Introduction

Smart Duplication is a Blender addon that provides enhanced versions of the built-in Duplicate and Delete operators, extended with context-aware capabilities to ease multi-object and modifier based workflows.

Smart Duplication supports every modifier type that references other objects:

Data Transfer, UV Project, UV Warp, Vertex Weight Proximity, Array, Boolean, Mirror, Screw, Armature, Cast, Curve, Hook, Lattice, Mesh Deform, ShrinkWrap, Surface Deform, Warp.

It's available on Gumroad and Blender Market.

How to install

Smart Duplication is installed like any regular Blender addon.

It's meant to work on any OS that Blender supports (Windows, Mac and Linux) and requires at least Blender 2.80 or a newer version.

Operators

Smart Duplication

The Smart Duplication operator is a extended version of the built-in Object: Duplicate operator.

Operator options

Duplicate Linked

Duplicate objects but not its data (ie: Mesh, Curve...) and link to the original data instead.

Duplicate Modifiers

Duplicate all the modifiers that reference the selected objects, and make them point to the new copies.

Collapse Modifiers

Collapse the panels of the newly created modifiers in the UI.

Duplicate Modifier Dependencies

Duplicate the objects referenced inside the modifiers of the selected objects and make the new copies point to them.

Duplicate Children

Duplicate the children (from the scene hierarchy) of the selected objects and parent them to the new copies.

Add To Collections

Duplicated objects will be added to the collections of the original objects.

Smart Delete

The Smart Delete operator is a extended version of the built-in Object: Delete operator.

Operator options

Delete Modifiers

Delete all the modifiers that referenced the selected objects.

Delete Modifier Dependencies

Delete the objects referenced in the modifiers of the selected objects.

Delete Children

Delete the children (from the scene hierarchy) of the selected objects.

Remove From Collections

Remove the selected objects from all the collections they were part of, including scene collections.

Select References

Select objects referenced inside the modifiers of the current selection and/or objects that reference the current selection inside their modifiers.

Select Internal References

Select the objects referenced inside the modifiers of the current selection.

Select External References

Select the objects that reference the current selection inside their modifiers.

Preferences

The addon shortcuts can be changed in the addon panel

Replace default operators

If enabled, assigns the smart operators to the shortcuts of the built-in Blender operators.

Use Pie Menu

If enabled, (Ctrl + D) launches a Pie Menu with all the addon operators.