Create and Move to Active Collection

Description:

This operator creates a new collection and moves all selected objects into it. It's a bit different from Blender's default "New Collection" operator by allowing you to create empty collections inside the active collection, rather than the selected one as in Blender's standard behavior.

The "move" functionality shares its settings with the "Move to Active Collection" operator. Any changes made to the settings of the "Create and Move" operator will affect the behavior of "Move to Active Collection," but not the other way around.

See it in action!

How to use:

This operator is versatile and can be accessed in multiple ways to best suit your workflow.

From the viewport (method 1):

Select the objects in the 3dviewport
Right click and choose "Create and move to active collection". This will send the object to the active collection, note that the active collection is the one that has its icon highlighted, you can also see the current active collection's name in the upper left corner of the viewport
Optional: Change settings in the "last operation panel" (in the left down corner of the viewport)

From the viewport (method 2):

Select the objects in the 3dviewport
Go to the Outliner and Ctrl + Click the target collection to set it active
Click the button Create and move to active collection. Here you can customize the behavior of this button by using a modifier key and then click the button, you can have a hint by hovering the mouse.

From the Outliner:

Select the objects in the outliner.
Ctrl + Click to set the target collection active
Click the button Create and move to active collection. Here you can customize the behavior of this button by using a modifier key and then click the button, you can have a hint by hovering the mouse.

Change behavior on the fly:

Modify the operator's behavior by holding a modifier key when clicking the button:

NONE: This is the default behavior, it will move objects and its children even if they were not selected.
ALT: It will show a small panel with all the options for the operator. Note that any change to the settings that are common to the "Move to active collection" operator will affect the behavior of that operator, it is basically as if the setting was changed in the Preferences Window. These options are:
- Collection Name: You can customize the name of the new collection before it is created. This feels more natural when creating several collections.
- Nested?: If ON the new collection will be nested inside the active collection, if OFF, it will be inside the Scene Collection.
- Move selected only. Same as if you've pressed SHIFT while clicking the button. See below for more info.
- Move parents and siblings. Same as if you've pressed CTRL while clicking the button. See below for more info.
SHIFT: Move selected only. This option will move the objects selected ignoring its children, this is the same as the regular "move to collection" operator from blender the difference is that this works with collections.
CTRL: Move parents and siblings. This option will move all immediate parents and siblings of the selected objects. This is handy when you want to move hierarchies quickly without having to select each object by hand.

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