1.1. Select

Click to Select or Drag to highlight selected. Works on objects and curves.

Drag with Shift held down to select several objects at once.

Drag with Ctrl to remove objects from a multj selection.

N.B. You can also make selections in the Groups panel, and multj selections using Shift and Ctrl.

Shortcut

You can right click and right drag to select an object.

N.B. Some sculpt and paint tools override the right button select shortcut (they replace it with an alternate sculpt/paint mode)

1.2. Move

Drag to Move item. Works on objects and curves.

Dragging on the coloured arrows will constrain the movement to the arrow's direction.

Dragging anywhere else on the screen will move the object freely within the view.

Hold SHIFT and drag to move the object in and out of the screen, towards and away from the viewer.

1.3. Rotate

Drag to Rotate item around a point. Works on objects and curves.

Drag the little coloured boxes to rotate around fixed axes.

Drag anywhere else to rotate the object flat to the view.

1.4. Scale

Drag to Scale item. Works on objects and curves.

Drag on yellow cube to scale uniformly.

Drag on other coloured cubes to distort and stretch along an axis.

1.5. Soft Move

Drag to Pull part of the item, deforming the rest smoothly. Works on objects and curves.

You can choose the shape and size of the soft move effect using the Tool Controls.

Drag on the white Shape to change from a pointed to a flat effect.

Drag on Scale to control the size of the effect on Curves.

When you use soft move on Objects the effect size is controlled differently - hold Ctrl with soft move active and drag in the view to scale the effect.
You can also use the Set Tool Size tool from the toolbox.

Hold SHIFT and drag to move the part in and out of the screen, towards and away from the viewer.

1.6. Soft Rotate

Drag to Twist part of the item, deforming the rest smoothly. Works on objects and curves.

See Soft Move for Tool Controls.

1.7. Pan

Drag to move the view.

Shortcut

Drag while holding down the middle mouse button to pan.

1.8. Orbit

Drag to rotate the view around your model.

N.B. Orthogonal views snap back to right-angles.

Shortcut

Hold Alt and Drag to Rotate View. This shortcut works whichever tool is currently selected.

1.9. Zoom

Drag to zoom in and out from your model.

Shortcut

Rotate the mouse wheel to zoom.