3D Cursor rotation - Blender 2.8 - Doesn't copy face rotation

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Hi,
As I understood, the 3D Cursor should copy the rotation of the normals of the face when placing the 3D cursor (if there is geometry), right? Like in this video from Jayanam.
Or see this on Developer.blender.org

When I place the cursor with shift+Rightclick, the cursor’s rotation is following the view (viewport), not the normals of the face I am clicking on. So if I look from another angle, and place the cursor, the cursor will change it’s rotation accordingly.

I am a bit confused. Or could this be a bug in latest build?

Update: When I activate Boxcutter, the above works again.

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AFAIK, what is still missing in 2.8 is to update the Selected_to_Cursor operator to orient the selection to the Cursor’s orientation. Apart from that things seem to be working…

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Thanks,
Ahww… I didn’t see the option in your screenshot on the right. It works now. Super!

For Selected_to_cursors to orient the selection to the Cursor’s orientation you might find the following addon interesting (free); https://gumroad.com/l/Ori280

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I also have a small operator that does this… but still, we need to adapt the old ‘Selected to Cursor’ (and probably one or two other operators) to use the new Cursor orientation feature. I’ve already look at the source to see what might need to be change… the only problem I found is in respect to Selections inside the edit mode, since there we don’t have origins for them.

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also looking for aligning / copying object rotation using the cursor and thank you for this addon
is the Set Tool Cursor / toolbox really only way to be able to make it work?

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is there a way to make it work with this or without using interactive tool

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Wonder if one of you can help me with something.

So, when you set transform orientation to 3D Cursor the transforms are applied in relation to the position of the 3D Cursor.

However, the rotation of the 3D Cursor has no affect. Shouldn’t the angle of the cursor have a similar effect? E.g. if the 3D Cursor is rotated by 45 degrees, shouldn’t we be able to scale along that direction?

Is there another way to scale or move an object along an arbitrary custom axis?