    How to make a Box
    by Tom aka Night4554

    Part 1
    I am going to show you four ways to make a box.  It will start with the most complicated (trust me it's easy) and move on to a three-click box.

    1) Start Blender
    2) Left Click on the square you see so that it turns purple.
    3) You should see this now:

    4) Click TAB
    Now we are in EDIT MODE.  This is where you edit materials
    5) Press A
    This selects all the vertices. The points should turn yellow.
    If not then press A again to make them all yellow.
    6) Press X
    7) Confirm Erasing
    Now we have a clean slate to work with
    8)Place you mouse over the intersection two little gray lines out (pretend it's a graph and it would be 2,2)
    9) Hold control and press the left mouse button
    Move you mouse you should see a little yellow dot.  You have placed you first vertice
    10) Move your mouse 4 little gray lines down from your first vertice. (2,-2)
    11) Place another vertice.
    12) Move your mouse 4 little gray lines to the left of your second vertice. (-2,-2)
    13) Move your mouse 4 little gray lines to the top of your third vertice. (-2,2)
    You should have something that looks like this:

    Don't worry if your lines aren't straight.  Notice how the upper two vertices aren't
    joined. To join them we will create a line
    14) Press A to deselect all vertices.  They should all be purple.  If they are yellow press A
    again.
    15) To select the vertices we need press Right Mouse Button near one of the upper two
    vertices.
    16) Hold Shift and press the right mouse button near the second vertice.  You should have the upper two vertices in yellow
    16 1/2) Now Press F
    This creates a line between the two points
    17) Press Tab and then Tab again.
    This is Blender's UNDO button.  By pressing U you reload the data before you entered edit mode.  Tabbing in and out occasionally allows you to create a series of undo steps.
    You now have a rough square.
    This entire time you have been working in Top View
    Now we will move into side mode for a few seconds.
    18) Press 3 on your numberpad
    You MUST do this on your numberpad. (Also make sure NumLock is on).  Pressing just 3 will put you into your third layer (which you have nothing in so your screen will go blank).
    Correct:Incorrect:

    19) Now that we are in Side view mode place your mouse two gray lines up from your points and click so the cursor moves there.
    Like this:

    20) Now press 7 on your numberpad
    This puts you back in Top View Mode
    21) Now repeat steps 9-13 in the same spaces.
    Thanks to moving your cursor in side view mode you have created a similar figure only two spaces above the last.
    22) Tab in and out
    To repeat steps 16-16 ½ we will scroll around in 3D view to get a good view.
    23) On your numberpad press 6 (or right) eight times then 2 (or down) three times
    You oughta see this:

    24) Select Vertices 1 and 2 (see step 15-16 if you forgot how)
    25) Form the line by pressing F
    You now have two squares above each other.  We must form them now.
    26) Go into Side mode (3 on your numberpad)
    27) Press A so that all vertices are purple (or deselected)
    28) Press B
    This is Box Select.  It allows you to select mass vertices.  Select the top vertices.
    29) Press F
    If you select two vertices and press this it will create a line.  In this case though you are creating a face on the plane that you have.
    30) To make sure that you have created this plane correctly press Z
    Z puts you into solid mode.  You cannot see through faces.  If you can then you don't have a face.
    31) Press left, right, up, and down on your numberpad to scroll around and verify that you created the plane.
    32) Press Z again to exit solid mode
    33) Repeat steps 26-32 for the bottom vertices
    Now you should have two planes but they're not connected.  To connect the sides and create the box continue:
    34) Go to Top View (numpad 7)
    35) On your numberpad press 6 (or right) eight times then 2 (or down) three times
    36) Select one side of the box (using shift and right mouse button)
    37) Press F
    38) Press A to deselect any vertices
    39) Repeat steps 36-38 for each side of the box.
    If you get an error message such as "Error cannot make face" make sure that you have selected the correct vertices
    40) Press Z and confirm that all sides of the box are solid.

    41) Hold down the middle mouse button and drag (or ALT and left mouse button) to view your completed box like this:

    You now have your very first box!!!

    New Commands-

- TAB-enter and exit edit mode
- X-delete selected vertices, faces and such
- control and press the left mouse button-place vertice
- Right Mouse Button-select/deselect
- Shift and press the right mouse button-multiple selecting/deselecting
- F-create face, or line
- U-reload data from before you entered edit mode
- 3- (on numpad) side view
- 7- (on numpad) top view
- 6 -(on numpad) turn right in 3D mode
- 2 -(on numpad) turn down in 3D mode
- B-block select vertices
- Z-enter/exit solid mode
- middle mouse button and drag-scroll around in 3D mode