Warning

This is a simple port from the original documentation. It will be improved in the future.

UI Customization¶

Group panels¶

Collect Popup Dialogs or existing Blender panels in an editor’s sidebar. See Side Panel Editor for creating, placing, and nesting panels.

Hide unused panels¶

Hide existing panels in groups. See Hiding Unused Panels for adding targets and restoring their original display.

Menu/Panel Extension¶

Insert your menus into existing Blender menus, panels, or headers. Redesigned in PME 2.0.0, this uses dedicated Target, Side, and Order properties. Several menus can share a Target and use Poll to control their visibility.

Feature details and workflows are documented in Interactive Panels and Extend Panel.

Pop-up Dialog extension settings → Popup Dialog Editor
Regular Menu extension settings → Regular Menu Editor

Older-version reference videos — original author roaoao’s channel

PME Toolbar¶

Note

It stopped working after 4.3. I am in the process of fixing this.

PME allows you to use the User Preferences area as a toolbar when its width or height is minimal:

PME Toolbar

Older-version reference videos — original author roaoao’s channel

Naming¶

Toolbars display popup dialog’s layout depending on its name:

Toolbar <Screen Name> <Position>

Where Screen Name and Position are optional and Position takes one of these values: Left, Right, Top, Bottom.

Examples¶

Example	Description
`Toolbar Top`	Top toolbar, all screens
`Toolbar UV Editing Right`	Right toolbar, UV Editing screen
`Toolbar 3D View Full`	Any toolbar, 3D View Full screen

Saving¶

Toolbar widgets are stored in User Preferences. The position and size of the toolbars are stored in .blend files. So in order to save your toolbars, you need to use both File ‣ User Preferences ‣ Save User Settings and File ‣ Save Startup File commands.

By default Blender loads UI stored in .blend files. To keep the current UI (including toolbars) you need to uncheck Load UI option:

PME Load UI option