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Pro Version       3.53    2025-12-04  Supporting: Blender 5.0 
Pro Version       3.47    2025-11-17  Supporting: Blender 4.5LTS 
Standard Version  3.50    2025-11-17  No Support 
ISO8601 - Copyright © Kjell Emanuelsson - Blender GNU General Public License GPLv3
Art content in keKit is copyright © Kjell Emanuelsson & licensed under CC-BY-SA4.0. See EULA.

keKit is a General Tool-Kit Add-on for Blender

• The Add-On provides extensive options for customizing & optimizing workflows.
• An all-in-one collection of Scripts, Tools, Macros and Pie-Menus, etc.
• Modular - The kit is composed of separate modules that can be enabled or disabled.
• At your discretion - No preset shortcuts

keKit 3.5+ is Blender 5+ only (not backwards compatible)
keKit is an (off-line) extension add-on since keKit 3.51

Gumroad/Blender Market: Pro version (paid) - GitHub: Standard version (older, unsupported & free)
The Pro version will be updated/patched continuously - Standard version will be updated eventually.
Note: These links are the only recommended sources:

v3.52

• [Geo] FitPrim (Fix)
• Redo-panel UI polish: Expanded primitives + contextual props display (less clutter)
• Fixed check for Round Cube support (Extra Meshes Add-on)
• Added exceptions for angle + weighting modifiers in console warning for targets with modifiers
• [Pie] Bool Tool Pie Menu (Fix)
• Bool Tool 1.1.5 compatible (Blender 5.0 compatible)
• [Cleanup] Macro Clean (Upd)
• Macro Clean can now be run from edit mode (just autoswitches to object mode as needed)
• [Cleanup] UV Usage (NEW)
• Calculate and evaluate usage of 0-1 UV area by Selected UVs in Edit Mode or All UVs in Object Mode. Evaluations are for UV 0-1 (baked) textures in (roughly) industry standard ranges. (Single UDIM)
• Overlapping UVs will halt op, and the overlapping UVs will be selected.
• Find in the new "Validation" category in the clean-up module panel
• [Geo] Paste+ (Fix)
• Fixed pasting in Edit Mode bug, Mouse Pos Paste bug & a Material duplication bug

v3.51

keKit is now an Extension Add-on. The WIKI has have been updated to reflect this.
Note: This is keKit Pro only, until the next version sync.
(+ Code cleanup: removed versioned/redundant code)

v3.5

A major keKit update for, but not at all limited to, Blender 5.0 compatibility.
Note: Compatibility fixes are not listed here, unless it was the only change (list's long enough)

- No keKit shortcuts or any backwards compatibility should be expected.
  Tip: Use the shortcut tools in keKit prefs after install: "Find Useless (shortcuts)"

- keKit v3.5+ is Blender 5.0 only.
  (I will also continue to support keKit v3.47 Pro, at least another year)
- keKit 3.5 (not 3.51) is also the version sync update for keKit Standard Version (=legacy add-on)

• General / Prefs
• "keKit prefs backup" is no more: Discontinued.
• keKit shortcuts & add-on prefs will just use Blender's standard features / userpref file
• There -might- be a separate general shortcut & properties "backup add-on" in the future...
• Some keKit ops have been given additional operator variants, or 'merged' into one, to reduce keKit reliance on properties-based shortcuts (like the new Cut/Copy/Paste+ ops for example)
• There's still many ops that rely on properties for different functions
• keKit Settings: Renamed 'kekit UI settings' section in add-on prefs (not "just" ui options)
• kekit header version nr is now also a link to keKit addon-prefs, for quick access
• Added Manual entries for all keKit operators:
• Press F1 with mouse over kekit operator in n-panel, or RMB and select "online manual" for direct link to specific WIKI entry
• Note: Not pie-menus or properties etc; Operators only.
• Shortcuts - keKit Prefs-section
• "Potential Conflicts" listing has been removed. Discontinued.
  keKit shortcut tools:
• Assigned (listing assigned keKit shortcuts)
• Unassigned (listing unassigned keKit ops)
• Find Useless (shortcuts with missing ops, for general cleanup purposes)
• Setup Direct Select Mode: Custom setup that will set 1,2,3 & 4 as it's shortcuts and disable conflicting ops automatically. See notes on new "Direct Select Mode" op below.

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• Direct Select Mode (Resurrected)
• Switch directly to any element mode. Similar to vanilla Blender functionality,
  but with some additional options:
• Toggle option - Toggles between element mode and "back" to object mode, from any element mode
• Mouse Pick - Selects objects under mouse before switching mode
• Mouse Pick Extend - Extends object selection. (Manually assigned in shortcut editor)
• Non-mesh support - Grease Pencil & Curves (Note: hard to mousepick without geo bevel!)
• Custom Shortcut Op - keKit add-on prefs (shortcut tools): "Setup Direct Select Mode" (above)
• GEOMETRY MODULE
• Cut,Copy & Paste+ - are now 3 separate ops.
Paste+ Purge (New) - Option to remove unused objects & materials when pasting. Duplicate materials are not used by paste+ if you dont have the materials option enabled in 'prefs/editing/copy on duplicate'. However, Blender's copybuffer (used by paste+) ignores Blender's own prefs and always produces copies of (unused, by Paste+) materials left for you to manually handle, or wait for automatic removal when restarting blender. (p.s. Copybuffer will not change any time soon)


• Extract & Edit - Simplified. Some features are now a separate op (Itemize, below)


