Reply To: Trouble rotating top planks of chest

Hi hotcher2, first of all, the Normals of your planks are flipped:

That’s why align view to active doesn’t behave the way you want.

Select all the planks, go into Edit Mode, select everything and then SHIFT N to fix the Normals.

There are also holes in your planks (one side missing), this can’t be good:

I do not know of an easy way to fix this at this point…

There is also something wonky going on with the pivot point of the rotation (it doesn’t seem to use the Origin). I have no idea, what is causing that, but if you set the Transform Pivot Point to Bounding Box Center, it all works fine.