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  • Published 26 Jun 2026

Objects in different collections should be able to have the same string as the display name

Hello.

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Hello.

a .001 gets appended to the name of the object in a different collection because there is a similarly named object in another collection.

similar names should be avoided for objects on the same level, but should be allowed for objects at different levels in the heirarchy.

Cheers

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Flying-Chaplin
26 Jun 2026

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zuorion

Collections have nothing to do with Blender needing Unique Names. And there shoudn't be a hard limitation on unique names at all, butthere is. Besides its pain to work with, it also slowns down Blender significantly on large scenes.

Unfortunately i its old architectural and API limitation made before UUID was a thing, so its hard to change and would require a lot of work and would break all addons. I haven't seen developers even considering that, so its unlikely to happen.