I'm making a script to automate some steps I do quite often. In the script I need to change the active selection from one object to another to work on that object and then return the active selection to the first one, e.g. I have a cube and a circle, both separated objects, I do some things with the cube and then I have to select the circle to do some other operations, then when I'm done with that, I want to select the cube to keep working with it, thanks in advance.
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$\begingroup$ see if this helps blender.stackexchange.com/questions/44382/… $\endgroup$– m.arditoCommented Aug 19, 2017 at 6:55
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$\begingroup$ That helps to select it, but I want to change the "active" property, so when you go bpy.context.active_object the object is now the second one. In other words I need to convert a secondary selection into the active and the active into the secondary, thanks for the reply nonetheless. $\endgroup$– DeNapesCommented Aug 19, 2017 at 18:42
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I found the answer here.
The way you make an object active is through the overwrite of:
bpy.context.scene.objects.active
so if you have a Cube named 'Cube', and you want to make it active, you will do:
cube = bpy.data.objects['Cube']
bpy.context.scene.objects.active = cube