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  • Published 21 Jul 2025

Houdini-style cancel mode (ESC)

Sometimes when Blender hangs, I'd love to be able to cancel the operation like when working in Houdini. Double-pressing ESC cancels current simulation calculations. When on Windows and having the console open you can do something similar, but it would be nice to have a common solution for all OS versions.

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magnuzoid
21 Jul 2025

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dilroop-gill

I think it changes how things work fundamentally in the background and they may already be working towards it, i've seen it be discussed a lot while googling it.

dilroop-gill

feel like i vaugely remember them closing the topic and saying theyll come back around to it rather than working on it

magnuzoid Author

Thanks for chiming in :) Crossing my fingers, some sort of solution will be found!