Blender: Is there a way to 'Display as wire' for that entire linked file?

theoryshaw · March 2022

Let's say you link a Blender file inside another Blender file. After that, is there a way to 'Display as wire' for that entire linked file?
Would like to find a workflow where i can reference another file, but make it transparent or faded (or some other graphical convention), in order to better see the objects in the working file.

bruno_perdigao · March 2022

Take a look at this script. It will select every linked object in the scene and change their viewport display to 'wire'. If you play it again it will come back to 'textured'. Would that work?

import bpy

all_objs = bpy.context.scene.objects

for obj in all_objs:
    if obj.library != None:
        if obj.display_type == 'TEXTURED':
            obj.display_type = 'WIRE'
        else:
            obj.display_type = 'TEXTURED'

theoryshaw · March 2022

Yes, that works awesome! Thanks!
i changed it to this, because the ifcopeningelement turned 'textured', since it was 'wire' to begin with.

import bpy
all_objs = bpy.context.scene.objects
for obj in all_objs:
    if obj.library != None:
            obj.display_type = 'WIRE'

Would be awesome to have a little toggle right there. :)

Jesusbill · April 2022

@theoryshaw said:
Would be awesome to have a little toggle right there. :)

I agree :)

theoryshaw · April 2022

So cool!
for passerbys: https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/commit/4aa91cfa7fb9e9a299dd079be7c36f8381981742

Moult · April 2022

A hint that in Blender you can copy most property to any other selected object. For example, I can set Display As to wire, then choose copy to selected when right clicking on the property. You can bulk select linked objects in the outliner.

Blender: Is there a way to 'Display as wire' for that entire linked file?

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