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Hey Steve, is it possible in a future edition to add (in the 'Scale Custom' dialog box under Edit >> Scale) specific fields for the X/Y/Z axes? Perhaps a check box that says uniform scale which gives a single scale factor for all three axes, and then when it's unchecked it opens up the 3 individual axes?

Just a thought as I often want to make something granularly smaller or larger on just a single axis at a time and the mouse scaling tool isn't always fine enough

Here's my latest woodworking project which I first drew by hand, then modeled in Anim8or -  an "Everyday Carry Wall Hanger" (attached at the bottom).

I had to make a lot of modifications in the building process because I found in a lot of cases the way that materials and tools work in the real world is a lot different from how tings come together when modeling or drawing, lol!


I guess I'll start calling these "An8 to Life"! For getting quick dimensions and sketches, Anim8or is great and simple. I pretty much exclusively use it for this kinda of 'preconception' of ideas these days, and my next project is even more detailed and is coming out closer to the model than I usually tend to do.

I knew I wasn't crazy!! This is something I've been confused about for a while and I've finally found a way to replicate it. Not sure if it's meant to function this way, but basically the following steps lead up to this result:

• Made two cylinders, cut them in half. One of them is located at -3,28,0 and the other at -1,28,0, so the center point of these two objects should be -2,28,0
• Reconnected the top and bottom points to make a flat surface on each and filled it (J-command)
• Bridged the two flat surfaces to make an elongated shape with half-round ends (pill? or I guess "stadium" is the geometry name)

However for some reason, this ends up with an object whose center point reads as 0,0,0, but is in fact located (as in, its axis/"crosshair" thing) at -2,28,0.

The same thing happens if I use the Join Solids command before bridging them (as of course bridging two individual meshes has the Join Solids command built in it seems). This also seems to happen in a handful of other instances, like some grouping operations and other stuff that I can't think of right now, lol

Not sure if this is meant to happen but it's been a bit of a concern of mine for a while because it makes things like manually mirroring over the axis pretty difficult because the coordinates aren't correct to the world/viewport

File attached for reference

Hey guys! Throughout 2020 (mostly owing to the pandemic) I've had loads of time to get into woodworking, and from the very start (actually before last Christmas) I was using Anim8or as a sort of CAD program to get measurements and test out design and color schemes and such.

I've noticed as my woodworking skills progress, by ability to translate more complicated things into something I can make in Anim8or also increases, so I can create far more complex ideas on-the-fly in 3d before testing my skills with real physical tools. So fun!

I figured I'd share some of my projects, both in render and in real-life form so you guys can see!

_{(A few of them were adjusted to match the final build, and I have lost a few textures along the way but most of everything is rendered as it was modelled originally so you can see how closely the model translates to real-life - usually pretty darned accurate)}

I posted about this a while ago but I'm struggle with it again...
I have an objects whose physical center, bounding box, and 'crosshair' are all located at a location (roughly [-14,-1,0])
YET the coordinates OF the object read [0,0,0]. As far as my understanding goes, the physical location of this object is NOT the origin, and I've never moved the points themselves independent of the object's own origin, so I don't get what's happening.

Strangely, if I group the object with itself (so, just clicking on it and clicking 'g'), it suddenly shows with correct coordinates even though the object's center hasn't changed.

Not sure what's going on here.

(not a huge deal of course but I've had the issue before, and now I think it *might* actually be a bug?)

@Steve
Just pitching this: What if it were possible to have the "Mirrors" function, but where it worked on multiple objects all at once? So For example if you're making a bunch of the same exact mesh within an object but just in different various orientations (like say, a vase made up of 8 wavy strips in a circle formation), they can all have the same points edited at the same time?

Just an idea (which I feel could be easy to implement based on the existence of the Mirrors function? No clue of course as I'm not a programmer  )

It's been a long while since I just modeled a character for fun! Most of what I've been doing has been strictly CAD-type stuff for building projects (will post something about that soon too!), but I figured with all the work that Steve's poured in lately, and since the community seems to be on a slow but steady revitalization, I may as well spend a little time just doing something for fun.

I like every view of this characters face except the front view... idk why. I made the adult version and then tried a sorta 'parametric' child version, I think they're coming out pretty swell so far  Onto some morphs and a body model maybe?

_{-edit because it's not showing up on  mobile-}

Just a self-celebratory post on hitting exactly 10 days logged in, my 1000th post made, and glorious 11? years on the forum, probably more like 12/13 using Anim8or. Thanks Steve! HOpefully this type of post is allowed (maybe soon we can get a section of the forum for random chat )