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Michael Young

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Mar 10, 2009, 6:37:38 AM3/10/09
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Hi,

I am running Mathematica 7.0.1 under OSX 10.5.6 using an ATI Radeon HD
2600 graphics card.

In looking at the Plot3D documentation, I evaluated the notebook to
rotate its figures. Following this there was no apparent change, but
immediately upon mouse-rotation, images 2 and 4 of the Basic Examples
appeared to zoom in very close to center so that the entire plot could
not be fully viewed. Apart from that nothing else seemed wrong.

Why might this be?

Thanks, Michael

dbr...@gmail.com

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Mar 11, 2009, 5:23:51 AM3/11/09
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Go to the Mathematica Preference Dialog.

In that Dialog select the Interface tab.

In that tab, check the box that says "Automatically re-fit 3-D
graphics after rotation."

I am not sure why the graphic zooms so much if that box is unchecked:
it seems as though it is much too much of a zoom, and perhaps this is
a bug.

That checkbox covers the global setting of the option RotationAction.

Hope that this helps,

David
http://scientificarts.com/worklife
Extending Mathematica's Reach....


On Mar 10, 6:37 am, Michael Young <michaelcharlesyo...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Mathematica 7.0.1 under OSX 10.5.6 using an ATI Radeon HD =



> 2600 graphics card.
>
> In looking at the Plot3D documentation, I evaluated the notebook to

> rotate its figures. Following this there was no apparent change, but =



> immediately upon mouse-rotation, images 2 and 4 of the Basic Examples

> appeared to zoom in very close to center so that the entire plot could =

ADL

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Mar 11, 2009, 5:24:23 AM3/11/09
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This happened to me from versions 6.00 to 7.01, under Windows XP and Vista.
I could not find any way to prevent it and it appears unpredictable:
some plots show this behavior, some don't.

ADL

dbr...@gmail.com

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Mar 12, 2009, 3:17:15 AM3/12/09
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I reported this to Wolfram as a bug....


On Mar 11, 5:24 am, ADL <alberto.dilu...@tiscali.it> wrote:
> This happened to me from versions 6.00 to 7.01, under Windows XP and Vist=

Michael Young

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Mar 13, 2009, 5:53:47 AM3/13/09
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Hi David, and thank you for your help.

My thinking also was that this was a bug. But I did not find a way to
report it directly to Wolfram and so, , am glad you did.

Michael


On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:57 PM, dbr...@gmail.com wrote:

> Go to the Mathematica Preference Dialog.
>
> In that Dialog select the Interface tab.
>
> In that tab, check the box that says "Automatically re-fit 3-D
> graphics after rotation."
>
> I am not sure why the graphic zooms so much if that box is unchecked:
> it seems as though it is much too much of a zoom, and perhaps this is
> a bug.
>
> That checkbox covers the global setting of the option RotationAction.
>
> Hope that this helps,
>
> David
> http://scientificarts.com/worklife
> Extending Mathematica's Reach....
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 10, 6:37 am, Michael Young <michaelcharlesyo...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:

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