# Normal to Surface One Shot Snap

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/normal-to-surface-one-shot-snap/10896>\
**Category:** Rhino for Windows\
**Created:** [August 13, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/normal-to-surface-one-shot-snap/10896 "2014-08-13T16:45:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![djnelson75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/djnelson75/32/683971_2.png) [@djnelson75](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/djnelson75)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/normal-to-surface-one-shot-snap/10896/1 "2014-08-13T16:45:56Z")

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Is there a one shot snap where I can snap to the normal of the a selected surface at a given point. Is see on a surface but not normal am I missing something? I am trying to set the rotation of an item normal to a surface.

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**Author:** ![pascal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/pascal/32/479395_2.png) [@pascal](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/pascal)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/normal-to-surface-one-shot-snap/10896/2 "2014-08-13T17:18:06Z")

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Hi Dennis- there is not one… for this particular operation, rotate on normal, you can fake it without too much pain using Line Normal first. Just fyi, there’s a RotateOnNormal script here:  
[http://wiki.mcneel.com/people/pascalgolay](http://wiki.mcneel.com/people/pascalgolay)

-Pascal

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**Author:** ![djnelson75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/djnelson75/32/683971_2.png) [@djnelson75](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/djnelson75)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/normal-to-surface-one-shot-snap/10896/3 "2014-08-13T17:31:36Z")

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Yeah I saw the line normal function/tool. The problem is that I have a bunch and don’t want to place a bunch of construction line. I will check out the script. Thanks.