Anyone know why orientcameratosrf rotates the view in whatever manner it chooses? Sure, the view is perpendicular to the surface but the view is rotated 90° or whatever angle Rhino decides. Anyone know how to make it not just do whatever it wants?
have you got a file? i have no idea why it would rotate by 90° never happened to me, i assume you might have your cplane or viewport rotated and are working from there… but thats just highly speculative.
Hi Erik - it might be more predcitable/controllable with a macro using the CPlane:
_CPlane _Surface _Pause _Pause _Pause _SetView _CPlane _Top _Cplane _Undo
- nestable
CPlanecommand > Surface option - three pauses to a) select the surface, b) set the origin, c) set the rotation.
- nestable
SetViewcommand > Cplane option > Top option, i.e. set the view to look at the current CPlane from its ‘top’ with X to the right. - CPlane command > Undo option to reset to the previous CPlane, now that the view is where we want it.
Note setting the view to CPlane Top does not force the projection - perspective cameras will keep perspective projection. To force a parallel view the simplest is to replace the SetView part of the macro with the Plan command.
_CPlane _Surface _Pause _Pause _Pause _Plan _Cplane _Undo
-Pascal
orientcamertosrf.3dm (2.0 MB)
I never mess with cplanes since i don’t really understand them well, just gets confusing for me.
Pascal’s method works though.
That works well Pascal. Can you point to a resource for learning about cplanes more?
There is this -
https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/7/help/en-us/index.htm#commands/cplane.htm#(null)
-Pascal
Okay, the command lists can always help. I think I just need to use cplanes more and get comfortable with it. Thanks Pascal.