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Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 04:49:23 GMT
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I will but this onto the list for V2.1 since V2.0 is in testing phase right
now, there are a lot of nice little things in this version, and I don't like
to make this version unstable now.
Michael
Jeff Boen <onyx@flash.net> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
FyuCwr.IMt@lugnet.com...
> I know I've brought this up before.. and I still feel it is an important • point.
> The current method of roation if MLCAD is far more limited than the method
> available in LEdit. Although I appreciate the new option to rotate via • world
> origin or object origin, this is still limited for 2 reasons.
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> #1. Without an icon, small crosshair or some other demarkation, it's often
> difficult to know where the world origin is... I feel a crosshair should • be
> shown (possible switched off with a menu option) similar to the one • showing the
> local origin of the currently-selected element.
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> #2. If the point you wish to rotate about is not at the object or world • origin,
> then you have to rotate and translate elements.. this leads to a great • deal of
> trial and error.
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> Rather than having an option to rotate about the world origin, I feel it • would
> be more productive to have a "Rotation Point" object that can be moved • about
> the world space. When the toolbar rotation button is depressed (as it
> currently is by default), rotations would take place about this point. • When the
> toolbar button is not depressed, rotations would take place about the • object's
> (or group of selected object's) local origin.
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> This would be just as versatile as LEdit's rotation method, but even • better
> because you would always have a visual point of reference as to where the
> current rotation point is located.
>
> J
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| It would also help if there were menu commands/tool buttons to move the rotation point to the world origin or the local origin. Steve "who posted all these messages while I was on vacation?" Bliss (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| I know I've brought this up before.. and I still feel it is an important point. The current method of roation if MLCAD is far more limited than the method available in LEdit. Although I appreciate the new option to rotate via world origin or object (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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