Axis nuisance

Marian · 19 Apr 2011, 14:37

I'm having a problem with the axis flipping around. When I'm outside of a component/group the axis are in one way and when I enter to edit the component they flip around and it annoys the hell out of me as it can be very confusing at times plus when pasting something it appears aligned different from what you would expect.

I hope I'm just stupid and overlooked some setting.
Here's a picture to make my problem clearer, look carefully at the color of the axis. I hope somebody has the answer for this.

dedmin · 19 Apr 2011, 14:50

On the first picture You see model axis but when You open the component You see its axes.

Marian · 19 Apr 2011, 15:04

Yeah but the problem is that I didn't activate the internal axis, not intentionally anyway, it's a bit random. Do you know how it can be turned off or something?
I knew you could use a different axis for each component but I never used the feature so I'm like a noob in this respect kind of sad to say that after using SU for around 5 years.

boofredlay · 19 Apr 2011, 15:11

Marian, this is a new feature in SU8. The component will display the axis in which it was created while editing it.
It is very useful when needing to draw "on axis" with the surrounding geometry.

[flash=853,505:3w2gegxk]http://www.youtube.com/v/GoXR5vRU0mo&fs=1[/flash:3w2gegxk]

dedmin · 19 Apr 2011, 15:15

You don't activate them - they are there. Every component/group has axes and you can change them, but cannot hide/disable. This is new in v.8.

Marian · 19 Apr 2011, 15:19

Oh...I did not know that.

Thank you very much guys for the assistance. I can see the utility of such a feature but I wish it could be shut off.

Dave R · 19 Apr 2011, 15:53

Marian,

That's a fine picture of Festus Haggen's Ruth you've got there.

Wo3Dan · 19 Apr 2011, 16:17

@marian said:

... I can see the utility of such a feature but I wish it could be shut off.

Right click on one of the axis in edit mode -> select 'Reset'.
This is a temporary solution that needs to be done each time you enter a group or component. But the advantages in SU8 top the advantages of how things worked in previous versions.

Better read about the same issue here:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=36481

Dave, you seem to remember all the old series.
Now that I see Festus I do remember his terrible voice.

Dave R · 19 Apr 2011, 16:27

@wo3dan said:

Dave, you seem to remember all the old series.
Now that I see Festus I do remember his terrible voice.

That's because I'm old. I don't think his voice was so bad.

Jean Lemire · 19 Apr 2011, 16:55

Hi folks.

Try Window Menu --> Model info --> Components. Uncheck the box labeled "Show component axes".

Just ideas.

Marian · 19 Apr 2011, 17:08

@dave r said:

Marian,

That's a fine picture of Festus Haggen's Ruth you've got there. ]

I don't know that show but I do know Bonanaza

@wo3dan said:

Right click on one of the axis in edit mode -> select 'Reset'.

Thanks that works, but I can't seem to always find the reset tab.
@jean lemire said:

Hi folks.

Try Window Menu --> Model info --> Components. Uncheck the box labeled "Show component axes".

Just ideas.

It was unchecked, so it's not from there.

Gaieus · 20 Apr 2011, 08:27

@jean lemire said:

Hi folks.

Try Window Menu --> Model info --> Components. Uncheck the box labeled "Show component axes".

Just ideas.

That's only to display component axes when you are outside the editing context. This new thing in v.8 is actually when the model axes are (temporarily) adjusted to the component axes when in editing mode.

Confused me a bit when it was new to me, too, but to be honest, it was very easy to get used to (and I like it this way)