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Old 04-04-20, 15:15   #9
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Originally Posted by not again! View Post
Ah, that's not the problem - what I meant was that a lot of Blender's modelling functions and modifiers like mirroring would be cumbersome to work with if you can't use the object centre as reference/pivot point. I was hoping to remodel the rooms completely, and not being able to use most of Blenders modeling features properly would be a major drawback.
This should be a workaround for that (this is for Blender 2.79, I'm assuming it'll also work in 2.8):
  • Select the room, go into Edit mode, select all vertices
  • Press shift+s, click Cursor to Selected in the pop-up
  • Switch to Object mode
  • Create an Empty from the Create toolbar
  • Select the room, go to the Tools toolbar, click the Set Origin dropdown and select Origin to 3D Cursor
  • Now you can set the room's location to 0/0/0 to center it
  • Edit the room as you please
  • Once you're done, select the Empty you created earlier, move the cursor to it with the same shift+s method from earlier
  • Select the room, press shift+s again but now click Selection to Cursor to move the room back to the empty
  • With the room selected, go into the Object menu and click Apply -> Location
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