How to edit mesh data using mesh tools

The tutorials located on the showmedo.com site created by Glen Moyes is great for beginners trying to learn and understand how Blender 3d works. In the tutorial labeled Blender’s Edit Mode, Glen defines How to edit mesh data using mesh tools.

This tutorial is easy to understand and you are able to follow along easily. What is nice is how the many different ways to manipulate blender are covered. For example short keys are addressed, tool bars and menus are explained and mouse manipulations are defined. This allows multiple ways to manipulate blender to get the same affect. Therefore each can select what works best for them.

Items covered in this tutorial are the use of brush and lasso selection, and utilizing vertex, faces, and edge mode. Creating meshes without using predefined objects defined in Blender is done by using vertex. It also shows how to use vertices and edges to create faces and how to use the extrude tool to help make shapes.

http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=blenderMoyes-050-capture-edit_mode&fromSeriesID=31