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| Welcome to the series of Blender Tutorials.

| This tutorial is about the 3D Cursor in Blender 2.59.

| After watching this tutorial, we shall learn what is 3D cursor?

| How to add new objects to the 3D view in Blender using 3D cursor and the snapping options for 3D cursor in Blender

| I assume that you already know how to install Blender on your system.

| If not please refer to our earlier tutorials on Installing Blender.

| The 3D Cursor is the red and white ring with the cross-hair that you see at the centre of the Blender screen.

| Let us see the 3D cursor in Blender. To do that we need to open Blender.

|There are two ways to open Blender

|First, go to the''' Blender icon''' on the desktop. Right Click the''' Blender icon'''. Left click '''Open'''.

|The second and easier way to open Blender is Left double click the '''Blender icon''' on the desktop.

| The font size in the Blender interface has been increased so that you can understand all the options given.

| To learn how to increase the Interface font size  please see the tutorial on User Preferences.

|This is known as the welcome page or splash screen.  It shows some useful '''reference links''' for learning about Blender.

| left click  mouse anywhere on the Blender interface other than splash screen.

| The 3D cursor is  right at the centre of the screen surrounded by the cube .

|We can’t see the cursor properly so we must delete the cube.

| To delete it, press the '''delete''' button on the keyboard. Left click '''Delete'''.

| The primary purpose of the 3D Cursor is to specify the location of a new object added to the 3D scene

| Go to '''ADD'''. Go to '''Mesh'''. Left click '''Cube'''.

| You can also use key board shortcut '''shift & A''' to add new objects to the 3D view.

| A new cube is added to the 3D view.

| As you can see, the new cube has appeared on the same location as the 3D cursor.

| Now let us see how we can add a new object to a new location.

| First we need to move the 3D cursor to a new location.

| To do this, left click at any location in the 3D space.

| '''Shift & A''' to add a new object '''Mesh'''. Left click '''UV sphere'''.

| The UV sphere appears at the  new location  of the 3D cursor.

| Now we shall see the snapping options for the 3D cursor

| For example, let us snap the cube to the 3D cursor.

| Right click on the '''cube'''. '''Shift & S''' to pull up the snap menu.

| Left click '''Selection to cursor'''. The cube snaps to the 3D cursor.

| Now lets move the cube to the  right . Left click''' green handle''', hold and drag your mouse to the right.

| To learn more about moving objects in the 3D view see the tutorial on Basic description of Blender interface.

|''' Shift & S''' to pull up the snap menu. Left click '''cursor to selected'''.

| The 3D cursor snaps to the centre of the cube in the  new location .

| In case you have more than 1 object selected at the same time, say the cube and the UV sphere here,

|''' Shift plus right''' click to select the UV sphere. So now you have two objects selected at the same time.

| Now '''Shift plus right''' click the''' lamp'''. '''Shift & S''' to pull up the snap menu.

| Click on any point in the 3D view to move the 3D cursor. I am clicking to the'''''''' '''bottom right''''''''.'''

|''' Shift & S''' to pull up the snap menu.

| Click '''Cursor to Center'''. The 3D cursor snaps to the centre of the 3D view

| '''Press A''' on the keyboard to deselect the objects.

| Now, right click the '''UV sphere'''. Press''' A''' to deselect it.

| '''Shift & S''' to pull up the snap menu.

| The 3D cursor snaps to the centre  of the UV sphere the last active selection

| The 3D cursor provides additional benefits when used as a pivot point while modeling,

| Now try to add new objects to the 3D view in different locations using the 3D cursor.

| After that, explore the snapping options in the snap menu. All the best!

| So that wraps up our tutorial on Blender’s 3D Cursor.

| This Tutorial is created by Project Oscar and supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT.

| More information on the same is available at thefollowing links oscar.iitb.ac.in, and spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro.

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| Thanks for joining us

|and this is Monisha from IIT Bombay signing off.