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Iamklaus shows how to easily launch multiple Blenders on OSX.

iamklaus writes:

Coming from LInux or Windows, it is hard to understand why it is not possible having multiple Blender instances running, in order to work on different .blend files. There are different work arounds you can use. This is the one, which did work for me the best. So far I didn't have any problems.

In my short tutorial, I describe how to use a shell command and the Automator in order to have have the similar behavior like on Linux or Windows.

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  • Blender: Multi-Instances on Mac OSX

8 Comments

  1. taddmencer on January 3, 2013 19:21 PM

    Wait .. you can open multiple instances of Blender in Windows?! Dang it I'm missing something. I've wanted to do that for eons!!!

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    • Chrome Monkey on January 3, 2013 20:17 PM

      It's worked since 2.4 as far as I know, I've been doing it for a long time. Windows just works, funny that. :)

      Reply
  2. Laxy on January 3, 2013 19:30 PM

    There's actually an easier method that doesn't require a shell command, using the Terminal or the Automator. Simply open Blender's package contents and find the blender unix executable in /MacOS and create a shortcut for it on your Dock. Click it multiple times to open multiple instances. Job done!

    Reply
    • mooncaine on November 19, 2015 17:27 PM

      Laxy, that's a great tip! I'm gonna use it today.

      Reply
  3. piccobello on January 3, 2013 20:12 PM

    Great! I will implement this trick into bBatch 1.05 !

    Reply
  4. mdriftmeyer on January 4, 2013 01:37 AM

    I find it an architecturally poor design to run multiple instances of any application, when the app should spawn separate instances within the application to manage your need for multiple .blend projects running simultaneously.

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    • Zecc on January 4, 2013 12:27 PM

      So... you are in favour of multiple instances, but you'd like to have a shortcut within Blender itself to launch another instance, is that it?

      Reply
  5. porglezomp on January 5, 2013 17:47 PM

    Or just do Cmd-D on the blender.app

    Reply

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