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when I start Blender version 2.66a, the Blender loads, and shows up together with a console window.

Now when I start Blender version 2.77a, the Blender loads without a console window by default. I only can show the console window by clicking Window -> Toggle System Console

How to force the console window to show up together when Blender version 2.77a starts?

Thank you

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  • $\begingroup$ Note that the steps will vary depending on your OS. For example, in OS X you would right click on Blender.app and "Show Package Contents", then navigate to "/MacOS/blender" and run that executable. There is another way using Automator to call this from a Dock shortcut (but I won't get into that now). $\endgroup$
    – Mentalist
    May 25, 2016 at 13:38
  • $\begingroup$ @Mentalist, do you know how do I "Show Package Contents" in Windows OS? $\endgroup$
    – hunterex
    May 25, 2016 at 13:46
  • $\begingroup$ It doesn't work that way in Windows. When I wrote "steps will vary depending on OS", this is what I was talking about. Windows doesn't use application packages. $\endgroup$
    – Mentalist
    May 25, 2016 at 14:07

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Append -con to the command line arguments passed to blender.exe.

You can do so by modifying the properties of your favorite Blender shortcut and appending -con in the Target text box.

The console window stays open then.

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  • $\begingroup$ does not work in 2.90 $\endgroup$
    – Phil
    May 10, 2022 at 10:39
  • $\begingroup$ Still works fine to me in 3.1.0, I doubt this was changed. Did you set up the shortcut properly? $\endgroup$
    – Ray
    May 10, 2022 at 10:41
  • $\begingroup$ I cannot even find the shortcut in the key bingings $\endgroup$
    – Phil
    May 11, 2022 at 13:19
  • $\begingroup$ It's not a key binding "shortcut", it's a shortcut you create to the Blender executable (on Windows) or just launch it with that command line parameter in another way. $\endgroup$
    – Ray
    May 11, 2022 at 15:13
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By your comments i suppose this is about windows. (would help to mention that in question as things like command line are very much os-specific)

One easy way to achieve this is to create .bat file, with content beind simply path to your blender install, like C:\...\Blender.exe. (Desktop > right click > new > Text file and then rename with replacing .txt with .bat) Then you can launch blender by running this "script" instead of blender shortcut, and command line should stay open.

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Simply create a powershell script containing the details below ( of launching blender executable ) and put it on desktop. right click and run with powershell. Your powershell is the console now.

& "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 2.93\blender.exe"
  • "&" is important to launch any executable.
  • extension of powershell file is .ps1

file content Powershell option

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