"I did see that Blender 2.8 is planning on having an Industry Standard keybind though, so maybe that will make me switch to Blender when they release that since the defaults trip me up so much." Again - the only thing that is indeed a trip is the default *navigation*, which if fixable by following this :…
"All you have to do is learn those shortcuts" Well ... not really. Like any other software, all one needs to do is to learn where the commands are located first and foremost (or, how to call them through the hotbox). And then decide wether to adopt some or all of the default hotkeys - or customize them as needed. This…
Thanks for all the great comments everyone. Some great insight in here. I think I'm going to do like zachagreg suggested and just try to model my way through some small props with a few different programs and then see which one gave me the least trouble. I tried that today and modeled a zippo lighter in Maya LT without any…