Time for a sedative

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Correct - one shots override the persistents for one pick.

-Pascal

[JKayten]

Very good. Thanks. btw, I’d found a setting that controlled the zoom ratio of the mouse wheel. I can no longer find it. Where is that? I’m presently set to .95 and I’d like to slow it down further.

[Helvetosaur]

@JKayten

Its at this point things get silly. I’m assuming that a duplicate curve moved orthogonally will have its end points remain orthogonal to the original so that a straight line drawn orthagonally from any point will be intersect at the same point on the copy.

Maybe you can describe exactly how you move things “orthogonally”. That might be one cause of the problem.

–Mitch

[JKayten]

I use the gumball arrows.

[John_Brock]

@JKayten

Thanks. btw, I’d found a setting that controlled the zoom ratio of the mouse wheel. I can no longer find it. Where is that? I’m presently set to .95 and I’d like to slow it down further.

Rhinoceros > Preferences > View: Zoom Scale Factor

[Helvetosaur]

@JKayten

I use the gumball arrows.

Do you know if you’re actually snapping the end of the curve you’re moving to the place you want on the perpendicular line? --Mitch

[Marc (Marc Gibeault)]

I use this option for the middle mouse button so they.re always close and ready:

[AlW]

Of course. Senior moment it is. Thanks.

[JKayten]

@Helvetosaur

Do you know if you’re actually snapping the end of the curve you’re moving to the place you want on the perpendicular line? --Mitch

Yes. After dragging a copy along the axis, I use the move tool to grab it at the end and place it on the spot it needs to be. In this case at the intersection, end, quaddrant.

[BrianM]

Once you have started the move command and started dragging the object, if you tap the ‘Tab’ keyboard button then the drag direction is locked. Used with ortho on, in this case, the end-pt of the curve being moved will end up aligned with the destination pt as opposed to on it, so any slight mis-alignment of the destination won’t affect the ortho movement.

[JKayten]

I forgot about the tab key. I’ll use that with the copy command which is just grand. I’m running the mac version of R so I’m not sure if the file is .rui, is that a windows thing?

[BrianM]

Someone else can tell us how the Mac version works, but in the Windows version, access to the toolbar ‘save as’ is from the properties dialog and the file you create resides in the McNeel/Rhinoceros/5.0/UI folder shown below.

[Chris]

I recorded a short screencast that might be of interest to you. I’m not sure why you want to build your geometry by projecting lines. Thinking that this might be an artifact of your previous experience with CAD I’m suggesting another way for you to look at the object development…not judging though.

Chris

[andrewmcc]

Per emilio’s comment above I would double check your tolerance settings.
This sounds like an issue you might have if you are trying to draw something in mm and your tolerance settings are set to large object feet.

http://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/faqtolerances

As a newer user I would take the time to read the users guide. It will help you better understand the architecture of the program.

[mattgaydon]

This is a very worrying thing to read as I need to move an object perfect up with the Gumball I set it to Align to World. If this is not true I sure hope i have not screwed up any buildings!!