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Marc
Marc

Reputation: 11

Renaming specific objects with bpy

I have a custom MATLAB script that I use to analyze 3D data. I recently started using a new piece of software to export about 150 3D points over time as an .fbx file. These points (imported as individual objects into Blender) have clunky names and I want to rename about 20 of these using bpy in order to fit what my MATLAB script is expecting.

For example, I want an object called "BottomNoseBottom_99" to be called "NT" for Nose Tip. I know I can do this individually within Blender by right-clicking, but I will be doing this very often and want to create a script.

I have found a lot of references to the following piece of code, but I think (I'm new to bpy) that it only applies to an object that is currently selected:

import bpy

for obj in bpy.context.selected_objects:
    obj.name = "newName"

What I can't figure out is how to rename only particular objects, like this:

BottomNoseBottom_99 = "NT"

UpperLipTopCenter_65 = "CUL"

etc.

I've searched for an answer with no luck.

Thanks in advance -

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3362

Answers (1)

JohnLM
JohnLM

Reputation: 316

Objects in Blender Python console are accessible via bpy.data.objects which has a dict interface.

Try this:

bpy.data.objects["BottomNoseBottom_99"].name = "NT"

Upvotes: 1

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