World Align | Maya Script

Have you ever faced one of the following issues?

• Bake the rotation angles of a rotated object with reseted transforms
• Orient the object parallel to the world, with reseted transforms
• Align a cylinder with an odd number of segments

What if it's a 3D scan or a high-poly model with the unknown rotation and tons of polygons?

As modeller I had all this headache. But the worst thing for me is to measure it all by eye. After another headache of aligning the 3D scan, I finally decided to create this addon and put the end to this monkey job :)

How does Word Align script work?

All you have to do is to select face(s) on some two sides of a mesh, and your object will be world aligned or the rotation angles will baked into transforms (by option)

Advantages of World Align Tool in comparison with default Bake Pivot Tool:

• Doesn't destroy custom vertex normals!
• The ability to select multiple faces for each side for the best result. This is very useful if the surface is not perfect and has some noise (e.g. 3D scans)
• Works several times FASTER!

Installation:

• Put the file worldAlign.py into \Documents\maya\20XX\scripts
• To add the script to shelve or run from scripteditor or to add a hotkey - use following 3 lines below (Python):

import worldAlign as wa

wa.WorldAlign()