by Vinay-chikkam·Workflow
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Earns its place in the Blender Extensions library as a compact 3 KB quality-of-life add-on, with close to 14,000 downloads recorded on the source.
Duplication Tool is a Blender add-on from Vinay-chikkam that creates copies with incremental names and materials. The developer describes it as a quality-of-life improvement for Blender 3D.
The add-on works through pie menus. Shift N opens a pie menu to save your file and works in Layout mode, while Ctrl Shift N duplicates a model along with its materials using pie options and works in the outliner. Version 1.0.2 added a parenting function so Ctrl Shift N/P behaves like Blender's own duplication, let users set their own shortcuts through Preferences > Add-ons > Duplication Tool, and fixed a material swapping issue.
Compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer, Duplication Tool is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and requires no special permissions. A tutorial video is available on the developer's page.
Duplication Tool is best for blender users who want quick, named duplicates of objects and their materials through pie-menu shortcuts.
Duplication Tool is completely free to download and use.
Duplication Tool is compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer, so current LTS builds and later releases are supported. The add-on installs by dragging and dropping the extension into Blender, or by downloading it and installing from disk. It requires no special permissions to run. If you run into issues, the developer asks that you open an issue on the GitHub page rather than leaving a review, so problems can be looked at directly.
Duplication Tool lets you set your own shortcuts, a feature added in version 1.0.2. You can do this by going into Preferences > Add-ons > Duplication Tool and adjusting the keys there. By default, Shift N opens a pie menu to save your file in Layout mode, and Ctrl Shift N duplicates a model with its materials from the outliner. Version 1.0.2 also brought a parenting function so Ctrl Shift N/P works like Blender's built-in duplication.
Duplication Tool is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. This catalog lists the add-on as free; for current licensing details you can check the developer's page. The source is available on GitHub, and the developer invites users to report any problems there so they can be fixed. The add-on requires no special permissions when installed in Blender.
Duplication Tool installs by dragging and dropping the extension file into Blender, or by downloading it and installing from disk through Blender's extensions settings. Once installed, its shortcuts become available: Shift N in Layout mode and Ctrl Shift N in the outliner. It requires no special permissions. A tutorial video is available on the developer's page if you want a walkthrough of the workflow.
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