Learn Blender 3 - Real-Estate and Areas

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• Blender has
  • top menu bar
  • bottom status bar
• Top menu bar has menu items
  • Blender Icon
  • File
  • Edit
  • Render
  • Window
  • Help
  • Tabs for different layouts
• Status bar gives information on how to use the active tool
  • You can hide it if you click and hold and drag down on the bottom margin and drag down.
  • To show it again, click on the bottom border of the interface and drag up.
• To maximize an area, hover over it and press CTRL+Spacebar, if you are on Windows. There should be something equivalent on each platform, such as possibly COMMAND and Spacebar.
• Each area that is for viewing has an editor.
  • You can control and view scene information with it.
• You can join, split, and scale areas.
  • This is very specific to Blender and makes it unique and is a stand-out feature compared to other 3D packages.
  • Blender tries to not have floating windows but to split the real-estate up into sections.
• To scale, left click on the mouse and drag an edge of the area
• To split areas, right click on the mouse on an edge of an area and choose split
  • A perpendicular split line will appear to split the area in the adjacent area you mouse over.
• To join areas, right click on the mouse on an edge of an area and choose join.
  • An arrow will appear to show which area will be "stomped" over be the other area.
• Another and probably faster way to join areas is to hover over a corner of an array until the icon becomes a cross. Then you can click and drag a new area.
  • If you drag it into the current area into an area that does not contain the corner, you will merge the areas.
• Practice it. If you mess up, start a new scene to get the original layout
  • File -> New -> General