On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 22:25, Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 30, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Tom Browder wrote: ... >> On visiting another TGM I see that doesn't appear to be true >> UNLESS >> you're talking about the bounding box of all primitives comprising the >> view. > > That's exactly what happens, it's the bounding box of all primitives. It > behaves that way so that the entire wireframe draws entirely in-view > for mged. > > Of course, for the rt* tools, that's lame. Begs for another option to > autoview, perhaps to only consider union and intersection primitives. > > The real/robust solution -- which we're not yet capable of calculating -- > > requires converting all primitives to brep/nurbs (done), evaluating the > > boolean intersections for all surfaces (not done), then extracting an > exact bounding box (done).
But don't we have the solution now? The mged make_bbox command seems to calculate the desired parameters now. And if that is not used, rtedge does not seem to output the center of the viewing bounding box, although I guess the Eye_pos could be used. Cheers, -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
