Mesh File Hopping

#1

This question has been bugging me for awhile so I decided to ask it here.

I’ve picked up Blender a few months ago and I am still learning the ropes on many things but something I noticed was that some design tools really slow down my laptop. While my laptop isn’t made to create computer graphic images, it is still pretty new and has plenty of memory. It just can’t handle too much at the same time.

My question is, is there any way I can take a mesh from one file and copy and paste it onto another file. I figure that I could chop projects up into separate files and them put them all into one file when I’m done instead of clumping them into one file and having a really slow process. I do know about layers -I’m not that much of a noob- but they are more for separating sections that you want to concentrate on, they don’t really help speed up my computer.

Any advice would be appreciated.

#2

Shift+F1 allows you to append or link objects/materials/anything from one blend into another. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.5/Manual/Data_System/Linked_Libraries
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2010/07/12/tip-appending-and-linking/

#3

That was much simpler than I ever expected it to be. There’s my noob moment of the week.

Thanks a lot, you’ve just laid to rest one of my most annoying Blender problems.

#4

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