In this video, we check out align tools – a free, built-in add-on for Blender that helps you quickly align object locations, rotations, scale, and more! It can also be used to quickly drop objects to a plane in Blender!
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0:00 – Introduction
0:16 – How to Enable Align Tools
0:39 – Where to find the align tools toolset
1:10 – Aligning object locations with Align Tools
1:59 – How object origins affect the way objects are aligned
2:55 – Aligning object rotations with Align Tools
4:11 – Aligning object scale with Align Tools
5:09 – Using advanced align operations to set which part of an object aligns
6:54 – The best 20 add-ons built in to Blender!
