Boolean Vault

Name: Boolean Vault
Price: 10.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Barend Lottering

add-on

Reusable Boolean cutters placed on any surface in one click

$10 $8.5

Boolean Vault — Reusable Boolean Cutter Library for Blender

I kept rebuilding the same cutters in every project. Vents, grilles, cable holes, panel lines — identical shapes, remodeled or re-appended and re-aligned, over and over. So I built the addon that finally stops that.

Boolean Vault is a personal library of reusable Boolean cutters. Save a shape once, and place it onto any surface in any future project, in one click.

How it works

Save — select any mesh, click Save Selected as Cutter. The geometry and transform (not the .blend file) are stored permanently on disk in your own library.
Browse — search, filter by category and tag, and favorite assets. Auto-generated thumbnails for everything; or paste your own screenshot (Win+Shift+S, then Paste Clipboard).
Place — click Drag Out Cutter. A translucent ghost follows your cursor across the target mesh. Left-click to drop — it snaps to the surface and a fresh Boolean modifier (Difference / Union / Intersect) is added automatically.

Live tuning while you hover

The ghost is the result — what you see is what you cut:

Scroll — scale the cutter up / down
Ctrl + Scroll — spin 45°
Shift + Scroll / Alt + Scroll — tilt around each local axis
MMB drag — fine-tune how deep it sits (default is a half-through-cut: half in, half visible; it never floats off the surface)

Everything stays editable(live)

Placed cutters park in a hidden BV_Cutters collection — clean viewport, excluded from render, still driving their Booleans. Use Cutters in Scene to reveal a cutter, jump into Edit Mode, and watch the result update live. Hide them again when done.

Why you'd want it

Cross-project persistence — the library survives without the .blend, shared across all your projects and machines on disk
Not the Asset Browser — it places, aligns, and adds the modifier for you in one click
Searchable and organized — categories, tags, favorites, and a fast index even with thousands of assets
Zero dependencies — pure Python, no third-party packages
MIT licensed — free to use commercially

Requirements

Blender 4.0+ (tested on 5.2 LTS), Windows / macOS / Linux

What's included