Trackball style orbiting
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PepeChan
It is completed at last! I'm sure it's like a layer on top of what the turntable is, as it's a bit slow, but it works very well. It's what we wanted, 95%.
Thanks plasticity! Now using it is a joy.
Nick Kallen
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PepeChan
it says it is in progress but I just downloaded the latest version (as of April 28) and it shows 2 rotation versions, one of them is the real 3D CAD style, not turntable but air trackball.
I have tried it now. It is on the slow side, but it is otherwise exactly what I wanted. For now that was it!
Thanks Plasticity!
PepeChan
I bought plasticity studio, spent the money and found out it is 90% unusable because of this. How can someone from CAD get to use turntable? It is so unintuitive that my mind rejects it wholly... how come Plasticity? C'mon... no one expects CAD users to do CAD without full 3D range of motion. It is just not realistic.
Chuck
PepeChan My thoughts exactly, I'm just waiting to get more options like the style Onshape and others have.
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Mr Oat
Chuck Well… looks like we’re going to wait a few more years until this is implemented. It really boggles my mind how slow they are at adding this simple feature to the tool.
Really frustrating to work with something that’s been “ongoing” since November 2023.
Really crazy…
PepeChan
Mr Oat why do you say this? It is in the roadmap as currently being worked on... did I miss something?
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Mr Oat
PepeChan If you scroll down in this thread, you can see when this was marked as "in progress."
That was the 11th of November, 2023.
PepeChan
Mr Oat oh, I see. Sorry for the slip. Yeah then I agree with you, they're not doing it. They should tell then, there's some folks waiting for that only. To me it's that easy: trackball, use it, no trackball, no use it.
Chuck
I'm so glad this is ongoing! I held off on buy Plasticity and also wasted my trial because the camera was a deal breaker for me.
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Mr Oat
really dislike the way it currently is, really looking forward to the trackball style implementation, it just feels odd when switching from other 3D software that supports it
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manpowresj397
in eg. Rhino its possible to assign middle mouse key to a command which I set to _ZS which means zoom selected, so the selected object becomes center point of the space mouse.
Bruce M
Not sure if you consider it related, but I want a "reset view" to set the view back to sane defaults. When I'm using SpaceMouse (and sometimes mouse) I can "lose" the objects and orientation -- I want a "view 0,0,0" button. (not just for spaceball/trackball, ideally in from any time from ui)UI
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Nicholas Fox
Bruce M If you lose the object try hitting the backslash key'/'. 0,0 could be front. back, top, bottom or other view so the coordinated don't mean much on their own. Personally I use '1' then '/' to centre my model onscreen. Reorientation of a model would seem to be a bit harder to handle as the program has no idea of how it should be aligned, but I understand your frustrations.
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Michael Hiatt
Please make this an option that can be toggled (like Blender). I'm still waiting (ever patiently) on LightWave modeller to receive plasticity and Blender's default orbit/turntable rotations.
Nick Kallen
Merged in a post:
precise camera roll
lars korb
so that it's possible to align view angle in such a way that Z isn't always pointing up
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