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[Kevinaz]

hi everybody,

its been a LONG time since i posted anything. its good to be back.

ok, so i'm wondering, if its at all possible, to align points to an axis? like selecting a group of points, and align all to x or y axis. eg, i have a model that is supposed to be perfectly straight on one side but over time/sloppy modeling, they are kinda messed up. i really dont want to manually arrange every single point, so im wondering if there is a way to do this automatically.

if this feature doesnt already exist, it would be cool to have!

[VBSmiles]

Points ..... don't think so, but with faces you can. select the faces you want to 'flatten' then go to Object Flatten. and chose x y z or normal.

[Francesco]

Put pivot on the line you want to align the points, then select all points you want to align, then use non-uniform scale on the axis that fits.

[VBSmiles]

Wow, nice trick francesco! Learned something about the tools I didn't know before.

[hihosilver]

Though I do think that would be both an excellent script, and an excellent feature for the future.

[Claude]

You could use this also:
http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1309.0;attach=1725

[Francesco]

Sorry for posting that message above so short and sharp, but I happen to post from my mobile phone, sometimes, and I'm afraid of wearing out my thumb .

No, jokes apart, I see that Kevinaz did not reply still, but I guess we have already pointed out enough solutions for that missing feature.

I have a further one, since the code was there, ready to be slightly modified and used, I released some scripts that allow easy and fast alignment of points as well as of meshes ("easy" and "fast" are matter of personal measure ok )

I hope you can take advantage of the align tools I added to the magnet tools.

( Thank you VBSmiles!
"Never forget the Power of Workarounds" )