Blender Grid issue

Cibo

When i go in the edit mode and select a vertex i can free transform then. But after i ignored the snap to grid option and the vertex is at another position the grid snapping doesnt help anymore. How can i change the options that the grid is absolute priority for snapping?

kat

You mean you essentially want snapping to be on all the time? Use "Shift+Tab" to activate snapping (or hold "Ctrl" to selective snap when you want). If you want smaller or larger increments without fiddling about, zoom in or out of the Scene, snap degrees are context-sensitive to the view and scale accordingly. Is that what you meant?

Cibo

Not direct.
I have found the snapping at the bottom of the viewport and the snap at increment of the grid. My "problem" is that the standart cube vertex is maybe in position 1/1/1. Activate i snap to grid i can modifiy the position and the vertex walks around the gridlines. But when i dont activate snap to grid and the vertex is maybe at position 1,234 / 2 / 3,42 and activate now snap to grid the vertex dont align with the grid, i can not align the vertex to the grid now. The only solution for me in the moment is change in another view like "top" and go in ortho mode, now i can align the vertex but in the 3d view he wander like 2,234 /2 / 3,42 to 3,234 / 2 / 3,42 it looks like he has the increment from the grid but the vertexes uses his startparameter.

*edit*
okay was wrong ortho sideview doenst help. I dont know how i canbring a vertex on the grid when the start position is not on the grid. There must be a snapping function. :poly122:

kat

Ah... "Shift+S" then select "Snap to Grid" (or menu "Mesh > Snap > [selection]"). You can also manually align something using "Transform" Properties ("N" - the very top set of XYZ coordinates)

Cibo

Thanks shift+S was the solution but the menü, how the hell can i found it without the shortcut? Can it be that the shift+s make a only a auto align to the nearest gridpoint because a align from nongrid to grid point with normal transformers are not possible?

kat

If you zoom in to the Scene you should automatically snap to smaller increments - this avoids having to mess around with grid scale and what not. You can access the Snap options as mentioned above from the 3D View Header menu (the strip running along the bottom of the view). Not sure if you can align in a specific direction as no additional panels or properties appear when snapping (unlike others).