# Snapping Bones

**URL:** <https://blenderartists.org/t/snapping-bones/698155>\
**Category:** Animation and Rigging\
**Created:** [November 2, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/snapping-bones/698155 "2017-11-02T07:33:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![3DMeta](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/3/dfb087/32.png) [@3DMeta](https://blenderartists.org/u/3DMeta)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/snapping-bones/698155/1 "2017-11-02T07:33:07Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m still fairly new at blender and have been learning about rigging meshes. At times though I have two rigs I’m messing around with and only way I know how to get a t-pose rig to an a-pose position of another avatar is to manually move it. Is there a way like in Maya when you hold the v key to snap the bones is there an equivalent to this in blender?

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**Author:** ![HappyPotato](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@HappyPotato](https://blenderartists.org/u/HappyPotato)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/snapping-bones/698155/2 "2017-11-03T06:24:06Z")

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Ahm you may elaborate more on what you currently need, not enough info there. :spin:

You can reset your bones to the original state (rest pose you made in edit mode) by using Alt+R and Alt+G (You can reset scalling by using Alt+S), which will reset the rotations and positions on the bone, in the pose mode.

Snapping bones is just like snapping any other object, and the shortcut is Shift+Tab, and the snap mode Shift+Ctrl+Tab. The icon is a little magnet in the bottow of your view.

You can also select any object or element, press Shift+S, select Cursor to Selected, and that can move the 3D cursor to that point, now you can select the object you want to snap, Shift+S again and select Selection to Cursor. That is a useful tool that blender has.

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**Author:** ![Black\_ONlearn](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/black_onlearn/32/1001771_2.png) [@Black\_ONlearn](https://blenderartists.org/u/Black_ONlearn)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/snapping-bones/698155/3 "2022-12-03T05:05:19Z")

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It’s 2022 and almost 2023,  
But, in this picture, if you wanna do 1, just activate snapping to vertex mode and if you wanna do number 2 (align bone) just press CTRL + ALT + A, the active bone is the one your bones aligned to

sry if bad english

 ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/2/3/d/23d770a778208aa82529bbe98f9f88a2f9d70d69.png)