Blender 3D Printing by Example

Perfecting the positioning with Snap

As with the text on the coordinate bracelet, we do not want to cause confusion with overlapping geometry. We want our windows to line up exactly and lay flush to the house itself. In Chapter 7, Customizing with Text, we typed in the exact location coordinate to line the text up. You can still do that with the windows. The only catch is you'll first want to change the Object Origin to a specific vertex as we did in Chapter 5, Building a Base with Standard Meshes and a Mirror. Specifically, you want to move the Object Origin from the center of the window to a point you want to lie directly on the house. Once that is done, you match up the applicable coordinates. In the following example, I make sure the ...