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Is there any way to replace an object?

Is there any way to replace some object with another object? For example, I have a bunch of cubes randomly placed throughout my project I want to replace those cubes with spheres. How can I replace the objects?
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Blender is saving as a blend1 file, not blend

I teach Blender to classes of game design students in the University of California and a student came to me yesterday with a problem I haven't seen before. She's created a very simple file, but when it's saved Blender puts a .blend1 extension on it…
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How to model physics in Blender?

I'm robotic engineer. I'm using OpenSCAD to model robotic components (gears, pulleys, parts, etc). But I need application to model physics and interaction of the components (for i.e. how will robot move if I will rotate current gear). So, is it…
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Manually Position Vertex Normals?

I have bunch of objects that I want to position next to each other in a scene. When they are next to each other, there is an apparent seam between them due to different normal directions. The normal directions are this way, of course, because the…
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Different camera settings for different render layers?

I have a scene with two objects. I need one to be rendered with the camera set to Perspective and the other to be rendered with an Orthographic camera. I've put them on separate render layers, but it seems there can only be a single camera for both…
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How can I get a list of all objects named 'foo*'?

In my export script I wish to export all object named 'foo*' in one format, and all objects named 'bar*' in another format. I could write 2 separate exporters that operate on the selection (so I select all 'foo*' objects and execute FooExporter, …
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Complex extrusion howto

I want to extrude a profile (either a mesh or a curve) along a "guide" curve such that: Its local Z axis is and remains parallel to the global Z axis at every point of the extrusion Its X axis must always intersect the center axis, parallel to the…
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Can cycles Wireframe Input be coerced into displaying Tris, Quads and Ngons

edit 2 years later: Here is an alternative answer that meets the desired end-result using FreeStyle. Is there a way to make the wireframe input show the geometry as BMesh polygons instead of the raw triangulated mesh? The example below displays the…
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How to make a mosaic plane

I'd like to create a plane mesh which is divided to arbitrary-form polygon regions, like gimp/Photoshop mosaic filter makes, or like Voronoi diagram (although the latter is not really arbitrary). So I want each piece of that mosaic plane to be a…
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How to access custom properties from python

How can I access a custom property of an object from python, the suggestion Blender gives me if I pass the mouse over the custom properties named "prop", bpy.data.objects["Cube"].["prop"] get me this output in the console >>>…
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Curve Bevel function, scale?

Is there a way to scale up the bevel object on one end of a curve, a little bit over each point? I notice the vertex "weight" slider will tweak how much influence each vertex has on the others, is there something like this that can scale the bevel…
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How to bake multiple fluid simulations in one scene?

If we understood correctly, Blender does not allow more than one domain for fluid simulation in a given scene. This means that any inflow (fluid) object will be transformed into only one domain object as the final simulated fluid. That is,…
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How to select loops with 'emulate 3 button mouse' and 'LMB select' enabled?

Is there a way to select loops with Emulate 3 Button Mouse and Left click select enabled?
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Drag select with mouse

Is it possible to select the objects by dragging left mouse button like in other CAD or 3D softwares. If i change the keyboard shortcuts to Maya in the settings I could do that. But I dont know which key is mapped to that. This could be done with…
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Add a panoramic background to scene in Cycles

I have a panoramic image which I would like to set as a spherical background for my scene, which is using Cycles Render. As the camera changes orientation, the background should stay fixed (like a skymap) and not move with the camera. Any ideas?
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