i have a question to the view in rhino 8.
I always work in “Parallel” Projection instead of “Perspective”. If i change the Cplane from for example “Top” to “Front” the wholw view is then normal to the Cplane. This wasn’t the case in Rhino 7 and it just happens in the “Parallel” Projection not if i have the “Persepective” Projection activated.
The awaited reaction is that if i activate the Right CPlane that the cplane change but not the view.
Also sometimes it happens that the Option “Always Pan parallel view” activates itself.
Is there a setting i can’t found or is this action planed the way it is?
Viewport (more or less a virtual monitor) View (the resulting image of a camera) C-Planes (construction Plane) “plan parallel views” (the c-plane is connected with the view, pan parallel views is active)
there are a few commands that can help you handle / individualise, break, or mess up the default settings / viewports:
_cplane
_plan
_setView
unlock: Right Mouse button (RMB) with ctrl+shift to unlock a plan parallel view.
(this might switch projection from parallel to perspective)
lock RMB start rotating the camera, add ctrl+shift to look to the next plan parallel view
(this might switch projection from perspective to parallel)
are you working with multiple viewports ? (recommended !)
(you can work with multiple viewports, but only have one visible at the time, just use the tabs below the main window to switch)
after starting with a build in template - what s the minimum workflow you re using to mess up your view settings, what did you expect? (so we might suggests an alternative)
Hy,
thanks for the answer, but this is not helping for now.
To make that more clear:
if i take the standard rhino template file. A “Viewport” is named “Perspective”. So now in the Properties panel i change the Projection from “Perspective” to “Parallel”.
Next step:
i draw a random box and rotate it around the z-axis of the world top cplane (which is the standard cplane for the perspective viewport) by 45°.
next:
with the command “Set Cplane to Object” i choose one of the side surfaces of the box → my actual “view” (yes my view inside my actual viewport which is named “Perspective”) changes.
It’s like i changed my cplane and then click “Top view of Cplane”
this behavier is different to what i expect and different to if i haven’t changed the Projection.
so if i do the same steps, but without changing the Projection to “Parallel” - only the cplane is changeing but the view in what ever viewport i’m in stays the same.
In my opinion this is a behaviour which is not meant to be. I think there is also a bug because sometimes (not always) if i change my cplane and all i explained above happens, also the options “Always Pan parallel views” gets activated. This happens randomly.
For me the Projection “Parallel” is the only way to work - but it should do exactly the same like in Projection “Perspective”
