Why don't use the icon Rotate ?

Click edge : Reset then Icon rotate

Thanks for the replies - I do use all the tools suggested, but I was hoping to add pivot automation to the mix. If I'm moving around a lot and working on a bunch of details, I become very aware of the extra steps. The area box is a pretty cool tool when I want to jump to a distant area and work on it, but right now I want to simply zoom seamlessly to location and just orbit at will. Using the box or reset usually throws me abruptly to a different position, where I have to make adjustments to return to where I was. And with reset, I have to make sure to deselect anything other than the intended object and select that. And after a few minor movements, I lose that pivot point and have to do it again.
Is it possible for the rotate camera command to select any hovered object as its pivot point? In any case, this is just wish list stuff. I'll try to create a video to illustrate why I would like it so much - but it's not at the top of my to-do list - continuing to design is. Thank you for your patience, Michael.
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Hi halmi,

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> Is it possible for the rotate camera command to select any hovered object as its pivot point?

It's difficult because MoI's view system is designed so that the 3d view is always centered on the pivot point.

If the pivot point would relocate on hover, within the current system the view would be jumping around a lot as you hovered over things.

So doing that would require some pretty substantial changes to allow the pivot point to not necessarily be on the center ray.

- Michael

Ah. That explains it. How about only when the command is initiated? Hovering alone wouldn't be enough. Would that limit the abrupt view shift only to the Moment of Initiation? Or...can the box or reset have the ability to simply center an object in question (selected/hovered?) without zooming in or out?

Hi halmi,

re:
> Would that limit the abrupt view shift only to the Moment of Initiation?

I guess so, it sounds pretty weird though.

You can try setting this up on a keyboard shortcut, it will set the pivot point to a point you pick without doing an area window:

script: /* Set 3D view rotation pivot */ var p = moi.ui.createPointPicker(); if ( p.waitForEvent() && p.event == 'finished' ) { moi.ui.mainWindow.viewpanel.getViewport('3D').targetpt = p.pt }

- Michael

Thank you so much - I'll check it out, and you may be right...
...and I like it. I tap the shortcut key and click the location, There's a shift, but it's not a huge leap, and I (camera) am still pretty much where I was. I also just I took a dive back into my expired trial of Rhino to see how it was done there. They have a button called "place." Guess what it does? That's right! Except the shortcut is faster (and seems to perform more consistently) in MoI.