“Save Selected” – Blender 3D add-on that allows saving selected objects in the scene into a separate *.blend file.
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This add-on can be useful for quickly creating sets of separate files with assets from complex scenes.
Add-on functionality
To save the necessary objects into a separate *.blend file, just select them, and in the main menu choose “File – Export – Save Selected”. And specify the location of the file to save.
The selected objects will be saved to the specified file.
Demonstration video
Current add-on version
1.0.3.
Blender versions
2.83, 2.90, 2.91, 2.92, 2.93, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1
Location and call
Main menu: File – Export – Save Selected
Installation
- Download the *.zip archive with the add-on distributive.
- The “Preferences” window — Add-ons — Install… — specify the downloaded archive.
Version history
1.0.3
- Add-on updated for compatibility with Blender 4.1.
1.0.2
- Add-on checked with Blender versions 2.83, 2.90, 2.92
- The minimum required version downgraded to 2.83
1.0.1.
- Added option to clean up startup file when saving
1.0.0.
- This release.
Hi, I installed this on Blender 3.4.1 (can’t go any higher with this old Mac), but it does not seem to be working any longer for that version. I select one of several objects, but then there is no option to ‘save selected’ under ‘Export’. The add-on-version is 1.0.3.
Cheers!
Hi!
Do you have any messages in the system console (main menu – window – toggle system console on Windows / terminal window on Linux) ?
Hi Nikita,
would it be possible to save only the selected objects to a blank scene and not in the startup file ?
Hi, Guillaume!
Selected objects will be saved to the new blank file. Only settings (UI, default scene) for this file will be from the default startup file.