Hi @AlexK ,
I am not aware that there is such issue (what you mentioned with ...one axis was lost..) if this issue is still reproducible then ,could you please report this issue here or better as PTC TechSupport case so we can try to reproduce it and respectively report this to R&D team for fix. (required is information how to reproduce the problem)
Hi @Sandy_Gunner ,
regarding to the issue you reported- I reported it as enhancement request to PTC R&D and PM team as Jira Ticket VTS-1913. As soon as I receive feedback from R&D team - I will provide this here to this post.
Regarding to the problem with the rotation:
- ok the simplest way will be when you have widget and rotated them via the properties - this most trivial case.
- but when you do not have widget definition to copoments and still you want to rotate them and also when the rotation axis is not regarding to the standard coodinate system then this could more difficult and required some addtional tools or javascript
- because the rotation of model component is defined in the PVS file format which is a part of the Vuforia Studio model format pvz and contains the assembly/subassembly definition (position ,rotation etc) we culd use some PTC tools e.g. Creo View Toolkit. PVZ format is used by Creo View (PTC visualization tool) With Creo view toolkit we can perform some opertation on the PVZ file e.g. chaging the component postion in the PVS file. From the x,y,z,rx,ry,rz we need to caluclate the transformation matrx /euler so to perform the tranformation regarding some specific coordinate system (component coordinate system, root coord or subassembly coord system ) Such changes will bone then permamently in the pvz data.
- the option to change an angle in javascript is only temporary possible - means it reamins only in the session after change is done and on next retrieval of the model / project is not more persistent, so you need to perform the change again - example on Vuforia Studio modelLoad event you can start a js script which will read some data (e.g. json data) and perform the changes (rotation of set of components) after retrieval.
In the past we discuss in the communty some opttions how to change a position of component regarding any space point e.g. post this example in the past# to this post https://community.ptc.com/t5/Vuforia-Studio/Possibility-to-change-set-the-spincenter-csys-of-models-and/m-p/796282#M10843 Here the link to download the project which demonstrate such spacial transformation.
- an . more advance option e.g. could be to define the required component tranformaitons through a point (vector) , rotation axis vector and angle value (right hand rule). Example in a json:
[
{"component":"model-1/60/61","rotation_angle":88,"start_point":[1.0,1.0,0.0],"rot_axis":[0.0,0.0,1.0]},
{"component":"model-1/60/70","rotation_angle":88,"start_point":[1.0,1.0,0.0],"rot_axis":[0.0,0.0,1.0]},
...
{"component":"model-1/60/76","rotation_angle":88,"start_point":[1.0,1.0,0.0],"rot_axis":[0.0,0.0,1.0]}
]
So that on modelLoad your js script could load the json defintions of the rotations /and then execute them so that model apperance will changed then according your requirement. When this is an interessting option for you , possibly we can consider this in further posts. Thanks
