Introduction to Translate Plus


#1

Introduction to Translate Plus:

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#2

This reminds me of all of the Vector Tools in the Wings3D advance menu operations. Very powerful tool. And great video! Thx!!! :slight_smile:


#3

William i use Translate Plus for so long because it is ā€œthe toolā€ for many operations that other can’t do precisely when comes to axis options. But… I didnt knew how to do the numeric change by hiting right click… thats just not coming in the help file… : \ it says ā€˜press enter’ that is for deselect (make). So im very glad you posted this video, cause now i can go fast when i want precise operations, and just go numeric.

A year ago i wrote a post (just for reference, dont read it, big boring pile of useless words :P) where i ask why all the other tools don’t have those great axis option like Tplus? Why?

At the time i thaught that LW could be much better when comes to precise geometric operations. I hate to use extreme zoom in and zoom out, with mouse center mode, to think ā€˜im being precise’.

Here goes some of that post ideas that might still be valid today. Some maybe just make sense for architectural purposes.

-Tplus axis and Snap Drag Tool snap for all :slight_smile: why not?

-Copy and Paste 3 values (XYZ;HPB;UV…,whatever) in one click. In this way, whenever you need to copy paste these 3 values you dont have to go back and forward to make sure you doing it right. This is good for when you want to operate on a especific center (existing point coordinates), or you want in layout to copy the XYZ, or HPB of one object and input it in other. I don’t kow, in my point of view it has many possibilities.

-Expanding the use of Info Pad for geometric operation. For example you select a 2 points on info pad and you can change their XYZ togheter, why not on Edit value, add things like distance, angle, area, volume. You could slide the distance betwen 2 points. You could, after selecting 3 points from list, have a precise angle mesure (angle tool sucks :P), and then slide that value or go numeric.


#4

great ideas…You should submit them to NewTek:

lwfeatures@newtek.com

Let you ideas be heard!


#5

Ok, done!
But i did that old post on Feature Requests forum, isn’t the same?


#6

Not the same


#7

Also post them in the LW forum Feature Requests,

http://www.newtek.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=27

As it happens that mails are lost due the spamfilter makes a mistake.


#8

Yup my mail failed and i posted in the forum.


#9

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