Getting Started with SNAPPING in Blender! Snapping Tools Tutorial

In this video, I wanted to talk about some of the snap functions contained inside of Blender to help you make precise movements and align objects!
Timestamps
0:00 - Video Intro
0:29 - Intro to Snapping
1:08 - Location of Snapping Settings
1:37 - Enabling Snapping
1:47 - Snapping to Increments
2:50 - Absolute Grid Snapping
3:14 - Adjust Snap Points
3:54 - Snapping to Subdivisions
4:42 - Vertex Snapping - Closest
5:40 - Inference Snapping
6:36 - Vertex Snapping - Center and Median
7:03 - Vertex Snapping - Active
7:52 - Vertex Snapping Use - Align Walls
8:32 - Vertex Snapping Use - Extrude to Same Length
9:05 - Vertex Snapping in Edit Mode
9:35 - Edge Snapping
10:05 - Face Snapping
10:37 - Volume Snapping
10:52 - Midpoint Snapping
11:48 - Multiple Snapping
12:26 - Move, Rotate, and Scale Snapping
First off, to activate snapping, you can click on the little magnet, or press SHIFT+Tab on your keyboard
Increment - this snaps your object to a set length based on the units you’ve set in your scene properties.
Note - if you enable absolute grid snap, this will snap your objects to the increments set in your grid
Vertex - Snaps your object based on one vertex to another vertex
Acts differently based on closest, center, median, active (active is based on object origin)
This is a great tool for aligning Archipack walls before detailing them
Edge - aligns an object somewhere (anywhere) along an edge
Face
Volume
Edge Center
Edge Perpendicular

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about snapping in the comments below! :)

[@ajaipal1]

Thanks If it were not for you, it would have taken me ages to find 👍

[@companyomidayendeh5325]

sir pardon me i have a question but not about snapping.Imagine you make a huge environment of game in blender and export it as a obj file in unity.but you want to select all items separately in unity.is this possible in blender?is there any option for making such this obj file with ability to select items separately as obj file ?

[@TonyInTownNZ]

@@starchamber7700 You are not alone. Me neither. I have watched the vid over and over following every step and still can't get it to work.

[@rufuscoppertop330]

@@starchamber7700 Same here.

[@rufuscoppertop330]

@@TonyInTownNZ Same here.

[@justoaboy]

...and finally I found the solution in your video to the problem of the inaccuracy of the constructions due to free movement due to ignorance of the snap. In my particular case, the problem was not knowing how to bring two objects as close as possible without them overlapping, nor would there be the slightest gap between them, and of course, now I know: snap is the answer. Thank you very much sir for sharing this knowledge.

[@terryc1734]

As always, very helpful, clear and understandable. Thanks very much for taking the time and effort in making this tutorial.

[@alexminito6812]

Thank you for this! This is going to save me so much time and effort. Now I don't have to keep hopping back and forth between Blender and MS 3D Builder. I also gotta commend you for how perfectly clear and concise your video was. This is exactly how any and all tutorials should be made.

[@dilaraolmez2565]

Thank you so much for preparing such a wonderful video for blender beginners. As a cad user architect, i couldn't be able to understand how can i do modelling precisely in blender before watching your nice video.

[@chris-no8se]

Oh wow, This is so useful! Bridging some of the gap from sketchup. Thank you!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Really from any CAD software :) It's a great feature

[@casparblattmann755]

That has been one of the most helpful videos I have seen so far in my journey to get learn Blender.

[@3droc824]

Volume snap is good for bones in a rig for animating. I'm enjoying the quick tips. Thanks.

[@alexbobyr8076]

Thank You for great tutorial, fast and simple.

[@peterburton9855]

Thanks. Finally realised exactly why I could not get snapping to work when watching this. I was moving objects together without considering where the 4 white arrow heads were!

[@christophermcsomething]

Hey man, thank you so much! I've been watching your Sketchup tutorials for years, and have been an avid Sketchup user. I realize however, that in order to progress as a 3D artist I absolutely need to learn Blender. I think your Blender tutorials coming from years of using Sketchup will greatly help myself and others with the transition. I'm psyched that you've started this tutorial series and can't wait to transfer some of my more complicated modelling to Blender!

[@TheCGEssentials]

That was the conclusion I came to as well - nothing wrong with SketchUp at all, but to keep learning, I needed to branch out and start learning other programs as well. Glad I could help you get started! :)

[@coolzack1012]

my dad had me on sketch-up since I was 8 and suggested blender to me and I have gotten quite good at it now. happy to be able to finally extrude things to lengths of other faces.

[@alphacraftserver3691]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

[@bbkorp]

Great ! Thanks a lot for this tutorial! You showed me how to snap with reference point by snapping! Thanks again I was looking for a solution and you did it! Bravo for all your videos!

[@gazingazelle]

thank you! new here and snapping was an issue, you have good explanations, saved my day! :)

[@danreda]

Your videos are so useful for beginners and very easy to follow. Thanks!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you like them!

