Continuously place objects by dragging them onto the mesh surface.

Simply drag to simultaneously adjust the placement, scale, and rotation of the objects.

Option

instance
- The instance object to use during dragging. If not specified, the active object will be used.
Use randomly from the collection.
- Uses objects from the specified collection as random instance sources.
Duplicate link
- Create an instance as a linked copy.
Use randomly from the collection.
- This will randomly use an object from the specified collection as an instance.

Basic scale
- The initial scale factor for the duplicates to be placed.
- If you want to allow for some leeway in making small adjustments, set it to around 0.5.
Adjust the scale
- Adjust the scale while dragging.
Adjust the rotation
- Adjust the rotation while dragging.
Surface offset
- The distance to move away from the hit surface in the direction of the normal.
Align to normal
- Align the local Z-axis of the duplicate to the hit surface normal.
Inherit instance rotation
- Maintain the rotation of the instance object before surface alignment.

Boolean
- The instance to be placed will be used as the Boolean object for the hit surface object.
- The created instance is added to the Cutters collection.
mirror
- Add a mirror modifier to each instance you have placed.
- By setting the Mirror Object option, you can make that object the mirror axis.

Holding down G/S/R/Z while left-dragging adjusts the transform of the active object.

The G key slides the object along the XY plane.
The Z key slides the object along its local Z axis.

Within the dup_x tool, you can switch the active selection by pressing Ctrl + click.

Add-on settings

Scale sensitivity
- The sensitivity of the drag distance used for scaling.
Shift fine adjustment
- The adjustment multiplier used while holding down the Shift key.