How to orbit around another point with a 3D mouse ?

How to orbit around another point with a 3D mouse ?

hugues1965
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How to orbit around another point with a 3D mouse ?

hugues1965
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Hi,

 

I have a 3D mouse and it works fine in Meshmixer. The only thing is that the orbit center is always in the middle of the part. That works fine when you look from far, but when you get closer to a specific place on the part, i would like sometimes to move the orbit point on that place. For example on the right headlight of a car, i would like to place the orbit point on the headlight when I zoom in on that part.

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Unfortunately there's no space mouse support on macOS I'm on... so this how to define a different orbit at a standard interface:

Hitting C, while the cursor is over the mesh, centers the orbit on that point.

Another way is to SELECT the area of interest and to do menu:View/RecenterView. In case there's a selection MM does a fit to view, constructs a different nearby clipping plane plus it calculates the orbit's pivot to the centroid of the selection.

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hugues1965
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Excellent !

Both work, C or Select then Recenter View.

You're saving me some headaches !

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Anonymous
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You're welcome!

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Anonymous
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Can we get space mouse support on the mac side please!

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