[Bf-funboard] Workplane?

[alex]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, joeedh wrote:

> Hi.  Modo has this feature where instead of having a 3D cursor, it has a 3D 
> "work plane."  This plane is used to orient new 3d objects.
>
> For example, when you create a cone in Modo it sits on top of the work plane. 
> As far as I can tell, Blender does much the same, except that its "work 
> plane" is the 3D view plane translated to the 3D cursor.  I think the this 
> would be a very useful feature.

In fact, I had exactly this idea once for instinctive-Blender. I wanted
to make the 3D cursor a real 3D object (with rotation), so that it would
place new objects/mesh parts accordingly.

Dropped the plan due to lack of importance though :)

alex at schnittenparadies.de