[@travissmith7471]

Very helpful... Thanks for sharing different ways to snap...

[@gerdsfargen6687]

Dude you are super cool for posting this video. I can now snap my shelf brackets in the scene to the shelf. Thank you, thank you!!

[@oscarkinny4298]

This tutorial, is perfect. I've been struggling with understanding snapping, but I finally do now! And God am I having fun! Thanks a lot for this wonderful tutorial!

[@WyMustIGo]

Why not read the blender documentation? Do you seriously need a tutorial for everything, including sex? ROFLMAO

[@notyourroad]

Thank you so much! I was wondering about this.

[@elis65]

Well explained Blender basics ! Thank you 🙏👍

[@neutch1991]

This is really well done, it was really helpful.

[@AZVREMusic]

This helped so much! A hero without cape. Thank you!

[@gordonhoople5764]

Thank you, this was exactly what I needed!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@neilcastro2452]

This is a lifesaver for many beginners. Thanx for making this video.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - not just for beginners! One thing I do wish is that Blender would allow you to move objects by setting a base point like a lot of CAD programs, rather than having to re-set the object origin though

[@georgb302]

Thank you very much. I wasn't aware until now, that I can combine the different snap methods.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Yep! it's very helpful :)

[@airkidproductions2848]

yeah, that s exactly the perfect topic , thanks man

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@elsantopadre710]

Thanks for this. Just the tutorial i needed for the last functions that were keeping me preferring 3ds.

[@AnnParsonz]

This is incredibly helpful, ty so much for this video!

[@mrmoneybagz]

Very well explained.

[@yt_bharat]

Thanks Justin, this is immensely helpful 🙂

[@tovermoran4360]

Did not know about non-touching/interferencing -- thank you so much.

[@nabeelashrafi1358]

These videos are amazing! Thank you! :D

[@marjolein_pas]

Thank you very much and have a nice day.

[@CriticalBash]

omg bro, you made my day, I am looking for the solution to the snapping edge or corner for over a month, I thought it needs to use the gizmo to do it, thanks.

[@zhollett]

Thank you. I now know how to use Vertex Snapping "Active". I was getting very frustrated with an object not snapping how I wanted it to.

[@darrenwalters9886]

Thank you for this; I am a casual user creating a boardgame, flirting with possible digital implementation, and anything that can help speed me along---- group select, move and manipulate; keyboard shortcuts, animation shortcuts, best file output formats for print publishers, and so on---is very useful.

[@tzwhh204]

Thank you. Great tutorial!

[@abuji101]

Thanks for the detailed useful tutorial. For the Edge perpendicular span try it with curve ( spline). Go to edit mode and try to move the vertex to an edge of another object.

[@kamsin007]

Very helpful. Well explained. Thanks

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@user-pz9ju6ss7r]

it was helpful! I have been looking for information on snapping after watching the 4th official Blender Fundamentals lesson. There, this topic was raised, but not disclosed. After this video, everything became much clearer. I just didn't quite figure out what is the difference between snapping by center and snapping by median

[@leohunter5609]

Thanks for the video CG Essentials! I'm a beginner in blender and this was very useful.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@vademaster6597]

wow! amazing sooo much help!!!!

[@lastsonofktn]

Very cool and useful thank you

[@andymcd8309]

Very useful! Thanks a lot!👍👍

[@Transcriptor]

The snaps mimic the original Autosketch, remembering that it referred to lines and vertices only. Once younhave faces and solids snap takes on a whole new meaning. Thanks for this video, seeing is worth a thousand words.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@RazoorProductioons]

This really helped me a LOT! Thank you!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@erik352]

Very helpful! thanks for making the video!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mabiordg]

I'm new to blender, this tool help me a lot

[@tomsvideos68]

Another brilliant and helpful video thank you

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks! :)

[@komputer7566]

thanks bro that was helpful !

[@Cpt.Zenobia]

Thank you. very helpful. also pressing & holding the ctrl key activates snapping to whatever its set to as long as ctrl is held.

[@krycekaiolfi]

That is nice! Thank you!

[@TomisaburoRMizugawa]

Now this was super useful, thanks a lot.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@leontangen1352]

you are my new blender tutorial youtuber

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - awesome :)

[@macnavi]

Thanks, that is a very clear explanation.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@willylandin9450]

This was really useful! Thanks a lot!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@markferrick10]

Excellent, very helpful. Thank you

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@syiko_]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

[@serch_4090]

Greetings from Spain, very nice video, so helpfull

[@3dblend38]

Good tutorial Thanks

[@ImaginethenMake]

Thanks for this video. I am trying again to learn Blender. Coming from a CAD background, knowing how to use the snaps is a must. I almost pushed Blender aside in favor of FreeCAD but then I found your video. I will be spending some time trying out the snaps..... maybe make a video about it.

[@BlueOutline]

Thank you the joker for helping me in blender 🙏

[@123klaas]

Thank you very much!

