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Selecting rotation angles

Trainguy44

June 05, 2015 23:36

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When rotating objects, it seems that you have to grab the arrow and move it. How about selecting the arrow, then filling in a box, as you can with length, width, height, distance from bed, etc. Would also be handy for me if you could measure distance between the edges of objects.

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  ıʍıʞ p ʍǝɹpuɐ June 06, 2015 22:05

  I agree, being able to enter Fractions of degrees up to two decimal places would solve a few issues for me

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  Guillermo Melantoni June 07, 2015 03:20

  You may see something like that soon (angles getting the chance of numeric input).
  Measuring between edges can get tricky in Tinkercad, but we can definitely try to solve it. It's not the first time we hear about it.
  Thanks!

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  np77375 August 03, 2015 15:50

  Lesson on building a wrench tells you to rotate the prism 30 degrees. The only thing that I see is either 22.5 or 45 degrees. Need number input or something.

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  Glenn Reimche August 03, 2015 16:10

  It's not obvious, but after starting your rotation, slide the mouse pointer outside of the circle grid defining the rotation.

  The rotational increments can then be much more precisely controlled.

  

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  winbidtm August 22, 2015 22:27

  +1 On wanting to be able to input fractions of degrees up to two decimal places, and also on wanting to be able to measure the distance between the CHOSEN edges of objects, I need to be able to align objects to the inside edges of holes of an STL file I imported and I can't currently do that. Thank you Tinkercad :)

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  boatguy3737 October 28, 2015 18:23

  Thanks Glen Reimche. That worked for me!

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  Trainguy44 October 28, 2015 18:28

  What would be handy would be to copy an object, then past it a fixed distance away.  Copy, Paste  +.5 inch (or 12.5 mm) or -1 inch (or 24.5 mm) etc

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  Guillermo Melantoni October 28, 2015 18:34

  Hi Trainguy44, have you tried using Ctrl/Cmd D for duplicating in place and then moving said distance? The other advantage here is that you can keep clicking Duplicate while the object is selected, and Tinkercad will keep adding duplicates considering the first increment (in movement and(or) rotation and(or) scale)

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  Trainguy44 October 28, 2015 18:37

  No, but I'll try that to see how well it works.  Thanks!

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  Alex Wiebe May 07, 2016 02:24

  A hack to rotate 0.5 degrees is to use the inner ring to rotate 22.5, let go and then use the outer ring to rotate back 22.

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  winbidtm May 09, 2016 05:34

  Thanks Alex Wiebe for the work-around. It would be nice if TinkerCad made it possible to input fractions of degrees up to two decimal places though.