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Re: Unexpected zoom when rotating Plot3D

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• Subject: [mg97457] Re: Unexpected zoom when rotating Plot3D
• From: Michael Young <michaelcharlesyoung at earthlink.net>
• Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:54:03 -0500 (EST)
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Hi David, and thank you for your help.

My thinking also was that this was a bug.  But I did not find a way to  
report it directly to Wolfram and so, [mg97375], am glad you did.

Michael


On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:57 PM, dbreiss at gmail.com wrote:

> Go to the Mathematica Preference Dialog.
>
> In that Dialog select the Interface tab.
>
> In that tab, check the box that says "Automatically re-fit 3-D
> graphics after rotation."
>
> I am not sure why the graphic zooms so much if that box is unchecked:
> it seems as though it is much too much of a zoom, and perhaps this is
> a bug.
>
> That checkbox covers the global setting of the option RotationAction.
>
> Hope that this helps,
>
> David
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> On Mar 10, 6:37 am, Michael Young <michaelcharlesyo... at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running Mathematica 7.0.1 under OSX 10.5.6 using an ATI Radeon  
>> HD
>> 2600 graphics card.
>>
>> In looking at the Plot3D documentation, I evaluated the notebook to
>> rotate its figures.  Following this there was no apparent change, but
>> immediately upon mouse-rotation, images 2 and 4 of the Basic Examples
>> appeared to zoom in very close to center so that the entire plot  
>> could
>> not be fully viewed.  Apart from that nothing else seemed wrong.
>>
>> Why might this be?
>>
>> Thanks, Michael
>