Light ROM 4/Light ROM 4 - Disc 1.iso/text/net_news/1995/031095.doc/text0210.txt

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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Eric J
Fleischer) wrote:

> >:   I was recently cleaning up some stuff in modeler. Basically all I
> >:   was doing was centering some points on an outlne to be extruded.
> >:   I found that several points were off on the Z axis. I had to
> >:   select the offending point cut it move to an empty layer and
> >:   paste it there. Then I ran the Center1D macro on it. Of course
> >:   I had to cut return to the original level and paste it back. Is
> >:   there a Macro that will do this ? I found that if you have more than
> >:   two offending point and they are not on the same axis and you go through
> >:   the above it splits the difference and while often closer still misses
> >:   the mark.
> >
> >Not quite sure if this will help you or not, but if you are just trying
> >to get the points to sit at 0 on the z axis along with the rest of the
> >points to create a smooth plane, select the points that are off on the
> >z.  Next hit the (i) key.  This will bring up the info menu.  Here you
> >can numerically go through and adjust the points that are not on the z
> >axis with precise measurements.  Keep hitting the next button until
> >you've gone through all the points you selected.
>
> Geez, you guys sure are doing things the hard way. If you want to make the
> Z axis of all of a group of points the same, whether you want to make it
> zero or anything else, just select those points, and call up the SCALE
> requester. Set the factors to X=1 Y=1 Z=0, and the centers to X=0 Y=0, and
> Z=whatever you want things moved to, in your case, 0.
>


Don't make life hard, just use "Set Val" ("Tools" menu).

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