is there any tool in blender that is similar to the tack tool in Modo?
here is a video of the tool in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aeRkIkQl1c
it use snap to mesh surface + duplicate
Thank you!
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2$\begingroup$ What part of the video do you want to repeat? It is possible to snap and duplicate via shrinkwrapped mesh+duplifaces, but they would be disconnected from active geometry. $\endgroup$– Serge LCommented May 12, 2019 at 18:10
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$\begingroup$ just a quick way to position objects on the mesh, even without deforming them. $\endgroup$– Giuseppe BufaloCommented May 12, 2019 at 21:46
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2$\begingroup$ Hello and welcome. Please don't make your question depend on people watching a video. While videos are helpful, they should be supplemental to the text, you should thoroughly explain through words what the tool does. $\endgroup$– Duarte Farrajota Ramos ♦Commented May 12, 2019 at 22:27
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Shrinkwrap modifer + Duplifaces
Green cone is instanced while snapped to Suzanne's geometry:
- Add a Plane, scale it down in Edit mode to something like 0.01
- Add Shrinkwrap modifier to the Plane, switch to Project mode, enable both directions to shrink, set Target mesh and enable Adjust edit cage (all icons near modifier's name)
- Add object to be duplicated, parent it to the Plane
- In Plane's object settings enable Duplifaces
Now in Edit mode you can start copying Plane (SHIFT-D), move copies and in realtime see result of their placement. If direction of Dupli gone wrong then flip normal of a plane (Edit Mode->W->Flip Normals)
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$\begingroup$ Thank you! that's what I was looking for. $\endgroup$ Commented May 14, 2019 at 9:32