Is there a Y-up option in Blender? If there is I could not find it, please let me know how to set it.
If not, could there please be a preference option to operate Blender in Y-up mode, instead of Z-up?
Maya is usually used in Y-up, and nearly the entire film and animation industry uses Y-up, so I am surprised it is not an option yet.
Yes I am aware that older industries like Cad and engineers like Z up, but the newer art industries are Y up. We could have both please.
I’m new here and not sure where to submit requests for Blender. If this is not the place please let me know where.
This question comes up every now and then and the short answer is that there is no Y-up mode and it will not be implemented.
One reason is that it is very complicated to implement because so many systems are connected to it.
The other reason is that it would lead to having blender files using different coordinate systems which would lead to problem when appending and linking objects. It is better to let exporters and importers handle coordinate systems. There not only z-up or y-up after all there is also left handed or right handed. So there are more than two systems you would have to regard.
Anyway, z-up is not “old” it is used by plenty of “new” industries like the gaming industry.
Requests like this can be submitted at
but don’t expect too much because it has been requested very often but it is not wanted by the developers because of the reasons above.