Editors

Blender provides a number of different editors for displaying and modifying different aspects of data. An Editor is contained inside an Area which determines the size and placement of the editor with in the Blender window. Every area in Blender may contain any type of editor.

The Editor Type selector, the first button at the left side of a header, allows you to change the Editor in that area, it is also possible to open the same Editor type in different areas at the same time.

See User Interface for documentation on the general interface.

The Editor Type selector.

General

• 3D Viewport
• Image Editor
• UV Editor
• Compositor
• Texture Nodes
• Geometry Node Editor
• Shader Editor
• Video Sequencer
• Movie Clip Editor

Animation

• Dope Sheet
• Timeline
• Graph Editor
• Drivers Editor
• Nonlinear Animation

Scripting

• Text Editor
• Python Console
• Info Editor

Data

• Outliner
• Properties
• File Browser
• Asset Browser
• Spreadsheet
• Preferences