{"id":9832,"date":"2025-08-05T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:36:37","slug":"install-blender-4-5-lts-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/install-blender-4-5-lts-macbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Blender 4.5 LTS on MacOS (MacBook Pro\/Air etc.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e49c6932ba2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e49c6932ba2\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/install-blender-4-5-lts-macbook\/#description\" >Description<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/install-blender-4-5-lts-macbook\/#timestamps\" >Timestamps<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><center><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BAx6O_l0l_w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"description\"><\/span>Description<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>To install <strong>Blender 4.5 LTS<\/strong> (Long Term Support &#8211; 12+ months of critical updates only) on a MacBook Pro\/Air or other MacOS device (non-iPad\/iPhone), first be sure to download the correct version, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/installing-blender-macos\/#about-this-mac\">Intel or Apple Silicon<\/a>, from Blender.org\u2019s download page. Once downloaded, (double-)click to drag-and-drop install <strong>blender.app<\/strong> into the <strong>Applications<\/strong> folder, readying it for use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duration<\/strong>: total c. 5 mins (00:05:00).<br \/>\n<strong>Info<\/strong>: 1080p.<br \/>\n<strong>Suitability<\/strong>: Beginner+.<br \/>\n<strong>Source<\/strong>: n\/a.<br \/>\n<strong>Product ID<\/strong>: n\/a.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Design note<\/strong>: as Blender 3D is not directly available from the Apple AppStore, an &#8216;<em>Administrative User<\/em>&#8216; account may be required to install Blender locally (from hard drive). For more information and troubleshooting the installation of Blender 4.3 to MacOS see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/installing-blender-macos\/#about-this-mac\">About This Mac<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"timestamps\"><\/span>Timestamps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Times are approximate;<br \/>\n &#8211; 00:00 : Install Blender<br \/>\n &#8211; 02:00 : Install Legacy Versions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1045,230],"tags":[1111,120,1059,340,1043,1044],"class_list":["post-9832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blender","category-macos","category-tutorials","tag-applications","tag-blender","tag-blender-4-x","tag-installing-blender","tag-macbook","tag-macos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}