Selecting objects by the UV map name

If we need to find and select all objects in the scene whose UV-Map map name matches the specified one, we can do this using the Blender Python API.

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First, let’s deselect all the objects in the scene:

for obj in bpy.data.objects:
    obj.select_set(False)

1 2	for obj in bpy.data.objects: obj.select_set(False)

To select the necessary objects, let’s loop through all the meshes of the scene:

for obj in bpy.data.objects:
    if obj.type == 'MESH':

1 2	for obj in bpy.data.objects: if obj.type == 'MESH':

Loop through all the UV-Maps of each mesh and check if the UV-Map name matches the given one. If yes, select this object.

for uvmap in  obj.data.uv_layers :
    if uvmap.name == 'UVMap':
        obj.select_set(True)

for uvmap in obj.data.uv_layers :

if uvmap.name == 'UVMap':

obj.select_set(True)

Full code:

for obj in bpy.data.objects:
    if obj.type == 'MESH':
        for uvmap in  obj.data.uv_layers :
            if uvmap.name == 'UVMap':
                obj.select_set(True)

for obj in bpy.data.objects:

if obj.type == 'MESH':

for uvmap in obj.data.uv_layers :

if uvmap.name == 'UVMap':

obj.select_set(True)

In this example, those meshes that have at least one UV-Map named “UVMap” will be selected.