Origin Wrangler Add-On for Blender

Origin Wrangler is a lightweight Blender add-on that adds vastly expanded capabilities to Blender’s “Set Origin” feature. Designed for convenience, Origin Wrangler lets you:

• set the origin to the selected faces/edges/verts, set origins on specific axes only (both local and global spaces are supported!)
• interpolate between origins’ old and new locations
• “smart align” origins to objects’ sides based on their geometry
• align origins to the centers of final meshes (geometry resulting after shape keys and modifiers such as Mirror, Array, and Displace)
• place origins anywhere in object’s bounding boxes—in local and global spaces

Blender’s limited set of built-in “Set Origin” settings can use some advancement:

• Geometry to Origin
• Origin to Geometry
  • “Median” Center
  • Bounding Box Center
• Origin to 3D Cursor
• Origin to Center of Mass
  • Surface Mass
  • Solid Volume

Blender’s built-in “Set Origin” has multiple “Origin to…” modes that move the origin, yet it has just 1 operator that moves the geometry to the origin. It doesn’t have a way to move an object’s geometry such that its center of mass is at the object‘s existing origin. Origin Wrangler adds this capability too.

Final-Mesh-Based Origin Set

Origin Wrangler lets you accurately center an object’s origin even if it has Mirror, Array, Displace, Skin, etc. modifiers.

Blender’s stock “Set Origin” lacks the ability to calculate the center based on post-modifier geometry.

Smart Origin Alignment

Origin to Selection

Set Origin Along Specific Axes

Advanced “Origin to Bounds”

Inverse Origin Set: Center of Mass to Origin

Linear Interpolation Mix Control