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3D Transformations
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The Z-Dimension property page can be used to change the z-dimension of the selected entity. This page has no Apply button. The Translate, Scale and Outline operations can be executed separately by typing in the requested values and clicking the corresponding Go button.

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Figure 291: 3D Transformation Dialog

 

Mirror and Rotate: With the radio button the center of mirroring and rotation is selected.

mirror_rotate_center_origin The center is the origin point of the world coordinate system.

mirror_rotate_center_object_center The center conforms with the center of the selected object.

Pressing the first mirror button the selected objects gets mirrored to the XZ-plane. The painting plane is the XY-plane.

The rotation buttons are becoming activate when an angle is entered. The angle range is between -360 and 360 degrees.

Outline:

max, min: Positions the outline in the z-coordinate.

dim: Scales the object in z direction to the width given in dim.

Array: The array functionality allows to create reference copies of the selected entity in Z dimension. Reference copies in X and Y dimension can be found in the Entity Info property page.

Count: Define the number of copies in Z dimension.

Inc.: Define the distance between the copies in Z dimension.

The selectable radio buttons aside allow to enable any of the outline value fields, but disable each field which is not editable for the same translation to avoid conflicts.

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The Z-Dimension property page requires the Optic3D option.