Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Move a CV to absolute coordinates

Here's the question I got from Bart:

John:
>
> I've got a "move CVs" question. Is there something that can be entered in the Command Line that will force a CV to a certain value? For instance, I want to move some CVs to a Z value of "0". I know you showed us one technique for this. Can it be done in the command line as well?
>
> Thanks,
> Bart


Yes, you can click on the word CVs (click to show) in the channel box to see their relative coordinates. The problem is, all of them start life at relative 0,0,0 until you tweak them.

The MEL command to do an absolute move will work as expected, however.
Just pick a CV and then type:
move 0 0 0;

That'll send it to the origin.

To do an absolute translation on a single axis:
move -z 0;

That'll leave x and y alone.

For full info, type:
help move
into your script editor.

-JP

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