Tip : Launching Blender with the System Console Displayed (Windows)

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• When launching Blender on Windows, You will notice that the system console is hidden by default.

• Having the console window displayed is beneficial for catching startup message, error messages and debugging print statements from your python scripts. 

• You can toggle the display of the system console from the user interface, as illustrated below.

Toggling the display of the System Console 

• But Blender provides a startup flag (a.k.a. command line flag) to display the system console at launch time itself. 

Let us see how simple it is to set it up.

Setup 

Option 1 - Modifying existing shortcut

• Right click on the icon and select Properties
• In the Target text area, at the end of the existing command, add the -con flag, like below

D:\blender\blender-2.64-release-windows64\blender.exe -con

• Apply and close the dialog.
• Launch Blender 

Option 2 - Creating a new shortcut

• Right click on an empty space on the Desktop and click New -> Shortcut

• Locate the path to the executable and then at the end add the -con flag

•  Give a name for the icon (default will be 'blender')

• And following is the result.

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