From: TOM (SIRTOM)
Hi,
I very often have to move lots of objects and snap their bounding box Centers onto other points.
It would increase the speed of work if I had not always to click on "bounding Box Center" in the opening menu.
A nice helper would be to see the ""Bounding Box Center" function activated just by > pressing "enter" after
"Move" or "scale":
> Move > Enter
or as additional command to be triggered by a keystroke.
Is sth like this already implemented or possible to so so ?
Thanks TOM
From: Frenchy Pilou (PILOU)
Select your Object(s)
Press Tab and write BoundingBoxCenter (or make a ShortCut)
Call the Move function and use the BoundingPoint drawn as Start Move :)
etc...
At the end you must erase Point(s) if no need more...
It's a pity because BoundingBoxCenter / Center appears when you Fly over Click on the Angle(s) of the Edit Frame Box
but you can't use it as Help Lines Or Point help ! (it's disapears as soon as you move the mouse from the angle! )
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Tom, one thing you can do currently in v4 is to set up a shortcut that will trigger the Bounding box center button automatically.
To do this put in boundingboxcenter as a command line parameter to the Move or Scale commands like this:
move boundingboxcenter
scale boundingboxcenter
- Michael
From: Frenchy Pilou (PILOU)
More tricky second level than my basic try! :)
From: TOM (SIRTOM)
Thank you both Pilou and Michael !
From: surferdude
Hi Michael, is it possible to extend this command? I would like to use one shortcut instead of two. For example, If I click a hotkey it will trigger the bounding box center, the next click will make it a normal move/scale/ command. So you can choose between these commands while using only one shortcut.
From: Michael Gibson
Hi surferdude,
re:
> For example, If I click a hotkey it will trigger the bounding box center, the next click will make it a
> normal move/scale/ command. So you can choose between these commands while using only one shortcut.
Yes, in v4 it's possible to set up a shortcut key that will do that. Here is what you would put for the command part of the shortcut keys:
script: /* Scale, switch between center and regular */ var didcenter = false; try { didcenter = moi.command.getOption( 'scale_center' ); } catch(e){} if ( didcenter ) { moi.command.execCommand( 'Scale' ); } else { moi.command.execCommand( 'Scale BoundingBoxCenter' ); } moi.command.setOption( 'scale_center', !didcenter );
script: /* Move, switch between center and regular */ var didcenter = false; try { didcenter = moi.command.getOption( 'move_center' ); } catch(e){} if ( didcenter ) { moi.command.execCommand( 'Move' ); } else { moi.command.execCommand( 'Move BoundingBoxCenter' ); } moi.command.setOption( 'move_center', !didcenter );
- Michael
From: surferdude
Amazing!
Thank you a lot! It will make my work way easier!
Patiently waiting for the final release of v4!
From: raytownmike (HOPPER)
Nice!