Claude Code + Blender MCP

Blender published an official MCP Add-on a few weeks ago, and I decided to migrate away from the unofficial add-on I'd been using over the past few months. Kudos to the author for the unofficial blender-mcp add-on; I never had any problems, I just feel the official add-on is likely to be better supported going forward.

Here's a quick installation guide for Blender 5.1 + Claude Code:

1. Drag & drop the add-on from https://www.blender.org/lab/mcp-server/ into the running Blender window twice (the first time only adds the Blender Lab repository, the second time actually isntalls the add-on)

2. Clone the blender_mcp repository:

cd $HOME
git clone https://projects.blender.org/lab/blender_mcp.git

3. Inside the project folder where you launch Claude Code:

claude mcp add blender -- uv --directory $HOME/blender_mcp/mcp run blender-mcp

or use the --scope user if you want to make it available to all Claude Code sessions for all projects:

claude mcp add --scope user blender -- uv --directory $HOME/blender_mcp/mcp run blender-mcp

If, like me, you had a previous version installed, remove it first with claude mcp remove blender or claude mcp remove --scope user blender.