[@mru24]

Thumbs up for the greeting intro. Love that. Would love to add more thumbs up for the content.

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@ahcenebelhadi955]

thanks man very useful !

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@alessandrorighi1282]

coming from maya was very frustrating the snapping feature, especially while modeling....thanks for this video, it changed my life

[@dual435]

This was really useful!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you think so!

[@referri]

great video, helped me a lot.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad to hear it!

[@MovingDungeons]

Amazing, thank you

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@Kyle-wb7wx]

Thank you!

[@aakashsawant3]

VERY USEFULL VIDEO!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks!

[@hazelnut_black]

OMG I love you so much. thank you

[@bluearts6075]

Thank you very much, you saved my day, actually I was stuck with tracking data that's actually made of points, snap my null object to each point, really useful in blender so thanks a lot.

[@dahlbergt]

Thank you!!!

[@kissu_io]

Amazing and honest!

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@TheDaNuker]

Great video showing snapping in Object mode. Most of the other videos on the topic focus on Edit mode which completely ignores how snapping works in Object mode with the Object Origin point.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@luciandanajalba7017]

Nice!

[@giorgioappierto9765]

really great! Compliement, really clear explanation (not easy to find). Talking about 'precision tools', have you done some tutorial about using measure, I mean create meshes striating from real measures (I mean numbers). So for example input with, height and so on? Thanks

[@DonaldDrennan]

Thank you! Is there any snapping function in Sculpt mode? I would like to set a base floor height that none of the sculpt tools can go beyond. Is this possible? Thanks!

[@marclapinff2709]

Perfect!

[@philipmcdonnell7168]

Thanks for explaining the snapping tool. :) One thing I am trying to find is how to bend a wall say around a pivot point to a specific angle without distorting the mesh that is not being changing angle. The biggest problem is knowing how to call it, I suspect. It's probably in there somewhere.

[@testtest1art]

really thanks

[@NiVofHiR]

THANKS A MILLION!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad I could help!

[@TheSenileSeal]

Great tutorial. New subscriber!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Welcome!

[@gunnarbennemann7849]

improves my feature use

[@TheCGEssentials]

Awesome!

[@4028vikram]

Very helpful

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you think so!

[@tokyodynamite6497]

if anyone was like me, to snap, if you are snapping along the x axis, you hit x for the axis, the hover over the vertex you wanna snap to, you will get that yellow circle and it will auto do it, but ty for the video helped so much

[@andrzejkowalski1343]

Good job!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks!

[@zalzalahbuttsaab]

Awesome. I am new to Blender. I am a CorelDraw user of 30 years and in that bad boy, I have all the snapping on, so I just did the same with my current Blender test file and I am loving it.

[@TheCGEssentials]

I started off using SketchUp - same, using the snapping makes things a lot easier for me

[@zalzalahbuttsaab]

@@TheCGEssentials I do wish they would stop changing the interface though. It makes using Blender really confusing.

[@vincentdisel9822]

Much appreciation.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@nome.archvis]

Thanks !

[@Doubleaa500]

Holding ctrl also snaps as you move it too and it will lessen the snap increment when you hold shift

[@maxplayzofficialyt]

I searched up this tutorial because when i was modeling. It was snapping. Because i accidentally press Shift + Tab. But the tutorial was handy!

[@cloudlove1]

That's amazing. I only used increment but I will use vertex. Multiple snapping??!! I never knew.

[@IstiakAhmed_UE5_VR-Dev]

Awesome

[@edgarm7353]

Perfect video, you are the Amelia Watson of the blender world.

[@ASMRnocturnal]

Can I select an group of verts or edges and have them all snap to align with a point, edge etc... ? similar to the keep faces option in Maya is what I am looking for :) thanks!

[@josephvanwyk2088]

Thanks ! Are there shortcut keys for types of snapping? Feels always slow to open that menu... -- ah no stress, found it. RMB to assign shortcut key.

[@noname12234]

I want to make two objects (same object but located in different areas) overlap. Which snapping method do I use? Snap 5o vertex did quite work. And I can't go into edit mode to select a vertex of the object I want aligned because it's the high poly version of the other object and it takes a long time to deselect the entire object and select just one vertex

[@Juleru]

I wanted to snap one room to another room with the connecting faces already missing (only vertices there) but it just wouldn't snap. What I didn't notice in your video until I looked closely: When you use the "Closest" option with "g" mode active (press g once, don't keep it pressed!), you have to hover your mouse over the vertex you want to snap your object to. Then you're going to get the same orange circle around the chosen vertex shown in the video. If you're having problems finding the right vertex, just switch to "Wireframe" mode (press "z", then pick "Wireframe").

[@mohamedelkayal8871]

I don't know if I missed it in the video, but say I want to snap one face of an object to the face of another object, but I want it so that it's at the very center of the face of the target object. How do I achieve that? Is it by using face snapping and snap by center or am I going about ti the wrong way? This was very helpful nonetheless, I wanted to make out the best out of the snapping tool and this video was very informative.