URGENT open Objects distorted after running perspective macro is 4months work safe?

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

@Steve1

_-ViewportProperties_Rotation 0 _Enter

Hi Steve,

The macro you have posted will not run anyway because there is a typo in it. Did you copy and paste it or retype it into your post?

Regards
Jeremy

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

@Steve1

a file that may have taken on a loose cannon as a result of running a non native command

There is no “non native command” - a macro is simply one or more native commands strung together with appropriate option values. Its like a player piano, playing the same notes you do manually, but potentially quicker, and repeatably.

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

@Steve1

do please try it out, I have used it 3 times and no probs but now this.

take my brown object ( I cant post the entire thing, ) copy it to blue layer rotate it in persp, make a button, apply macro and test it.

Done that five times and no squashing. Try it yourself in your test file (not your work file so you’re not living in fear!) and keep going until you repeat the problem or dawn breaks. Then report back.

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

@Steve1

need also stop V5 doing that linked image nightmare urgently.

I offered you help with this in one of your other threads three days ago:

@jeremy5

Please post a file from which you wish to copy something and an empty file into which you want it pasted, with instructions on which item to copy. I need to see them in their state prior to you doing any copy and paste between them.

If you feel the issue is urgent, you might want to post the files there.

[Steve1]

Jim.

@JimCarruthers

The “4view” command absolutely does not change geometry. It’s something I use multiple times a day, I’m baffled as to how this could be the first time. IT DOESN’T CHANGE GEOMETRY.

see first post, a macro I had from Pascal to make vertical the view in perspective, did it, not the 4view command, that was suggested to try and fix it, but didnt work. The geometry got changed on what was on show immediately at the time the Pascal perspectiveView macro was run.

@jeremy5

The macro you have posted will not run anyway because there is a typo in it. Did you copy and paste it or retype it into your post?

I simply copy pasted it from Pascals post where he supplied it in the thread about a gumball control for perspective view.

Gumball type control for moving the perspective view?

Hi, V5 Imagine in perspective view an object like a book, its bottom edge nearest you. I have need of keeping the bottom edge horiz whilst rotating it downwards to see more of its front cover and also get more of an oblique aft view of it. ( seeing more spine in other words) If I use the normal perspective rotate tool I lose the horizontal bottom edge, it tilts. If I had a gumball type control I could rotate to see more cover, then rotate to get a more oblique aft view keeping the bottom of …

@jeremy5

If you feel the issue is urgent, you might want to post the files there.

I am working flat out trying to get this massive project finished, 4 weeks behind now, wrecking life, lost two days due to the images thing, working to 3am, its 1.34am and not eaten yet, exiting stage left now, I will post what you suggest as soon as Rhino allows me to have a day without some catastrophe.

Steve

[JimCarruthers]

@Steve1

see first post, a macro I had from Pascal to make vertical the view in perspective, did it, not the 4view command, that was suggested to try and fix it, but didnt work. The geometry got changed on what was on show immediately at the time the Pascal perspectiveView macro was run.

No it didn’t change anything. Nothing in that macro can scale your geometry. Nothing. NOTHING. Stop it. Either you actually ran something else or you had some weird views setup that led you to actually build squashed geometry, which seems quite likely given the baffling previous thread you got that macro from…though looking at your sample file it’s obvious the geometry has been scaled and not built that way, otherwise the wall thickness would be constant. If everything has just been squished a bit, use scale1D to stretch it back out.