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Blender 5.1 Manual

Getting Started

About Blender
Installing Blender
Configuring Blender
Help System

Sections

User Interface
Editors
- 3D Viewport
- Image Editor
- UV Editor
- Compositor
- Texture Nodes
- Geometry Node Editor
- Shader Editor
- Video Sequencer
  - Introduction
  - Sequencer
    - Introduction
    - Channels
    - Navigating
    - Toolbar
    - Sidebar
      - Cache
      - Proxy
    - Display
  - Preview
    - Introduction
    - Header
    - Toolbar
    - Sidebar
    - Controls
      - Pivot Point
      - Preview Snapping
    - Display
  - Sequencer & Preview
- Movie Clip Editor
- Dope Sheet
  - Introduction
  - Navigating
  - Display
    - Overlays
  - Editing
  - Modes
  - Sidebar
- Timeline
- Graph Editor
- Drivers Editor
- Nonlinear Animation
  - Introduction
  - Tracks
  - Strips
  - Editing
    - Track
    - Strip
  - Sidebar
- Text Editor
- Python Console
- Info Editor
- Outliner
  - Introduction
  - Interface
  - Selecting
  - Editing
  - Usage
- Properties Editor
- File Browser
- Asset Browser
- Spreadsheet
- Preferences
  - Introduction
  - Interface
  - Viewport
  - Lights
  - Editing
  - Animation
  - Get Extensions
  - Add-ons
  - Themes
  - Input
  - Navigation
  - Keymap
  - System
  - Save & Load
  - File Paths
  - Developer Tools
  - Experimental
Scenes & Objects
- Scenes
  - Introduction
  - Scene Properties
- Objects
  - Introduction
  - Object Types
  - Object Origin
  - Selecting
  - Editing
    - Transform
    - Mirror
    - Clear
    - Apply
    - Snap
    - Duplicate
    - Duplicate Linked
    - Join
    - Asset
    - Parenting Objects
    - Modifiers
    - Constraints
    - Track
    - Relations
      - Make Single User
    - Link/Transfer Data
    - Shading
    - Rigid Body
    - Convert
    - Show/Hide
    - Clean Up
    - Delete
  - Object Properties
    - Transform
    - Relations
    - Collections
      - Introduction
      - Collections
    - Instancing
    - Visibility
    - Viewport Display
    - Line Art
  - Tools
- Collections
  - Introduction
  - Collections
Modeling
Sculpting & Painting
- Introduction
- Brushes
- Selection & Visibility
- Navigating in Paint Modes
- Sculpting
  - Introduction
  - Brushes
    - Brush Types
      - Draw
      - Draw Sharp
      - Clay
      - Clay Strips
      - Clay Thumb
      - Layer
      - Inflate
      - Blob
      - Crease
      - Smooth
      - Plane
      - Scrape Multiplane
      - Pinch
      - Grab
      - Elastic Deform
      - Snake Hook
      - Thumb
      - Pose
      - Nudge
      - Rotate
      - Relax Slide
      - Boundary
      - Cloth
      - Density
      - Mask
      - Draw Face Sets
      - Erase Multires Displacement
      - Smear Multires Displacement
      - Paint
      - Smear
      - Blur
    - Brush Assets
  - Toolbar
  - Tools
  - Tool Settings
    - Brushes
    - Brush Settings
      - Brush Settings
      - Texture
      - Stroke
      - Falloff
      - Cursor
    - Dyntopo
    - Remesh
    - Symmetry
    - Options
  - Controls
  - Editing
    - Sculpt
    - Mask
    - Face Sets
    - Expand
- Texture Paint
  - Introduction
  - Brushes
  - Tool Settings
    - Texture Slots
    - Brushes
    - Brush Settings
      - Texture
      - Stroke
      - Falloff
      - Cursor
    - Mask
    - Symmetry
    - Options
    - Tiling
  - Editing
- Vertex Paint
  - Introduction
  - Brushes
  - Vertex Paint Tools
  - Tool Settings
    - Brushes
    - Brush Settings
      - Texture
      - Stroke
      - Falloff
      - Cursor
    - Symmetry
  - Editing
- Weight Paint
  - Introduction
  - Brushes
  - Weight Paint Tools
  - Tool Settings
    - Brushes
    - Brush Settings
      - Stroke
      - Falloff
      - Cursor
    - Symmetry
    - Options
  - Using Vertex Groups
  - Editing
- Curves Sculpting
Grease Pencil
Animation & Rigging
Physics
- Introduction
- Rigid Body
- Cloth
- Soft Body
  - Introduction
  - Settings
    - Object
    - Simulation
    - Cache
    - Goal
    - Edges
    - Self Collision
    - Solver
  - Forces
    - Exterior
    - Interior
  - Collision
  - Examples
- Fluid
  - Introduction
  - Type
    - Domain
      - Settings
      - Gas Settings
        
        Adaptive Domain
        
        Noise
        
        Viewport Display
      - Liquid Settings
        
        Diffusion
        
        Particles
        
        Mesh
      - Guides
      - Collections
      - Cache
      - Field Weights
    - Flow
    - Effector
  - Materials
- Particle System
  - Introduction
  - Particle System Panel
  - Emitter
    - Emission
    - Cache
    - Velocity
    - Rotation
    - Physics
      - Introduction
      - Newtonian
      - Keyed
      - Boids
      - Fluid
    - Render
    - Viewport Display
    - Children
    - Force Fields
    - Vertex Groups
  - Hair
    - Introduction
    - Emission
    - Hair Dynamics
    - Render
    - Shape
    - Children
    - Viewport Display
  - Texture Influence
  - Particle Edit Mode
- Dynamic Paint
- Forces
  - Gravity
  - Force Fields
    - Introduction
    - Boid
    - Charge
    - Curve Guide
    - Drag
    - Fluid Flow
    - Force
    - Harmonic
    - Lennard-Jones
    - Magnetic
    - Texture
    - Turbulence
    - Vortex
    - Wind
- Collision
- Baking Physics Simulations
- Simulation Nodes
Rendering
Compositing
Motion Tracking & Masking
- Movie Clip Data-Blocks
- Motion Tracking
  - Introduction
  - Clip View
    - Introduction
    - Tracking Marker
    - Toolbar
      - Track
      - Solve
    - Selecting
    - Editing
    - Sidebar
      - Track
        
        Track
        
        Objects Panel
        
        Plane Track
        
        Camera
        
        Marker
      - 2D Stabilization
        
        Introduction
        
        2D Stabilization Panel
        
        Workflow
      - View
  - Graph View
  - Dope Sheet View
- Masking
  - Introduction
  - S-Curves
  - Selecting
  - Editing
  - Sidebar
Video Editing
Assets, Files, & Data System
Add-ons
Advanced
Troubleshooting
- Startup
- 3D Viewport
- Graphics Hardware
  - Windows
    - NVIDIA
    - AMD
    - Intel
    - Other GPU
  - Linux
    - NVIDIA
    - AMD
    - Intel
    - Other GPU
  - macOS
    - NVIDIA
    - AMD
    - Intel
    - Other GPU
- Crashes
- Network
- Python Errors
- Recovering Data
- Reporting a Bug
Glossary
Manual Index

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Last updated on 2026-05-24