot find Background Images feature to add in a photo in Blender 2.8 Where is it?
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What is the fastest way to add vertices to a curve at a specific point?

For example, in inkscape you can double click to add a new control vertex: Is there a way to do that in Blender? The closest thing I have found so far is CtrlLMB, but it just adds an unconnected vertex under the cursor. Is there a way to add a…
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How to install Pip for Blender's bundled Python?

Blender comes with Python, and includes a stand-alone Python executable. However pip is not part of the official Python distribution so it needs to be added separately. How do you setup pip with Blender's bundled Python so it can be used to install…
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How do I convert materials from Blender Internal to Cycles?

I know this may be a tough or confusing question, but I have numerous existing materials I created and reuse for a project, which were all prepared for Blender Internal. Now, I want to start the transition to Cycles, but I've hit a roadblock. How…
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How do I exit a node group?

I selected a bunch of nodes that I wasn't using and that weren't connected and thought that I would see if I could group them. Well, Blender let me group them alright, but now there is a green background over the rest of my nodes and I cannot…
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How to reduce fireflies in Cycles?

I often use Cycles' built in Glass BSDF shader to achieve realistic refraction effects, but in many cases, it seems that Cycles' glass caustics creates an unfortunately large number of fireflies (pixels that are abnormally bright relative to their…
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ASCII Art in blender using Animation Nodes

ASCII Art is the use of ASCII characters to draw images an shapes. I was wondering if it is possible to convert an image into an ASCII Art using Animation Nodes in blender. Here are some examples for the required output:
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How to make a cycles light emisson object invisible to the camera?

In my scene it is required to position the lights close to the main object like this: How I can make the light source invisible to the camera?
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How do I increase the render distance?

I have created a simple model here When rendering it the end of it is cut off How can I get the camera to render a longer distance?
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How to merge vertices in Blender?

I am attempting to create my first 3D character just for practice. Being one of my first 3d models I going through the learning curve needless to say. In doing so I find myself creating many extra vertices. Where we will say 10 vertices on a rounded…
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How to move multiple faces along their individual normals?

I'd like to grab multiple faces and move each one along its normal. Is there a grab individual command?
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Extrude along path

Is there a way to extrude an object or shape along a path/curve, so you get a solid object? For example, a rectangle shape along a curve to get a long bendy sidewalk. I feel this was in an older version of blender, but I can't find it now.
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