Blender 2.5 close split windows

Detaching windows in Blender is something that even experienced artists are unaware of Blender. Last week I showed that to an artist with five years of experience using Blender. And he didn't know about that. Don't have to say that shortcut blew his mind.

While you can open multiple windows, you will find that they get out of sync, each window uses different scene and screen properties, you want to add an info editor to the top of the extra windows to be able to change scenes. Most systems also require a click in each window to give it focus before it will respond to shortcuts. I prefer to keep one window spanning both monitors, changing scenes or screen layouts then effects the entire desktop.

To do this, hover the mouse in the upper left corner of the area until you get the cross-hair cursor. Use shift LMB drag to tear off the right side areas to separate windows on the second monitor.

Then drag the lower right areas to minimize the upper areas. Join all right areas into one: RMB click the border between area and select join from the dropdown menu. Repeat until you have only one right side area. I found it useful to change this one area to be the text editor. Finally, RMB click the border between 3D-view and single has to be only one right areas.

Select join from the dropdown menu. You should have the 3D-view full width. To do that, you have to tear off from the original window. While it is possible to override the default layout using workspaces, I just save the project as normal. Then use that as a base template for future projects. I can then uniquely customize other things for each type of project. However, this has 2 drawbacks: 1. Another, which I personally find more useful is to install AutoHotKeys, with a script to toggle XMouse status at press of a key combination.

The script can be compiled to exe and set to run at startup, and just waits for the relevant keypress. NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases. SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. My mistake was that I was starting my drag exactly at the intersections of the windows.

What I have learned, through experimentation, is that it's only really predictable if you conciously start the drag with the crosshair inside of one of the panes:. To split the pane, you'll continue your drag further into the interior of the same pane where you begin the drag. If you start with the crosshair exactly on the boundary, then it's a lot more difficult to know which of the two operations you are going to end up doing, so be conscious about trying to grab a little bit inside the window that you want to split, or in the case of merging, start your drag within the one that you want to keep, out of a pair of adjacent windows.

Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to close view windows? Ask Question. Asked 8 years ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed k times. See the image below: Edit: another note: I tried searching for the solution, but only found things like "Join Area", which don't seem to work in this situation.

Improve this question. Brent Brent 2, 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. Everything is so complicated and you need to watch you tube videos or ask here how to move just some view or something so simple.

I honestly try to switch to Blender every few months but after an hour of utter frustration I have to go back. I love the Blender concept, the looks, the ideas, the fact it draws the UI using OpenGL the same way on all platforms. But the UI usability is beyond words. Can someone fork Blender and for once create a proper UI without all the stupidity? Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Two caveats: when you click and drag, you must immediately cross the boundary between two panels, before dragging anywhere else.

THEN it will make the grey arrow. If you click and drag into the same panel, you'll create a new panel. If you have one full window on the left, and two windows one on top of the other on the right, then you have to join the two windows on the right together before you can join the window on the left.

Improve this answer. Matt Matt I'd spent half an hour fiddling around with the corners and joins, but only made the problem worse. At one point, I think I had around 50 windows open. But your caveats tells me what I needed to know and couldn't find.

After some plugging and chugging my workspace is back to normal. Are you guys out of your minds? First, read the answer. Second, use the video for a visual demonstration of a necessarily visual process. Third, tone down your incredulity and behave with more courtesy in the community you've only recently joined. Someone has to decide which panel replaces the one you just closed, and if that "someone" is the computer, and it expands the wrong one, then the result is even less useful than if you'd just left the panel open, because now you've got to clean up the computer's bad guess.

When control can be given to the user in a simple way like dragging the panel you want to keep ontop of the one you want to close it's almost always better than asking the computer to guess what the user wants. Show 15 more comments.