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How to select only deformation bones?
Is there a way to select all bones from the vertex group of the mesh?
I have too many overlapping bones that are very tedious to work and some are non-deformer which I wanted to hide and only work ...
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How Can I Automatically Separate a Mesh into Individual Faces (meshes) in Blender?
How do I separate a selected mesh into multiple meshes based on its faces.
What I know how to do: enter Edit mode, select a face of a cube, press P for separate, press S for selection, and repeat this ...
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How to force Context to be 'Outliner' for using 'bpy.ops.outliner.select_walk' in the 3D Viewport?
I've been trying to use the 'bpy.ops.outliner.select_walk' functionality which walks up and down the list of objects in the outliner with the arrow keys. I want to use this functionality while in the ...
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How can I fully select a collection using python with blue highlight?
I have found this thread and several other threads but nothing with any legit answers. We can somewhat select a collection using for example this script that "selects" the one at index 2:
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Blender Python: How to test for "selectable" objects in viewport?
Is there a way to check if objects are selectable in Blender Python?
The code below checks if an object is visible, but is there also something to check if an object is also selectable in viewport?
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msgbus for collection selection in outliner
I want a callback for Collection selections in the Outliner.
So far I already found a common solution for object selections:
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How can I get all selected collections in the Outliner?
In 2022 there was an answer to a question over at
devtalk.blender.org about selecting multiple collections.
The answer was this code segment:
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How to retrieve the GlobalId from a selected object on an IFC file?
I am trying to start a script to export attributes from selected objects from an IFC file in BlenderBIM, but I am getting an error "'Object' has no attribute 'id'". This is the code so far:
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Python: How to select only outer faces that are exposed to light via script?
EDIT: Since it's impossible to select only the outer faces using Blender's UI tools, I'm looking for a Python solution that will check each face to see if it does have a certain degree of light (...
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Use data from selected object in python scripting
In this picture I have a cube selected and in the transform panel you can see the cube's data, such as location and rotation. Is there a way to use the data of this selected object, like the x-...
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Blender changes location of loop cut after selecting vertices
I have a script that creates a frustum with an upper lip and I add a loopcut to the mesh to create that lip. When I run the script until the first return in my code, it works fine. But when I run it ...
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How to detect if a mesh has split UV island instead of single island, using Python?
So, Lets understand the problem or the issue I am trying to resolve. Lets say I have two mesh in the viewport as in the image.
First mesh is a square with 2 loop cuts or 3 faces. And second is square ...
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How to Select all objects that have the subdivision surface modifier?
I saw this example of how to select objects by name with a script, I would like to know if anyone knows how to modify it to be able to select all the objects with the subdivision surface modifier.
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Select Mesh from scene which has volume equal or close to the active mesh
I am trying to develop a code which can Calculate volume of active mesh object and find another mesh and select it from scene which has volume equal to active mesh or (smaller or greater than active ...
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Joining & Rotating objects created in code through loop
I'm a Blender & Python newb, so the nuances haven't been all that enjoyable :)
I'm trying to create a 1x2 stack of cubes that joins and rotates each layer by 45 degrees. Below is the code I have, ...
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Python - How to scale vertices with pivot being set to cursor?
I made a script that creates a circle, deselects all vertices in edit mode, selects first 5 vertices and then scales those vertices. I expected those vertices to be scaled with 3D cursor which sits in ...
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Delete Children Automatically
Is there a way to automatically delete children when the parent is deleted? By automatically I mean that you don't do any selection (or other action) of the children prior to selecting and deleting ...
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Why is the underlying command of "select all" not working when executed with python? (Grease Pencil)
While in edit mode of a grease pencil object, the tooltip of "select all" says that the corresponding python command would be ...
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How can I count objects that are in a collection instance using Python?
I have this script which should count all the selected objects in the scene, but it doesn't. It cannot count the 6 monkeys that are part of a collection instance.
Can you help me?
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How to sort objects from a collection using python?
So I'm trying to animate a rubiks cube via a python script using the scripting capabilities given with Blender.
My current cube looks like this:
It consists of 27 separate objects (cubelets) that ...
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How to select objects by collection from selected objects in the scene with Python?
I just started using python and got stuck.
I found this script which is used to take the selected objects from the scene and add them to a list based on the name of the material.
I should do almost ...
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Select all faces parallel to ground
Is there a way to select all faces in my mesh that have normals that point upwards, with a range of how much they need to be pointing upwards to be selected?I have a mesh of a house, and I want to add ...
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How to select vertices on the left side of a plane using python?
I would like to select only the vertices on the left side of my plane using Python (like on the screeenshot), does anybody have an idea how to do it ?
I try the following to get all vertices but i'm ...
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can I get number of edges connected to a vertex
I essentially want to put a fence up around the edge of my object, is there a way I can select all vertices with 3 edges connected to it?
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Why is deselecting vertices with bmesh not working?
I want to make use of the bmesh module to update mesh selection.
To select vertices works as expected, but to unselect vertices does not work for me...
Am I ...
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Recursive search for selected vertices
i am working on a tool and need to get selection islands in the mesh. I want to keep only the biggest connected vertex selection in the mesh.
I wrote a function that recursively searches a ...
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INVOKE_DEFAULT cancels selection while EXEC_DEFAULT doesn't
I'm writing a script for exporting convex shapes in a proprietary format. I have an option for V-HACD auto-generating and also an option for manual tweaking of V-HACD settings before exporting. The ...
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How can I select a bone by name using python in blender 2.8
I'm new to scripting in blender and am trying to select a bone by name using python. Eventually I would like to loop through all the bones of an armature and translate them to a new location in edit ...
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Is it possible to deselect vertices in Python?
I have an existing selection which I'd like to further isolate using Python scripting. In this instance the math is simply that if the X coordinate is greater than zero, it should be deselected.
I ...
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