Set rotation of object to one of its faces - kind of unapply rotation

[Tedri_Mark]

So I have a steering wheel for a car, but it has although it’s slightly angled upwards, its rotation is 0,0,0. Can I somehow select a ring of vertices and tell blender to set the object’s z axis perpendicular to that face?

[blndrusr]

Search for ‘Custom transform orientation’ or check this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG0k6oCkaas

[jachtarfranko]

Rotafix makes it well …

ROTAfix ver. 280.6.2

Intially inspired from this particular idea, eventually evolved with few more options and functionalities making into one of those tiny niche modeling utility tools. Get the addon here. [RotaFix] Click on the above image to maximize the view How To Use: You have to be in Edit Mode to invoke this add-on. You can chose what Rotational Mode that need to be. Select any face which you want it to be oriented from. You can alter couple of default parameters according to your need. Finally, click…

[Tedri_Mark]

This looks like it should do the trick - worked on a simple cube, but didn’t work on my steering wheel, did some weird scaling and/or translation… I’ll give it another try and if I still can’t get it to work I’ll post the blend
Cheers!

[Tedri_Mark]

Hmm, not having much luck with this - I’ve attached a blend file, if you select the steering wheel and tab into edit mode you should see a ring of verts selected, I was to use this as the Steering’ wheel’s axis, so when I rotate around local ‘z’ the steering wheel turns as expected.

Here’s the blend:

steering_wheel.blend

Thanks in advance