Custom Templates - Add-On
Custom Templates allows you to use your own .blend files as template options for new projects.
Your templates will be avaliable in the Splash Screen and the File > New menu.
Why Custom Templates?
Blender allows you to save you own .blend file to use on startup.
This is great, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to create your own templates?
With Custom Templates you can setup as many .blend file as you like, as templates.
Create your own templates or find the ones that best suit your needs online.
Customize workspaces, preset your usual materials, define additional windows and anything else you would like to have from the beginning.
The only limit is your immagination!
How to use
- Prepare your templates and save them in
.blendfiles
or find online.blendtemplates that fits your needs - Define your templates in the add-on's preferences
Simply select a.blendfile and name your template
You can do this:- Directly from add-on preferences, in the templates list
- By using
File > Defaults > Select new custom template
This functions will open a popup where you will select the file path and specify the name for the new template. - By using
File > Defaults > Use current as new template(only avaliable when a saved .blend file is loaded)
This functions will open a popup where you will specify the name for the new template. The path will be the one of the current .blend file. - By importing a previously exported templates list
Note: the import process override the current list. Be sure to export the current list, if necessary
You can add, remove, reorder and update your templates any time...
- (Optionally) Export your templates list to JSON file
Useful after disabling and re-enabling the add-on, re-installing blender, or simply to prepare different sets of templates to import when needed.
At this point your templates will be avaliable in the File > New menu and in the Splash Screen.
Splash Screen
From the Splash Screen (or from preferences), you can easily switch between your Custom Templates and Blender's default templates.
This only applies to the splash screen.
File > Newmenu will always show all your templates.
Notes:
- With more than 5 templates, only the first 5 will be shown in the splash
- If you have no templates currently defined, Blender's default list will always be used
Support
As of today, the add-on has been only tested on Blender 4.2.x. It may or may not work on previous version.
Copyright
This add-on is developed under GPL-3.0 license by Francesco Bellini from 2024.
See the LICENSE file.
Changelog
Visit the CHANGELOG file to see the changes over new version.