▣Interface & modes

The 3D Viewport, Outliner, Edit Mode — the names you see on first launch, and how each screen action maps to Python. — 11 entries

The work area for viewing, moving, and making objects. The same scene can be modeled, animated, and painted here.

A set of display modes for the 3D Viewport, from checking shape to previewing materials and lighting.

A hierarchy of a scene’s collections and objects, used to select, rename, and organize them.

Tabbed settings for the selected object and scene. Values are stored in data and can affect the render.

The mode for moving, rotating, and scaling an entire object rather than its mesh elements.

A mode for editing a mesh’s vertices, edges, and faces, separate from the object’s transform.

Chooses whether Edit Mode selects vertices, edges, or faces, changing which editing operations are available.

A brush-based mode for pushing and pulling broad areas of a mesh to shape its overall form.

A mode for posing an armature’s bones and its rig, without editing the character mesh directly.

A position and orientation marker in the scene, used as an insertion point and transform pivot.

Scene settings choose display units and their conversion scale; displayed units are separate from internal coordinates.

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