Hi Michael,

I had a bit of a think about this and I think I've worked out how people visualize the 2 styles.
When you talk about the first style you are talking about moving the whole view around with the model the
second style of manipulation is visualized as if the view is fixed and the model is rotated around in that fixed view
and it is the axis icon that gives you your orientation (stability) of you work so you know where you are.

Does this make sense or is this just my brain ?

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Hi Danny, yeah that does make sense, that is a good summary of the different methods.

- Michael

Hi Danny - re: spaceball rotation and different methods for view rotations - for the next beta I've added a new option that controls how the 3D view does its rotations:



If you choose the new "Free rotation" option there, I think it will do the style that you are more accustomed to, where it will be more like rotating the object.

This will be under Options / View / Rotate/Pan/Zoom options.

Please let me know if it does not seem to do the right thing when you get a chance to try it.

- Michael

That's Great Michael !

Can't wait to test it. So what's the time frame on the next beta release, if you don't mind me asking.

Cheers

Hi Danny,

> Can't wait to test it. So what's the time frame on the next
> beta release, if you don't mind me asking.

Well, I wanted to get it done this week but I'm not quite sure about that now - it takes more time to add in these options than you might think, several hours of work for each one really between testing and setting up the UI for translation, etc... etc...

But these are also things that other people have asked for in the past as well too.

I'd say it is actually looking likely to take until next week sometime to get all the stuff I want into it.

- Michael

That's fine Michael, waiting longer for a stable product is better than receiving a quick buggy one ;)

Cheers

Sounds good, I'll love this free rotation mode too :o)

Hi PaQ, yes I believe it is the same style that you were asking for before as well.

- Michael