SketchUp like move and rotate tool

Hi All!

I'm a 10+ year SketchUp user, and have been developing SketchUp plugins for about 5 years. I've been playing in Unity for a week or so and learned a lot so far!

However, I find the move and rotate tools (?) not to be very efficient all the time. Very often I want to move or copy an object by a vector defined by two vertices outside the object. I often also want to rotate, or rotate copy, around another point than the center or pivot (local origin).




Is this possible in Unity?

If not, is there any API for creating your own tools within Unity, similar to there is for SketchUp?

Thanks

 

Hey! I don't know if you're still interested in an answer to this question?
When I want to rotate an object like you've shown inside of Unity, I usually create an empty object (center of rotation) and put my prefab/model inside of it. Then, rotating the Empty game object rotates the prefab as well.

Yes, you can write a ton of plugins for Unity! I don't know if there are tutorials about it (I'd assume so). Check out ProBuilder for example.