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Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:12:18 GMT
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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
In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Michael Lachmann writes:
> 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.
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> Michael
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> 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.
> >
> > #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.
> >
> > #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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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| 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: (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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