[Add-on]Sculptools: Palette

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A radial (pie) menu that puts your favourite sculpt brushes and tools one keystroke away.

No more hunting through the Asset Libraries. Press one key in Blender’s Sculpt Mode and a
palette of your hand-picked brushes and tools opens right under the cursor. Flick, click,
or tap a number to switch — then get back to sculpting.

Get it for free at: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/sculptools-palette

Features

  • Radial Palette menu — instant access to your brushes and tools in the same wheel.
  • Dynamic Brush Sliders — right-click + drag to tune brush Radius and Strength.
  • Up to 8 palettes, each with 10 main slots × 3 sub-slots — switch whole sets instantly.
  • Quick Numbers — press a number key to activate a slot without opening the wheel.
  • Jump-to — Ctrl + number key to jump immediately to the palette you need.
  • Import / Export presets — backup your palettes, their look and your hotkeys to a
    shareable file.
  • Custom hotkeys — rebind the palette keys; they are remembered across restarts.
  • Seamless integration — add brushes/tools from the shelf or the radial menu.
  • Real thumbnails — directly loaded from your own Asset libraries.
  • Fully configurable — dedicated N panel visible in Sculpt Mode.

Requirements

  • Blender 4.5 or newer.

Keyboard shortcuts

Enabling the add-on adds these bindings to Sculpt Mode. Every one can be rebound or
switched off from the Palette sidebar tab:

Shortcut Action
\ (Backslash) Open the radial palette
\ (held) Flick mode: pick a slot by flicking the cursor out towards it
Tab / Shift + Tab Cycle to next / previous palette
Ctrl + 1–8 Jump directly to palette 1–8
1–9, 0 Quick Numbers: activate a slot’s brush (repeat to cycle sub-slots)
Right-click + drag Dynamic Brush Sliders: adjust brush Radius / Strength

Flick mode: tap \ and flick the cursor straight at a slot to select it in one
gesture. Holding the key down keeps that gesture alive for as long as you need, so you
can pause and aim; release the key to fall back to hovering and clicking.

Note: Quick Numbers and Dynamic Brush Sliders change how the number keys and the
right mouse button behave in Sculpt Mode. Both are enabled by default and can be turned
off at any time in the Palette sidebar tab. A quick right-click still opens Blender’s
native context menu.

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Sculptools: Palette v1.3.0 is out now​:rocket:​

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And brings lots of improvements:

Faster startup. The add-on now remembers which file each of your brushes lives in, and which files hold none at all. The first launch after updating still does the full pass and the difference shows from the second onwards.

New: Show Wordmark. A toggle in Palette Appearance that hides the logo at the centre of the wheel. What’s left closes up and re-centres, so the middle of the wheel stays clear.

New: add a brush from the toolbar. Right-click one of the brush buttons at the top of the Sculpt toolbar and you get the same “Add brush to Palette” entry as on the asset shelf. Your active tool stays as you had it.

Also fixed: a palette hotkey bound to a number key now works alongside Quick Numbers; hotkeys are shown the way they’re printed on the key (6, not “Six”); a brush no longer goes missing when you reorganise your Asset Library; backward cycling follows the cycle key after you rebind it.

Rebranded — new artwork and banner

Read more and get it for free at: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/sculptools-palette

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