Snap/align Several Vertices To Polygon Or Nurb Plane

[animayator]

Hy,

i want to straighten a wall. So i want to align/snap several vertices to a plane regardless of the plane is a nurb or polygon object. How can i do this? Can anybody help me?

[fortner_mike]

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i want to straighten a wall

You can just select all of the wal's vertexes and scale them several times in the axis that points to the front of your wall.

In theory that does not straighten the wall fully, but the offset becomes so small, that it is impossible to spot it with your eyes.

[animayator]

Hi thirt33n,

thank you for your reply. But i do not understand your hint. If i scale the wall long the front axis of the wall, the wall becomes bigger and you can see the nonconformity clearer. If you scale to the other side, the wall becomes too small. Should I select ALL vertices?????

[fortner_mike]

Yes sellect all vertexes and then scale. And let go when you reach 0 point, because if you pass it then the wall starts bending the other way. Then scale again and let go...repeat until its done.

[joojaa]

Yes this question has been asked before, but thing is the normal isometric planes its usually quite safe to assume you want th closest point to the plane But when aligning to A random plane its not really so self evident. Mainly because people donut usually see hat in action so the effect is a bit surprising.

Is this what you truly need this make a locator, align it to your surface. select the vertices you wanted to flatten. run:

cluster -bs 1 -wn locator1 locator1

Where locator1 is your locator name. Scale locator to 0 in whichever axis you wanted.

[rgkovach]

How would you align the locator to the normal of a polygon, so i could scale the locator to 0 along that polygon's normal?

lets say i had a sphere and i wanted to flatten it along the normal of a random polygon.
using the locator method, how could i align the locator to a polygon's normal?

[joojaa]

[Animation] Constrain->Normal + (you may want to couple it with geometry constraint aswell)

Because it does not have to be a locator use a plane primitive and snap together tool

Or use 3 points to three points snap align

Paint the locator in with geometry paint tool

Use closest point on mesh (surfce for nurbs) node

querry the normal and bi normal with mell and rotate accordingly (or 3 points)

Heres just the ones i could pick out of my head in 30 seconds