Place Objects with Precision in Blender!

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[@haroldgarrett2932]

i finally got a computer this week and installed blender for the first time. these videos are really helpful. they pack a lot of information into a really short period of time

[@jamesriley5057]

You're gonna have a blast. Are you interested in 3D art?

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Dude dont waste time with this mediocre software, Maya is where it is at

[@jamesriley5057]

@@wallacesousuke1433 Maya doesn't have the user to user support that blender does

[@haroldgarrett2932]

@@wallacesousuke1433maya's monthly/yearly subscription is more than what i live off of. it's absurd to compare the two

[@Vakra355]

​@@wallacesousuke1433maybe better but 2,200 € more

[@daleodorito]

Selection to cursor only works if the origin of the object is aligned with the base, since it snaps the object origin to the cursor

[@timothygooding9544]

luckily you can shift the origin on an object easily When in object mode with the move tool (4 arrows) go to the options drop down on the top right of the editor window and check effect only: origins It lets you freely move the origins instead of the parts, making snapping or making centers of rotation easier I used blender way too long without knowing that. It also works fine with the vertex/line/face snap tools

[@CheeseVRC]

@@timothygooding9544 You can also select the center vertex and Cursor to Selected followed by Origin to Cursor

[@musicvideos445]

Set origin to 3d curser or choose vertices

[@sidar87]

alternatively hit G to grab then B to select the point you want to drag from ( vertex in this instead ) and then select the vertex you want to snap on to.

[@alosreal]

I swear starting a nuclear reactor is easier than using blender

[@astronull8589]

ikr

[@breadleymcthicc5444]

The learning curve in Blender is definitely steep, but I figured out that immersing yourself in tutorials and guides can really help with the basics. If you haven't yet, you really should check out the donut tutorial because it goes into really good detail on the most important functions of Blender.

[@FrankJonen]

Or press 'b' when in the move tool. Select where you want it to snap, then move it to the snap of the target.

[@wallacesousuke1433]

I'm trying, but after I place the circle where I want the object to snap to, what do I do? Gosh, Blender is such garbage compared to Maya

[@FrankJonen]

@@wallacesousuke1433 use Maya then.

[@slavagalkov432]

@@wallacesousuke1433 Did you see how much the Maya costs? Almost $2000. The blender is free

[@bobsteven2363]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@wallacesousuke1433maybe you are garbage. It’s true maya is superior in animation tools. Also more stable. But modeling? Blender is ahead still, user error buddy. User error

[@breadleymcthicc5444]

​@@wallacesousuke1433the first object you click on is the vertice that you want to snap with, and moving it after will actually snap that vertice to the vertice of the other object that you hover over.

[@mehulmullur6073]

You can use mirror modifier to place the other 3 after the first one is placed in position.

[@Scarokhan]

I don’t even have a computer yet I still whatch these videos

[@tommytress77]

Adolf Catler

[@NOLA_playmaker]

First way sounds easier 😂

[@pureradiants888]

I really appreciate your vid’s! Thanks and I hope you keep it up!!

[@BlenderVitals]

Glad you enjoy them

[@littlecocogoat]

Make sure your object origin is set correctly to using the same methodology

[@samuraio33]

but let's not forget about the ctrl+shift+esc+space+enter+comma+period+dash+questionmark+rightarrowkey+leftarrowkey to instantly finish whatever you're doing

[@JDPhoenix]

Honestly a quicker (and more fun) way of doing this is enabling snapping and set it to "vertex" mode. Assuming those 4 pillar meshes origins are at the bottom it feels like building with Legos lol

[@archi7996]

I never gave blender a chance until I found your channel, now blender kinda is my favourite program.

[@BlenderVitals]

Great to hear

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Impossible, Blender is trash

[@breadleymcthicc5444]

I personally like to do Selection (Shortcut G ) -> B. Select the corner of the object's vertex with your mouse and move that object into the corner of the other object. This usually only works well for hard edged surfaces like squares, but it's very quick.

[@Zaprons]

How about the new snapping mechanism that came out in 4.0? It is also pretty good and easy to use

[@jimmyjoe1591]

Yep the new method makes all this redundant. It's excellent.

[@user-om6pk6lh2z]

Thank you so much

[@shukfahid]

Blender user of 15 years. I always learn something from your shorts. Sub’d.

[@BlenderVitals]

Great to hear that from a veteran

[@Voidlet]

damn I wish I knew this sooner 😂

[@snowgre-fm8gg]

BRO. THANK. YOU

[@liamspruyt]

Omg i desperately needed this

[@strawberrychampagne5804]

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS FOR WAY TOO LONG OH MY GOD

[@aku9790]

Before doing object to cursor, remember moving the origin of the object youre gonna move, so it snaps properly. You can do that just moving the cursor to a face, vertex or anywhere in a good position, then right click in object mode and select "origin to cursor".

