I’m sure that I must be missing something but I can’t think what. Positioning a model on screen is driving me nuts! I can rotate the view of the model around the screen X axis but when I try to rotate around the screen Y axis the model just spins around the screen Z axis. Note I use the word screen …

Same here, invested on a high end iPad just for Shapr3D, and this is driving me nuts too, improvements need to be made with selection features also. With your user interface item locations you are breaking so many ergonomics rules, lots of user will have neck and wrist pain from unnecessary head and…

[image] OserCAD: With your user interface item locations you are breaking so many ergonomics rules, lots of user will have neck and wrist pain from unnecessary head and hand movement. Would love to understand these issues better. Can you elaborate a bit further?

I’ve had Shapr3d for about 3 years, but barely used it, which is a pity. I’m now changing that. :slight_smile: I have the same experience as the OP, about how the rotation works. However, for me it’s not always the same. Sometimes it works perfectly as I’d want it, and at other times in the same des…

If it matters, I have a 2017 iPad Pro 12,9 inch and all is kept updated to the latest versions.

Currently the cam rotates around the Z axis. We had several different implementations before, some of them worked exactly as you described, but eventually we ended up with this behaviour, because this was the least confusing for most users. Is there an app where you like a lot how the 3D cam works?

I’ve used Rhino some years ago. That did the rotation mostly as I liked it. There were some issues with where the rotation point distance while zooming, but otherwise good. What I wonder about is why my seemingly exactly equal input gets totally different results. I assume that I rotate from a diff…

I think another issue can be that the grid stays on the yz plane when you switch to Right view for example, and then the cam’s orbit axis changes. In this case just double tap on the cube to reset the view.

Thanks! That fixed it! If I start from tapping any of the side views, I get the behaviour I don’t like, the rotation around the horizontal axis perpendicular to the screen. If I double tap the orientation square, (great function that I use much) it goes to a perspective view, of course. Then the mod…

So the orbit axis is actually the grid’s normal axis. We found that quite intuitive by the time, but it might make sense to revisit this.

I’d think so. I believe the most intuitive and predictable behaviour would be to use an axis parallel to the screen and normal to the finger swipe direction. I guess you have to blend the rotation on both the horizontal and vertical axis? Or perhaps continuously generate a single rotational axis th…

Problem rotating the model view

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zombiRon March 28, 2021, 1:27pm 55

Or you could just let us LOCK THE GRID POSITION, this would allow the desired motion to stay consistent but still allow quick changing of view.

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Problem rotating the model view

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