---
title: "Modes Menu"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/68786.html"
section_path: "Modes Menu"
description: "Some tools only work in certain modes and are otherwise grayed out."
---

# Modes Menu

Some tools only work in certain modes and are otherwise grayed out.

In a given mode, only one specific property of the active object or element can be edited.

## In this section

- [Drawing Pipeline](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5599.html.md)
- [Coordinates](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/45149.html.md)
  - [Axes](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5499.html.md)
  - [Coordinate System](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5500.html.md)
- [Component Modes](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/68782.html.md)
  - [Points](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5490.html.md)
  - [Edges](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5492.html.md)
  - [Polygons](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5491.html.md)
- [Model](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5494.html.md)
- [Object](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5489.html.md)
- [Animation](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5498.html.md)
- [Texture](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5495.html.md)
- [Enable Axis](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5493.html.md)
- [Tweak](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/54037.html.md)
- [Snapping](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/50805.html.md)
- [Symmetry](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/Symmetry.html.md)
- [Workplane](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/51894.html.md)
  - [Workplane Modes](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/51902.html.md)
  - [Workplanes](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/51893.html.md)
- [Viewport Solo Mode](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/52991.html.md)
- [Camera](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5488.html.md)