Stop hunting through sidebar tabs.

Your favourite add-ons each live in their own narrow N-panel tab. You open one, scroll, close it, open the next, and the sidebar keeps covering your model. Addon Board gives those tools a home of their own: a dedicated Blender editor where the panels you use become cards, laid out in columns, next to your viewport or on a second monitor.

One click turns a sidebar tab into a board. Any operator can become a button with your own label. Boards switch like tabs and save themselves. Nothing is rebuilt or copied: the cards draw the real panels from your installed add-ons and run their real operators in your 3D View.

Your add-on tools. One board. Always in reach.

See it in action

One click turns a sidebar tab into a board

Open your add-on’s tab in the 3D View sidebar and press Load N-Tab. Every panel becomes its own card on a board named after the tab. Close the sidebar and keep working: the tools stay one click away.

Any tool, as your own button

Add › Tool Button… searches every operator by its readable name. Pick one, read what it does, give it your own label and it is on the board. F9 still works, so you can adjust the result.

Alt-click to pull a button out

Use one button all the time? Alt-click it inside any card and it gets a card of its own, with the same settings. Drag it wherever you like. The original panel stays intact.

Whole tabs, single panels, side by side

Add a complete sidebar tab as one card with foldable sections, or pick a single panel from a list that shows Tab › Panel. Every dialog explains what you will get before anything is added.

Fold away what you don’t need

Collapse a card and the cards below slide up to close the gap. Collapse All gives you a compact overview of the whole board; Expand All brings everything back.

Columns that follow your space

Auto fits as many columns as the width allows, live, while you resize the editor. Prefer a fixed layout? One to six columns or Free. Drag a card and it lands exactly where you drop it.

A board for every task

Every board is a tab right under the header. Switch with one click, or press + to build a new board from any sidebar tab. Boards save themselves and come back in every session and every .blend.

Find any card in a second

Middle-mouse drag scrolls a long board up and down. Find Card lists every card by name; type a few letters and the board jumps straight to it.

What’s new in 0.8

• Board tabs under the header: every board one click away, plus a + tab for new boards.
• Add › Tool Button…: search tools by readable name, filter by group, read the description, set your own label.
• Add › Sidebar Tab… and Single Panel…: clear dialogs; cancelling leaves the board untouched.
• F9 / Adjust Last Operation works for tools run from the board.
• Stable layout while you tweak values in the redo panel.

Everything in Addon Board

• A dedicated editor with Tab, Panel and Button cards.
• Load N-Tab, Choose Sidebar Tab and All Addon Tabs import.
• Auto columns that follow the editor width, 1–6 fixed columns or Free layout.
• Drag cards between columns; collapse cards and sections; Collapse All / Expand All.
• Alt-click extraction of any button into its own card.
• Find Card search, middle-mouse vertical scroll, wheel scroll and Shift+wheel zoom.
• Named boards with Auto Save, Save Now and restore in every session and .blend file.
• Open Here or Open in New Window for a second monitor.
• Table appearance that matches Blender’s own N-panel colours.

What’s new in 0.9.3

Pie menus built from your board

Every board can now have its own pie menus. Open Pie Menus from the board header: the editor sits in the board sidebar and stays open while you work.

Click New Pie Menu, give it a name and a shortcut, then click Pick on Board and click the buttons you want, straight on the board. Click a direction in the compass to fill the next one. Click a card title to put the whole card in the pie.

A direction can hold several buttons; they show as a column in the pie. Reorder or remove them in the list under the compass. Esc, right click or Done ends picking.

One shortcut, your whole board

Pie shortcuts work in every 3D View, with the board open or closed. Single buttons, whole panels (live, with their fields and checkboxes) and links to other pies of the same board can all go into a pie.

All pie shortcuts are also listed, and can be changed, in the add-on Preferences.

Right click any button › Add to Pie Menu

Right click any Blender button or menu item, not only the ones on the board, and choose Add to Pie Menu…. Every pie is shown laid out like the pie itself: click a direction and the button is there, with its settings.

A board button in every 3D View

A small translucent button in the bottom-left corner of the 3D View opens your last board right beside the viewport. Click it again to close the board and get the whole viewport back.

Button visibility and opacity, the side (left or right), the board width and an optional toggle shortcut are in the add-on Preferences.

Clickable card headers

Card headers are now a clear, lighter band. Click anywhere on a header to collapse or expand the card. Drag a header to move the card to another place or column.

Reliability

Boards and pies are shared by all your Blender versions. They are kept in one folder (%APPDATA%\Blender Foundation\Blender\addon_board on Windows) instead of a per-version config folder. Boards from older versions are copied over automatically on first start.

Deleted boards stay deleted. A deleted board no longer comes back when you open an older .blend file that still contained it.

New Save, Manage Boards and Delete buttons in the board header, and a small × on board tabs to delete a board.

Pending changes are written when you quit Blender or open another file, so nothing is lost between sessions.

Before you buy

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer; the demonstrations were recorded in Blender 5.2.2. Addon Board shows Python-defined 3D View sidebar panels; panels written in C inside Blender (such as Item › Transform) cannot be shown. Tools that need a particular mode or selection behave as they do in their own panel. Keep a 3D View open for viewport tools.

You get Addon Board itself, not the add-ons you organise with it. The demo tabs in the animations (Modeling, Scene, Render, Materials) are temporary sample panels that use Blender’s own operators; they are not included. Install the Extension ZIP with Install from Disk.

Build your board once. Reach every tool in one click, every session.