AE(nged)

Sets the view orientation for the mged display by rotating the eye point about the center of the viewing cube. Without arguments, returns the current azimuth, elevation, and twist.

📅 published 7.44.0, from nixpkgs unstable

🌸 AE — the eye-point-spinning command (from the nged manual) ✨

okay bestie, so this is AE(nged), one of the BRL-CAD User Commands, and it's literally the glow-up button for your mged display ✨

💖 NAME 💖

ae — sets the view orientation for the mged display by rotating the eye point about the center of the viewing cube. And if you give it no arguments? It just tells you the current azimuth, elevation, and twist. lowkey a vibe check for your camera 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ae [ [-i]azimuth elevation [twist]]

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So here's the tea ☕: ae sets the view orientation for the mged display by rotating the eye point about the center of the viewing cube. The eye point is determined by the azimuth and elevation angles you feed it (in degrees, bestie, degrees).

  • Azimuth — measured in the xy plane, with the positive x direction corresponding to an azimuth of 0°. Positive azimuth angles are measured counter-clockwise about the positive z axis 🌀
  • Elevation — measured from the xy plane, with +90° corresponding to the positive z direction, and -90 corresponding to the negative z direction ⬆️⬇️

If you include an optional twist angle, the view gets rotated about the viewing direction by that specified twist angle. it's giving "spin me right round" 💅

And the -i option? That makes the angles you supply be interpreted as increments rather than absolutes. 🪄

If no arguments are supplied, the command will return the current azimuth, elevation, and twist — like, it just reports where you are. See also the view command 👀

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

The examples show how to change views by entering azimuth and elevation angles, adding a twist angle, and having the angles supplied being treated as increments. icons only 💅

⭐ Example 1. Top view

mged>ae -90 90

⭐ Example 2. Right-hand side view

mged>ae 270 0

The view is from the right-hand side. periodt.

⭐ Example 3. View from a specific azimuth and elevation with a twist angle.

mged>ae 35 25 10

The view is from azimuth 35, elevation 25, with a view rotated by 10 degrees. obsessed with the specificity ngl 🫶

⭐ Example 4. The azimuth and elevation angles supplied are treated as increments.

mged>ae -i 0 0 5

Rotates the current view through 5 degrees about the viewing direction. tiny nudge, big slay 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — the actual main characters, no cap 💜

💀 BUG REPORTS 💀

Found a bug or a problem? 😭 Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org — they'll sort you out, fr fr 🙈

💡 remembe: -i = increments, angles = degrees, and x+ = azimuth 0°. everything else is just vibes ✨

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