Reature request, update Screw, Spin, Spin Dup

madcello · Post by **madcello** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:39 pm

My simple feature request is:

Accept positive and negative degrees, and accept float values.

I miss both of them almost every time i use this tools.

BeBraw · Post by **BeBraw** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:51 pm

There's Clockwise toggle button in Screw\Spin\SpinDup controls for that.

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:00 pm

I think you made good points. It's probably just a change of button type.

BeBraw · Post by **BeBraw** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:29 am

I made a patch to allow negative values in Degrees. You can find it at http://bebraw.googlepages.com/negadeg.txt. I tried to change the type to float but it seems it requires some change to DNA.

BeBraw · Post by **BeBraw** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:12 am

I updated the patch to work with floats in degrees. Have fun!

paprmh · Post by **paprmh** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:28 pm

Nice job! it works well...

If I may make a suggestion...you should probably get rid of the clockwise button with your patch. If you set degrees to a negative value, and deselect the clockwise button, it spins in a positive direction again...it may be confusing to users to have both

BeBraw · Post by **BeBraw** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:59 am

paprmh: Thanks for comments! I did try to remove Clockwise button but it seems it is related to Screw tool. It basically sets the direction in which the screw is created.

That is a valid point though. Let's see if we can figure out a better solution for this.

madcello · Post by **madcello** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:41 am

Thank you alot.

Blender is growing very fast with lots of new tools, but i think that some of the "old" tools, with some care, can make wonderfull things. Thank you again!