Construction Lines add-on - CAD - Released

Hi, just bought this and it seems extremely useful! However, there is some Blender-style functionality that I’m missing:

  1. Plane lock for the move command (and other commands where appropriate) in addition to axis lock - e.g. when you press Shift+Z instead of Z when moving something with the Blender move command, it locks you to the XY plane instead of the Z axis, effectively a “not-Z” lock.

  2. Switching between global and local coordinates by pressing the key twice (both for axis and plane locks) - very useful for moving rotated objects if your entire model isn’t aligned to the global axes. For example, pressing Y twice when moving an object that’s already rotated to align to a slanted surface, to bring it outwards or further recess it relative to the surface. Visualizing the locked axis/plane like Blender does would help make sense of this as well.

Can’t have every little nuance from Blender’s move tool (some of it would surely conflict with CL as well), but I feel like these are very useful little shortcuts that wouldn’t get in the way (or could at least be user configurable?) and might be even expected by some of the Blender crowd.

  1. Also, the option to snap to the Blender grids and object origins (useful e.g. when moving curved or organic shapes with a ton of imprecise “useless” verts) would be great.

Sorry if this stuff was already on the list but a quick scan of the topic didn’t look like it had been brought up. Thanks for the great addon!

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