Blender

Setting an icon from the tools panel to a button in the custom UI panel in Blender

Nikita
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To set an icon to a button when creating the custom user UI panel in Blender, we look for the text identifier of the desired icon (usually using the built-in Icon Viewer add-on) and set its value to the “icon” parameter when binding the desired operator to the button. However, the icons used in the tools panel are not existed in the common Blender icons list.

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Moving node tree to the node editor area origin

Nikita

In Blender, when creating complex procedural materials or geometry nodes, the node tree often moves away from the starting point of the node editor area. Later, when working with materials, this causes some inconvenience – when switching from material to material, the node tree “runs away” and we have to scroll the screen each time to see the nodes. This problem can be solved using a simple script that will move the entire node tree to the origin of the node editor area.

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Selecting a Tool in Blender 3.6 using the Blender Python API

Nikita

To switch the active tool using the Blender Python API, we must use the wm.tool_set_by_id operator, passing the identifier of the required tool in its parameter. In earlier versions of Blender, to call this operator from an area with a different context, for example, from the Text Edit area, it was necessary to override the context.

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