[@Shemiryy]

that sphere with towers reminds me of a certain pair of purple and yellow moons respectively

[@notthe_dude]

This thing is very useful for people like me that from blockbench move to blender

[@VorpalVulpes]

I bounce between snapping to cursor and snapping to either edge or vert. my life became magnatudes easier after i learned to use it

[@ElisaSarah]

This is amazing for a tutorial.

[@johnbhoygamer188]

I DIDNT KNOW THIS THANK GOD You do this

[@joelmulder]

Or if there’s already a vert there, just snap to that vert with centering.

[@quinndepatten4442]

A faster version of cursor to origin is activate vertex snapping shift right click to move the cursor then hold control to toggle snapping. Then simply hover over the vertex you want to snap to. It's less precise, but if you know the geometry or there's only a little geometry it's the same thing but as lot faster.

[@markusschulte8859]

These videos make me want to try and learn blender (agian)

[@usamahibrahim2201]

You can do that, if the origin of the object you want to move is on the point you want it to go to cursor

[@funnyanimalworld7579]

Yes these are good tips👍

[@personalGoogle]

You could use the array modifier to replicate the first object. 1 array Modifier on X axis, second array modifier Y Axis

[@DHCR-core]

This method only works if the object's origin is where you want to align it.

[@JimmyMMcGill63]

go edit mode, snap vertex, individual origin, select all of object you want to move, snap to the vertex you wan to put, go object mode, move upwards on Z axis, snap to the same vertex

[@Vincent654]

Maya: enable wireframe viewer, press W for move Axis and press D to move the axis, hold V so the axis snaps to the vertex you want (the small model) now stop pressing D and move the model while holding V and it will snap to any vertex or any other model, this time you put in the center of whatever you want. Done

[@Sumii4242]

This guy blends

[@foyezes]

this and snap to vertex my go to options for aligning stuff

[@victoria-delta]

Remember go put object origin to bottom object, if you want to use selection to cursor

[@RadicalCluster]

Nice!

[@Paptis]

I was using physics thingy to locate them lol. Thanks

[@377omkar]

For this you have to have the selected object origin set to the place you have to snap

[@TenebraeEques]

thanks!

[@ItsMetallic]

Yes the second is called the magnet tool

[@MrZangetsu1997]

Can we get a tutorial on how to knife project around an objects surface instead of from your perspective onto a surface, I.E onto a sphere asvan example without stretching the knife

[@BlenderVitals]

I have a video on my page titled “Learn the knife tool in Blender in 1 minute”, check it out, you may find it helpful

[@toxicdermyillunary4103]

Or just snap to vertex. For more control what to snap to what use G+B

[@user-zc3wp1ri7w]

To be honest placing by hand most of the time works fine

[@simple_classic]

you have the "B" snap key today :D

[@smiley452]

Now we have snap base which is more efficient

[@DiotraxSecondlives]

pretty cool

[@anzaklaynimation]

Third one is the best.

[@curiousconsultant7922]

After over 10 years of using blender (on and off) I can safely say I'm a lot better at it and can do many things that might seem complex. But even now I cannot memorize all the different tricks and ways of doing things optimally (although this tip is an easy one)

[@half_chub]

if i had this video a few weeks ago, i would have saved myself 13 hours trying to get things together perfectly on a model i had. im still a pleb but im learning

[@void2258]

I came to blender from pro-E, so I was going crazy trying to find out how to mate things. For some reason it doesn't seem to be an explicit concept in non-engineering 3D pipelines.

[@RinEinzbern]

yeah same for me, in solidworks is as easy as selecting two faces and it gives the option to snap them

[@void2258]

@@RinEinzbern I don't understand why relative location seems to be such a foreign concept in artistic 3d software. Just because you don't HAVE to be precise in art doesn't mean being precise should be so strange as to not be able to be done at all.

[@xboy785]

How do you make this lines in the cubes? And the outline

[@Ririxpj]

Holy shit it reminds me of Spore

[@batman3698]

I get the message of the video, but in this case its so much faster to just turn on vertex snapping lol

[@NickDroid_]

These videos seem helpful… I’m subbing

[@TheBroGamer14082]

Bro ive been doing the same thing by setting the origins and copying coords from one to the other XD To be clear, this is a dig at myself.

[@Blackout201_]

Press Shift S for the Sims menu

[@elliejohnson2786]

Just use snapping, it's faster.

[@pounl46v1]

와 진짜 유익하다 30분 전에 봤다면

[@Hecker9974]

Am I the only one who works with custom grids and snapping? Never had this issue but i guess it may help to know this one day

[@rajendrameena150]

Better to use new snap base point feature...

[@startFX]

This only works when the origin of the object you want to place is where the cursor is (see what I mean ?). So if the origin of these pieces was in the would not work

[@Julv_]

Or just use the snap feature, way easier

[@asr59]

why the second option is less acurate? you just need to set up to vertex snap then press G and move the cursor to the point you want to snap it to

[@overseastom]

How does Blender know that you want to align *the bottom* of those spire objects though? This seems like it might be missing an initial step, where you first set the pivot point for the object you want to move, and *then* do what the video shows, no? I'm a Blender noob, but I know that's what I had to consider in 3DS Max years ago.

