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Matthias----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 6:42 PM Subject: Re: 3D object space re/location
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?DeanHi 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
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