If anyone knows an easier way of doing this - please add in below. If a developer is interested in working on this, I'd be happy to send them a 3d mouse for free.This page is part of the 2017 Principia course ENGR242: 3-D Printing Technology It's open edit now, so feel free to improve it. I don't know if this is simply how the mouse wheel is setup, implying that the underlying rendering engine could support "smooth zooming", or if it is in fact a limitation of the renderer. The zooming however, IIRC, is stepped, and would be too jerky. The panning would be much like panning with the space bar held down, except that you don't need to reset the mouse position after you've panned one screen width.
What would be desired in the use of the 3d mouse would be smooth zooming, and of course standard panning. This video gives you some idea of how it would be used in Inkscape (it's being used in Photoshop in the video): Once you get used to using one, you feel as though you are interacting with the object in the real space around you (3d object in a normal 3d modeling program, but in our case, the canvas), much like you might move your head while drawing with real paper and pencil. What a 3d mouse would offer to Inkscape is the ability to draw and move at the same time. Info for IRC and mailing list: Īlso, you might find some other helpful info about how Inkscape works and how it's made, from the Develop submenu on the website. For some reason, Inkscape developers don't often participate in forums. But if you follow all the links there (and the links from those pages) eventually find your way.įor more detailed questions, or if you can't find specifically what you need, you'll want to use either the development IRC or the development mailing list. As one of the community members who were asking for a guide, I was told that the possibilities for Inkscape extensions are so broad and wide-ranging, that it's hard to put into a step-by step guide. But I can definitely tell you where to get started! It seems like I've heard of some extensions that repeat the same thing, over and over. I would say they are mostly one-shot scripts, but I don't know if it's restricted to one shot.
I can't tell you much about the technical side of Inkscape extensions. Gosh, I've never even heard of a 3D mouse! If it's an input device, I wonder if it would work without an extension? See Edit menu > Input Devices.
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