[vtkusers] oriented vtkCubeAxesActor issue

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi Jools,

you can do what you try to do with the cube axes, but you should also be
able to transform the actor of it.
Did you tried to use "Set?AxisRange()" ?

Seb



On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Jools Lewthwaite <
jools.lewthwaite at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> (Apologies if this is a repost)
>
> Thanks Sebastien - it did help me figure whats going on somewhat.
>
> Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that perhaps the
> vtkCubeAxesActor is just not going to allow twhat I need. The problems seem
> to be that the orientated bounds are also used as the displayed ranges -
> i.e. the methods SetXAxisRange(lox,hix) etc no longer seem to have an
> effect, in addition these ranges are at the same scale as the world
> coordinates - so using the orientation seems to lose the freedom of unit
> scaling on the axis. Also the cube axis is placed into the world in such a
> way that the axis origin is centred at the world origin and I can't see
> anyway to affect this (it explains the offsetting I was seeing though).
>
> My problem is that I have two coordinate systems with different scales on
> the XY plane and different origins, and I'm coming to the conclusion that I
> can't have both cubes displayed at the same time.
>
> The simple solution would be if I could just rotate an aligned cube axis,
> or
> build one from an aligned axes set via transforms, but so far as  I can see
> methods such as SetScale, SetUserTransform and so on seem to be having no
> effect on the object. I'm pretty new at vtk so perhaps I'm missing
> something
> - do you (or anyone) know if I should be able to rotate the actor, or is
> the
> orientetdbounds/setaxis methods the only way of achieving this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Jools
>
>
>
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