V2 beta Jan-19-2009 available now

 From:  Michael Gibson
2333.36 In reply to 2333.27 
Hi Anis,

> What is parallel view ?

You were asking Danny, but I can give you an answer here - the parallel view is when you turn off perspective in the 3D viewport. It is also sometimes called an "orthographic" view. More details on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_projection_(geometry)

In MoI the option for this is under Options / View / 3D view projection: the choices are: Perspective or Parallel.

I'm pretty sure that you have used this before though, because didn't you like to set it up with the Parallel/orthographic type view to make it appear the same as SolidWorks?


> I am not clear about this :
> "Added some script functions to access the camera point from a script,

Basically if you set up a keyboard shortcut with the script given there, when you execute that script it will copy the camera and target point locations to the clipboard. You can then paste them into a text editor to see the camera and target locations and enter those into another application if you want to synchronize the views with another app exactly.

Previously there wasn't any way to extract this camera information.

- Michael