Maybe it's because I'm not very good at using the rotation function, but during the little time I have used your application I find myself using the "select all" function quite frequently in order to be able to rotate the entire model in the way that feels natural for me (around a central point rather than around a point that appears to lie almost outside the model.
For the same reason maybe you want to consider adding the option to be able to select a view angle in the way LDView does that so if anyone gets hopelessly lost they can quickly go to a fully aligned front, top or side view.
Anyway, rotating the whole model with regard to the grid may not be the most intelligent thing to do (which is what you do if you select a center point piece and then select all other parts and use the editing pin). Rather I'd like to (temporarily or permanently set the grid location 0,0,0 to the centre of the construction. I can do that but not very precisely and it involves dragging the whole construction to an approximate location in (at least) two steps.
BTW, ctrl+a is a standard shortcut (like ctrl+x/c/v or the ctrl+s/n which you use) which many users may expect to work because of that very reason. Assigning it to a different function might be confusing.
I hadn't realised Part Properties includes colour number. Great! Still a search by name (yellow, tan) would also be appreciated.
Have you considered including shortcuts for moving a piece one "step" in a specific direction? In MLCad, rather than drag a piece I usually use the keyboard to change the position and angle of a piece as this is much more accurate and also faster
For the same reason maybe you want to consider adding the option to be able to select a view angle in the way LDView does that so if anyone gets hopelessly lost they can quickly go to a fully aligned front, top or side view.
Anyway, rotating the whole model with regard to the grid may not be the most intelligent thing to do (which is what you do if you select a center point piece and then select all other parts and use the editing pin). Rather I'd like to (temporarily or permanently set the grid location 0,0,0 to the centre of the construction. I can do that but not very precisely and it involves dragging the whole construction to an approximate location in (at least) two steps.
BTW, ctrl+a is a standard shortcut (like ctrl+x/c/v or the ctrl+s/n which you use) which many users may expect to work because of that very reason. Assigning it to a different function might be confusing.
I hadn't realised Part Properties includes colour number. Great! Still a search by name (yellow, tan) would also be appreciated.
Roland Melkert Wrote:This is because the LDraw parts all have zero rotation, so it doesn't matter for them. But coping a selection uses the absolute placement matrix so they usually do have rotation. So when you have a brick placed at 90 degrees and copy it the paste will rotate the (90 degree rotated) brick again according to the last orientation (which could be something different if you e.g change the selection before using paste).Let me try to find out if we are talking about the same thing here: I select a piece, hit ctrl+c then ctrl+v and the new piece does not have the rotation of the piece that was selected when I hit ctrl+v but rather the standard orientation of the piece. I did not change the selection before pasting...
Have you considered including shortcuts for moving a piece one "step" in a specific direction? In MLCad, rather than drag a piece I usually use the keyboard to change the position and angle of a piece as this is much more accurate and also faster