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MCP For Blender

MCP For Blender is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Community plugin to control Blender 3D with any LLM of your choice. It has 32,370 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx blender-mcp.

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Install MCP For Blender

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-for-blender": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "blender-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UV_PYTHON_PREFERENCE": "your-value",
        "BLENDER_HOST": "your-value",
        "BLENDER_PORT": "your-value",
        "DISABLE_TELEMETRY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env UV_PYTHON_PREFERENCE=your-value --env BLENDER_HOST=your-value --env BLENDER_PORT=your-value --env DISABLE_TELEMETRY=your-value --transport stdio mcp-for-blender -- uvx blender-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-for-blender": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "blender-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UV_PYTHON_PREFERENCE": "your-value",
        "BLENDER_HOST": "your-value",
        "BLENDER_PORT": "your-value",
        "DISABLE_TELEMETRY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-for-blender": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "blender-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UV_PYTHON_PREFERENCE": "your-value",
        "BLENDER_HOST": "your-value",
        "BLENDER_PORT": "your-value",
        "DISABLE_TELEMETRY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
UV_PYTHON_PREFERENCENoShown in the README's example configuration.
BLENDER_HOSTNoShown in the README's example configuration.
BLENDER_PORTNoShown in the README's example configuration.
DISABLE_TELEMETRYNoShown in the README's example configuration.

About MCP For Blender

formerly blender-mcp — the PyPI package is now mcp-for-blender.* Existing setups keep working; no config change is required. Read more

  • 3d-modeling
  • ai
  • blender
  • blender-addon
  • claude
  • generative-ai
  • llm
  • mcp
  • model-context-protocol
  • python

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How do I install the MCP For Blender MCP server?

Add the command uvx blender-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is MCP For Blender free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is MCP For Blender actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 24, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.