Any method to fix up and down when rotating

Working with building and big steel structures no one actually wants to tilt
their models

Its SW 2005,

Looking for at check mark in "always up" "fix vertical" or something like
that.

 

I don't believe there's anything to help you out. You could click on a
vertical axis and rotate around that, but there is nothing that will
keep one end up. You might be able to control that with a spaceball, not
sure, but that would be paying more money for less functionality. What
if you have to see the bottom of a joint?

I think you will find that there is some value to seeing things from
another point of view. Model visualization is not about seeing things
represented the way they're found in the real world, its about seeing
what you need to see. When you go in a building, do you only look down?

 

Maybe I should explain better. It's not the orientation of the view of
course I want to be able to look at every thing from any angel, but this
could be obtained with only two rotation functions.

Imagine a house, the chimney is up. If I rotate in the ground plane I could
look from N, E, W, S. and the "levitation" could go from 0 to 90 degrees.
With these two functions I could see everything from any directions,
correct?

The problem occurs if you rotate with the mouse out of the vertical or
horizontal the house will tilt (or is it your head). It's not only in SW but
also in the e-drawing viewer.

What in need is a function like the one on google earth where north is up.

Regards

 

I'm probably still getting your request wrong, but here are two useful
items that come to mind based on my reading of what you wrote:

1) if you want to rotate the image so the chimney is still 'up', try
Alt-'arrow key', whih rotates the screen. You can change the amount of
rotation for each click of the arrow key in tools>options (I have used
2deg for years)

2) If you want to quickly switch from plan view to elevation 1,
elevation 2, etc, use SHIFT-'arrow key'.

When I want minor shifts in the angle of the view, I almost always use
just the arrow keys instead fo the mouse (but again, I have them set to
2deg, not the default which is something like 15 deg)

Last note, likely not relevant but just...in...case...: you do know
that you can click any of the standard views (Front, Top, whatever) and
use the 'update standard views' button on the view-orientation box (hit
spacebar by default to get this to pop up on your screen) and redefine
that selected view to your match your current view? This will only be
useful if your plan view doesn't line up with any of the base planes
and you really wish that SWx would think they did.

Ed
BTW - I must admit my ignorance here - I do not know if any of this
applies to the edrawings viewer, but I really doubt it (other than
perhaps the changes in view-orientation - even-odds that makes a
difference in edrawings).

 

Makes me remember that playing "X-Wing something" before actualy helped me
with SW when I started.
Flying upside down and looking to a model in an unusual way has something in
common.
Just have to accept it, and then it's fine...
My .0001 Eu
JM

 

I've used a Spaceball for 10 years or so, and it changes your thinking about model rotation.
Since it allows 6 DOF motion, you can "fly" around and through a model at will. It has the
ability to lock out any rotation axis or direction of translation. To rotate about Y only,
just lock X and Z.

Art