Is there a way to stop a rigidbody from moving in a specific direction?

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The way I would usually do it is by setting
rigid.velocity = new vector3
and then zeroing out one of the directions I don’t want the object to be able to continue in, but since the direction can be variable, I’m having trouble figuring out a way of doing this.

I started down this path after I had rigidbodies interacting in ways I didn’t want, so I’m essentially forcing hovering to make sure they don’t touch and so, don’t interact. So I’m pursuing this for now.

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Yes, these are the constraints. You can set them via inspector, or by code.

rigidbody.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionX;

Use bitwise operands to combine contraints, if you wanted to freeze the X and Y you would use

rigidbody.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionX | RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionY;