Smokeview: 3DPlot and camera viewpoint

[leenkne...@gmail.com]

Dear all

I have a few Smokeview questions, which I couldn't solve with the manual.

In the 3D plot, you can visualize on 4 planes: x,y,z and a freely rotatable plane centered in the volume.
- I know how to navigate the x, y and z-plane, but it is not clear to me how to change the rotating plane? Sometimes it works just by clicking and dragging, but usually I end up dragging the whole model. Is there a trick?
- I can show/hide the x,y and z-planes using x,y and z-keys, but how do I hide the rotating plane?
- I can edit the perspective/angle with e, and that allows me to drag the view so that I am looking straight at the x or the y directions. Is there a trick to get an instant top view?
- Can I tell Smokeview, I want a 2D-Contour plot for x = 30 or z = 2.5?

Thanks!

Sarah

[Glenn Forney]

Double click and drag to rotate arbitrarily oriented plane. Press w to show/hide this plane. there is a dialog box for controlling view of this plane. Check manual for menu location or hunt around under Dialogs menu

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[leenkne...@gmail.com]

Thanks, that helped.

I still have trouble rotating the viewpoint, so that I have a top view of the scene with clean straight edges (like in Figure 7.1 with the overhead view). I played around with keyframes and Cartesian view directions, but don't really get if that is the way to go and how to use it.

Am Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2017 17:42:40 UTC+1 schrieb Glenn Forney:

Double click and drag to rotate arbitrarily oriented plane. Press w to show/hide this plane. there is a dialog box for controlling view of this plane. Check manual for menu location or hunt around under Dialogs menu

On Jan 11, 2017 11:17 AM, <leenkne...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all

I have a few Smokeview questions, which I couldn't solve with the manual.

In the 3D plot, you can visualize on 4 planes: x,y,z and a freely rotatable plane centered in the volume.
- I know how to navigate the x, y and z-plane, but it is not clear to me how to change the rotating plane? Sometimes it works just by clicking and dragging, but usually I end up dragging the whole model. Is there a trick?
- I can show/hide the x,y and z-planes using x,y and z-keys, but how do I hide the rotating plane?
- I can edit the perspective/angle with e, and that allows me to drag the view so that I am looking straight at the x or the y directions. Is there a trick to get an instant top view?
- Can I tell Smokeview, I want a 2D-Contour plot for x = 30 or z = 2.5?

Thanks!

Sarah

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[Glenn Forney]

Rotate view to get close to the view you want then type ! or ~ to snap view to nearest 45 deg. Check appendix c for right key code. 

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