# MCP For Blender (MCP server)

> 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.

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

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/ahujasid/mcp-for-blender |
| GitHub stars | 32,370 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | Python |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | pypi: blender-mcp |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Developer tools |
| Latest release | none |
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```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

```sh
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)

```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)

```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 2026-10-07.

## Environment variables

- `UV_PYTHON_PREFERENCE`: Shown in the README's example configuration.
- `BLENDER_HOST`: Shown in the README's example configuration.
- `BLENDER_PORT`: Shown in the README's example configuration.
- `DISABLE_TELEMETRY`: Shown in the README's example configuration.

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