[Addon] - Smart Cursor

pitiwazou · May 29, 2017, 11:30am

Hello !

Smart Cursor is a smart addon with only one button but a lot of possibilities !
With this addon, you can snap your cursor where you want really fast.

Click : Snap in Vertex Mode
Shift : Snap in Face mode
Ctrl : Snap in Edge Mode
Alt : Snap in incremental Mode
Ctrl + Shift : Move the cursor on the axis

The addon is free and if you use my RMB Pie Menu, you can call it dirrectly from it

SUPPORT ON DISCORD > https://discord.gg/ctQAdbY

My other addons :
Asset Management : https://gumroad.com/l/kANV
Speedflow : https://gumroad.com/l/speedflow
SpeedSculpt : https://gumroad.com/l/SpeedSculpt
SpeedRetopo : https://gumroad.com/l/speedretopo
Reveal All : https://gumroad.com/l/reveal_all
RMB pie menu v2 : https://gumroad.com/l/wazou_rmb_pie_menu_v2

colkai · May 29, 2017, 11:42am

Very cool pitiwazou, I would imagine this would help a great deal of people.

fiendish55 · May 29, 2017, 12:02pm

This should come with the blender its so usefull

Toudou · May 29, 2017, 12:14pm

Thank you!

FredLierman · May 29, 2017, 4:50pm

Hi @pitiwazou

Another very useful addon. Thanks for that!

When pressing esc in the middle of an operation it cancels the action but leaves an empty behind.
Is this normal?

Either way, very useful. Thanks!

pitiwazou · May 30, 2017, 1:34am

Thx guys

@FredLierman
Right now it’s normal, like I said in the video, I use a macro, not a modal and I’m limited to ctrl, shift and alt for the actions, echap/del is not supported I think.
I search and will update it if I found a way to remove it.

Manolo76 · May 30, 2017, 3:14am

Thanks for this one :).

blendertopia · May 30, 2017, 3:42am

I would like to see it in Blender as default addon… Great and simple

pitiwazou · May 30, 2017, 4:46am

Hi guys,

I just added the possibility to place the origin in the same time as the cursor.

Ctrl + Shift to move the cursor, chose axis and press Ctrl + Shift to place the origin.

Works with increment too.

Alt + Shift to move the cursor, chose axis and press Ctrl + Shift to place the origin.

Trying something and update after.
This script becomes really handy ^^

rbx775 · May 30, 2017, 8:06am

I’m Gladly paying for your scripts, they are great !

I noticed that the temporary “Empty” doesnt get destroyed when canceling the action.
Is this even possible to fix ?

Also i would like an option to disable the Button in the UI altogether since I always will call it from your RMB menu anyways. (just to declutter)

(And it doesnt seem to work in 2.78c)

pitiwazou · May 30, 2017, 8:14am

Yes it’s possible to remove, I did it, you will have it in the next update, same for the UI.

I tested the current version in 2.78c portable and it worked.

fiendish55 · May 30, 2017, 8:24am

Version 0.2 worker like a charm now clicking icon leaves empties behind and doesn’t transfer to vertex snapping interactive mode. I suppose something conflict with new fast origin feature? O.o

blender 2.78c
windows 10 64bit
smart cursor 0.3

One idea to make things more fluent is to have edge/vertex/face snapping all the time present.
Like when I click the cursor icon I can hover over my mesh and hold ctrl to snap vertex, click shift to snap edges click alt to snap faces etc and also have middle points of edges and center points of faces like in this similar addon
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/3D_interaction/Enhanced_3D_Cursor

pitiwazou · May 30, 2017, 8:32am

Maybe, I test on a 2.78C portable build to avoid any conflict since I have don’t have any addon activated.

pitiwazou · May 30, 2017, 11:30am

The goal is not to replace enhanced_3d_cursor, and like I did the addon, I cannot change the snap element when I move the Empty, too bad of course.
This addon is to place really fast the cursor and now the origin of the selection.
To do much more, use the enhanced_3d_cursor addon.

Update of the Addon !

Roken · May 30, 2017, 12:14pm

I have so been waiting for this. During modelling I spend a lot of time moving the 3D cursor using multiple steps to get it where I want. This will speed up my own personal workflow so much. Thank you.

pitiwazou · May 30, 2017, 2:33pm

Found this really great addon !

github.com

Darcvizer/Stream-Tool-For_Blender/blob/master/StreamSetPivot.py

import bpy
import bmesh
from bpy_extras import view3d_utils
from bpy.props import IntProperty, FloatProperty
from mathutils.bvhtree import BVHTree
from mathutils import Vector, Matrix

bl_info = {
"name": "Stream Quick Set Pivot",
"location": "View3D > Add > Mesh > Stream Quiс Set Pivot",
"description": "___",
"author": "Vladislav Kindushov",
"version": (0,3),
"blender": (2, 7, 8),
"category": "Mesh",}

def SaveSelectMode(self, context):
	count = 0
	for i in edit_mode:
		if i:

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Love the possibility to snap on the center of faces and edges !

Really usefull in complement with smart cursor.

emt · May 31, 2017, 7:33am

Hi pitiwazou, thank you for another great addon.
I’ve would like to know, if it’s possible, how I could add the Smart Cursor to your RMB Pie Menu.
I’ve Smart Cursor v0.0.4 and RMB v 2.0.7

Thank you.

pitiwazou · May 31, 2017, 7:54am

Download the RMB pie menu on gumroad, it’s the same version but with the good code for 0.0.4.

emt · May 31, 2017, 8:25am

Awesome, thank you very much.

uruburei · May 31, 2017, 6:59pm

Pitiwazou in your addon RMB 2.07 (last version) does not appear the “circle” and “aline” buttons. They were removed?