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SuezanneC Baskerville
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09-21-2006 23:40
How do you use the Reference ruler mode?
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Candide LeMay
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09-22-2006 00:22
Select an object (for best demonstration use something rotated arbitrarily), go to Tools->Use selection for grid. The object now acts as reference, you can align other prims with its rotation etc when you are in the reference ruler mode.
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Raindrop Drinkwater
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09-22-2006 03:30
Thanks for the tip! I didn't know that either. This is going to be VERY useful.
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Chosen Few
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09-22-2006 08:58
I've been wondering myself for the longest time how to use that reference thing. I almost never use the grid, so I hadn't experimented with it much. Thanks for the info, Candide.
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Martin McConnell
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09-22-2006 09:57
OHHHHHHHhhhhhhh. (lightbulb comes on)
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Ralph Doctorow
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10-18-2006 12:34
I must be missing some magic. When I turn on the grid I don't see it and the Reference mode doesn't seem to do anything.
Is Reference mode supposed to reset the origin to the center of the object selected, or is it just for rotations?
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Erin Talamasca
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10-18-2006 13:28
Not sure what you mean by origin, but yes, it is for rotations. When you rotate an object normally, it's N/S/E/W - using this, you can build at a silly angle. For example my house wouldn't face the sea if it was aligned perfectly straight. If I'd built it in place (which I didn't) I could have placed the floor prim facing the right way, and by using the reference options, aligned all the walls using it's angle instead of n/s/e/w, so I could line up the walls flat to it without fiddling around.
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BarbaraEllen Galsworthy
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10-18-2006 14:31
Here's another tip. While grabbing, and dragging the colored movement rotation rings, axis arrows, you would have to move the cursor into the white grid markings to allow the snap-to-grid feature to work. This grid can be scaled up, or down to allow for larger, or smaller distances between the markings in the Grid options, and the scaling is only applied to the linear measurements, not the degrees of rotation. This feature would allow you to do some fairly precise free-hand movement of the object for alignment.
The snap-to-Grid feature is also available for the scaling feature(CRTL-SHIFT) of the prim. The snap-to-Grid feature for Rotation is available using the CRTL key. When the UseGrid feature is checked the normal linear movements will automatically show the white Grid markings while clicking and dragging the axis arrows.
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