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    • M Offline
      Macker
      last edited by

      Hey guys,

      It seems to me the new inferencing system on 2016 has kind of ruined the previous functionality of the rotate tool, unless I am doing something wrong. It's a bit tricky to explain...

      Imagine you have a line drawn at an arbitrary angle and wish to rotate it to the red axis. Previously all you would do is select the line, select a rotation origin and a reference point, then move the reference point to align with the red axis. Done.

      The new inferencing system appears to rotate the protractor/compass of the rotate tool to "zero" on the line that you are using as your reference angle/point, throwing out the ability to snap to the red axis.

      I must be doing something wrong, surely?

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      • BoxB Offline
        Box
        last edited by

        It has changed. One tip, try the down arrow.

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
          last edited by

          I don't see any changes to the old behavior. Only the addition of the cursor keys to lock the orientation of the rotation axis.

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          • cottyC Offline
            cotty
            last edited by

            I can't reproduce this problem too, maybe you can create a screencast to show us the problem?

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            • JasonWDJ Offline
              JasonWD
              last edited by

              @cotty said:

              I can't reproduce this problem too, maybe you can create a screencast to show us the problem?

              Same here. I just tried that new inference thing and it's fantastic!

              SketchUp, Thea Render, Vectorworks PC and Mac - Full LayOut workflow Concept>Production

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              • D Offline
                djo
                last edited by

                Hey Macker... I was freaking out too... and then I got it... To do your "old way" you need to use the down arrow instead of shift. So now there is two ways of doing it. Great feature.

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                • oceanembersO Offline
                  oceanembers
                  last edited by

                  Yeah shift now locks orientation AND plane, down locks orientation only

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