8b. Using the manipulator
To use the manipulator, first select a point or points (or if you are in material axis mode everything you need is selected for you). Turn on the manipulator
and it will appear with its vertex at the centered at your selection (so if you pick only one point, the manipulator will be centered around it, but if you pick four points the manipulator will center its vertex at the center of the four points). Then click on the arrow at the end of the manipulator line which coincides with the axis you wish to move the selection in (it should lie directly parallel with the corresponding axis line). When translation is turned on, the selection will be moved only in the direction of the manipulator line chosen regardless of what axes are turned on or off. When rotation is turned on along with the manipulator, two circles appear around the object, one usualy being yellow and another colored the same as its corresponding axis (green = y, red = x, blue = z) The correspomding axis will be the one you are looking straight down on (in other wods you will not be able to see it, so you must rely on the color coorespondence). Click the colored line and drag the mouse to rotate the selection around only that axis, or click the yellow outer line to rotate in multiple axes.
If there is some other feature of hamaPatch that you need further explanation on or for questions, comments, or additions to this documentation please contact: draven2561@hotmail.com.
Documentation by Jonathan Lee Jan. 18, 2005.
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