Interface

In order to resize the T- or N-panel of the Blender UI, you just need to hold the edge of the panel with the mouse and drag it left or right. However, in this case, you can only change the size of the panel itself, but not the interface elements on it.

To change elements size and the font size of the panel, you need:

• hover cursor on the panel
• hold together the “ctrl” keyboard button and the middle mouse button (scroll wheel)
• move the mouse up or down

This works not only for the side panels but also for all the “Properties” window.

The coordinate axes widget in the viewport window can be switched to a simple and familiar look, like in Blender 2.7.

To do that:

Familiar coordinate axes in Blender 2.8Read More »

In Blender 2.8 the toolbars are located on the top of the working windows. But you can easily return them to the habitual bottom position.

Right-click on the panel and select “Flip to Bottom” to move the panel down. To return the panel back to the top, right-click on it and select “Flip to Top”.

This feature is not Blender 2.8 exclusive, the same can be done in Blender 2.7.

In the new Blender 2.80 in the “3D View” window (3D Viewport), when scrolling a wheel to zoom or pressing the num pad buttons (1, 3, 7, 9) to center the view to different sides, the projection mode automatically changes between orthographic and perspective.

To disable this automatic mode changing, in the “User Preferences” window – “Navigation”, change the value of the Auto Perspective checkbox:

To transfer the T- or N-panel to the opposite window side point a mouse cursor to it and press the f5 shortkey.