Tag: knowledge/how-to

Add and configure a modifier from one PME command

Historical · current compatibility unverified

A historical macro pattern for creating a modifier, retaining its reference, and setting its propert...

Reuse Blender UI or Extend It with Interactive Panels

Point at a visible Blender menu, panel, or header, then reuse its content inside PME or place PME co...

Add a complex Blender widget to a PME Popup Dialog

Use a Custom item and Blender's UILayout template methods when PME cannot add a widget from the norm...

Add custom icons to PME

Put PNG files in PME's active resource folder, reload them, and select or draw them by name.

Adjust Pie Menu spacing and theme

Give a crowded Pie Menu enough room to read, then make its Blender theme fit your workspace.

Branch a PME action by the current mesh selection

Historical · current compatibility unverified

Use a small context check to choose a selection-dependent action or a fallback menu.

Build a PME Macro from a Blender operator

Historical · current compatibility unverified

Start with a reproducible native operation, capture its call, then separate setup, action, and clean...

Put Several Controls in One Pie Direction

Put several controls in one Pie direction with an expanded Popup Dialog or Regular Menu, with a Cust...

Build a stable custom toolbar from PME Panel Groups

Historical · current compatibility unverified

A historical community design for fixed-position tool sections that do not reorder with installed ad...

Call a PME Macro from an external Python script

Invoke a named PME Macro through the stable 2.1 operator instead of hard-coding its generated bpy.op...

Change selected values relative to the active object

Historical · current compatibility unverified

A historical PME Property pattern for applying the same value, a delta, or a ratio across a selected...

Create a PME sidebar panel with Panel Group

Place PME menu items in Blender's T-panel or N-panel by configuring Panel Group space, region, conte...

Cycle several actions with one PME Stack Key

Build a single shortcut that advances through an ordered list of commands or hotkeys each time it is...

Embed a Pose panel in a Weight Paint Popup Dialog

Historical · current compatibility unverified

A historical advanced pattern that uses a Blender context override to draw a native Pose panel throu...

Enable a PME action only when an option is turned on

Use a PME Boolean Property to keep a dependent action visible but disabled until its prerequisite is...

Export Blender keymaps without creating ghost PME entries

Preserve Blender keymap customizations while avoiding duplicate or empty PME dispatcher items after ...

Expose one axis of a Blender vector property in PME

Use UILayout's index argument to show only X, Y, or Z from an array property instead of drawing the ...

Group framed sections inside a PME Popup Dialog

Historical · current compatibility unverified

A historical composition pattern for nesting child dialogs and drawing each one with its own frame.

Hold a key to temporarily switch Sculpt brushes

Historical · current compatibility unverified

A historical Sticky Key workflow for selecting a mask brush, starting a stroke, and restoring the pr...

Give PME enum buttons explicit labels

Use UILayout's text keyword with prop_enum so custom PME buttons remain readable across Blender UI c...

Make a PME Property Editor slider for Blender data

Bind a PME Float Property to a Blender value with Getter and Setter callbacks, then present it as a ...

Make a PME action button reflect a Blender property's current state

Use a Custom item and depress= to give an action button live pressed-state feedback without changing...

Migrate an existing PME setup to PME 2.1 safely

Preserve menus, menu hotkeys, scripts, and icons while moving from PME 1.18, 1.19, or 2.0.5 to the P...

Mirror a Blender setting with a PME Property

Historical · current compatibility unverified

A historical getter/setter pattern for controlling Blender state and updating visible feedback from ...

Open a temporary Blender editor with PME popup_area

Use PME's Popup Area command when you need a temporary second editor window rather than a Popup Dial...

Open one PME menu from more than one hotkey

Add a second trigger with a one-command Stack Key instead of duplicating the menu and maintaining tw...

Open PME Preferences directly from a menu

Add a small PME command that opens Blender Preferences with Pie Menu Editor already selected.

Put Blender's header menus inside a PME pie

Open the familiar menus from the active Blender editor—or another editor—directly from a Pie Menu Ed...

Resize a Blender area from PME

Move one edge of the active or a named Blender area by a fixed pixel distance with PME's area-move o...

Restore PME menus from an automatic backup

Recover deleted or damaged PME menu definitions from PME's timestamped backup JSON files without ove...

Route one PME trigger to the right menu for the current context

Use ordered fallback menu names for mode-, selection-, and object-type-sensitive workflows.

Run an external Python script from PME

A maintainable workflow for calling trusted Python files from PME Command or Custom items.

Show a Blender custom property in a PME layout

Draw an existing Object, Bone, or Scene custom property directly when PME's normal property picker c...

Show object dimensions in a PME layout

Add Blender's editable X, Y, and Z object dimensions to a Pie Menu or Popup Dialog with a guarded Cu...

Temporarily change a Blender property with a PME Sticky Key

Hold a shortcut to set a property and restore its exact previous value on release, rather than assum...

Use Properties as options for one Macro

Historical · current compatibility unverified

A historical design pattern that gives a Macro its own text, choice, and reset controls instead of m...