[SOLVED] Easy way to work at an angle?

[zachThePerson]

I’m working on a lot of scenery that has things rotated at odd angles like 16 and 62 degrees, and was wondering if there was a feature / addon that would let me easily specify a “working plane,” or something so that it would align the axis and views temporarily, making it more manageable to work like this.

I know a lot of autocad programs have this, and it is super useful.

[JA12]

Check transform orientations (TO) and pivot points, and how those work together. Local or Normal TO are often enough, but you can specify a custom one from a selection.

[anon18318387]

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…

[zachThePerson]

Thanks to both of you. I was trying to avoid transform orientations as they are kind of slow, but I completely forgot about rotate to view!

I’ll have to check out that addon when I get time though, seems pretty handy.