Architectural Visualization snapping tool

[talkingskunk]

https://cgcookie.com/lesson/modeling-stairs

at 6:20 mark

Any idea how the arrayed stair can be snapped onto the top of the landing?

[spikeyxxx]

Press G to move the stairs and then (with Snapping to Vertex enabled) move your Mouse Pointer near a Vertex:

It takes a bit of getting used to in the beginning, but once you ‘get it’, it is really powerfull.

[talkingskunk]

The entire array became lopsided whenever I hovered over the vertex with the snapping tool on. I worked around it by making the original stair cube to be on top, and arraying it downwards, and snapping with increment. Still no idea how vertex works.

[spikeyxxx]

You have ‘Align Rotation to Target’ enabled, which is a good thing usually, but in your case your target Vertex is rotated (see orange line). Two possible solutions are:

use these Settings:

Or hide your profiled ‘sideboards’ (H, or the eye icon in the Outliner).

The direction of your Array is unimportant with these methods.

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