DC Growing Abnormally
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Hi Everyone,
I have a DC that is rotating, show/hiding and resizing a couple groups inside of itself. Please see example file. In the file the DC is called "Unit". Issue are marked out below.
ISSUES
01 - In the DC options if I extend the BeamLength from 30' to 50' all works well. From 50' if I change the length to 15' the "Head" and "Yoke" groups grow larger, which is not the intended behavior.
02 - In the DC options if I extend the BeamLength from 30' to 50' then switch BeamType to a different color
"Head" and "Yoke" groups grow againDoes anyone have any idea what I've done wrong?
Thank you for your help,
Christian
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i didn't dig in there to0 hard to see what was wrong but i'm thinking it's something to do with component axis' and the way you have it nested..
a quick way to get it working was to let the yoke do the panning, the head goes in the yoke (
) which will rotate with the yoke as well as control the tilt, and the beam goes inside the head..making sure to place the axis where the rotations/positioning should occur..
*note.. i didn't include the color variations + i'm thinking there's a more elegant way to put this together.. i didn't test it thoroughly and it's just a first run 'make it work' approach
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Hi Jeff,
Thank you for your response. I noticed you switched everything to components. I did that test early and for some reason everything works great, as well as in your example. The reason I've made everything groups is so we can clean up our components list window. Do you now if it is a bad practice to use groups inside of DC or does it normally work correctly.
Regards,
Christian
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