How to do an undo command? (like ctrl+z in regular windows apps)

I haven't found this thing.. Any ideas?

Hqpsy wrote:

How to do an undo command? (like ctrl+z in regular windows apps) I haven't found this thing.. Any ideas?

There's no real undo in Blender. The only thing similar to an undo, is the U hotkey which, while you're in Edit mode (TAB) reverts to the state the mesh, surface, etc. was when you entered Edit mode.

Goran

my worst nightmare has come true.. No Undo!!!!

Well, it's not that bad you know. Here's what everybody else does:

* CTRL+W - ENTER (save the current file, takes less than a second)

Then do the stuff you suspect might cause problems.

And, if you indeed got into trouble:
* CTRL+O - ENTER (reverts to last saved version of your file, takes less than a second)

This soon becomes a muscular memory reflex. You will do it without even thinking. In your sleep, your fingers will soon go through these motions all by themselves after a few weeks. This proves you have started to become a Blenderhead. And once the print on your 'W'-key starts to wear off, you will know that you have worked hard enough for the past year.

I've used blender for more than 3 years now, and I actually use this principle in other apps too, even those equipped with a standard undo feature. And it's really good - and more reliable.
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Hmm.. sounds quite alright..

Thx dude

You're welcome! Indeed.
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Jamesk , from someone still learning blender and who makes more mistakes than anyone on the planet, THANK YOU.

Homer_S: Making mistakes is a good thing. You learn a lot while doing them, and sometimes - not often though - you even come up with something really cool while accidently messing stuff up.

Also, if you go to the user preferences menuy, you can set Blender to save incremental temporary files ever X minutes, so you can revert t oone of those as well. These get saved in the temporary directory in 'File paths'. Also, whenever you quit Blender, a file named quit.blend is saved in the same temporary directory, allowing you to continue where you last left off, even if you forgot to save.

I think it'd be a good idea to write up a document with all of these 'undo workarounds' so they're all together somewhere, so we could just point to it whenever people ask about undo. There's a fair bit of information on elysiun about this topic if you do a search too. Anyone willing to put something together?

I find that duplicating mesh(s) (SHIFT+D) and then moving it to another layer for backup- a good way not to loose things.

I hope that someone put in a real undo function into blender sometime..

Hqpsy wrote:

I hope that someone put in a real undo function into blender sometime..

A multi-level undo function in Blender is really not a bad idea. At the moment, I can only help myself by saving into many different "versions" frequently.