Subdivisions Adding these gives you more 'resolution' to work with by providing additional polygons with their components you can change. Dragging a Marquee Allows you to select the objects within a rectangular space in the scene. Geometry The collection of vertices, edges, faces, curves, etc. Image Plane A menu option in a viewport that allows you to bring in a reference image to use while modeling. Grouping A way to create a relationship between objects so that you can select and affect them all at once. The Child object is shown as being a sub-object indented below the Parent in the Outliner. Parenting Creating a relationship between objects so that anything done to the Parent object will also affect the Child object. Some nodes you might see are shape nodes, creation nodes, transform nodes, etc. Attribute Editor Allows you to see nodes related to a selected item. Outliner Tool that allows you to see a hierarchical list of everything in a scene. Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) Non-polygonal modeling in which objects can be manipulated (altered) using components such as control vertices and isoparms. Ngon A polygonal face made of 5 or more edges. Triangle A polygonal face created by the smallest possible number of edges. Face A plane in space that is delineated by three or more edges. Vertex A point in space labelled by an XYZ coordinate.

One way to access this is to right-click on an object. Component Mode Allows you to select an object's vertices, edges, and faces. Channel Box Panel that numerically tracks the translation/move, rotation, and scaling values of objects. It takes all the information away from the transforms and sets whatever position or rotation that it is as the new default. Freeze Transformations Option in the Modify Menu that zeros out the transformations and makes the current settings the default 0 for the item.

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