Viewport presets for Blender (addon)

Viewport presets is Blender 4.5+ addon (not extension) for creating, storing and loading custom 3D View presets.
Blender viewport is awesome but tweaking it takes some time, and so I found myself not using most of the features it provides. It just takes to much time to click through all the settings. Now you do this once, then store your 3D View settings using 'Viewport Presets' addon. Preset can be loaded in any other 3d view, different workspaces or different blend file.

This addon will store and load 3d view settings:

• shading
• viewport overlays
• objects types selection and visibility restrictions (optional)
• gizmo settings (optional)
• eevee settings (optional)

There is also option to copy current 3d view settings to clipboard and then paste into another 3d view (or different workspace) with 'Paste viewport'

USAGE:
Alt+W > Pie menu (hotkey can be changed in addon preferences).

Then 'Save new preset' to save current 3d view state. To load existing preset just click on its name.

At the bottom of pie menu, there is list of workspaces - you can use it to switch workspace  while keeping viewport settings in sync (it is simple helper macro: copy current 3d view settings, switch workspace, paste 3d view settings).

PRESETS LOCATION:

Presets are stored in your blender user directory in

• your_blender_dir//scripts/presets/view_presets/

Addon comes with few example viewport presets in: example_presets_date.zip file. They are shown in top banner of this webpage.

You can unpack those to your presets folder. This is how files structure looks on Linux

After unzipping your presets folder should contain 'view_presets' sub-folder, and in there .dat presets files should be placed.

Updates History

Update 1.1 (03.02.2020)

• more example presets
• add option to change theme face orientation color in viewport overlays
• when switching workspace using alt+W pie, the 3d view settings from under the cursor will be copied to target workspace

Update 1.2 (12.12.2021)

• bugfixes for Blender 3.0

Update 1.3 (2.2.2026) for Blender 4.5+ only

• bugfixes for Blender 5.0,
• updated example presets to blender 4.5+
• New: options in add-on preferences to ignore loading of some 3D View settings: Gizmos Settings, Header and Sidebars, Select-ability & Visibility .