Snapping tool with group instances

parmezzan · January 9, 2015, 2:00pm

Hello!

I try to use the snap tool to position 2 group instances with faces to eachother, but it fails because instances doesnt have any reference to any vertex positions it could snap to. It just snaps to the emptys center. Is there a way to workaround this for group instances?

Best regards

MmAaXx · January 3, 2016, 8:52pm

same problem here…

Stan_Pancakes · January 4, 2016, 2:04am

Vertex and face snapping with group instances work fine here with 2.76b. Unless I’m misunderstanding something.

MmAaXx · January 4, 2016, 5:58am

the problem is snapping 2 group istances along their vertices. looks like the snap works only for the central face.

rengsto · November 24, 2016, 11:15pm

Old thread, I know, but I think I may have a workaround to the problem, or a very similar problem:

To snap group instances from some point other than its center point:

create an empty
snap the empty to any vert, face, etc, on the group instance
make the group instance a child of the empty
select the empty, and snap it to wherever you want

Hope this helps somebody.