4-views
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Sketchup seems to operate with just one 3D view. I find it difficult on complex drawings to, for instance, join 2 objects together, as I only have 2 dimensions of cursor movement. Some other drawing software, eg Art of Illustration, has 4 views, one for each of the three dimensions and one providing a 3D or camera view. This is much better. Is there a plugin for sketchup that provides these 4-views?
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You may find that the ability to orbit/zoom while using a tool solves your problem.
Push down on scroll wheel to orbit (hold shift to pan), scroll to zoom. -
With inferences you have more dimensions of movement, despite the 2d cursor movement. Sometimes moving things together, I find constraining to an axis or vector helpful, and using two movements or more (different vectors), which, I think, is similar to changing to 2d views to do this.
If you constrain on a vector then snapping perpendicular to a vertex or edge is possible.
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@box said:
You may find that the ability to orbit/zoom while using a tool solves your problem.
Push down on scroll wheel to orbit (hold shift to pan), scroll to zoom.That does not hold true all the time, I can orbit with middle mouse on my computer at work,
but I am not able to on my computer at home, both have windows 7.
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Why not use the 6 native views ?
With Parallel Camera Projection : it's just that you want!
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Did you install a driver for the mouse at home which changed the behaviour for the middle mouse button? Maybe you can change it back to the standard behaviour or deinstall that driver?
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@cotty said:
Did you install a driver for the mouse at home which changed the behaviour for the middle mouse button? Maybe you can change it back to the standard behaviour or deinstall that driver?
That's probably what it is Cotty, I have tried playing around with mouse driver in the past,
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You should be able to change the mouse settings without getting a driver from work, it may not be compatible.
It depends what mouse you have.
Often a fancy mouse will load all new drivers and software to control it, overwriting the default settings. You just want to find that settings software and change the function of the scroll wheel click. It needs to be set pretty much as the default middle button.
So if it gives you a bunch of options and none of them seem right, select "Other" and "Middle Button"It can often be in start menu/ all programs
Look for a menu item that corresponds with your mouse.
Logitech etcor
Go start/devices and printers
right click on your mouse and click mouse settings.
You can either change the setting here or it will link you to the relevant software, setpoint, microsoft mouse/keyboard etc.The main thing is to set the wheel as "on click" "middle button".
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Box, I'm so glad i joined in on this thread, I had given up on orbiting with the MMB, but after talking with you and trying different approaches, I finally got the right one, and IT WORKS, I'm orbiting with MMB.
Thanks box, thanks all.
In case it might help someone else, the mouse is Logitech model MX310(an old one), go to Start, control panel, mouse properties,set point settings, select button, select middle button, set task to "other", when prompt comes up, select middle button. Good luck
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