Save Selected As...
I'm surprised this is not an out-of-the-box vanilla save feature. Would be nice to be able to simply select any mesh in a scene, and be able to save just that mesh as a new Blender file without having to jump through hoops like copying and pasting into a new blank scene (or even using the Save Selected add-on for example - which is oddly only accessible through the Export menu of all places).
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That would be realy nice! Just like you can export only selected. To have the same selection box under "Save as...".
There was an old "Export as .blend" add-on that pretty much did this. My current workaround to this is: save current file; delete everything I don't want; do a "Save as...".
Having "Save Selected As..." would require options to determine which datablocks are included (materials, etc.), if they are linked vs appended, etc. Could get complicated. But intuitively speaking, I like this idea.
big yes... I am making multiple packshot models ... and than i am deleting everything just one leaving ... and saving and that for all packshots... to save it into servers... it is so anoying...
I find it way better to just mark something as asset and its available to be added in new file (to be linked or appended)
One time I could need it is when I need to send scene file to someone and I dont want my placeholders and temporary objects included. Select, invert select, delete and save as new file works just fine.
Big yes