Simplify3D User Forum

I'd like to be able to avoid that jumpy thing that happens when I move models around on the bed. (ctrl-left-drag). I get the idea behind it, but often it's just annoying. sometimes the view changes so much that the model i'm moving is no longer visible. even when that doesn't happen i almost always find it disorienting.

My suggestion is to do a check on the current viewer orientation and if it's close to straight down, then don't do any sudden shift of view. if I go to the trouble to rotate the view so that i'm looking down on the bed (more or less), then you can assume I know what I'm doing and leave the view alone. But (obviously) still only move the model in the xy-plane.

as a first guess, I think that anything within 15 degrees of looking straight down would be a good cutoff.

X2, and not just the jumpiness, if you are in the top view and dragging a model around you can hide one model behind another so you cant see the actual placement. my cad software doesnt do this at all. the top view no matter where on the grid something is placed you can see everything and line parts up correctly. its basically going into 2d mode. the whole point of being able to drag items around the bed is so you can precisely put them where they need to go which you cannot currently do.

As of version 3.0, the view no longer jumps to top-down when moving a model