Align Tools -- but with the Studio Console

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Hello, I’m one of the people who had trouble when the Align Tool was temporarily taken down.

This is a primitive script I pieced together in a few hours to assist me with aligning parts and models. The code works the same way as the tool’s aligning objects to one object’s axis. I had a great time getting used to CFrames with this script, and I thought this might help anyone who relied on the align tool.

To use this, select the moving parts first and the control object last, modify the axis at the beginning of the script, and run the entire code in console.

Script 
local Axis = "X"

local Selection = game:GetService("Selection")
local ChangeHistoryService = game:GetService("ChangeHistoryService")
local currentSelections = Selection:Get()

local sTwo = currentSelections[#currentSelections]
local movingSelections = {}
for i=1, #currentSelections do
	if i < #currentSelections then print(currentSelections[i].Name)
	movingSelections[#movingSelections+1] = currentSelections[i] end
end


-- Functions

function getModelCFrame(model)
	local tempPrimaryPart = Instance.new("Part", workspace)
	tempPrimaryPart.CFrame = model:GetBoundingBox()
	local modelCFrame = tempPrimaryPart.CFrame
	tempPrimaryPart:Destroy()
	return modelCFrame
end

function moveModelCFrame(model,CF) -- Creates primary part 
	local primaryPart = nil; local tempPrimaryPart
	if model.PrimaryPart then  primaryPart = model.PrimaryPart end
	
	local tempPrimaryPart = Instance.new("Part", workspace)
	tempPrimaryPart.CFrame = model:GetBoundingBox()
	local modelCFrame = tempPrimaryPart.CFrame
	tempPrimaryPart.Parent = model
	model.PrimaryPart = tempPrimaryPart 
	model:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CF)
	
	if primaryPart then model.PrimaryPart = primaryPart end
	tempPrimaryPart:Destroy()
end


function classifyCFrame(instance)
	if instance:IsA("Model") then return getModelCFrame(instance)
	elseif instance:IsA("BasePart") then return instance.CFrame end
end

function classifyMove (instance, CF)
	if instance:IsA("Model") then moveModelCFrame(instance,CF)
	elseif instance:IsA("BasePart") then instance.CFrame = CF end
end


-- Actual thing. One: moving object, Two: target object
local sTwoCFrame = classifyCFrame(sTwo)
for i, sOne in pairs(movingSelections) do
	local sOneCFrame = classifyCFrame(sOne)

	local x, y, z, m11, m12, m13, m21, m22, m23, m31, m32, m33 = sOneCFrame:components()
	if Axis == "Y" then y = sTwoCFrame[Axis]
	elseif Axis == "X" then x = sTwoCFrame[Axis]
	elseif Axis == "Z" then z = sTwoCFrame[Axis] end
	local newCFrame = CFrame.new(x, y, z, m11, m12, m13, m21, m22, m23, m31, m32, m33)

	classifyMove(sOne,newCFrame)

	local logMessage = "[Align] "..sOne.Name.." moved to "..sTwo.Name.." Axis "..Axis
	print(logMessage)
	
end
ChangeHistoryService:SetWaypoint("Align Objects")
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