Can i use the 'snap to surface' via python? (NOOB alert!!!)

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I am completely new to python in blender, so be sure to talk slowly an use short words if you choose to help me… :o

I want to grab a selection of verts and snap them to the nearest surface.
How can this be done in python?
(I know how to translate the verts, but not how to snap them.)

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The motivation for this is the following:
When i retopo a highres sculpt i often make loopcuts, gridfill and/or smooth the verts.
These operations doesn’t respekt the ‘snap during transform’ feature, so i need to grab the verts (to make them snap) and confirm afterwards.
Would be nice if i could automate this somehow.

Any help will be appreciated!
Thx in advance,
Gnuren

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simple answer: no. You basically need to implement that snapping feature yourself in python, but it wouldn’t perform well. But that’s probably above your head.

I wonder if you could just turn on vertex mode and so a translation of 0 to make vertices snap to surface, I believe that’s a common workaround.

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Thank you! Will try this out.
Had no intention of recoding the snapping feature anyway. As you said “…above my head…” :yes: