topic Re: Editing Plane in Modeling

Editing Plane

Zdenko — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:43:20 GMT

trying to figure out what i did to create an editing plane that is way off of where my workspace. looked for any entities but have not found any. any suggestions...

Re: Editing Plane

mthd — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 04:41:42 GMT

Try selecting all elements with CMD a, on Mac or CTRL a, on windows from your 3D screen. Then see what happens, you may have to zoom out as well if something is actually selected.

Re: Editing Plane

Zdenko — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:12:24 GMT

did not think of that thank you!

Re: Editing Plane

mthd — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 03:19:01 GMT

No worries, accidentally placing an element out in space can easily happen to any of us.

Re: Editing Plane

Zdenko — Mon, 06 May 2024 22:54:15 GMT

hello again - it seems that today the issue occurred again. this time i could not find any elements and for some odd reason when i try to rotate in 3d the zoom level is way out of whack? any suggestions to look into within the settings. you can see in my perspective 3d view settings that the coordinates are out in space, but can't figure out how to get them back in check.

Re: Editing Plane

Mahmoud Qenawi — Mon, 06 May 2024 23:48:41 GMT

Hi @Zdenko,

You can read this page regarding (View Cone), I hope it helps you.

Re: Editing Plane

mthd — Tue, 07 May 2024 02:31:37 GMT

Hi @Zdenko, that’s strange. Do you have a scroll wheel on your mouse ? If so, when you roll it forwards it should zoom in and if you roll it backwards it should zoom out. Do you get the same result with the other 3D view (Not Perspective) ?

We are asked to make a separate thread for each new issue so please start a new one so someone can help you out further.

Thank you.

Re: Editing Plane

Barry Kelly — Tue, 07 May 2024 02:48:05 GMT

Perspective views are great for presentation, that is what it will look like in real life.

But the extent of the model will affect how it rotates and zooms.

I find working in Axonometric mode is so much easier.

Barry.

Re: Editing Plane

Zdenko — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:12:22 GMT

i will mess with the "view cone" and see how it impacts my scrolling/zooming with mouse.

Re: Editing Plane

Zdenko — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:14:48 GMT

i have a logitech mouse with wheel (personal preference) and when i roll forward or backward it correctly zooms in and out, however the rate of zoom is exponential and not controllable to view in 3d. i will look into starting a new thread after messing with the recent recommendations...

Re: Editing Plane

Zdenko — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:18:25 GMT

agreed axonometric appears to be more straight forward but would love to know what i am doing wrong in 3d generic perspective. there are times i see 2 sets of x,y,z coordinate references and not sure why that is happening. need to learn how to simplify my understanding of ac.

i really do appreciate everyone's input!

Re: Editing Plane

Barry Kelly — Wed, 08 May 2024 01:22:13 GMT

The second XYZ coordinate is your user origin.

The user origin should be black and the Project Origin is blue.

Always make sure you model close to the Project Origin.

In perspective, what is in the view will affect how it rotates.

I am sure it is all mentioned somewhere in the help reference.

If nothing is selected, it will use the centre of the extents of all elements as the pivot.

If you select something in 3D, it will use that as the pivot.

If you have gone to the 3D from a camera view, I think it uses the camera target as the pivot.

That is why I say it is easier to work in Axonometric.

It simply pivots around the centre of the elements.

Barry.

Re: Editing Plane

Zdenko — Wed, 08 May 2024 14:12:32 GMT

thanks for the tip Barry and will have to keep working with it. right now it is all gobbly **beep** and not intuitive for me.