Drag & Drop Import

Optimize your workflow with Drag and Drop Import for Blender. Quickly and easily import files by dragging them from your file explorer and dropping them into Blender’s 3D Viewport or Outliner. No more navigating through menus or dialogs - just a seamless and efficient process!

The addon works only on Windows but the macOS version is expected soon.

Supported Types

Currently, Drag & Drop Import supports:

FBX, GLB, GLTF, OBJ, MTL, X3D, WRL, ABC, PLY, STL, BVH, SVG, PNG, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, VDB, USD, USDC, USDA, DAE, BLEND, MP4, MOV, BPM, PY, DXF, HDR, EXR, PSD, SKP

Basic Drag & Drop

When you drag a file using only the left-click button, the file will be imported with the default settings for that particular file type.

Change Settings

If you want to change the Import Options, you can either drag the file using the right-click button or hold down the Ctrl key while dragging the file using the left-click button.

Image Importing

When you drop images, a menu will appear asking how you would like to import the image - as a Plane, as a Reference Image, or as a Background Image. To change the import settings, drag with the right-click or hold Ctrl while dragging.

Multiple Files

You can also select multiple files and drag them all at once. This will import all the selected files with the default settings for their respective file types. However, if all the files are of the same file type, you will be able to change the import settings before importing them.

Whole Folders

If you drag a folder, all of its contents will be imported. If all the files inside the folder are of the same file type, you will be able to change the import settings before importing them. Otherwise, the files will be imported with their default settings for their respective file types.

Folder Trees

If the dragged folder contains other folders, all of their contents will also be imported. The imported files will be organized by Collections.

Additional Features

VDB sequences can be imported by dragging a sequence of VDB files or a tree of folders containing multiple VDBs.

By dragging HDR or EXR files, they will automatically be set up as a scene's HDRI.

Contribute

Report a Bug

Suggest File Types

Feel free to contact me at andrej.tetkic@gmail.com

Release log

v1.0.0 - First Release - Supports 31 different filetypes: FBX, GLB, GLTF, OBJ, MTL, X3D, WRL, ABC, PLY, STL, BVH, SVG, PNG, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, VDB, USD, USDC, USDA, DAE, BLEND, MP4, MOV, BPM, PY, DXF, HDR, EXR, PSD

v1.0.1 - Support multiple monitors with different resolutions

v1.0.2 - added SketchUp (SKP) File Support; "must run with blender-launcher.exe" issue is fixed; the Big circle appearing in some themes is gone; Blender 3.0.0 support.