2.8 Hurdles and Roadblocks

So I’m trying out the new collection instancing and I want to add an instance of the nut I have selected here, to the place where the 3d cursor is set. As shown in the “cool things about collections” video by Ethan , you simply create a new collection , add whatever object you wish to instance into the collection and then use add – collection instance in object mode and choose the collection. You will then have an instance of the object(s) in that collection in the 3dvp. 

This works to an extent, but you can see below , that the empty for the instance is placed on the 3d cursor as I want it to , but the actual nut object is miles away , floating in space. I have tried the usuals : applying all transforms , and you can see that the nuts origin is centered in the geometry , I have even tried setting the origin to 0,0,0 but neither work. Any ideas anyone?

@dostovel Ahh ok thanks Omar . I had tried putting the origin at 0,0,0 but not the actual mesh . That is a bit annoying yes. At least I can get back to my Mech now 🙂 Thanks! 

One other quick thing, do you know what happened to “remove doubles” I cant find it anywhere and hitting the spacebar to search doesn’t find it either ….. I can only assume they have called it something else in 2.8 which is why I cant find it

@smurfmier1985 Man, saying “W remove doubles” was like James Bond saying “Shaken not stirred”. What a waste.

@dostovel Haha yes Omar, changing that W menu is the worst thing they changed . I used that menu all the time when modelling and now I hit W all the time by mistake and end up with circle select…..

@frikkr I didn’t know that. It’s a left-click select thing. With right-click select W still works. I just tried left-click and not only did W gave a circle select, but I couldn’t even get rid of it any more. When they changed the default from right to left, they had to make sacrifices. For right-clickers less has changed. Not wanting to say that right is better than left, but ‘historically’ Blender was made as a right-click select software.

@dostovel Hey Omar , can I ask what shading you are using in those last screenshots you showed for the instancing…. is it a matcap ? It just looks really nice with the heavy shadows and gradients , I much prefer it to that red that I’m using but I cant figure out what you are using.