[wish] infinite orbit/pan

Krisidious · 5 May 2014, 16:46

there is a built in spin function in Sketchup... But I've noticed my new SpaceMouse Pro has infinite rotate and pan.

Aerilius · 5 May 2014, 17:44

When the cursor reaches outside of the SketchUp 3d drawing area, its position is inaccessible for plugins (the cursor appears to stop at the border). If that is essential to your idea, it might be not possible.

Or do you think of auto-panning/orbiting near the window border?

Rich O Brien · 5 May 2014, 17:57

I think he a referring to Blenders continuous scrolling method where the cursors exits left and enters right or vice versa.

eidam655 · 6 May 2014, 09:40

pretty much what Rich O Brien said.

gif:

ad: 'crazy sketchup zoom' - as i said, i've gotten used to it. the only problem is that it's annoying when i'm working in a large model, trying to edit a detail, when camera starts clipping with the zoom and with the next scroll i get zoomed out of existence, or when i'm trying to orbit around that tiny detail and grab something that's already clipped...

but there's a handy icon for that, with the magnifying glass and the backwards arrow

jeff hammond · 6 May 2014, 20:32

@eidam655 said:

gif:

heh.. i've never seen that before in rhino (i use mac and there are a view things which aren't hooked up).. rhino for mac's view prefs are this right now:

jiminy-billy-bob · 6 May 2014, 21:36

(I'm on it, I think it's doable in ruby)

driven · 6 May 2014, 21:41

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

(I'm on it, I think it's doable in ruby)

Win32 or ruby?

chuck me a PM if win32 and maybe it could be 'cross platform' instead...

jiminy-billy-bob · 7 May 2014, 11:46

@driven said:

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

(I'm on it, I think it's doable in ruby)

Win32 or ruby?

chuck me a PM if win32 and maybe it could be 'cross platform' instead...

I'll get in touch with you soon. Thanks for offering your help

Here is a small video showing how it works:
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