Move Items From One Blender File To Another [2.8+] 

There is a serious issue that was not mentioned in this video for successful transition. First, make sure that you standardize the aspect ratio and scale of your original object that you want to append. In other words, go to your original object and on each of the component objects, hit Ctrl-A to refactor the scale or any other transforms that were made to that object. Only then (when the scale, for instance, shows 1.000 in each field x, y & z) the resulting saved file will then append correctly into the new file.

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I honestly can't believe it took me months to find this, I stopped looking a while ago and RU-vid just randomly decided to recommend me this and it's exactly what I needed. Simple vid, good audio, to the point, great explination! Thanks!

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In summary File>Append Then Choose the Object Folder, then the object in question. You can also import other things like meshes and materials by selecting the relevant folder. Great Thanks!

That makes a ton of sense to me now. Before I was just importing .fbx files into my main scene. I didn’t know the function of the Append option. But now I do. I’m a newbie to blender, so this is SUPER helpful.

thank you!

Yo thanks, I'm glad I didn't have to watch a 30 minute long tutorial, just to know how to get a model to another file

I was dying a slow death with the asset browser and 1 object I needed…this did the trick. Thanks dude

is there a way to add an entire collection?

Good lord above, thank you!!!!!!!!! I was having such difficulty, I like to make stuff for Sims 4 and could not for the life of me realize I needed to append the objects and not the mesh =_= Thank you for the video!!!

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for this easy tutorial :)

thank you this was so helpful i had lost over 500 materials and could not recover it and bake to my low poly, this saved me big time! Thank you!

Whoaaa APPEND!! This just changed everything for me. I was doing it all wrong!! Thank you!!!

Wow, this is much faster than export/import meshes and libraries. A true life saver, thanks.

Man I was pulling my hair out trying to import or append items. thanks I needed this.

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simple, straight to the point and without any unnecessary introductions. great tutorial!

A quick hint if you're using collections with other collections within it, the parent collections hold all the child collections in them, ONLY APPEND THE PARENTS, if you append all you'll end up with a bunch of duplicate collections with no clue what's going on

THANK YOU! You saved my final project!!!!

Really informative, thanks a lot for the educational tutorial.

thank you for the quick tip, it helped at lot.❤️

omg thanks for this short but really educational video

thanks. I built a HellCat and finished the body, saved it, then created the wheels on a different saved file. now I can take the wheels and attach it to the car. the car also has a animated engine that starts and runs, with realistic sounds. I spent a lot of time on it

This is just what I needed. Thanks! I learned the hard way that you can work off to the side and find out later that youve screwed up several days worth of work.

This is a life saver, thank you so much!!!

Thanks : exactly what I wanted to know.

The append button is not lit up and I cant click it. Help?

This helped a lot thanks

THANK YOU! now I don't have to spend the next week re-creating a Meka!

Thanks That was explained well, with options, without tons of fluff at the beginning

I go brain-dead sometimes... Thanks for the reminder...

im trying to import a whole scene into another scene. how do i do that without making a mess of my outliner?

It works great with a cube, but not with more complex objects. When trying to bring a file from blender to another blender, it opens a lot of folders, each with a quality of the object and not the object itself

Bro this helped so much I made a body but made the head on another file

This is GREAT .......... I've been trying to do this forever. THANK YOU THANK YOU !!!

Thank you for the tutorial! It was so helpful! And thanks for not making this a 10 minute video!

Soo helpful! I really needed this video!

Just what i need, thank you

Thanks so much man! This has saved me a lot of work

nice... i tried the select nodes and ctrl + c with the latest blender because i came across it online.. but this work just fine 👍

Thanks- clear and simple for a first timer.

God, I'm glad I found your video that helped me

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Very well explained as always... Thanks for sharing this very helpful demonstration...

Thank you so mych dude, you really helped me ☺️

Thank you so much. I was searching for this!

So "append" is the only and correct way to add another model to a project? So if I want 2 or more characters in a scene, I just append them?

Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for.

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Awesome this was a great help :)

Thanks, I was doing a little background just for testing, and i wanted to see if it was big enough for my character to fit inside lol. That helped a lot :D.

A thousand thanks.

Thank you very much for this. I will use this to put items from models ripped from other games into my avatar

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Massive thankyou for this, really helpful.

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Great video for newbies!

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Perfectly explained

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Great info. Thanks for posting.

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Great tutorial very helpful thankyou

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Making this look easy brah!

Thankyou so much this helped me a lot

Do you have a video that shows combining blender files that have rigged characters. I’m trying to do an animation and I need two characters for but when I bring one of them in the rigg stops working

Great video tutorial!

thanks, clear and concise!!

Very good tutorial. Thank you,

Thank you, very helpful!

Just what I needed. :)

Nice and simple, thanks heaps

wait so if i want the whole project i have to do all things individually........... how stupid.

Trying to get a gold fish into a Project, via FBX, it was all messed up, no material, parenting gone wrong, not in the right place, couldn't move it, couldn't scale it.. so went for append, it's in a ton of pieces, so piece by piece isn't good, collection didn't work either, so tried 'SCENE' and that worked fine, but now I can only see one bit or the other, because even though it is in the Same Project, it is in a Different SCENE, I can't drag it and drop it, I can't see anything in the menus about combining them. I asked googletubes to show me how to move an object from one SCENE to another SCENE in blender.. I give up

thanks! helped me out a lot

Is it possible to append a mesh to an existing rig/animation?

Thank you so much. very helpful

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Thank you so much. its help me a lot.

I followed all the steps but it didn't work for me (trying to append a mesh with particle attributes). Are there any other steps I need to follow?

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! so so much for this :D

Thank you

Thanks For Helpful Video

I was working on a personal project and I'm going through one tutorial after another, and I've gotten into a bit of trouble, adding new things like a geo-reference image with building data, after I already had a 2D reference image and had built up some objects. Now, I want to separate out these elements that have come from the tutorial watching (like the GiS data, and the modifiers that go with them) into its own file. If I were to create a new file and append the objects/modifiers in question...wouldn't that leave the object in the file it was appended from? Reason this makes me nervous, is I want them separate now, and I wouldn't want to append them to a new file, and then delete the objects from my model file that's all jumbled up...only to find that having deleted them in what is essentially a source file, and the target file is now deprived of it. Anyway...'ppreciate the video.

How are you able to have 2 blend files open at the same time? If I try to open a second file it closes the first file...

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Nice!

Getting an error saying it's "not a library" after clicking append...

When I click the blend file I don’t see any of the options