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I'm new to blender and I've been wondering what the workbench render engine is used for.

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As the Introduction says

The Workbench Engine is a render engine optimized for fast rendering during modeling and animation preview. It is not intended to be a render engine that will render final images for a project. Its primary task is to display a scene in the 3D Viewport when it is being worked on.

Workbench is the render engine that displays your scene in the 3D Viewport when you are in "Solid" viewport shading mode. It gives a certain amount of lighting with a small amount of control, especially if you switch to matcap materials.

The idea is to be able to give you enough light to see what your 3d model looks like while being fast enough to support updating the scene in real time as you scroll your view of the scene, or scrub the timeline to see how animations work.

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  • $\begingroup$ Oh.. that makes sense. Thank you very much $\endgroup$
    – Martin Otinga
    Commented Mar 12, 2022 at 1:05
  • $\begingroup$ Workbench also works without an OpenGL context. Which means that people using Blender on servers (think render farms) can ask it to render a preview of the Blender viewport (the working space) in the terminal, without even needing a graphical session. $\endgroup$
    – Diti
    Commented Jan 8, 2024 at 21:26

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