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Re: Change center-position in 3D aerial mode
I just added the new FAQIs it possible to manually set the rotation center of the 3D view in Aerial view mode? In the hope that this question won't come back so often in the forum...
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
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Re: Change center-position in 3D aerial mode
I guess this issue will come back in the forum again and again, until you implement an option to choose the center position and a menu function to reset it to default position. As simple as that imo, but may be too difficult to implement ? Let us know. Thank you Emmanuel.
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Pierre, I agree 100%. Although I understand Emmanuel's point of view, it is neither intuitive nor effective to have the center forced to be in the middle of the bounding box of all created objects. But I will not give up hope for this feature next to be implemented :)
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Thank you baurat. I'm still waiting for Emmanuel's answer...
I think that behind the debate of centering the scene or not, (which has a partial solution by adding objects on the edge), there is a bigger drawback that is the zoom limit. As you build an environment around your house, it becomes impossible to zoom in and turn around your kitchen for exemple. That is actually the biggest issue in my opinion.
Let's keep hope for an answer at least ! ;-)
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Sorry to insist guys, but don't hope any change to the Aerial view mode in the coming versions.
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I think that behind the debate of centering the scene or not, (which has a partial solution by adding objects on the edge), there is a bigger drawback that is the zoom limit. As you build an environment around your house, it becomes impossible to zoom in and turn around your kitchen for exemple. That is actually the biggest issue in my opinion.
I am kind of "happy" to see that someone has exactly the same problems and thoughts about this issue.
... don't hope any change to the Aerial view mode in the coming versions
Well, this makes me unhappy again...
So for us, there's only the hope that maybe some day Emmanuel will change his mind. Until then, I will use SketchUp for 3D navigation and see what the house looks like from different views.
The virtual visitor mode might be a very fine option for certain purpose and for several users. Nevertheless I do have try the Virtual visitor mode during the evaluation and usage of this nice program , Virtual visitor mode is not an alternative for my purpose and usage since it take comparable too much time to rotate the object, or you can say to change the viewpoint around the object while keep the view-direction in middle of the object. I keep use the aerial mode even but the drawback that you can not zoom close. My work around for this is I limit object in my garden to be close to the house. I did really try the Virtual visitor mode and read help about the Virtual visitor mode and it is really great for visitor purpose, but not really when work with the objects to quickly view around from all angles.
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Re: Change center-position in 3D aerial mode
Lennart,
Have you tried the function 3D view --> Store point of view ? This allows you to set up a large number of "camera viewpoints" and store them in a list. You can then easily switch from one viewpoint to the next.
Example: - make 4 viewpoints from a distance, say North, West, South, East from a high point of view - make the same viewpoints from a low point of view - make the same viewpoints as close-ups from the interior of your design - etc
This could be far more flexible than changing your viewpoints with the Aerial View.
Hans
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Yes I did have tried the Store point of view, and I considered it is useful and more flexible yes, but can not replace the aerial mode due to two reasons. 1. The way I view objects is not only as static pictures, it is the actual dynamic movement in aerial mode that give a deep 3D picture, i.e. small or large movements during viewing the object, same method birds use since they have only one eye each direction. 2. The Store point of view would require quite a lot picture to setup a hole house with garden, and even if more free to chose angle etc etc I have consider it should take too much time to setup, to handle and specific to be updated, compared that the aerial mode give better dynamic control, unlimited number of angles, and still is usable also as it is.
