3D Viewport Pie Menus
This extension aims to increase the efficiency and enjoyability of various workflows using the gesture-based actions of carefully designed Pie Menus. Some pie menus also add various useful new operators. Just check out the documentation!
!!!Beta Disclaimer!!!
The add-on is currently undergoing major development and iteration. These changes can be disruptive and buggy. Please report bugs here, and not through Reviews!
If you'd like a stable and undisturbed experience, I recommend sticking to v1.3.2 until the launch of Blender 4.3
Thanks!
What's New
1.6.0 September 8th, 2024
Thanks to everyone for reporting bugs, annoyances, and giving suggestions. I've been trying to address all types of feedback to make the add-on great for both old and new users.
Highlights
- Add "mouse-drag" toggle for the 6 pie menus that by default only appear on mouse drag. You can now make them appear instantly if you prefer.
- New Select by Name Pie (Ctrl+F) pie.
- New Object Display Pie (Shift+W) pie.
- Reworked Object & Mesh Selection Pie (A) pie.
- Reworked Preferences UI.
- Added Report Bug button. Please use this instead of the Review system...
- Now includes built-in Pie preferences as a sub-panel.
- Hotkeys are also a subpanel.
- Added ability to display preferences in the sidebar.
Tweaks
- Slightly reworked "Mesh Flatten" (Alt+X) pie, formerly known as "Mesh Align".
- Slightly reworked "Preferences" (Ctrl+U) pie, formerly known as "Defaults".
- Editor Switch: Outliner and Properties sub-types are now shown as a drop-down list, based on feedback.
- Had to swap Asset Browser and Properties sub-types (topleft<->topright) for this to work well.
- Tapping ` (Grave Key) in default Blender with "Pie Menu on Drag" enabled activates Fly Navigation. I thought it was doing Toggle Orthographic, whoops.
- 3D View Pie -> Down is now Toggle Orthographic instead of Fly Navigation.
- For 2.7x and Industry Compatible keymaps, tapping ` now activates Fly Navigation.
Fixes
- Fix Outliner couldn't be set to Blender File sub-type.
- Fix Ctrl+Space throwing (harmless) error on pop-out windows.
Ctrl + S no longer brings up the radial pie save/open menu anymore in this version (1.5.3) Now it resorts to the old way of bringing up the save file window (or just saves the existing file if already previously saved). I feel this is a major step backwards, as I really enjoyed all the save, open, import and export options in one handy location. Please bring this behavior back (or at least, make this a feature that can be enabled in the add-on preferences!) I thought maybe disabling the Window - File option would restore this, but alas, it does not. If it's not broken, please don't fix it!
I like this version and appreciate the ability to disable which menus I want as a pie menu, but why is the Ctrl+A menu no longer able to be a pie menu anymore? I personally found this one to be one of the most useful as a pie menu, particularly for super quickly applying scale and rotation. As soon as I updated this extension, that particular pie menu is longer available.
It is annoying not to have the Shading pie menu anymore that allows you to shade smooth/flat in object and mesh mode, I have been so used to that being a thing for so long, that I had to get a different extension entirely with a different shortcut to do the same thing, but it doesn't even work in mesh mode.