Blender orientation trick you NEED to know

If you apply rotation in object mode, your local axes will get reset. This video will show how to get those local coordinates back!

[patardlelephant]

Woah, the double X X or Y Y or Z Z to change the move axis when rotate is so cool, never heard of that, thank a lot !

[katroxi]

You have no idea how long I've struggled with the mirror tool not working because of not knowing about local axis. You saved me from having a mental breakdown and giving up on my new hobby

[ragu]

Every time I think Maya has so many options and Blender doesn't, a youtube vid comes by...

[jpalmer]

This saved me in the scene I'm working on! For those that use the industrial workflow bear in mind that after doing this you need to set the orientation drop down box to whatever you named it.

[georgepanago]

After 2 years of using blender, I was really missing this. Thank you

[talgatospanov]

Its mind-blowing how so many things are already though of in Blender, thanks for a truly great tip

[jasonfillbrandt]

Thank you!! i have been stuck on trying to get a steering wheel to rotate correctly and your video here worked where countless other tutorials were no help. Again thank you!!

[FesNaqvi]

I knew the local move trick, but using face orientation is going to be a killer time saver. Thanks, Josh!

[wyattblends]

Sooo many projects I can go back to and continue working on now. Thank you

[Lanaur_]

And with that you can tell the origin point to orient/align itself based on the transform orientation (object - tranform - align to transform orient, but with origin only being affected). Now you have the correct orientation back as it was before.

[jevonkfm]

Omg…. This tip saved my life…. I’m tearing my hair out trying to find a way to rotate an object that’s tilted sideways. Thank you!

[mdfaizan]

Thank u so much!
Please make more videos like this short and very useful

[KismetBP]

You weren't wrong... Fantastic TIP! Much Love!

[Dina_tankar_mina_ord]

And two years later, I found myself in this situation, and lo and behold, the only one solving this issue is the bona fide legend himself, Mr. Gambrell. Thank you!

[jefflaclair]

Ive been trying figure this out for months, Thank you

[SeventhHeavenTRoC]

one of the best tutor, please keep making more of these blender tricks

[Shalfatk]

also when you create custom orientation you can check "overwrite previous" in the "f9" panel so you will not have bunch of them after a while.

[onurerbay]

Awesome! More of these short life saving hidden feature videos please!

[alanclark]

i have spent so much time trying to work it out and i was so close most of the time, but not close enough!! Till now, thanks.

[alternaive]

Omg. I am so grateful about this one, never though it would be so easy!