How to join / merge two armatures

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Hi,

Was trying to figure this out. It would be easier to build some part of armature as separate piece, then scale it, and then join several armatures together.

However, I haven’t yet found a way to join armatures, and I don’t seem to get any hits with google.

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Thanks to @batFINGER 's post in stack…

This pretty much explains it.

I have no idea, why it is so convoluted, and what exactly happens, but hey, it works!

obs = [bpy.data.objects['Armature'], bpy.data.objects['a2'], bpy.data.objects['a3']]

c = {}
c["object"] = bpy.data.objects['Armature']
c["active_object"] = bpy.data.objects['Armature']
c["selected_objects"] = obs
c["selected_editable_objects"] = obs

bpy.ops.object.join(c)
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This answer saved my soul. I was trying to figure out why I get message that active object is not selected. Those extra values “object” and “selected_editable_objects” are needed for script to work.