27 Installing Add-Ons

Introduction

Add-ons are additional Blender functions which you activate when required. Blender comes with a variety of Add-ons hidden away in the Preferences Editor and there are literally hundreds available for download from the Internet. Add-ons are pieces of computer code written in the Python programming language (Python Scripts).

The Blender website contains a link to the scripts repository where a great number are found.

When you download an Add-on (Python Script), you have to install it into Blender, then before you can use it, you have to activate the script. To demonstrate this process an example ...

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