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  • Published 16 Sep 2020

Drag and Drop Import

Drag and Drop Import any real model. You know grab a whatever model in explorer and drop it in the scene and it imports.

This idea was marked as a duplicate of Drag and Drop Import for Obj's, FBX's, DAE's, glTF's.
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crop.circles.studio
16 Sep 2020

9 Comments

tstanimation13

that would be awesome - the import of multiple objects over the menu is currently really slow

Cryunreal

Dear developers, i hope you will make this ASAP.

iamtheonewhoiam

i am hoping this to happen, i had been clicking export instead of import wrongly for quite a while and that replaced my model in a second and i can't undo the process. it will be nice if i can just drag and drop the model instead

francis.obrien

From experience with Blender and other software, I think this is a bad idea. How would you know what import preferences were set? You might assume some setting eg import normal data only to find out later this data was lost.

thinsoldier

* @francis.obrien * Currently when you drag/drop a file you get asked if you want to open or link or append.

Blender could detect the file type based on extension and ask if you want to quick import .fbx or open .fbx import settings.

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kaerobattossai

i asked this quiet some times ago ( if you search for " drag and drop features" ) but no news , actually all teh stuff in right click select is mostly ignored

printerkiller

* @kaerobattossai * Not necessary - you can actually filter the suggestions that were implemented. Some are very high rated. Sometimes an idea can actually intrigue a developer within days (like the round cap for curves last week). Many times an idea is not that simple to implement efficiently, and of course, not always have the necessary manpower with the right knowledge and time

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CarloGioventu

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