Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/BlendFile Utils

Blend File Utils

This adds the ability to pack blend files (recursively), including their libraries - into a zip file.

Access data packing from File -> External Data -> Pack Blend to Archive.

This will show output in the info header, you may press Escape to cancel.

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For automated exporting for render-farms, you may prefer to access this from the command line.

This can be done by running blendfile_pack.py directly (runs outside of Blender and in fact only depends on Python3).

Find the location of the addon:

blender --background --python-expr "import io_blend_utils; print(io_blend_utils.__file__)"

Will print something like...

/usr/share/blender/2.77/scripts/addons/io_blend_utils/__init__.py

In the same directory is the script,

cd /usr/share/blender/2.77/scripts/addons/io_blend_utils
./blendfile_pack.py --help

Will show the output:

usage: blendfile_pack.py [-h] -i FILE -o DIR [-m MODE] [-q] [-t DIR]

Run this script to extract blend-files(s) to a destination path:
blendfile_pack.py --input=FILE --output=FILE [options]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i FILE, --input FILE
                        Input blend file
  -o DIR, --output DIR  Output file
  -m MODE, --mode MODE  Type of archive to write into
  -q, --quiet           Suppress status output
  -t DIR, --temp DIR    Override the default temp directory