ADD ONS

 Add-ons are scripts which are written to be used with Blender to achieve additional or special functionalities which are not coming with the core -Blender software.  Add-ons are grouped into Official, Community or Testing.

1. Official  add-ons are  provided with Blender, but needs to be enabled.

2. Add-ons which come under the Community are developed by the Blender community members. These add-ons generally needs to be downloaded from the web, and installed and then enabled to make it usable.

3. Add-ons coming under the Testing group are mostly developed by community members by still under test for performance with out any glitch.

To access Add-on set up in Blender follow the following path. File->User Preferences->   Add-Ons and enable the desired Add-on in the list provided below and click on Save User settings to save the  enable setting of the add-on, just done by you.