topic Re: i want to align my pivot with an edge in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

i want to align my pivot with an edge

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 08:07:51 GMT

hey im new here ! sorry for my bad english I have a problem with my pivot i want to align my pivot with an edge , i found a solution with the "working pivot" to snap with the edge but it takes too many mouse clicks and I can't believe there isnt a simpler solution. Is there any ? i already try to change with local mod but is not working , thank you

Re: i want to align my pivot with an edge

leeminardi — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:39:49 GMT

Set the snaps to vertex and then run the following script. It will align the z axis of the object's pivot with a line from the first screen pick towards the second screen pick.

-- relocates the pivot of a selected object to the first 
-- point specified by the user and with its Z axis pointing 
-- towards the second point specified.
-- L. Minardi 1/31/2019 v1
-- 
for spl in selection do (
s=1
e1 = pickPoint prompt:"\nPick new pivot location" snap:#3D
e2 = pickPoint prompt:"\nPick point on new Z axis for pivot" snap:#3D
v = e2-e1 -- vector from vertex 1 to 2
vlen = length(v)
vu = v/vlen -- unit vector
m = spl.transform -- object matrix
ftm = translate (matrixfromnormal vu) e1
itm = ftm*(inverse m)
spl.transform = ftm
spl.objectOffsetPos *= inverse itm
spl.objectOffsetRot *= inverse itm.rotation
spl.transform
)

Re: i want to align my pivot with an edge

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 20:41:44 GMT

thank you so much for you help , but every time i need to aligne my pivot i need a script there not a more faster way to do that

Re: i want to align my pivot with an edge

leeminardi — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 22:38:02 GMT

Not that I know of. I would think the Align tool could be of help but I couldn't find a way.