Hi all,
For a Hinge I’m trying to uncheck the option “Rotate in world space”, but the Hinges sticks to the world space regardless.
Is there some kind of internal cache in Bongo that needs to be cleared in order to make the Hinge regard the new setting?
// Rolf
Not that I know off, nor in my experience.
Obviously the setting only gives impact when the pivot is basically oriented other than the World-coordinates?!
But what is it that orients the Pivot?
In my example (which you have seen) I have nothing but the object, but the object itself wouldn’t know the orientation (although I can visually see the angle it should have). I thought that the orientation (which you also illustrated above) was somehow calculated by Bongo - how else would it (the Pivot) know what to “aim” at?
Edit: In one attempt I even tried to use a line, which was oriented as I want the Pivot to be oriented, but still the Pivot won’t orient the same way. I wonder how you did it? Did you just uncheck the checkbox?
Fig 1. Pivot pointing “straight” along X-axis instead of being aligned with its object (the line) :
// Rolf
You must define the orientation of the pivot yourself, using the BongoOrientPivot command
or the button:
The OSnap tools can be used to get the x-axis of the pivot (in FrontView) from being horizontal to pointing the center of the sphere (use OSnap Center).
The Gumball cannot be used to orient or move the pivot (only to manipulate the object itself).
Ah, there it is! I thought I had checked all icons for just something like that, but obviously I missed it. Sorcery this… 
OK, now I know exaclty why I didn’t find it. The icon-menus are different, and it’s missing in the main menu which is the only one I’ve looked at. Apparently I didn’t expect the menus to be different…
This is the kind of UIs that makes people feel entirely lost. I mean, I actually expected to find such a tool, and still didn’t find it, and that means that the UI is a … ah, never mind. 
Now I can proceed anyway.
// Rolf
I absolutely agree Bongo’s toolbars need restructuring. It’s on the todo-list.
Meanwhile, keep on rocking 
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