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  • Published 7 Jul 2020

Remove charater amount limitation for scene objects

Currently in Blender an object name can be 63 characters long. Longer object names are impossible.

Please increase the max amount of possible characters. I know, it's always good to have a limitation, but some CAD models came with very long names for example.

A maximum amount of 256 chars per object name would fit better todays needs.

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ChristophWerner
7 Jul 2020

5 Comments

kofied

I'm also interested in longer object names. Based on what I've seen in the source code it seems very difficult to make it a dynamic setting. I'm thinking of creating a patch to increase the limit to 255 characters.

BlenderSplendor

Obviously there's a need for longer names, otherwise people wouldn't be asking for this. I wouldn't use it, but why not add it?

Max character count could even be a setting in the preferences, so you could increase it to any amount you want. Then we never have to have this discussion about the name length again.

arkoprobhogupta23

Y do u need such long names?

Lauloque

some CAD models came with very long names for example

arkoprobhogupta23

* @-L0Lock- * there are many other major issues related to CAD which needs to be resolved