Screw Placer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GnABpLacXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy5zmnEh4-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXByxl43Rso

🔩 Screw Placer – Smart Screw Placement + Asset Library

By Christopher Groff • Version 1.0

Save hours of manual placement with Screw Placer, a Blender add-on that makes it easy to drop screws exactly where they belong — plus a bonus library of 18 custom screws ready for drag-and-drop use in your scenes.

🚀 What’s Included:

✅ Screw Placer Add-on Features:

- Click-to-Place Screws on any surface in 3D View

- Face Corner Placement with one click — perfect for panels, plates, or kits

- Offset Sliders for:

  • Normal Offset – push screws into or out from the face

  • Side Offset – slide screws diagonally from each face corner

- Customizable Hotkey (default: Shift+E)

- Auto-Organized Collection for all placed screws

- Clean and compact UI in the N-Panel

🧩 Custom Screw Asset Library:

- 18 unique screws modeled and ready for use

- Optimized for real-time or rendered scenes

- Fully marked for Blender’s Asset Browser

- Compatible with Blender 3.0+ (tested on 4.4)

🛠️ Use Cases:

- Game-ready hard surface modeling

- Kitbashing and sci-fi detail panels

- Product viz, industrial design, mechanical scenes

📦 Installation:

Add-on:

1. Download the ZIP: screw_placer_v1_0_public_release.zip

2. In Blender: Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install

3. Enable Screw Placer

4. Press Shift+E (or your custom hotkey) to start placing screws

Asset Library:

1. Open Blender Preferences > File Paths > Asset Libraries

2. Add the folder containing screw_library.blend

3. Open the Asset Browser, select the library, and drag screws into your project

🔧 Requirements:

- Blender 3.0 or higher (optimized for Blender 4.4)

works with Blender versions 3.0 - 4.4

adjusted the default values so the screws are no longer placed outside the face when place screws on corners is selected

1.3 added extension