Re: Rotable Graphics and ViewPoint
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg78584] Re: Rotable Graphics and ViewPoint
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 03:53:36 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <f67mco$2vu$1@smc.vnet.net>
Helen Read schrieb: > First of all, I love the ability in 6.0 to grab 3D graphics and spin > them around with the mouse. However, it would be nice if there were a > more obvious way to return to the original ViewPoint and ViewVertical > settings. Re-executing the graphic doesn't do it. I just now discovered > that deleting the output cell before re-executing *does* return the > graphic to the original ViewPoint / ViewVertical, but this (to me) > wasn't an obvious thing to do. (I've had 6.0 for a good six or eight > weeks, and I just now thought of it. Up until now I had been copying the > input into a new cell and executing the new one, which I found a bit > annoying.) OK, deleting the output before re-executing does work, but > it's an extra step that I don't think should be necessary. > > Also, after rotating a graphic with the mouse, it would be nice to have > an easy way to save a copy of the input for the graphic with the current > ViewPoint (and ViewVertical) settings. Right now the only way I can see > to extract the ViewPoint (and ViewVertical) is to open up the output > cell (Shft-Ctrl-E), scroll all the way to the end, copy the ViewPoint > and ViewVertical, close up the cell, and paste the ViewPoint and > ViewVertical into my input. This isn't something I'd ever suggest to my > students. > > So here's what I would really like. > > 1. Re-executing a 3D graphic would return it to the original ViewPoint > and ViewVertical settings. > > 2. An easy way to make a copy of a graphic with the current ViewPoint > and ViewVertical settings pasted into the input, sort of like the way > Paste Snapshot works for Manipulate, so that I can delete all output > before quitting, come back later and recreate the graphic in the state > that I had it. > > (With regard to #2, my students have limited storage space on the > network, and it also makes the files smaller for passing them around via > e-mail or web if we can save them with output deleted.) > > -- > Helen Read > University of Vermont > Helen, instead of looking at the file contents with Shft-Ctrl-E you can reevalute the output cell where you moved the graphic and then call Options[%] You will get all the altered settings You can also write Options[ ], put the cursor between the brackets and then paste in the output cell with Shft-Ctrl-L But still you have to delete the additional graphic after pasting the View* settings Gruss Peter -- ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de