[Request] Rotation for Individual Objects

antantantant

Hi all,

Is there a way to rotate one object (group) according to its own axes while other stuff on the screen stand still? or Anyone has tried anything like that? Thank you!

-Max

remus

You might be looking for something else, but with the SU rotate tool you can drag it along a line to set an axis of rotation.

You can also rotate groups using the move tool, you first need to select the group->move tool and then grab one of the little red handles on the group that appear when you move your mouse over a face of the bounding box. It makes more sense when you do it...

Jim

@antantantant said:

Hi all,

Is there a way to rotate one object (group) according to its own axes while other stuff on the screen stand still? or Anyone has tried anything like that? Thank you!

-Max

Hi Max. You just create a new Transformation object using any Point3d, Vector3d, and an angle; then apply it to the Group.

The following rotates a Group around the it's own Z_AXIS by 90 degrees.


# First, select a Group
group = Sketchup.active_model.selection[0]
group.transform! Geom;;Transformation.rotation(group.transformation.origin, Z_AXIS, 90.degrees)

antantantant

@jim said:

@antantantant said:

Hi all,

Is there a way to rotate one object (group) according to its own axes while other stuff on the screen stand still? or Anyone has tried anything like that? Thank you!

-Max

Hi Max. You just create a new Transformation object using any Point3d, Vector3d, and an angle; then apply it to the Group.

The following rotates a Group around the it's own Z_AXIS by 90 degrees.


> # First, select a Group
> group = Sketchup.active_model.selection[0]
> group.transform! Geom;;Transformation.rotation(group.transformation.origin, Z_AXIS, 90.degrees)
>

Thank you and sorry...
What I really mean is "orbit". My question is:

Is there a way to divide the screen into smaller scenes so that I can orbit each one independently?

Thank you again!

-Max

psychomuffin

@antantantant said:

Is there a way to divide the screen into smaller scenes so that I can orbit each one independently?

That... would be neat. Multiple viewports. I could see aplications where one might want to see multiple sides at once. All panes would reflect the work you're doing.

I like that. But I have now idea how that would get done though.

-Scott

Baker518

I like the idea of multiple panes that are interactive. That might even make the inference issue that people have a bit less challenging too.