[Bf-funboard] magnetic grid / objects

Konrad Haenel public at konrad-haenel.de
Sun Jan 9 14:09:01 CET 2005


Mag. Karl Kühberger wrote:

> Hi Blenderguys,
>
> what I really miss in Blender are some functions for fast and
> accurate working. The N-menu and the Snap-menu are nice
> but far not enough.
> Sometimes it is very frustrating to construct exact modells (like
> in architectural visialization). It would be very helpfull to have
> magnetic grid(s) and objects (faces, edges, vertices). The magnetic
> function should be to switch on/off in the i-window. With this
> function it would be a joy to put things like walls together, snapping
> in exactly edge to edge. Or to move object-edges magnetically
> to grid-lines (now I must put the median point to an edge, to achieve
> this with the snap-function). Of course the grid should be scalable,
> like in most other programs. Also nice would be to have rulers
> to switch on/off.
> I am sorry, that I am not a coder, otherwise I could help to write
> this features. But I know how important especially the above mentioned
> features are for newbies, because I am teaching Blender to pupils
> and to art-teachers, and the always get angry about not having
> easy and fast "accuracy-tools".
>
> Cheers,
> Karl

You really have a point there. Snapping the cursor to stuff does it for 
now, but it's not exactly an efficient workflow. Extended snapping 
capabilities would be an enormous addition the Blender's value.


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