Why is pan around in V7 ignoring the object?

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Hi, V5 and V7.
I have copy pasted an item (closed surface object) out from V5 and into V7,
I had just been panning around it in V5.
first thing I then find is panning around it in V7, it flies off screen.
In V5 it was in the middle of my panning around with mouse, done so thousands of times. It knows what I am looking at.

What is going on in V7 that it doesnt behave itself ?

Basic stuff.

Steve

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Your assumption that the Camera Target is automatically linked to an objects is incorrect. This is not a change between Rhino versions.
There are a couple ways to set the camera target to an object:

  • Select the object, run Zoom Selected, Zoom back and rotate the view
  • Set the camera target directly:
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or the next icon over, “Move camera target to object”

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Hi,
I never have done that in v5, it just does it, as if it reads my mind., for years…

so how become V5 pan rotates such without such option selection ?

I never knew where that option was or of it as never needed it, so somehow V5 does it instinctively.

Do I have to do that every time I wish to pan around an object in V7 ?

Steve

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One thing to check that might be different, is in Options > View for both V5 and newer. Is “Auto adjust camera target after Pan and Zoom” checked?
Checked is default.

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Hi, V5 and V7 ticked in both.

Steve

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Hi,
V5 and V7

having been in V5 many hrs a day for several weeks, I just try to work on the same file just now with some test objects in V7, and whilst In v5 I was rotating around the object with it staying central to screen, in V7 its whipping off screen, I have both set to Parallel view in Perspective mode, I have the settings as suggested as should be, same in both progs.

One cannot rotate around an object in V7.

I am trying to migrate to V7 but the basics are killing me.

What are folk experiencing, ?

One should be able to select an object and pan rotate tumble round it with it staying screen centre, as in V5, yet V7 will not do that.

Its a basic fundamental of CAD work, so how do I get it to do that, when I never had to think about it in V5 or V4 ?

back to V5 again .

Steve

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V7’s view rotation is different than V5’s. You will find yourself having to reset the rotation center more often than in V5. To set the rotation around a selected object, simply do a Zoom>Selected when it is selected.

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You can make Rhino 7 do exactly what you want if you use the Gumball - in Gumball>Settings, check “Rotate view around Gumball”. When you select an object, it will then always rotate around the selected object’s bounding box center.