rotate_silent

[arenner]

All, I'm using the function: rotate_silent. In the help file, it says that the sixth argument should be a short variable type to represent the view to rotate the model in. From some vbs experience, 5 seems to be a side view. I need to rotate my part about the x-axis. So I chose the side view as my rotate_silent function argument. The problem is, it doesn't rotate in that view. It only rotates in the top view, no matter what value I put for the argument. Am I misunderstanding the argument, or am I going to have to set my construction plane to "side" before using this function?

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

arenner,

You're reading it right - that argument is the view in which the rotation will take place. I think you uncovered a bug. You should be able to get it to work by setting 'constr_view' to 5 before calling rotate_silent(). Continue to pass '5' as that 6th argument too.

And don't forget to set constr_view BACK to whatever it was immediately afterwards.

I'll see about fixing it in X2, but that'll get you going for now.

[arenner]

Thanks for the info Pete. I'm afraid I'm sorta new to this programming stuff. I'm not sure you mean by "setting 'constr_view' to 5 before calling rotate_silent()." Is 'constr_view' just your variable name?

 

When you say "set constr_view BACK to whatever it was immediately afterwards." why is that important? I guess I could return it to the top view after calling rotate silent.

 

Excuse the newbieness. Thanks.

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

it is 'constr_view_n' anyway.

 

//save current cview,

//rotate entity and set cview back if you want

short current_cview=constr_view_n;

constr_view_n=5;

[arenner]

Thanks Mastershake. I was thinking constr_view was a variable when my search for constr_view didn't return a function in the help file. I found the information in the "Math Variables" documentation.

 

Yeah, I'll set the view to 5, then switch it back to top (1) when I'm done. Thanks to you both

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

MasterShake,

Good catch...I stand corrected. I was typing too fast (again).

 

arenner,

I would recommend that you save the current constr_view_n BEFORE you set it to 5 (as shown in MasterShake's example) and then set it back to whatever it was. Maybe it wasn't even "TOP" to begin with!

[arenner]

Thanks guys. I dropped in Mastershake's snippet and she rotated on the axis like it should.

 

Preciate it.