Stumbled on this the other day and found it useful on occasion. Maybe someone else will. I do a lot of complex modeling in the vertex room and sometimes need to rotate the directors camera around a specific point to get my bearings. I have found you can do this by (windows) CTRL-ALT clicking on a specific vertex. It will turn yellow and the camera rotation will be centered on that vertex. If this is all old hat forgive me! Ed

Ed, it's the same thing if you use a normal selection (not yellow) just by click on a face or a point, your object will rotate on the selection. Eheh, i had some doubts after your message... -TOXE

 

Actually I think you've discovered how to change the center of rotation for your object in the VM! ;-) This is very useful if you are (for example) modelling a part of an object which you will then duplicate, rotate and weld.
TOXE, I'm enjoying your article in this month's 3DXtract (haven't finished it yet as I'm waiting for a free day ;-) ). Some wonderful tips and tricks there and I have printed out and framed the seven rules of Toxe's Ten Golden Rules. :-)
Mark

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Mmh, but it's not the same as the normal selection? Maybe it's different on PC?? I use to rotate an object by select the point that i need since i use Carrara... Thanks Mark, eheh, i'm glad that you like the TGRs:-) But above all i'm glad that you found the article interesting. -TOXE

 

TOXE, I'm puzzled how you can rotate the whole of your object with only one point selected...? This is how I work: make a quarter (or whatever portion) of my object. Ctrl+Alt click the vertex around which I wish to rotate. Select All (Ctrl+A), Duplicate (Ctrl+D) then rotate around the Axis I want by 90 degrees (or whatever). Repeat until the object is whole and then weld the close vertices using a custom tolerance. Works great for cut glass or similar where to model the whole thing in one go would be tedious. So this is different on the Mac? Mark

ehm, also if i written a 17 pages article in english i have problems to understand what do you mean:-)

Can you post an image? The thing that i mean is that when you select a point or a facet it become his centre of rotation...

-TOXE

 

TOXE, here's a little animation. :-) Perhaps I should have made it clearer that I was talking about rotating the object rather than rotating the camera around the object... Mark

You also have to do that (ctrl+alt+click) when you do a boolean subtraction in the VM.... I'll have to remember that rotation tip, though....

Here's an example of where it can be useful to change the center of rotation. The glass was made in twelve pieces but only one piece was modelled - the rest are duplicate pieces rotated and then welded.

Wow, how do you guys learn all this stuff! BTW Toxe great article in 3DXtract!

Changing the rotation point will be very useful for creating morph targets in Carrara 4. An option I didn't know the VM had. nice one, thanks mdc

I second that, This month 3dxtract was great! All Hail Toxe!

Indeed, this did turn out to be a very good tip. Thanks falconperigot for clearing things up.

Ahhh, now it's clear Mark! Very useful!! Thanks to all for the congrats on the article:-)) -TOXE

 

thanks Mark for this very cool and very useful tip.:) TOXE,great article in the 3dxtract mag,thanks.:)

Thanks to you DAIGORO!