What does align working box do? - Polyloop

ninetwenty · 30th December 2005, 18:10

It's in the vertex modeller menu, but I can't find anything in the documentation and I can't seem to get it do anything.

Help?!?

AWBenson · 30th December 2005, 18:29

Lets say you make a ball ("A") in the middle of the working area. You make another ball ("B") but place it far, far away and well outside the working area.

Select B and use the align working box. The grids and suck re-align themselves to the currently selected polymesh (the name usd to discribe two or more separate meshes in the same object that are not connected).

Also useful in realigning the working box to a "huge" polymesh.

ninetwenty · 30th December 2005, 19:04

Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't seem to happen when I try it. Is it a limitation of the demo as I'm still evaluating at the moment?

AWBenson · 10th January 2006, 16:16

It shouldn't be a limitation of the demo. Have you also tried using a Huge object that goes beyond the "size" of the alignment grids?

steama · 10th January 2006, 20:31

Quote:

Lets say you make a ball ("A") in the middle of the working area. You make another ball ("B") but place it far, far away and well outside the working area.

Select B and use the align working box. The grids and suck re-align themselves to the currently selected polymesh (the name usd to discribe two or more separate meshes in the same object that are not connected).

Nothing happens when I try to "Align Working Box" either. Is there another way you can explain how this works? A little confused. It seems like a dead command so far.

Thanks,
Stan

steama · 10th January 2006, 21:39

I called Eovia support and I got it to function!

1) I made a sphere---anywhere, but mine was outside the working box in the VM
2) I selected a face on the sphere and controlled clicked it. The working box aligned, rotated and centered to the corresponding selected face.
3) I went under the view menu in the VM and selected "Align Working Box" and the working box then aligned with XYZ to the spheres selected face rather being rotated.

It works! Thanks Eovia.

All the other working box commands under the view menu in the VM work too.

Stan

30th December 2005, 18:10	#1 (permalink)
ninetwenty Spline Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Rochdale, UK Posts: 40	What does align working box do? It's in the vertex modeller menu, but I can't find anything in the documentation and I can't seem to get it do anything. Help?!?

30th December 2005, 18:29	#2 (permalink)
AWBenson Box modeling Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 292	Lets say you make a ball ("A") in the middle of the working area. You make another ball ("B") but place it far, far away and well outside the working area. Select B and use the align working box. The grids and suck re-align themselves to the currently selected polymesh (the name usd to discribe two or more separate meshes in the same object that are not connected). Also useful in realigning the working box to a "huge" polymesh. __________________ Andrew Benson AKA: AWBenson www.awbenson.com andrew (at) awbenson (dot) com

30th December 2005, 19:04	#3 (permalink)
ninetwenty Spline Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Rochdale, UK Posts: 40	Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't seem to happen when I try it. Is it a limitation of the demo as I'm still evaluating at the moment? __________________ I can't stand to wait in line long so I built a new machine It just measures up the distance and eliminates the folks between

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AWBenson Box modeling Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 292	It shouldn't be a limitation of the demo. Have you also tried using a Huge object that goes beyond the "size" of the alignment grids? __________________ Andrew Benson AKA: AWBenson www.awbenson.com andrew (at) awbenson (dot) com

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10th January 2006, 21:39	#6 (permalink)
steama Boulet Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 452	I called Eovia support and I got it to function! 1) I made a sphere---anywhere, but mine was outside the working box in the VM 2) I selected a face on the sphere and controlled clicked it. The working box aligned, rotated and centered to the corresponding selected face. 3) I went under the view menu in the VM and selected "Align Working Box" and the working box then aligned with XYZ to the spheres selected face rather being rotated. It works! Thanks Eovia. All the other working box commands under the view menu in the VM work too. Stan