Reply To: Rotating lid planks about their own origin using align view top technique not working (~11:03 in vid)
Works almost like a charm, the only thing is that your Normals of all the planks are flipped, so you need to align view to bottom of the selected Face:
Or even better: fix the Normals first.
Select all with A in Object Mode. Switch to Edit Mode and press SHIFT+N. Then All your Normals are correct (facing ‘outwards’)