First off,
I’m VERY new to Blender. My primary experience (years and years and years) with 3D is Strata 3D (Mac) and Bryce5, so Blender is a bit of leap for me. From starting with the “Gus the gingerbread man”-tutorial I skipped the rest of the courses and jumped straight to successfully moderling an ultra realistic human body - so I can’t be a total idiot.
At this point, I’m about as frustrated with Blender as I’m impressed, because the questions and WTFs are starting to pile up quickly.
Ok well, the title pretty much says it all.
In both Strata 3D and Bryce, I’m used to being able to simply copy and object - Ctrl+C or Apple+C on mac - and open another document and paste it using Crtl+V etc…
How do I do this with blender? How do I transfer objects between documents??
you have to link or append them: with shift-F1 you browse to the original blendfile and select what you want - material, object, mesh or the whole scene. these will be linked or appended in your open scene. if they are linked, you could make them local with “L”. but linking can be useful in complex scenes…
oh and by the way: the Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V works VERY well with number inputs, value sliders etc. (don’T know the correct word): you don’T have to enter the text/number-field, just point your mouse over the number and Ctrl+C. just in case you didn’t know…
(did that make sense…?):eyebrowlift2:
Oh MAN, thank you so much!
I would never have found that function on my own!
I haven’t tried it yet though. Will do tomorrow, but at least now I know it’s possible.
Sometimes when Blender isn’t functioning the way you expect to, it’s difficult to know what are features/unfinished features or just plain bugs.
Oh and I knew about copy-pasting the number/name inputs.
But thanks anyway!
