Sketchup has a simple Component implementation that allows for the positioning of the Transform Gizmo. Plasticity should look at that.

Actually Plasticity should learn a lot from how the Sketchup interface worked. Plasticity is the new Sketchup.

MOI has a killer Dynamic-Pivot feature where you can grab an object by a point or edge (or the center of a surface) within it, and then that point or line becomes the pivot location, which is excellent for quickly placing objects with snapping or rotating from a point. Would love to see this functionality as an extension of this feature.

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--This already exists as freestyle--

This is similar to: https://plasticity.canny.io/feature-requests/p/preserve-pivot-rotation-toggle

I think the solution is to have the same function for all transformations. A "Transform" function, you can change modes with the same keys

At minimum this needs to be a thing during multiple operations, if I want to more, rotate and scale and object I don't want to have to snap the origin point on every operation.

I suggested a similar concept, using an object "origin", which is would be a pivot that's shared between tools. https://plasticity.canny.io/feature-requests/p/object-origincenter

It's necessary to make a "component" entity in Plasticity, then everything will work.

And to expand this post, it's about the same thing, if globally: https://plasticity.canny.io/feature-requests/p/assemblies-subassemblies-parts-in-the-objects-tree-after-inport

maybe one solution would be to allow for pivots on groups (folders). So a group could be represented in the viewport and your could rotate/scale/move with the "groups" pivot.

similar to how alot of 3d apps work for basic rigging. a Locator/Null of sorts