According to wikipedia, Blender is a professional, free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. Today we will try to modelize some basic objects and familiarize with the software.
Your objective is to try to modelize a table with some chairs around. You can check the modeling section of the Blender documentation, you can ask questions as well. If you finish ealier than the other, you can even try to apply some texture to your model, maybe even some materials !
Shortcuts in blender are pretty powerfuls, you can easily combine several of them to improve your workflow.
space
prompt, you can search in blender's features
z
toggle wireframe mode0
camera view1
3
7
Y, X and Z axis aligned views1
3
7
+ctrl
same as previous but on the other side5
perspective/orthogonal viewmouse wheel
zoom/rotationshift
+Z
live previewF12
render the scene
c
circle selectionb
box selectionleft mouse
select one
G
translate/moveR
rotateS
scale
x
select axis Xy
select axis Yz
select axis Zshift
+axis
: select all axis butaxis
hold mouse wheel
axis selection
tab
switch between object mode and edit modex
delete seletionshift + A
add an object