[Paraview] .Creating an orbit camera path with a certain angle to normal

[Karen Wilk]

Hedieh,

Hello!  I successfully got my object to orbit as I wanted by doing:

Open the camera settings for the object
Play with the camera settings until you have the object positioned the way you want it to orbit.  
I used the -x position button on the paraview gui as a starting point.  That positions it so that the +x axis is pointing out.  You can then use the Elevation on the camera settings to tilt it to a specified angle.
When you have it the way you want it, open the animation view.
Select camera and then hit the plus sign on the left to add a camera to the animation view.  Just accept the values in the center, normal, origin popup.
Hit play.
The object will orbit using the camera settings.
If you want to change your camera settings:
delete the camera in the animation view,
change your camera settings,
then add the camera back into the animation view.  It uses the camera settings at the time when it's added.

Hope this helps!
Karen


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Today's Topics:

   1. Strange tube behaviour (Richard Beare)
   2. Creating an orbit camera path with a certain angle to	normal
      of object (Hedieh Ebrahimi)
   3. Re: Memory leak with Python script (XDMF and HDF5) (Jason Fleming)
   4. Re: Curvilinear to (uniform) rectilinear grid? (Oleg Sergeev)




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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:44:23 +0200
From: Hedieh Ebrahimi <hedieh.ebrahimi at amphos21.com>
Subject: [Paraview] Creating an orbit camera path with a certain angle
	to	normal of object
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Hello,


Could anybody please give me a hint how I can create an orbit (camera path) around an object by setting

CENTER, NORMAL AND ORIGIN of camera orbit in the Animation View.

I know how to create an arbitrary orbit, but I don?t know how to create an orbit that has a certain angle with the normal of the object.

It is a very time consuming task If I want to create this orbit each time by manually setting points and I was wondering if there was any way to create an orbit around the object that has a specific angle with the object .

Thanks for any replies.
Regards
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