9 Secondary tools
9.1 Travel throughout dimensions
This tool can be reached through the “Tools / Travel throughout dimensions” menu.
It allows the user to manually set the three projection dimensions by mixing the projection dimensions computed by the system (ND -> 3D mode).
The content of each axis is set by the mean of sliders, each slider corresponding to an available projection dimensions.
Clicking the “Draw” button causes the objects to move smoothly to their new coordinates (see figures 45 to 47).
The most simple use of this tool is quite similar to the one offered by the “Projection axes” subwindow of the “3D->ND” perspective (see section 7.9).
Nevertheless, using this secondary tool, the user can compute any mix of dimensions, for instance summing the values of several dimensions on the x3 axis.
| Figure 45: Travel throughout dimensions:objects are projected on the three main projection dimensions. |
| Figure 46: Travel throughout dimensions: we choose to replace the third dimension with the fourth on axis x3. |
| Figure 47: Travel throughout dimensions: after the axis modification. |