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85 <p>This geometrical operation allows to rotate in space your mesh or some
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86 of its elements.</p>
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90 <p class=TODO> To
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91 rotate your mesh:</p>
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93 <p class=TODO> </p>
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95 <p class="whs1">From the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Modification
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96 </B></span>choose <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Transformation </B></span>and
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98 sub-menu select the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Rotation </B></span>item.
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99 The following dialog box shall appear:</p>
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105 <p class="whs1"> </p>
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107 <p class="whs1">In this dialog box you can specify the elements
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108 which should be rotated and the rotation parameters:</p>
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110 <ul type="disc" class="whs3">
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112 <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs1"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Axis:</B></span>
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113 point and vector</p></li>
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115 <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs1"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Angle
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116 </B></span>of rotation </p></li>
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119 <p class="whs1"> </p>
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121 <p class="whs1">Toggle the corresponding checkbox to <span
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122 style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Select whole mesh, submesh or group.</B></span></p>
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124 <p class="whs1">When<span style="font-weight: bold;"><B> Move
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125 elements</B></span> radio button is selected, the source mesh (or elements)
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126 is created at the new location and erased from its previous location.</p>
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128 <p class="whs1">When<span style="font-weight: bold;"><B> Copy
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129 elements</B></span> radio button is selected, the source mesh (or elements)
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130 is created at the new location, but it also remains at its previous location
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131 and is considered one and single mesh with the result of the translation.</p>
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133 <p class="whs1">When<span style="font-weight: bold;"><B> Create
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134 as new mesh</B></span> radio button is selected, the source mesh (or elements)
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135 remains at its previous location, and a new mesh is created at the new
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136 location and appears in the Object browser with the default name <span
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137 style="font-style: italic;"><I>MeshName_</I></span>rotated (you can change this
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138 name in the adjacent box).</p>
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140 <p class="whs4">Copy Groups<span style="font-weight: normal;">
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141 checkbox allows copying the groups of elements of the source mesh to the
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142 newly created one.</span></p>
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144 <p class="whs1"> </p>
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146 <p> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>See
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147 Also</B></span> a sample TUI Script of a <a href="../transforming_meshes.htm#bookmark1">Rotation</a>
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148 operation. </p>
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