• Itemize - New op from old properties options in Extract & Edit. Fixed edge-mode selection and improved rotation calculation


• Mouse Mirror & Flip - now 2 separate ops, minor fixes + now supports multiple objects selected


• Linear & Radial Array/Instances - moved to modifiers module (note: these will be deprecated in the future)


• BBox & Convex Hull is now 1 button, renamed to 'Make Collision Object'


• QMF - QuickMeasure Selection Save Mode, aka Freeze Mode, is no longer a discrete button
  (just hit "F" in QM modal or assign manually in shortcut editor)


• Grid Scale Toggle:
• Exposed previously hardcoded values in keKit prefs (settings) for customization
• Added grid value box in panel to display current grid size for easy access

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• Mouse Side of Active / Mouse Select Mirror - No selection error fix + no longer needs an active element - It will just assign one selected vert as active, if not found in selection


• FitPrim:
• Box, Sphere(s), Cylinder, Plane and Empty are all now listed as one operator
• Redo-panel support - Options that were previously add-on prefs stored
• Vert-2-vert now has redo-panel option for size (prev. only used edge-length)
• Custom shortcuts (per primitive) can still be added manually
• Cylinder Modal is now a separate op. Still has Default Segment nr option (in kekit panel)
• FitPrim Pie menu works as before - All using the new redo-operator (not the Cylinder Modal)
• No longer a sub-menu in keKit panel (regular button row)

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• Unrotator:
• Unrotator options now combined into one single operator.
  Except the modal-snapping option (a toggle in the keKit panel)
• Dupe mode still available as separate button for shortcut assignment, as object mode modal-snap mode does not have the redopanel
• No longer a sub-menu in keKit panel (regular button row)

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• RENDER & SHADE MODULE
• Render Visible - Console spam fixed
• Sync Material - Button now also displayed when using cycles

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• BOOKMARKS MODULE
• Modifier Presets - Compatibility fix (file path/name changed in 5.0)

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• SELECT & ALIGN MODULE
• Align Origin to Selected - Edit mode visual glitch (temp axis-gizmo drawn incorrectly)

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• MODELING MODULE
• Direct Loop Cut & Slide - Default is now "Slide" variant.
• Direct Insert Vertex & Slide - Default is now "Slide" variant
• DLC Mouse Over Options - smaller icon in-row on both rows (optimized for space)


• Unbevel - Face selection error message changed (to be more helpful)
  WIKI entry now also has an animated GIF; even more helpful. (Among others. Whee.)

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• MODIFIERS MODULE
• Bevel Tweaker - Modifier switching not working in 5.0 (Fixed)

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• TT MODULE
• TT Cycle, Move, Rotate, Scale & Dupe are now separate ops.
• TT Modes (handled by new TT Cycle op) are renamed (had terrible confusing naming convention)
• TT Cycle icons replaced - Smaller, optimized panel row
• Panel UI clearly focus on TT-move,rot & scl as the "main" buttons (to shortcut)
  Bigger buttons + new icons: same as the (intended to be replaced) built-in tools.
• Note: ALL the other TT ops (Mouse Axis & VP) still rely on op-properties for their modes (may require manual shortcut managment)

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• CLEAN-UP MODULE
• Check Origin at Vert - Changed non-snapped result to disaply as warning (as it is not intended - not just "info")

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• PIE-MENUS
• keMisc - QM entry error fixed

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• Misc:
• Status bar modal-help info text duplication bug fixed
• Custom checkmark icons replaced with vanilla checkmarks (as they already have inverted variants for light themes)


• To-do / Know issues:
Some known since before B5. Likely to be sorted in upcoming versions of keKit (Pro, initially)


• Linear & Radial Array (& Instances) will be replaced/updated using the new node-based mods
• FitPrim needs polish in redo-panel, maybe vert2vert distance size for spheres (currently just placed between in user-def unit size)
• Bg-sync error in rendered viewport (intended, one directional) just need better error msg
• Unwrap Macro - partially working, dependent on textools (fix depends on TexTools b5 compat)
• Bool Tool custom pie menu - partially working, dep. on Bool Tool (purportedly sorted for B5)
• Convert to CBO - redo panel not working properly (solution TBD)

v3.47

• [Modeling] Merge To Mouse (Fix)
• Now respects "Correct Face Attributes" (Edit-mode tool option), to keep UV's in place (both vert & edge mode)
• [Unlisted] Cycles Image Reload (NEW)
• Reloads all images & updates Cycles(or EEVEE) viewport -> images are immediately visible
• Assign shortcut manually in "Screen (Global)": screen.ke_cycles_reload
• [Context] Context Tools [Upd/Fix]
• Grease Pencil now works again: Blender API 4.x Change fix/support for Context Delete, Dissolve & Extrude
• Operator changes: These have changed category. Remove old mapping:
  • mesh.ke_contextdissolve -> view3d.ke_contextdissolve
  • mesh.ke_contextextrude -> view3d.ke_contextextrude
• [Geo] QuickMeasure (Upd)
• Now automatically starts in Fast Mode if the mesh is "heavy" (>50k+ verts) - toggle with "B" in QM modal
• [Render] Sync Material & Viewport (Fix)
• Now reads RGB-nodes (note: any node that is not an image or rgb-node -> default 0.8 white (API limitation))
• [TT] Mouse Axis Move (Fix)
• Using *Rotate* over object did nothing: now ignores 'No Constrain Over' option for rotate op.