by Amandeep·Workflow
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Clean Panels Pro earns its place in the superhive library by combining delayed add-on loading with several methods for reaching add-on panels in one add-on.
Clean Panels Pro - With Delayed Addon Loading is the PRO edition of the Clean Panels add-on for Blender. Its headline feature, Delayed Addon Loading, lets you choose which add-ons start with Blender and enable the others only when you need them, at the push of a button. This feature does not work on Blender installed through the Windows Store.
For organizing add-on access, Clean Panels Pro offers four approaches. Focus Panels and N-Panel filtering let you sort favorite add-ons into categories, assign an icon to each, and toggle them from icons in the viewport or a pie menu. Drop Down Panels let you categorize favorite tabs and pin them to the top bar, with access to some panel functions even when an add-on is disabled in the current workspace. PopUp Panels bring your tabs and panels up through a pie menu.
Version 7.0 also includes loading add-ons in sets, introduced in V6. Documentation is provided, and a demo video is available. Some add-ons may not work with the dropdowns and popup single-panel type.
Clean Panels Pro - With Delayed Addon Loading is best for blender users managing many add-ons who want control over startup loading and quicker access to add-on panels.
Clean Panels Pro - With Delayed Addon Loading is completely free to download and use.
Clean Panels Pro's Delayed Addon Loading feature does not work on Blender installed through the Windows Store. On supported installations it lets you pick which add-ons load when Blender starts and enable the rest only when needed, at the push of a button. If you rely on the Windows Store build of Blender, this particular feature will be unavailable. Check the developer's page for current details.
Clean Panels Pro includes PopUp Panels, which let you bring your tabs and panels up from a pie menu. A pie menu is also available for switching between add-on categories in the Focus Panels and N-Panel filtering method. Alongside these, Drop Down Panels let you pin categorized tabs to the top bar. Together these give four ways to reach your add-ons inside Blender.
Clean Panels Pro notes that some add-ons may not work with the Drop Down Panels and PopUp single-panel type due to how they are built. The other access methods, including Focus Panels and N-Panel filtering, are separate. If a particular add-on doesn't behave in the dropdowns or popups, that is a known limitation rather than a setup error. The developer's page and Discord server are the places to raise questions about specific add-ons.
Clean Panels Pro is listed here as free. Because licensing and any promotions can change over time, check the developer's page for the current terms before downloading. The add-on is the PRO edition of the Clean Panels add-on for Blender, adding features such as Delayed Addon Loading and loading add-ons in sets, and it ships with documentation to help you get started.
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