Region types
Open the Insert tab. That is the catalogue for everything except charts, which have their own Plots tab.
Two entries are not placed as blank blocks at all. A slider is attached to a math assignment from the context menu. A section table is built from the headings you have already marked.
Every type you can place
| Type | Where the button is | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Math | Insert, Insert Region | Expressions, assignments, and answers. This is also what typing on empty paper gives you. |
| Text | Insert, or double-click empty paper | Notes, headings, and lists. Mark a text region as a numbered section on the Text tab. |
| List | Insert, Insert Region | A dropdown. Each entry injects its own variables into scope when you choose it. |
| Sweep | Insert, Insert Region | A parametric table: vary one input down the rows and tabulate expressions across the columns. |
| Summary | Insert, Insert Region | Labels beside live-linked answer cells. |
| Line | Insert, Insert Region | A horizontal rule — a text region that is only a separator. It spans nearly the full page width and ignores where you clicked horizontally. |
| Picture | Insert, Insert Region | An image from a file. Pasting or dropping an image on the canvas does the same thing. |
| 2D Frame | Insert, Insert Region | Sketch members, supports, and loads, then solve. |
| 3D Frame | Insert, Insert Region | The same sketch, in space: orbit, pan, and place nodes on XY, XZ, or YZ. |
| Line, Area, Scatter, Bar | Plots, XY Charts and Bar chart | 2D charts drawn with Chart.js. Bar draws one horizontal bar per entry of a dropdown list. |
| Polar Line, Area, Scatter | Plots, Polar plots | The same three series types plotted as theta and radius. |
| 3D Surface | Plots, 3D | A surface z = f(x, y) over a grid of two inputs. |
| Section table | Text, Sections group, Table | A clickable contents list built from your section headers. |
| Slider | Right-click a := assignment, Add slider… | A drag handle bound to that assignment, not a region you place yourself. |
| Input box | Right-click a simple name := number assignment, Convert to input box. Select several to convert and align them together. | The number becomes a field. Convert to math restores the formula. Pair with Lock format so only those fields can change. |
Later sections cover how to fill each type in. What matters here is recognising the button. All of these are regions. Whatever you insert, you can select it, move it, resize it, and copy it with the same gestures.