origin issue

[Ford Grimm]

Can’t move origin to 3d cursor, I went back and followed the tutorials on it in blender basics but it still didn’t move, my origin is in wrong place to flip the plans like he does here.

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Ford,

What do you mean?

Does Object > Set Origin > Origin to 3D Cursor not work?

Make sure you have the correct Object Selected. For some Objects (a Camera for instance), you can’t just move the Origin.

[Omar Domenech]

Can you post some screenshots as well? It’s a fairly straight forward operation, you’re probably just making a simple mistake. We can help pin point it. 

[Ford Grimm]

@Martin – correct

Object > Set Origin > Origin to 3D Cursor does not work

@Omar – yes 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Ford @Ford ,

That Reference Image is an Empty. you can’t use Set Origin with Empties (or Cameras, Lights,…). You should reset the Offset to its Defaults of -0.5:

then you can use SHIFT+S (> Snap) > Selection to Cursor.

[Martin Bergwerf]

To be complete you can’t Transform only the Origin from Empties. 

This includes all the Objects in the white rectangle (that are actually just Empties):

[Omar Domenech]

You could also provide a time stamp in the video to see which part you’re trying to recrate and we can see what might be going on. 

[Ford Grimm]

Thanks guys! I ended up moving past this because it didn’t seem necessary to flip it the exact same way he did, but I have taken note regarding the empties and how their origins operate, I’m sure I will bump into this issue again lol

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