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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000810 | FreeCAD | Feature | public | 2012-08-04 04:41 | 2017-01-09 18:25 |
| Reporter | cepera-one | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Product Version | 0.12 | ||||
| Summary | 0000810: The simple addition, but a huge improvement in the CAD navigation style | ||||
| Description | The simple addition, but a huge improvement in the CAD navigation style. It would be much more convenient to perform the rotation of view by moving the right mouse button (when pressed) without using the middle mouse button. It is very simple to use and this does not prevent the use of the popup menu. This could be done optional, I think. Another great feature (not only for CAD navigation style). Clicking the middle mouse button on an empty screen place makes the rotation of the current view to the nearest standard view (top, left, right, bottom, etc.). It almost replaces the use of the corresponding toolbar buttons. When you click on flat face (middle mouse button) it makes this face perpendicular to the current view. If you click on cylindrical face it makes this face coaxial with the current view vector. We use such behavior in our CAM software and it is very-very convenient. | ||||
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> It would be much more convenient to perform the rotation of view by moving the right mouse button (when pressed) without using the middle mouse button. It is very simple to use and this does not prevent the use of the popup menu. This could be done optional, I think. The CAD style is similar to the CATIA style and we thus cannot simply change its behaviour. > When you click on flat face (middle mouse button) it makes this face perpendicular to the current view. If you click on cylindrical face it makes this face coaxial with the current view vector. This cannot be done so easily because a navigation style is not only tailored to work with CAD shapes but also with point clouds, meshes, ... Thus, when clicking on an area you only get an index to a triangle but no information in which context the triangle is used, i.e. if it's part of a flat or cylindrical or whatever part. If you know that the clicked object is a CAD shape you have the possibility to identify its geometry but you cannot do this from the core system because the core shouldn't know anything about extension modules. So, this makes it a very special navigation style only working well with CAD shapes and it MUST be implemented as a new style in the Part module. |
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Can I close this? |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2012-08-04 04:41 | cepera-one | New Issue | |
| 2012-08-08 04:48 | wmayer | Note Added: 0002313 | |
| 2012-08-08 06:00 | wmayer | Note Edited: 0002313 | |
| 2015-01-07 16:07 | jmaustpc | Note Added: 0005559 | |
| 2017-01-09 18:25 | wmayer | Status | new => closed |
| 2017-01-09 18:25 | wmayer | Resolution | open => won't fix |
