[Therion] Rotating cross sections

[Bill Gee]

On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 21:19:26 Martin Budaj wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net> wrote:
> > Lastly, as a feature enhancement - It would be nice to have a way to tell
> > Therion to rotate scraps with "none" and "elevation" projections.  I have
> > a
> > number of sketches where the cave is drawn right-to-left but the cross
> > sections and elevations are drawn up-and-down.  I get around this by
> > making
> > two copies of the sketch (or three in some cases!) each of which is
> > rotated to present the relevant portion upright.  The flip command is not
> > adequate since it does 180 degree rotations.  I need to do 90 degree
> > rotations.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you can easily rotate (and re-scale) any cross-section using the red
> calibration line (see http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/tfc:332
> for instructions how to display it) combined with setting the real
> distance of calibration line ends in X and Y directions.
> 
> Elevations are automatically rotated according to positions of survey
> stations contained in them.
> 
> Martin

Hi Martin -

Ah HA!  So THAT is the trick ...  I did not realize that the orientation of 
the scale line controlled the rotation of the scrap.  I thought it controlled 
only the scale.

I just tried it on some cross-sections and confirm that it works.  Very nice!

Thanks - Bill Gee


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