# How do I reset bone positions in pose mode?

**URL:** <https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054>\
**Category:** Modeling\
**Created:** [August 10, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054 "2007-08-10T18:00:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shar](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/shar/32/6123_2.png) [@Shar](https://blenderartists.org/u/Shar)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054/1 "2007-08-10T18:00:33Z")

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Simply, how do I get the bones back in there place like in edit mode, while in pose mode? (something more permanant and editable than the reset button which doesn’t let you move the bones)

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**Author:** ![Syziph](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Syziph](https://blenderartists.org/u/Syziph)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054/2 "2007-08-10T18:16:08Z")

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Select all bones in Pose mode.  
Depending on what you have changed you can use:

1. **Alt+R** for clearing of rotation
2. **Alt+G** - location
3. **Alt+S** - scaling of the bones.  
After clearing the transformations the armature will be reset to _Rest position_ (there is also **Rest Position** button, but it is only for quick view of the Rest position and do not clear transformations of the bones!)

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**Author:** ![Shar](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/shar/32/6123_2.png) [@Shar](https://blenderartists.org/u/Shar)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054/3 "2007-08-10T18:20:24Z")

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Wow, I completely forgot about those keys (and here I spent an hour trying to figure this out!)  
Thanks alot for the help! 🙂

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**Author:** ![chekolian](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/chekolian/32/16272_2.png) [@chekolian](https://blenderartists.org/u/chekolian)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054/4 "2011-02-23T14:45:29Z")

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Thx. It helped me a lot. For a long time couldn’t figure this out!

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**Author:** ![iKLsR](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/iklsr/32/14291_2.png) [@iKLsR](https://blenderartists.org/u/iKLsR)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054/5 "2011-04-24T19:38:03Z")

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just checking up. thanks

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**Author:** ![holyenigma74](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/2bfe46/32.png) [@holyenigma74](https://blenderartists.org/u/holyenigma74)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054/6 "2011-10-22T20:52:34Z")

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> [@Syziph](#):
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> Select all bones in Pose mode.  
> Depending on what you have changed you can use:
> 
> 1. **Alt+R** for clearing of rotation
> 2. **Alt+G** - location
> 3. **Alt+S** - scaling of the bones.  
> After clearing the transformations the armature will be reset to _Rest position_ (there is also **Rest Position** button, but it is only for quick view of the Rest position and do not clear transformations of the bones!)

Ahhh!! thank you i did a yahoo! search and found this thread thank you!!!  
Alt+R did the Trick! Sweet)  
(do they have a button to reset ALL? Rotation, Location and Scale?)

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**Author:** ![grenzfrequence](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@grenzfrequence](https://blenderartists.org/u/grenzfrequence)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054/7 "2011-12-10T16:03:05Z")

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How can i set the bones to new rest position? I used

```auto
ctrl-A - Apply pose as restpose

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in pose mode. The armature was set to new pose as restpose but the mesh went back to old restpose. But i want to set both to new restpose. How does it work? I use blender 2.60.7

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**Author:** ![Drawin\_Drako](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/drawin_drako/32/775880_2.png) [@Drawin\_Drako](https://blenderartists.org/u/Drawin_Drako)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/how-do-i-reset-bone-positions-in-pose-mode/396054/8 "2021-02-25T02:30:51Z")

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What I do is right click on the “Pose Position” tab and select reset to default value.