Blender For Dummies®

Chapter 4. Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode

In This Chapter

• Making changes to your 3D objects

• Adding new objects to a scene

• Saving, opening, and appending .blend files

When working on a scene in Blender, your life revolves around repeatedly selecting objects, transforming them, editing them, and relating them to one another. You shift from dealing with your model in Object mode to doing refinements in Edit mode. And this is not only the process for modeling, but also for most of the other heavy tasks performed in Blender. Therefore, the skills you pick up in this chapter can be reused in parts of Blender that have nothing to do with modeling objects in 3D. Just as many of the transform operations work in windows other than the 3D View, many of the concepts here transfer nicely to other parts of Blender. Even if you don't know how to do something, chances are good that if you think like Blender thinks, you'll be able to guess.

Making Changes Using Edit Mode

Moving primitive objects around is fun and all, but you're interested in getting in there and completely changing these objects to match your vision. You want to do 3D modeling. Well, you're in the right place for that. This section introduces you to Edit mode, a concept that's deeply embedded throughout Blender for editing objects. Even though this section is focused mostly on polygon modeling, also called mesh editing, most of the same principles apply for editing curves, surfaces, armatures, and even text. Remember, when you ...