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three.ws Blender MCP Server

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three.ws Blender runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 45 installs a week from npm. Last commit 11 Oct 2026.

Drive a local Blender headlessly: inspect, convert, render and script 3D files.

Installs per day peak 73 · avg 9 · +2% w/w
a month agotoday
45
Installs / week
npm · @three-ws/blender-mcp
230
Stars
5 open issues
11 Oct 2026
Last commit
1 release in 90 days
Apache-2.0
License
JavaScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check three.ws Blender every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add blender-mcp -- npx -y @three-ws/blender-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blender-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@three-ws/blender-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.blender-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@three-ws/blender-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blender-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@three-ws/blender-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blender-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@three-ws/blender-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BLENDER_PATH (Absolute path to the Blender 3.0+ executable. Leave unset to discover it on PATH and at the platform's standard install locations.), BLENDER_MCP_TIMEOUT_MS (Ceiling for one Blender job in milliseconds. Renders and heavy conversions are the slow ones.), BLENDER_MCP_WORKDIR (Directory for outputs written when a tool is called without an explicit output path.), BLENDER_MCP_ALLOW_PYTHON (Set to 0 to withdraw blender_run_python, which executes caller-supplied Python inside Blender, from the advertised tool list.), BLENDER_MCP_INLINE_IMAGE_BYTES (Ceiling on inlined image bytes. Past this the image stays on disk and the response says where.), BLENDER_MCP_INLINE_IMAGE_PX (Longest edge of the render copy returned inline in a tool result. The full-resolution PNG is always written to disk.), BLENDER_MCP_MAX_CONCURRENCY (How many Blender processes may run at once. Further calls queue rather than compete for memory.), THREE_WS_BASE (Base URL of the three.ws deployment backing blender_forge_import.), THREE_WS_FORGE_TIMEOUT_MS (Ceiling for one text-to-3D generation in milliseconds.), THREE_WS_FORGE_PROVIDER_KEY (Meshy/Tripo API key for the bring-your-own-key geometry lane. The default image lane is free and needs no key.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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three.ws Blender — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for three.ws Blender?
three.ws Blender runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @three-ws/blender-mcp was installed 45 times last week.
How do I connect three.ws Blender?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @three-ws/blender-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use three.ws Blender?
The npm package @three-ws/blender-mcp was installed 45 times in the last week. Week over week that is +2%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is three.ws Blender open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in JavaScript, 230 stars on GitHub and 5 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.