¢hris £und Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 in 6.x, I was able to rotate to a grid Snap. in 8.5 only the º increment appears to matter. Is there a trick I am missing? If anybody is wondering, why I need to do something like this, 1/3rd of my efforts is in documenting flat patterns (not nice rectilinear shapes as shown here) that when they are flattened, they often will fall in a messy orientation. So, I go through and clean up to make the patterns more human readable. See Video; cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Put the cursor over the corner, press Command Space and a Guide will be created. (Make sure Guide Snap is on.) Then you can do exactly what you want. Command Shift Space will remove the guide if you want to get rid of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted September 14, 2015 Author Share Posted September 14, 2015 huh, not working. cmd-space does nothing. Guide Snaps are on. Pulled up the Video regarding Guide Snaps too. I pulled My preferences the other day due to another issue. Guess I will try it again for this one. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Hi Chris, Yes, Command Space is the default key shortcut for creating a temporary guide -- but Apple has also recently added that key shortcut as a Spotlight Search, so if you have that Apple shortcut set, it will execute that function instead of the one defined in formZ. If you want to keep that as your Spotlight Search, you can set a different shortcut for formZ via the Edit Menu: Key Shortcuts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted September 14, 2015 Author Share Posted September 14, 2015 Easy choice, I only use spotlight for finds in the finder.... I will lobotomize Apple's shortcuts. Thank you" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted September 14, 2015 Author Share Posted September 14, 2015 Thanks Rob and Zweb! For the scenario I specified it works pretty well. A little more cumbersome (dependent on existing geometry) than it used to be, but I am ok with that. Other scenarios, It appears to be not solved though. (snapping to a 45º or something other than perpendicular without building extra geometry). For Constructing, the new method is clearly superior and well thought out. and in no way should go back the the old way. However, for deconstructing and mapping for documentation... Request: a hot key to override the Angle Snap so that the Grid snap can Shine through. Cheers, and thank you again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Montoya Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 I agree. We've been missing the ability to easily rotate objects back to Ortho that are at an arbitrary angle since v7. We should not have to draw a temporary guide to do this. The automatic guide that pops up 'forgets' Ortho as soon as you begin to rotate. If it stayed available as one of the snaps, it would work perfectly. I believe this is a bug in the rotation guide tool. In fact... it was supposed to be fixed... http://www.formz.com/forum/old/messages/16/89150.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Yes, it should snap to the original guide -- but two quick key shortcuts and you are still there. Could be a tiny bit better, but bam-bam-done... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 An Ortho Guide would work for me pretty well too. Though, I would still like a modifier key to turn off the Angle Snap. There are circumstances where I snap to other angles to the World coordinates too (though Ortho is most important) Funny though, I never actually used the Ortho Guide in 6.x. Just the grid Snaps. Have to admit, Bam Bam is fast.... and usually who cares... however, it is twice as long as Bam and over a large project where there are hundreds of patterns and my cutter is chomping at the bit to get things cut... that adds up to hugely slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 Duplicate Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Justin, Yes, the original guide needs to be maintained so the temporary guide is unnecessary. Thanks for the reminder, we will get this adjusted for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Montoya Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Hello Tech, I was hoping we could get an update for this rotation issue? It is really annoying to have to draw a temporary guide every time we need to rotate an object back to Ortho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Hi Justin, Sorry for the delay -- yes, that should be addressed by the next update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 This issue has now been resolved. Please see this posting for more details: http://forums.formz.com/index.php?/topic/4271-form•z-856-update-released/ Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Montoya Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 AWESOME! THANK YOU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted October 14, 2016 Author Share Posted October 14, 2016 Looking forward to working with this!!!! Thanks! ¢£ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted October 14, 2016 Author Share Posted October 14, 2016 whoa! this is even better than in V6.x! I don't have to move it to a grid before the rotation. I know these little things don't seam like much, but they are! Perfect! Thank you! ¢£ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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