[@BlenderVitals]

You can set the origin of the object where necessary based on how you want the object to be placed. If you want it to align with the base of your object, you’ll have to move the origin point there. You can do that by either moving the object in edit mode and aligning the origin with the base. Or use a similar method to what I’ve shown in the video by going into edit mode, select where you want the origin to be, move cursor to selection, then in object mode, right click with you object selected and set origin to 3D cursor. Hope this helps.

[@overseastom]

@@BlenderVitals I think it does, but I'll have to give it a shot in Blender to know for sure if it's answered my question. Thanks for clarifying the process though mate - you make great tutorials!!

[@BlenderVitals]

@@overseastom Appreciate it

[@Lilian040210]

Snapping will snap the closest to the edge face/edge/vertex, you don't need the pivot for snapping, it knows😅

[@komaniac-zq2tj]

Cool but how to get the object to look like that like with the shiny corners

[@cinnamonshake45]

Lmao i remember using this technique in AutoCad a lot...

[@BiusArt]

Ахренеть просто, то что в maya делается в 2 клика, в blender и его 100500 плагинах требуется огромное количество времени.

[@radiumminis]

How to snap to vertex with extra steps

[@michaeleaster8354]

V+D Middle Mouse click, v middle mouse click drag for Maya. Way faster

[@kucingcing]

Bruh your videos are questions that i fail to find on google cus of language barrier.

[@TheAngelArrow]

or literally do one then just mirror it? or just use shift + tab and snap it in the center? idk if you're well versed enough to be doing these videos

[@Pennyfalke1]

Selection to Cursor only makes Sense If the origin is exactly where it is in this Video, but what If i created the 4 pillars in one Objekt? This wouldnt Work then. Can i put the origin to selected things too?

[@Painted_Owl]

3D cursor is your buddy

[@prochital-1ox]

На трудах в компасе на изи

[@hasnainansari307]

Bro you forgot to tell that set the object,s origin to the bottom

[@enochwade9010]

How do you give this like white edge effect to ur geometry?

[@BlenderVitals]

Click the down arrow in the top right of the viewport in solid mode, and tick “Cavity”

[@williamleitz3551]

What material are you using? Is that just a Matcap?

[@Nile3]

How can I "highlight" the border?

[@legoparkour727]

Just use joints in cad

[@kalpit3d934]

Use new base point snap, much faster than your method.

[@RafathBinZafarAuvee]

Woah

[@JaXuun]

Why not just is snap to vertex 😂

[@MrHusky-ls7bl]

For maya ?

[@UluruNoobGuy]

I thought u needed conform in the last exampl

[@user-yu5et7yb6f]

Is there no constrain on blender

[@maxi74x1]

Orrrrr just look from the top dow, THEN line it up

[@BAR_CODE]

❤❤❤❤

[@Lilian040210]

I was gonna say snapping, but turns out I didn't know everything about it either. Damn, blender's gonna give me psychological problems, you think you know something and then turns out you don't 😅

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Cuz Blender is garbage, just stick to Maya and spare yourself tons of headache and wonky workarounds

[@Lilian040210]

​@@wallacesousuke1433 I dabbled in 3dsmax a long time ago and actually prefer blender, but in Maya I'm complete 0😅

[@MegaMoneyMaker711]

@@wallacesousuke1433 Ngl dawg you're pathetic. I see you replying to a bunch of people, pouting about how garbage you think Blender is. Just let people use what they want and move on with your life.

[@splatsavvy]

@@wallacesousuke1433right, but i don't have fucking 2k lying around for what looks like to be a subscription. (even the cheapest option is $355, where the hell do i even get the money for that.)

[@wallacesousuke1433]

@@splatsavvy 355 per year where (in my country it actually costs less than 300 bucks)? And how is that a lot of money? Come on, dude, are you a hobbyist or something, to be unable to make even 300 bucks per year?

[@DaydreamStudios_Official]

He didn't use the mirror modifier. Day ruined

[@clemensschaut8794]

Where was the „This is not professional“?

[@worldisnice]

Nah takes longer then you say

[@TheChickAnimator]

i ain't doing all of that

[@ShaunGaizer-bk2mc]

What does the blue lines mean

[@BlenderVitals]

Sigma

[@ShaunGaizer-bk2mc]

@@BlenderVitals I am srs

[@BlenderVitals]

@@ShaunGaizer-bk2mc Just means I have an un-applied bevel modifier on there

[@ShaunGaizer-bk2mc]

@@BlenderVitals awe

[@stonnacc]

After JJK I never heard the word "technique" the same way again

[@firewolf11567]

Dude didnt even show how to set the origin of the second object to the right spot smh

[@shmeronman4494]

Why is the shading so weird tho