by Vovrzull·Workflow
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Cleaning Blender File earns its place in the superhive library for folding several cleanup routines — file junk, geometry garbage and empty material slots — into one add-on, with the file cleanup running from a single button and support spanning Blender 3.6 up to 5.1.
Cleaning Blender File is a Blender add-on from Vovrzull that clears junk out of a .blend file. It removes deleted materials, meshes, lights, node groups, images and more, freeing up space in RAM and optimizing the scene. The developer frames it as one-button cleanup for work that would otherwise take several hours of manual searching and deleting.
Beyond file-level junk, the add-on can clean selected objects of geometry garbage, running Merge by distance, Delete loose, Delete interior faces, Fill holes and Make planar faces. Update 1.0.4 added a function to remove empty material slots from objects throughout the scene, and update 1.0.1 introduced a settings menu. Documentation is provided.
Cleaning Blender File supports Blender 3.6 through 5.1 and is distributed under the GPL license. It's listed as free here in the catalog. A demo video is available, and the developer's page carries update notes and further details.
Cleaning Blender File is best for blender users who want to strip junk from a .blend file — deleted materials, meshes, lights, node groups and images — clean geometry garbage from selected objects, and reclaim RAM.
Cleaning Blender File is completely free to download and use.
Cleaning Blender File supports Blender versions 3.6 through 5.1, covering a wide span of releases from the 3.x line into the 5.x series. If your Blender install falls inside that range, the add-on is built to work with it. For versions outside that range, or to confirm behaviour on a specific point release, check the developer's page, where update notes and further details are published alongside the add-on.
Cleaning Blender File is listed as free here in the catalog, and it's distributed under the GPL license. Licensing terms and availability can change over time, so for the current status and any download conditions, head to the developer's page linked with this listing. That's also where updates and new features are announced, making it the most reliable place to confirm what's included before you install.
Cleaning Blender File can clean selected objects of geometry garbage, running Merge by distance, Delete loose, Delete interior faces, Fill holes, and Make planar faces. This arrived with the 1.0.0 release and operates on the objects you select rather than the whole file. A later update, 1.0.1, added a settings menu to the add-on. For details on each cleanup option and how it behaves, the developer's page and demo video are the places to check.
Cleaning Blender File added a function in update 1.0.4 to remove empty material slots from objects throughout the scene, working across the whole scene rather than a single object. Beyond that, the add-on clears junk such as deleted materials, meshes, lights, node groups and images, which frees up RAM and optimizes the scene. The developer describes the cleanup as a one-button process for work that would otherwise take several hours of manual searching and deleting.
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