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 > http://scientificarts.com/worklife > Extending Mathematica's Reach.... > > > > > 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 >