Scene Workspaces - Add-On

Overview

Scene Workspaces creates an alternative workspaces topbar, allowing you to filter and reorder workspaces, scene by scene.

Basically, you can decide which workspace you want to link to each scene.

Scene Workspaces can be particularly useful in projects with multiple scenes with different needs/purpose.

Scene Workspaces is based on simple custom properties at scene level.

Make yourself comfortable

You can customize Scene Workspaces from add-on preferences:

• Show only with multiple scenes (default: off)
  Show the topbar (and eventually the checkbox) only when the project has multiple scenes.
  Basically, Scene Workspaces disappear as long as you have one scene only.
• Auto initialize Scene Workspaces (default: on)
  Automatically add all available workspaces to the current scene, if empty.
  If available workspaces match one of the 5 default templates, they will be automatically ordered on intialization. Otherwise, workspaces will be ordered alphabetically.

  This limitation is due to the fact that Scene Workspace can't access the global workspaces order.
  Use the panel Properties > Scene > Scene Workspaces, or the workspace menu to reorder your workspaces.

• Show Checkbox (default: on)
  When active, shows a checkbox to switch between Scene Workspaces and the default topbar.
  
  This checkbox will directly affect the next preference.
• Use Scene Workspaces topbar (default: on)
  Scene Workspaces topbar.
  
  Default workspaces topbar.
  
• Use Compact Mode (default: on)
  Also avaliable from the workspace menu.
  Compact Mode ON
  
  Compact Mode OFF
  

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Topbar menus

What you can usually to do by right-clicking on a workspace (and more) it's avaliable by clicking the near options button.

The first options are the ones from Scene Workspaces:

• Toggle Compact Mode (preference)
• Unlink workspace from scene
• Rename (for all scenes)
• Reorder to front (only for this scene)
• Move left (only for this scene)
• Move right (only for this scene)
• Reorder to back (only for this scene)
• Previous workspace (using scene order) Shift + Ctrl + Page Up
• Next Workspace (using scene order) Shift + Ctrl + Page Down

And then you'll find the default workspace options.

Note

Default options like Reorder to Front, Reorder to Back will only affect the global workspaces, and not the Scene Workspaces topbar.
Instead, use the ones marked with (scene only) or use the panel instead.

Also, default options Previous Workspace and Next Workspace will follow the global workspaces order, and not the scene order.
Instead, use the ones marked with (scene) or the relative shortcuts (default ones + Shift).

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You can link other workspaces to the current scene, using the menu with the workspace icon:

or by clicking the active workspace, if it's not currently linked

You can also copy the linked workspaces from another scene, using the menu with the duplicate icon:

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Panel Management

You can always reorder, rename, link and unlink the Scene Workspaces, using the panel Properties > Scene > Scene Workspaces.
At the top, you can select and reorder, rename or unlink any workspace.
At the bottom, you can link the missing workspaces to the current scene.

Templates

You can use the add-on Custom Templates to prepare templates with your Scene Workspaces already configured.

Why this add-on?

In Blender, workspaces are common across scenes.

At the same time, you may need different workspaces in different scenes, depending on the purpose of the scene.

For example, you may want a scene with workspaces optimized for modelling and another Scene optimized for Video Editing, in the same project.

Scene Workspaces make this possible with the custom topbar and a custom property for each scene.

Changelog

Visit the CHANGELOG file to see the changes over new version.

Copyright

This add-on is developed under GPL-3.0 license by Francesco Bellini from 2024.
See the LICENSE file.