BS-Tool

Clean Copy

Clean extract across Blender windows — one mesh from a linked rig, or a full collection, without dragging shared junk.

What it does

Built-in copy is often fine in the same scene.
The hard case is a second Blender window: you need one mesh from a tightly linked rig — or a whole rig collection — without dragging shared junk from the original file.

Clean Copy is free · made for that.

  • Works across separate Blender windows / files
  • Clean-extract one mesh from a linked / rigged setup
  • Or copy a full collection / rig (hierarchy, visibility, color tags)
  • Keeps materials
  • Keeps internal parents, constraints, widgets, and drivers when you copy the whole set
  • Drops outside linked junk you didn’t select
  • Outliner icon buttons + custom shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V)

Blender 4.2+ · GPL · Version 1.4.0

Across windows

  1. In Window A, select a clothing mesh on a rigged character
  2. Click Copy (Outliner icon)
  3. Switch to Window B
  4. Click Paste

→ You get the clothing. Not the whole linked mess.

Clean Copy — extract one mesh into another Blender window
Clean Copy — extract one mesh into another Blender window

What comes with you

Comes with you Doesn’t (unless selected)
Selected object + mesh Bone widgets outside the set
Materials Armature you didn’t select
Full collection + hierarchy + visibility + color tags Constraint targets outside the copy
Internal rig links / widgets / drivers (whole set) Shared links back to the original scene

Paste the same clipboard multiple times safely.

Clean Copy keeps materials and collection structure
Clean Copy keeps materials and collection structure

Install

  1. Download the free zip from Gumroad
  2. Blender Preferences → Add-ons → Install → choose the zip (folder clean_copy inside)
  3. Enable Clean Copy
  4. Use Outliner header Copy / Paste, or Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V

Preferences

  • Include Child Objects
  • Outliner icons (on by default)
  • Viewport header buttons (optional)
  • Assign custom shortcuts

FAQ

Why not just Ctrl+C? Same-scene copy is often fine. Clean Copy shines when you paste into another Blender window from linked/rigged data.
Materials? Yes, they come along.
Full rig collection? Yes — hierarchy, visibility, tags, widgets, constraints, internal drivers stay.

Get Clean Copy

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