thanks Mark. I'll give those things a try
On Jan 10, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Mark wrote:
Does anybody have any tricks for knowing and relocating to an
objects original orientation in space? I'm finding it difficult and
sometimes get lost when an object has been moved or it's
orientation has been changed. I guess knowing ho to use the
measuring tool would be good? Is there a tutorial somewhere that
goes into precise numerical movement using this tool?
Dean
Hi Dean,
Not sure if this is what you mean, but here are a few basic tricks:
- drag the object from the select window into the view
- if the center is way off, there's the Center button in MiscTools
(V6), the Norm button can also help (especially Norm/Rotate)
- to change things numerically, there's always the Property window:
Gen/Object space/Translation etc.
When importing from other software, it's possible the object is
rotated 90 degrees or scaled crazy (meters become millimeters,
things like that).
The measuring tool is pretty straightforward, just click somewhere
and click again. It can always be changed afterwards. Great addition
to the V6 toolkit!
Numerical movement is easy: open the Numeric window (View/
NumericWindow), activate the Move tool, click somewhere, hit 'n' to
get into numerical mode and enter a value.
Hope this helps a bit, just try to get familiar with the basic
tools, modifiers etc before tackling complicated stuff.
Of course season's greetings to everybody!
-Mark H
