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  • Published 26 Oct 2018

Blender 2.80: add snap functions to cursor icon

New blender users have troubles to relocate the cursor to the center. I know it's SHIFT + S or Menu --> Snap --> ... but it would be nicer to have this function under the cursor icon.

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StijnTas
26 Oct 2018

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emil.assarsson

So you mean that you want the snapping operators to be placed as a tool variant to the cursor placement tool? I don't think that these kind of operators belong in the tool box. The little arrow on the tool shows that there are tool variants I can't see a proper solution how to display operators in your mockup.

StijnTas Author

@Emil Assarsson: Half of the snapping operators are cursor placement tools so I think they belong to the cursor tool. If I'm new in blender and I want to reset the cursor to the center I would first look at the cursor tool and I would not directly thinking about snapping.

zadek

@Stijn Tas: you can shift select multiple snapping options and leave snapping turned off, then while holding down your mouse button hold down control key and it turns on momentarily snapping for your cursor. it's even faster imo.

StijnTas Author

@Omgzdenek: Yes, I know this feature (CTRL = SNAP). It's realy great. It would be even better if the vertex option was turned on as default instead of the increment. This is used more.

I made this request not for people how knows Blender. I'm teacher in Blender and the students don't find how to reset the cursor to the center, on there own. The snapping is not the first thing where you look at for resetting the cursor to its origin.

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