Improve Alignment Tool for Imported Meshes Using Reference Planes

Workshop Feature requests
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I would like to suggest an enhancement to the Align tool, particularly for workflows involving imported meshes or 3D scans.

My current workflow:

  1. Import a mesh into Shapr3D.
  2. Identify a flat surface on the mesh.
  3. Create a construction plane based on that surface.
  4. Align the construction plane with one of the global XYZ planes, so the imported mesh is correctly oriented.

The problem:

Currently, I cannot use the construction plane as an alignment reference to reorient the entire mesh along with it.

Suggested enhancement:

Allow the Align tool to use a reference plane, face, or shape to determine the alignment transformation, then apply that same transformation to all associated or grouped objects, including meshes and solids.

Essentially, I want to align one reference plane to the global XYZ coordinate system and have everything grouped with it move and rotate accordingly.

This would be particularly useful when working with 3D-scanned objects, where the imported mesh often has an arbitrary orientation.

It would make the process of positioning scanned geometry much simpler and more precise, without requiring manual rotation adjustments.