- In Blender, enable the add-on 3D-Coat Applink included with it.
- In the Properties Editor>Scene Properties>3D-Coat Applink Settings>Folders:
- Set the Exchange folder to /home/USERNAME/Documents/3DCoat/Exchange
Put your system user name instead of USERNAME in the line above.
- Do the same if you wish for the Object/Texture folder option.
- Select an object of your scene.
- in the Sidebar (Menu View>Sidebar or shortcut N) click the 3D-Coat vertical tab.
- Pick an option from the drop-down menu and click send.
- An error message with lots of scary words will appear and we will get sad.
- For safety, let’s quit now Blender and 3DCoat.
- Open a File Browser on your Linux system, now.
- A folder named 3DC2Blender has been created in your home folder.
- Right-click the folder and then left-click on Properties from the menu that should appear before you.
- In the Permissions tab, click on Change Permissions for Enclosed Files…
- Set Group Files Permissions to Read and Write
- Set Group Folders Permissions to Create and delete files
- Click the button labelled Change
- Close the Properties window
- Run Blender again, select an object of a scene, hit send button from the 3D-Coat panel in the Sidebar.
- Open 3DCoat and wait a bit until the message of incoming data from Blender pops up. It should now be working and we will feel happy.