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.

This is possible thanks to a custom property at scene level (which is saved with your .blend file).
This property simply list names of the linked workspaces, in the correct order.

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You can customize Scene Workspaces from add-on preferences:

• Show Switch
  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
  Scene Workspaces topbar.
  
  Default workspaces topbar.
  
• Use Compact Mode (default ON)
  Compact Mode ON
  
  Compact Mode OFF
  

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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 these scene)
• Move left (only for these scene)
• Move right (only for these scene)
• Reorder to back (only for these scene)
• Previous workspace (using scene order) Shift + Ctrl + Page Up
• Next Workspace (using scene order) Shift + Ctrl + Page Down

And then, starting from Duplicate, 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).

Also, default options Previous Workspace and Next Workspace functions will follow the global workspaces order, and not the scene order.
Instead, use the ones marked with (scene).
Be sure to use the Scene Workspaces relative options, instead.

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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:

You can also reorder, rename, link and unlink the Scene Workspaces, using the panel Properties > Scene > Scene Workspaces.

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Why this add-on?

In Blender, workspaces are common across scenes.

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 possibile 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.