Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/3D View Windows - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

3. A red-and-white striped circle with black cross-hairs This is not an object. It is the 3D Cursor, which indicates where newly-created objects will appear in the scene. The cursor is similar to the insertion point in a text editor, which indicates where

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