Disable Perspective View in Cura

[pa9k 3]

Hello,

I was hoping there was a way disable perspective viewing mode and have it be orthographic. This is very useful when trying to fit multiple large prints onto the bed. Provides a much clearer picture of the relative location of the parts.

Edited December 8, 2017 by Guest

[mastory 42]

+1

For mechanical design, perspective views are rarely turned on in CAD software.  It is generally seen as a detriment for the kind of reason @pa9k mentioned.

What would be nice are a set of hot keys that center and zoom the model/build area from each of the orthographic viewpoints.

Edited December 8, 2017 by Guest

[pa9k 3]

They added (I first noticed them) buttons to jump to top, left, front, etc. views in 3.1 and they are helpful, but would be so much more useful if perspective could be toggled off.

[mastory 42]

How is the panning and zooming sensitivity in 3.1? I have a difficult time with the mouse inputs being hyper sensitive in 3.0.

[pa9k 3]

How is the panning and zooming sensitivity in 3.1?  I have a difficult time with the mouse inputs being hyper sensitive in 3.0.

I think about the same as 3.0. I didn't notice any obvious differences.

[Crisoberillo 1]

+1

I feel this as a very desirable feature

[Lava 0]

In my professional engineering life we have never used perspective except for maybe some renderings.

 

It makes sense otherwise when looking from the front or side when trying to fit a part in the envelope of the printer.

[ctbeke 129]

This has been requested several times already. In short: changing the camera types is pretty hard to do (how translate/scale/rotate/zoom works would have to be completely re-implemented). This means that it'll probably not happen anytime soon.

 

More details: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues/2545.

[findusdwarf 0]

Now we have Cura 4 but still there is only this useless central perspective.
I've been working with 3D CAD and other 3D programs for 20 years-no one seriously uses the central perspective to work here. Here, we almost always work with parallel perspective.
And then there are slicer programs, and almost everyone uses central perspective. What's that all about? Do the programmers want to show what they can do?
For meaningful work, I would like to see the good old parallel perspective in Cura as well, at least optionally. That would be great...

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[burtoogle 501]

The Cura devs are now working on providing an orthogonal view so this feature should be in Cura in the not too distant future.

[findusdwarf 0]

That's good news!

 

[pa9k 3]

2 hours ago, burtoogle said:

The Cura devs are now working on providing an orthogonal view so this feature should be in Cura in the not too distant future.

 

Do you have a source for this information?

[thopiekar 46]

@pa9k: See: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/pull/5768

[pa9k 3]

On 5/30/2019 at 8:26 AM, thopiekar said:

@pa9k: See: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/pull/5768

 

Oh wow, thats super exciting! Thanks for sharing that info