Snap Measure for Blender

Snap Measure: The Ultimate Measuring & Snapping Toolkit for Blender

Tired of imprecise workflows and clunky measurements in Blender? Snap Measure transforms your process with a powerful, interactive toolkit for creating persistent, dynamic, and fully editable measurements directly in your 3D viewport.

Go beyond simple rulers. Snap Measure is a complete modal toolkit that allows you to create intelligent measurement lines that can even drive the position and scale of your objects. It's the fast, responsive, and accurate toolset you've always wanted for hard-surface modeling, architectural visualization, and engineering.

Key Features

• Dynamic Measurements: Create lines that intelligently snap to vertices, edges, and faces. These linked measurements aren't static drawings; they adjust automatically in real-time as you move, scale, or edit your geometry.
• Set Distances to Move Geometry: This is more than a ruler—it's a control panel. Use the measurement sliders to set a precise distance and drive the position or scale of your objects and mesh components with unparalleled accuracy.
• Advanced Grab Mode: Activate the powerful Grab Mode to precisely move objects or mesh selections. Snap to any geometry or even to the virtual snap points you've created for perfect alignment.
• Axis Constraints: Lock any snapping, measurement, or grab operation to the X, Y, or Z axes for controlled movements. This feature fully supports Blender's built-in custom transform orientations.
• Virtual Snap Points: Create custom virtual snap points anywhere along a measurement line. Use these new points as precise targets for drawing new lines or for grabbing and moving your geometry.
• Clarity and Feedback: Get clear visual feedback with geometry highlighting as you work. Customize everything: colors, line thickness, text size, and arrow styles. Use the offset options to position lines and text perfectly for easy-to-read diagrams.
• Renderable Measurements: Burn your measurements into a transparent overlay for your final renders with the render feature, perfect for technical sheets and client presentations.
• Intuitive measurement interaction: Select lines within the scene, delete them and change them on the go.

Quick Guide

• Snap Geometry Mode: While the tool is active, press CTRL + SHIFT + C to enter the powerful Grab Mode for moving objects and components with precision snapping.
• Axis Constraints: To lock movement to an axis, first select your desired Transform Orientation (Global, Local, Normal, etc.) in Blender's main header. Then, while moving or drawing, press X, Y, or Z to constrain to that axis.

Who is this for?

Snap Measure is perfect for:

• Hard-Surface Modelers needing to align complex mechanical parts with precision.
• Architects and Archviz Artists working with exact building dimensions and layouts.
• Engineers and Product Designers prototyping models that require specific tolerances.
• Any Blender user who is tired of guesswork and wants a faster, more accurate modeling workflow.