Official sources¶
The official home for Blender is blender.org
Manuals¶
The Blender Reference Manual for version 4.5 can be found here. The documentation on the Python API is here.
Access help from within Blender
You can open the Blender documentation pages from within Blender itself, using
the options in the Help menu.
Blender Extensions (add-ons)¶
Extensions are add-ons or themes used to extend the core functionality of Blender. They are shared in online platforms, and can be installed and updated from within Blender.
The official extension repository is at https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons and contains a few hundred extensions. They vary in functionality, for example improving mesh editing functionality, adding functions for 3D printing, or adding importers.
See the community section for extensions that are specifically interesting for scientific data.
Extensions can be installed from disk, from a URL (drag into Blender), or from within Blender itself, see here for more details.
Demo files¶
Official demo files showing off lots of cool features and scenes can be found here, including the scene files used to render the splash images of different Blender versions.
Blender development and news¶
If you are interested in following recent development in Blender then the weekly Blender Today Live sessions on YouTube are a good resource.
Videos on lots of different topics, including videos from the yearly Blender Conference, can be found on the official Blender YouTube channel.
Blender has official accounts on Mastodon an Twitter/X. The hashtag to use for Blender is #b3d (although sometimes also #blender).
Mastodon¶
On Mastodon the official account is @blender@mastodon.social.
Twitter/X¶
On Twitter you can follow @Blender for official Blender news or @BlenderDev for more in-depth development information.