Snapping to bodies

Hi, Im a furniture maker and like to draw with a lot of lose bodies in order te pull mu cutlist later from the bodies. I’d like to snap the bodies. How can i snap the bodies to points? Or from point to point? Also i d like to change the distance from body to body accuratly.

See video for details please.

Thanks in advance, hope this is good info.

Greet Daan


Troubleshooting Snapping Issue in shaper 3d Editing Software - Watch Video

Use Replace Face for your first video example. For point to point you can use Translate.

Thank you very much for your reply. I did not understand the guidelines. Now i do. I had to align an edge to another and immediately after that use an arrow to click and drag it to the guideline helper in purple.

Still have to search how i have to set the exact distance between objects.

Can you explain how to do this for a curved body ? For example to place it on the surface of a flat body, see photo. I would like to design different parts (seperate) and then combine this to the final design, but I am struggling with aligning, snapping etc.

Hi,

For this use case, the Translate tool would be the best. Give it a try!

Wow, yessssss I tried it and it works! Super easy tool. Thanks!

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