Plugin Possibility?
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Is it possible to identify the original instance of a component in a model? And if so, is it possible to do a wholesale change of component axes such that those original component instance axes match the global axes. Or maybe better yet, the original instances of the components in a selection.
Or does something like this already exist?
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@dave r said:
Is it possible to identify the original instance of a component in a model?
Not sure. Maybe it'd be the first in the list of instances for a component definition, but I have no idea if that's reliable.
@dave r said:
And if so, is it possible to do a wholesale change of component axes such that those original component instance axes match the global axes.
No direct way to edit axis, but a workaround is to rotate the content of the component and then counter-rotate each instance...
@dave r said:
Or maybe better yet, the original instances of the components in a selection.
I don't understand this, you want to match the axis of a component with one of the component's instances? There'd be no change. All instances have the same axis, the axis is set by the component definition...
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Thomas,
What I'm thinking of is being able to quickly repair (or modify) a model so that the component axes of all original instances of the components would be aligned with the global axes. My last remark was intended to say that you would select a set of components in a model and if there's an original instance in the selection, its axes would get changed to align with the global axes.
Last night someone sent me a cabinet model. He had drawn some of the components laying down on the ground plane and then rotated them up into their proper position. When a model is drawn that way, it appears that materials are randomly applied and it is difficult for some to make sense of what's happening. Also, as you know, if the component is made laying down but used standing up, every time it is inserted into a model, its orientation has to be corrected. Correcting the axes orientation up front would eliminate the need to do that correction later.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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