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Hello,

I'm still a new user of S3D, and it's a fine package overall. But I have found that the left edge of my printer bed can be below the specified bed temperature. So when I have objects that extend almost to that edge, I wish to rotate them 90 deg. Of course, there is a rotate button, but it seems to only allow a rotation action by mouse, and getting an exact 90 deg. rotation with the mouse is iffy, at best. Is there some way to enter a numerical rotation angle for this action?

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

John Doner

.... double-click on the object ...


horst.w, GER

Click on the support link at top of page and watch the videos. They helped me a lot getting started.

Here's a link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5rLVYpeoXU

While the OP didn't understand all the numeric movements are available in the dialog that appears after double clicking a model, his first impression is understandable and an important thing to note for the UI developers.

The visual rotation tool (as well as the visual scale and position tools) absolutely should show the numeric values, and even allow the user to enter precise numeric values, without having to double click and open the dialog. Without it the visual tools are unnecessarily pretty limited in use.

Hopefully the next release will include some basic UI updates and polish like this.

prgenovese wrote: The visual rotation tool (as well as the visual scale and position tools) absolutely should show the numeric values, and even allow the user to enter precise numeric values, without having to double click and open the dialog. Without it the visual tools are unnecessarily pretty limited in use.

100% agree.
This is exactly the reason why i visited this forum for the first time,