Positioning 3D cursor – aargh!

[Weezer]

Fairly new to Blender (from C4D) and Blender’s way of moving pivot points (the origin) is driving me mad. I have to use the 3D cursor before moving the origin, but every time I try to move it in one plane, it jumps around in the others. I’ve tried using the X, Y, Z keys to constrain it in one plane but that doesn’t work.

What can’t the damn 3D cursor have XYZ drag handles like the move gizmo?

Is there a better method of moving the 3D cursor that I’m not aware of?

[Okidoki]

Hmm look here:

Moving Move Cursor

The question is more : What to you relly want… setting the 3D-Cursor position or alter the origin coordinate? [ThisThat]

and:

Moving Object Pivot to a precise position coordinate?

This may seem a bit unintuive… but after setting the origins only while moving the pivot point (with G) you see the coordinats changing in the (now well know ) n-panel because they are equal to the pivot point… But changing this coordinates in the n-panel changes the location and not the pivot point … so Blender is correctly showing the coordinate of the location of the object which do change because you changed the pivot point. But the last comand option panel comes to you help because …

[Weezer]

Oh my god – yes, that’s it. I just want to alter the location of the origin! Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed. Problem solved!

[Safetyman]

Holding down the shift key and right clicking will snap the 3d Cursor to a surface, and a pop up menu allows for precise placement.

What I like to do is put all the cursor functions in my quick favorites panel (which you can set to any key):
In Object Mode > Object > Snap menu, right click on the setting to add, then “Add to quick favorites”
In Edit Mode > Mesh > Snap menu, then same as above.

[Weezer]

Cool, thanks. With every new tool learned, I miss C4D less and less.

[DNorman]

Just for the record you can set the 3dCursor to a precise position and rotation in the view menu.

[Weezer]

Great, thank you.