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Toolbox V1 - Customize Your Blender Experience

by Toon Ups·Workflow

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Why we like it

A modest, focused utility that earns its place in the Superhive library by consolidating frequently used Blender operations into one configurable toolbar.

What is Toolbox V1 - Customize Your Blender Experience?

Toolbox V1 by Toon Ups adds a customizable toolbar to Blender's 3D View, giving you a set of user-defined buttons tailored to your own needs and preferences. You choose from 50 available operations in Blender to assign to your tools, covering everything from adding mesh types like planes, cubes and spheres to object duplication, deletion and joining.

The add-on reaches common tasks through easy-to-use buttons, including rendering, saving files, setting object origins and toggling views. It also spans basic transformations such as move, rotate and scale, alongside features like adding modifiers, material slots and dynamic topology toggling. Buttons are added, removed and organized within the add-on's Preferences, so your Toolbox remains available in every scene.

Toon Ups presents Toolbox V1 with a clean, intuitive interface for managing your button layout. It is optimized for Blender 2.80 and later versions and is released under the GPL license, making it a straightforward option for artists who want quicker access to the operations they use most.

Who is Toolbox V1 - Customize Your Blender Experience best for?

Toolbox V1 - Customize Your Blender Experience is best for blender artists who want a personalized toolbar for quick access to modeling and animation operations.

How much does Toolbox V1 - Customize Your Blender Experience cost?

Toolbox V1 - Customize Your Blender Experience is completely free to download and use.

Key features

  • Customizable toolbar built within Blender's 3D View, tailored to your own needs and preferences
  • Choose from 50 available Blender operations to assign to your buttons
  • Predefined operations including adding planes, cubes and spheres, plus object duplication, deletion and joining
  • Buttons for common tasks such as rendering, saving files, setting object origins and toggling views
  • Covers transformations like move, rotate and scale, along with modifiers, material slots and dynamic topology toggling
  • Add, remove and organize buttons in the add-on's Preferences so the Toolbox appears in every scene

Tags

#Blender#toolbar#custom tools#user interface#workflow#add-on#customization

Frequently asked questions

Which Blender versions does Toolbox V1 support?

Toolbox V1 is optimized for Blender 2.80 and later versions. The listing specifies compatibility across a broad range, including 2.83, 2.9 through 2.93, the 3.0 to 3.6 series, and 4.0. If you are on one of these releases, the add-on integrates into Blender's 3D View. For any version outside this range, check the developer's page to confirm current support before relying on it in a production workflow.

How do I set up and organize buttons in Toolbox V1?

Toolbox V1 lets you add, remove and organize toolbar buttons within the add-on's Preferences. From there you choose from 50 available operations in Blender to assign to your tools, building a toolbar tailored to your specific needs and preferences. Because the setup lives in the Preferences, your Toolbox stays available in every scene rather than needing to be rebuilt each time you open a new file.

What operations can Toolbox V1 handle?

Toolbox V1 covers a broad spectrum of functionality within Blender. You can add mesh types such as planes, cubes and spheres, and perform object duplication, deletion and joining. It also reaches common tasks like rendering, saving files, setting object origins and toggling views. On the transformation side it handles move, rotate and scale, plus more advanced features including adding modifiers, material slots and dynamic topology toggling. In total you can pick from 50 available operations to assign to your custom toolbar buttons.

Is Toolbox V1 free, and what license does it use?

Toolbox V1 is listed as free here and is released under the GPL license. Licensing terms and availability can change over time, so for the most current details it is best to check the developer's page directly. Once installed, Toolbox V1 integrates into Blender's 3D View and stores your button configuration within the add-on's Preferences, keeping your custom toolbar available across every scene you open.

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