Blender Manual (official documentation)
Source: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest
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- [sourced_fact] The 'latest' manual currently documents Blender 5.2 LTS with sections on getting started, UI, editors, scenes & objects, modeling (meshes, curves, modifiers, geometry nodes), sculpting and painting. · locator: Navigation sidebar source
- [sourced_fact] Manual text is under CC-BY-SA 4.0 (or later); logos, trademarks, icons, source code and Python scripts in the manual are excluded. · locator: Copyright page, license paragraph source
- [sourced_fact] The copyright page asks that references to the manual credit the Blender Documentation Team and link to the manual. · locator: Copyright page, attribution paragraph source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
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