How to align vertices in Blender3d

[eclark1894]

Occasionally, I have to admit I make mistakes... okay I have to do it a LOT! But I just recently found a time saver in Blender that should speed things up. A few days ago I was modeling a sofa in Blender. I needed to widen something and unfortunately some (a WHOLE lot) vertices became unaligned. Unfortunately, there's no align vertices button in Blender (one of the few things it DOESN'T have). But I found this trick to help save you some time when re-aligning them.

1. First select the vertex you want the rest of them to align to.
2. Under the "Mesh" menu, at the bottom of the window,
a. Select "Snap" (Shift + S)
b. Under the pull down menu that appears, select "Cursor to Selected". This is now the location of your cursor.

 

[eclark1894]

Next:
3. Select the other vertices along the edge loop you wish to have aligned with the cursor.

 

[eclark1894]

4. Select S + X+ O(zero) and pull in the direction the vertices have to move in order to line up. In other words, if the vertices are selected along the Y axis (the GREEN arrow), like the ones in the posted image, YOU want to pull along the X axis (the RED arrow). Depending on which way you're looking, you can pull along X or Y axis if the alignment is along the Z axis.

 

[eclark1894]

One final adjustment and you're done!

 

[eclark1894]

Of course you could eliminate that final adjustment if you just select the entire edge loop and select S+X+O(zero). Hope this helps.

 

[Miss B]

I'm not home at the moment Earl, but I'll definitely have to try that.

I do know that I have at times selected all, and then used Relax Polygons in the Tool menu on the left.

 

[Pendraia]

Looks good Earl...nice tip.