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What we have here is five windows and we can tell the contents of each window by

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taking a look at the far left of each header bar in each window. So if we come

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down to the bottom left here we can see that there's this little cube icon there

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with some couple of triangles which means that we can basically click on

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here and we can see all the various different windows that we've got

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available to us within Blender and this one is the 3d view so you can swap the

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contents of this view by just clicking something else on the list there. Just

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below the 3d view we've got the timeline and on the right hand side we've got

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another two windows we've got the outliner at the top which is just going

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to give us a kind of list like view of everything in our scene and below that

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we've got the properties window and at the top here is our fifth final window

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we've got the info window which doesn't really look like much of a window I

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realize it looks more like just a typical menu bar but if we left click

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and drag on the line that segments between the 3d view and this header bar

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here at the top we get this double arrow headed icon that means that we can now

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left click and drag here up and down to just resize things and you can see the

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contents of the info window are just sort of squished up at the top there and

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this is the sort of thing which is pretty handy for scripting and so on so

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I'm just going to left click and drag that back into place and you may be

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forgiven for thinking that this was a window as well because it sort of

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doesn't look too different to this properties window over on the right hand

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side but this is actually just a tool shelf this is a sidebar so we've got the

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T key which can toggle that on and off and it basically belongs to the 3d view

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which is why it doesn't really have its own icon so the contents of the tool

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shelf which is as I say toggled on and off with the T key we can see that it's

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divided into sort of two main parts one is the list like view that we have of

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the various different options there the various different tools and we have the

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tabs down the side which have basically serve as categories of the various

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tools that we've got and this is just to save us from having to scroll too far to

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find what we're looking for now we can you press the N key to take a look on

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the right hand side of the view and that's going to that's N for November

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by the way and that's going to show us the property sidebar and we can scroll

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down the view there with the middle mouse wheel and we can do the same thing

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on this side we can use the middle mouse wheel to scroll but we don't need to

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because it's fairly compact on that particular tab but if we click on some

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of these other ones we can see we slightly get reason to scroll there and

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something else that we can do in here is hold ctrl and middle mouse wheel up and

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down to just kind of quickly scroll through the various tabs that we've got

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there if you want to just quickly get down to the bottom and you're kind of

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looking for something that speeds things up for you so as indicated before we've

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got these double arrow headed icons that we can use to resize the screen and we

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can do that with the sidebars as well in fact we can squish them all the way in

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and you can see sometimes you get these little plus icons then which should just

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be able to flip them back open again or as I say we've got the T key and the N

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key they're gonna come in pretty handy we're gonna be using them a lot we've

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also got the headers themselves can be left click and dragged down to hide them

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and then you can see that we get a little plus icon for those as well so

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not only can we sort of customize the dimensions of all the screens we can

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actually just quickly launch into various different preset layouts that we

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can take advantage of so for example we can come up to the top in our header of

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the info window and we can left click on this where it says default to the side

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of it and this is going to show us various different window layouts

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depending on the kind of task that we might be trying to achieve in blender so

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for example we might like to be doing some scripting so if we click over to

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that we get more of the info window and we get the Python console down the side

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there a text editor perhaps we might like to try use some UV editing which of

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course we're going to be doing a little bit later on and that's just going to

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show us the UV image editor and the 3d view on the right hand side and we can

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actually scroll through these fairly quickly by just holding control and

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using the left or right arrows to just kind of go through there and we can come

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back to our default view to create our own custom layout we can just click on

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this plus icon there and that will duplicate the currently loaded screen

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layout and then we can just rename this to something more meaningful like

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default custom in this case and then we can resize windows to however we like we

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can change the contents of them and then when we switch back to the default view

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you can see that it's remembered that there and when we go control right arrow

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to basically go down this list here so control left will take you up and

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control right will take you down you can see it's remembered all our layout

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and that will remember whether we've resized things whether we've taken

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windows away added extras or change the contents of them or what have you if you

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don't like it you can just click on the X icon and that will remove the layout

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from this list so that takes us to our next issue which is how to create extra

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windows and take them away again so I think the easiest way to do this is just

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to come to the gap between two windows so for example if we just come down here

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that's anywhere where we get that double arrow-headed icon there just to resize a

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window so while we're on there if we right-click we get the area options which

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is split area and join area and when we let's choose split area first you can

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see we're gonna split the 3d view there somehow or if we just come down here we

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can see that we're gonna split the timeline so let's split the 3d view and

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you can see now we've got duplicate of that and if we want to join them again

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let's just go in between right click and then join the area and then we can get

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this large overlaid arrow showing us that we're gonna collapse the in this

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case the left hand sided window into the right hand side so let's just left click

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and do that another way we can do that is by just coming to the top right hand

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corner of any of these windows and you'll see this three line little lines

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that we have there and when you get in that corner your icon should change to a

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little plus symbol and that allows us to left click and drag down to split

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down and then left click and drag to the left in this case to split sideways and

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we can also collapse by just sort of doing that in reverse order we can left

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click and dragged into this window to collapse it we have to make sure that we

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still have our left mouse button pressed and that means we can actually change

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which area we're going to collapse into until we let go in which case it then

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collapses and then we're going to need to collapse up into this window now so

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it can be a little bit tricky you may need to play with exactly how that works

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to split areas and so on but I think you'll get the hang of it so something

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else that we can do is we can go full screen with shift space with the cursor

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while in any area that we have here we can maximize the timeline by making sure

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our cursor is down here and then pressing shift space and then shift space

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to toggle it back to where it was and then same with the properties and then

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shift space to toggle it back down again there is another way to do that so

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similarly to the way that we were going control left and right arrow to toggle

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through the custom layout the layouts I should say we also have control and up

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arrow to be able to if we just press that twice it toggles it through you can

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also just go control down arrow they basically all do the same thing

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something else that we can do is quickly pop out of view so if we're at the top

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here we've got this plus icon we can just hold shift and left click and then

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drag out the window and that allows us to now sort of reposition this on a

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separate monitor if we like or we can close that down we can also swap the

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contents so if we press control and left click in the same place where you get

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that plus icon in the top right hand side you can get this other little icon

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that you get once you drag into the view and that means you're going to swap those

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views round so the 3d view now becomes at the bottom the timeline is at the

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top and then we can just control left click and drag into the each other's

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window to swap the contents around again so that's all I think you'll need

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regarding customizing the layouts and generally moving the windows around so

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let's move on