Aligning objects and verts with Machin3 Tools 

For the last 48 hours I have been trying to get Align verts to work with Machin3tools. This included: uninstalling and reinstalling Machin3tools. Uninstalling and reinstalling ALL my addons. Upgrading to Blender 4.2 Upgrading to Machin3tools 1.9 Uninstalling and reinstalling Blender 4.2 Turning off every Keybinding for Alt A on EVERY addon and the default (which is deselect verts). Then, when I've finally after stewing in my failure, I come to youtube to watch Gator Chis videos when I notice the thumbnail for "Aligning objects and verts with Machin3 Tools" in my reccomendations. On a whim I click it and... sure enough... at the 1:32 second mark I hear "But also, and this is where the confusion comes from, there is an align pie as well..." Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go quietly stare into a rainstorm while a grandfather clock ticks loudly in the background.

Had Machin3 Tools yet did not know some of these features. So useful! Great video as always. Thanks!

Thank you so much! I had no idea what I was doing wrong and this saved me so much time, Wonderful tutorial by the way!!

That Vertex alignment is so good i'll have to get machin3 tools now!

At 7:59 yeah you can use machine tools to align those vertices, but this is also done easily without it, and without having to "guesstimate" the exact z-position. Simply select the vertices you want to align and in this case press S (for scale), Z (for z-axis) and then 0. This will put all the selected vertices on the same z-axis. However the z-axis position will be sort of like a median point of all the vertices selected, whereas Machine lets you choose bottom or up, to either align towards the bottom or top vertex.

I always find it funny when you talk about a company when it's just one Machin3.

Machin3 Tools - Align - "Other Functions": At 9:00: With regards to the problem using the "Align Straighten", yielding a result where the straightened vertices do not line up with the adjacent edge ones, here is a solution. A better way to achieve this is to select your verts or edges and use the Add-on LoopTools' Gstretch function (comes with blender, but needs to be enabled). In the "Adjust Last Operation" (F9) panel (the one that pops up in the bottom left of the 3D view), set the Method to "Project" and the verts should be straightened AND lined up with the others!

Love your videos, but your example of manually aligning the objects using native options is the most laborious way possible! In native blender, you can select both objects and then right click on any of the location values (or rotation, or scale values), then select Copy All To Selected. Machin3 Tools is still easier, but it's not that rudimentary without it!

6:19 in Maya its called snapping "retain component spacing" easy and much faster and versatile. I miss these options in Blender. While working with Maya it felt so simply, nothing special, but compared to Blender it was just awesome

Great and important tutorial but you forgot the most incredible feature of it which is align to edge in align pie. Select two objects in obj mode, then in edit, select 2 edges that you want aligned together. Than menu appears align to edge, and this feature is not in any vanilla blender or else, and can even be impossible to achieve manually in some cases. Suggest u try it up!

The align functionality alone makes the addon worth getting.

4:36 personally I'd recommend the Interactive tools addon for this. Only comes down to if you prefer menus over pies tho.

Excellent tutorials as always!

Just stumbled upon this! Another great bite-sized explanation video ΛₒV! Thanks for sharing! Machin3 tools offers so much functionality. I'm barely scratching the surface in my knowledge here I'd wager! At around the 4:50 mark (when trying to set the origin to say a selected face), there is a native Blender way of doing this (to my knowledge, I don't think there is an imbedded add-on that needs to be enabled for this - but I'm not 100% sure). With a face selected, simply press Ctrl + Alt + X (this brings up the origin menu - which I kind of equate to Shift + S for the 3d cursor one) and swipe straight up to choose the option "origin to selected". Of course, having the Machin3 Tools add-on is still worth getting/using, as it's feature set is far more vast in making life easier than Blender's general functionalities. Cheers!

A great help, as always. What I really would be interested in is how to use rigged characters as basefor clothing them, then pose them as wished and print the figure. Could you do a tutorial on this one? That really would be great. Greetings form Germany

Is there a way to turn off the machine tools pie wheel changes and get back my ability to use 1 2 3 to switch between editing modes? I like what Mt is capable of but can't stand all the UI tweaks

Hi can you make a cape tutorial with the ends shredded please ? And also armore parts like torso for a premade body^^

no longer free lol