Tip: Renaming Items with Drag and Drop

by Sebastian Koenig

In this quick video tip for Blender 2.5 we take a look at how you can easily rename items in Blender with drag and drop. Using this method you can rename anything from objects to materials and mesh data.

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21 Responses to “Tip: Renaming Items with Drag and Drop”
  1. Philippe M.
    Posts: 43

    awesome video, Sebastian! definitely going to be using that…I knew a bit about the drag-&-drop, but I had no idea it was this extensive :D

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     Mar 21, 2011 at 5:22 pm
  2. Danny Kneip
    Posts: 175

    Wow! Drag a “materials” name and drop it onto the actual object to see the object take on the actual material – I had no idea. Very neat! Thanks for the tip!! :)

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     Mar 21, 2011 at 5:45 pm
  3. mikh3x4
    Posts: 12

    could you please do a tutorial on applying a patch to the source code?

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     Mar 21, 2011 at 6:35 pm
  4. Moolah
    Posts: 66

    Wow! It’s really great! :) ) I didn’t knew about this functionality and often spent a noticeable ammount of time for renaming (due to my collegue requirement too!)
    So, thanks a lot that you did this tip tutorual, Sebastian!

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     Mar 21, 2011 at 6:36 pm
  5. Moolah
    Posts: 66

    BTW – is here an ability to rename by drag-n-drop more than one object at a moment?

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     Mar 21, 2011 at 6:37 pm
  6. Hans Erickson
    Posts: 14

    Now that is sweet! That was the best 2 min 34 sec of my day :)

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     Mar 21, 2011 at 6:39 pm
    • Max Berends
      Posts: 169

      Amen to that

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       Mar 22, 2011 at 3:01 am
      • 3sie3wiel
        Posts: 2

        I agree!

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         Mar 23, 2011 at 2:09 am
  7. Piata
    Posts: 12

    Very Nice!

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     Mar 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm
  8. Erik Scott
    Posts: 42

    It’s always the little things. What an awesome feature.

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     Mar 21, 2011 at 10:03 pm
  9. Brian Lockett
    Posts: 38

    Little feature but big help to the workflow.

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     Mar 22, 2011 at 2:08 am
  10. Martin Lindelöf
    Posts: 30

    The drag and drop feature will be fully powerful when we have a browsable material lib,

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     Mar 22, 2011 at 2:24 am
    • Moolah
      Posts: 66

      Exactly like in Modo :) Just drag’n'drop and the vase is on the table :)

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       Mar 22, 2011 at 4:33 pm
  11. JanKardel
    Posts: 3

    Very usefull! Thank you.

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     Mar 22, 2011 at 2:51 pm
  12. Kovacsics Robert
    Posts: 3

    Very useful! Once I wrote a python script to rename the mesh of the object with the same name as the object

    Just a suggestion for the next quick tip: Local view, I recently found this out, if you press “Numpad /”, only the object selected will remain visible, and if you press “Numpad /” again, it will go back into global mode.
    (When I accidently pressed it I was scared I deleted my whole model)

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     Mar 22, 2011 at 5:30 pm
  13. Joshua
    Posts: 14

    Now that’s cool! Thanks.

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     Mar 22, 2011 at 5:32 pm
  14. Gary Parkin
    Posts: 109

    Thank you for the video, Sebastian. I never knew about Drag and Drop. Our buddy Jonathan touched on it in another video but the Materials rock!

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     Mar 23, 2011 at 7:43 am
  15. Mehmet PINARCI
    Posts: 228

    Thats ,just ,one great tip , thanks ! ALL housing :)

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     Mar 23, 2011 at 4:52 pm
  16. Sinisa
    Posts: 1

    thanks for very helpful video.

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     Sep 9, 2011 at 3:32 am
  17. Marco Anderson
    Posts: 9

    Great quick tip, Sebastian! Thanks!

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     Nov 17, 2011 at 9:50 am
  18. norvman
    Posts: 16

    Thanks… Good tip… Handy in the extreme…

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     Dec 9, 2011 at 2:22 pm

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