Questions tagged [origin]
Use this tag for questions about the placement of the object origin, or about the origin in the various coordinate systems such as local and world.
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How to Change the Origin when moving a Collection Instance
I have created an Collection Instance, when I try to move it, the origin(to snap at vertices or edges) is far away from the object, I want to set it.
In the image, the Collection Instance is selected,...
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How can you move the origin at the base of object? [duplicate]
How can you move the origin at the base of object and not set the origin to geometry ?
(A follow-up question to this one: How can I place multiple objects on the mesh?)
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Object Transform Origin to Geometry Floor
I have about 400 different Plant models. I need the origin to be at the very bottom of the plant so I can plant them at the correct height when I export them to Unity. Is there a faster way to do this ...
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Setting Origin without affecting location of linked duplicates
Presently working through a tutorial, and I have realized that I have inadvertently made a buttload of linked duplicates of a mesh object with an origin out in the middle of nowhere. The origin in ...
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How to set the origin of a procedurally created mesh in Geometry Nodes?
In blender 3.0, I made a wire-like mesh using Mesh Line. So, the geometries default origin is the beginning of the mesh line which later, causes problems. I wondered if there's a way to set the ...
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Extrude a bevel on a spiral
Per request I'm sharing the blender file here (it's not much to look at, but I've included 3 examples of "Bad Icing")
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KeWtvCJwlbIDJarljetxRaj0o964EA07?...
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Can only move object origin in object mode, cant move the mesh
I can only move the origin point of the mesh that I selected in object mode, but not the whole mesh
Did I set anything up by accident?
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Shortcut for setting origin to vertex
I find myself doing the following quite often:
go into edit mode
select a single vertex
press Space to enter the search menu
type cur
select ...
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Origins to the down of the object by default
Is there a way to make the origin of any new object appear by default at the lowest point of that object?
The center of the lowest face for a cube, for example. It's very uncomfortable to transform ...
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How to apply transforms without changing the origin?
My object is far away from 0,0,0 point, it has to. The origin point also has to be in the center of my geometry. Every time I click on apply my origin goes to back to 0,0,0.
How to apply my location ...
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Pivot Point Question
Been wondering how to do this for ages but I haven't been able to find a solution, or phrase a search correctly, please link if it's out there.
Here's two abstract flower petals, I want to pivot them ...
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Is there a quick way to set the origin to the "bottom centre"? [duplicate]
From my experience, it seems that a lot of times when I scaling an object, I would want the bottom of the object stays as it is. For example, think about scaling a lamp on a desk. If I scale the lamp, ...
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Why does the object spin around a random dot, instead of its own axis?
My donut just started moving based on this dot and I have no idea how to fix it.
How can fix this so the donut isn't moving around the dot?
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Point of origin at 0,0,0
I want to design furniture.
I've got measures from the front wall, side walls and the floor.
When I draw a table of 2.20m long, it is centered in the frame and is positioned at X axis -1.10 to 1.10m.
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Where is the menu to set origin to geometry?
Where is the menu to set origin to geometry?
The guy in a tutorial bring it up on a menu and I can't find it on 3.0. Is it an add-on?
I'm new to blender so I'm a bit confused about were he is ...
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