[Plugin] (TIG) Rotate Plan View v1.1 20110316

Rich O Brien

No problem Dave, glad I could help...

cobb89

@unknownuser said:

Copy/paste it into a file named Rotateplanview.rb in the Plugins folder.
To use set up your Plan [Top] view, without Perspective and in the Ruby Console type Rotateplanview.new to rotate the camera 45 degrees clockwise, repeat to rotate it another 45 degrees etc. The extents are zoomed after each rotation.
To do other angles provide an angle value in degrees - e.g. Rotateplanview.new 10 rotates the view 10 degrees clockwise or Rotateplanview.new -30 rotates the view 30 degrees counterclockwise.
When you are happy with it save the view to a new Scene tab so you can return to it later.

can anyone create a toolbar button for this plugin??

TIG

As well as a toolbar you'd need a dialog for the angle ?

Dave R

Seems to me entering the text into the console works very nicely. And I don't have to find room for another toolbar.

Oh, and Rich, I very happy to have your assistance while your wife is ironing.

Rich O Brien

@unknownuser said:

while your wife is ironing

Prioritize Dave...Prioritize

cobb89

@tig said:

As well as a toolbar you'd need a dialog for the angle ?

yeah....whatever is possible....

TIG

Here's v1.1 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=313264#p313264
It includes View menu item and toolbar with dialog entry of angles - the Ruby Console version works as before for those of you not wishing clutter... The toolbar only gets made if there's a png file so that's a simple way to stop that being created if you don't want it!

Michaelv

TIG, can I use it to include into a tool I'm working on. It's an easy simple rotate tool, and I'd like to include this as planview rotation when hovering over the origin.

TIG

@michaelv said:

TIG, can I use it to include into a tool I'm working on. It's an easy simple rotate tool, and I'd like to include this as planview rotation when hovering over the origin.

No problem, just give some acknowledgment in the header

cobb89

@tig said:

Here's v1.1 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=313264#p313264
It includes View menu item and toolbar with dialog entry of angles - the Ruby Console version works as before for those of you not wishing clutter... The toolbar only gets made if there's a png file so that's a simple way to stop that being created if you don't want it!

Thanks a lot!!

Bob James

It seems that whenever I go to parallel projection and top view the scene is never at the angle I want it, so this plugin is really handy.

Okay, so I'm lazy, but it would be very nice to speed up workflow if the plugin did the preliminary steps automatically: set camera to parallel projection and set to top view

EarthMover

Great idea and very useful. Thanks TIG!!

dan19936

Also available is the free Camera Controls by Smustard
http://www.smustard.com/script/CameraControls

Dan

jwliii

Great Great Great - Donated!

Dave R

@unknownuser said:

Is there a way to lock the scene so that it cannot be identically dragged away from its intended orientation?

What do you mean by that? "Identically dragged" ????

Set up the orientation as you want it and create a scene. Or update the existing scene.

seasdes

If you click on the middle mouse button and drag (identically) the view will change. I would like to stop that from happening.
Thanks Dave

seasdes

This post may have a workaround unless others know of a better way
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=50685&p=457482&hilit=scene#p457496

TIG

Make a Scene-tab to remember the plan-view camera as you have just made it... then after you zoom/pan/orbit and have mess it up, you simply click on the Scene-tab and that view is restored...

Dave R

@seasdes said:

If you click on the middle mouse button and drag (identically) the view will change. I would like to stop that from happening.
Thanks Dave

"identically" I don't think that word means what you think it means.

As I said and now TIG has said, create a scene after setting the view. Then when you've changed the view by clicking on the middle mouse button and dragging (orbiting) you can return to it.

Or if you don't want the view to change, don't press the middle mouse button and drag.

seasdes

Sorry Dave I meant 'accidentally'. I have corrected the typo. Another senior moment.