In what unit is turntable animation speed?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
1

When I enter Turntable then I get a slider allowing adjustment of animation speed.

What unit is that speed in?

Background: I want to get a feeling how a certain object would look on a hardware turntable rotating at 0.5 rpm. For that I do not need to render the animation.

2

I’m not sure but @JohnM may know. I bet a setting of 5 would be close to a product display like this. If you can find a video of it running that would also give you a speed to match visually.

3

Turntable speed is a value between -100 and 100 that is used in a calculation that determines how much the view is rotated (angle) every time the scene is redrawn. Not sure this helps…

4

This looks like a @lowell command, I looked at the code and came to the same conclusion as @dale.

5

Well, yes, I see it’s between -100 and 100. I was asking for the unit. Here in Baden-Baden the current temperature is -0,9. :wink:

Anyhow, by trial and error I found that a value of 4 approximates 0.5 rpm.

In Rhino 3 with Flamingo 1.1, I believe the animation code was in VBScript, and I could investigate that myself. What I find now is binary.

6

This is going to depend on the complexity of the scene and your graphics card capacity. In my experience, every model will be different and complex models will slow way down…

–Mitch

7

I can confirm this. I use the command all the time in my class for demos and it’s always different.