ORTHOGONAL AXES

If Show Axes is enabled, the origin of the global coordinate system will be indicated by an orthogonal axes indicator. Additionally, a smaller axes indicator with axes names will be shown in the lower left corner of the viewing area. The smaller axes indicator is marked x, y, z and coloured red, green, blue respectively.

cube

Cube (center)

Rectangular prism

translate

translate (-)

sphere

$fn(resolution)

Sphere ($fn)

Sphere ($fn)

Cylinder

Cylinder (center)

Cylinder: hexagon

Cylinder:equilateral triangle

Cylinder, hexagon and triangleat the horizontal axis

Cylinder, hexagon and triangleat the horizontal axis

cone

Cone center

Pyramidsat the x-axis

Pyramidsat the x-axis

Rotation around the y-axis

Rotate (a,b,c)"a" is a rotation about the X axis, from the +Y axis, toward the +Z axis."b" is a rotation about the Y axis, from the +Z axis, toward the +X axis."c" is a rotation about the Z axis, from the +X axis, toward the +Y axis.

These are all cases of the Right Hand Rule. Point your right thumb along the positive axis, your fingers show the direction of rotation.

Example 1

Rotate 45º

Rotation 45º and 30º around the z-axis

Rotate 30º

Example 2

difference

difference (#)

UNION

difference

intersection

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solution

MINKOWSKI ….

MINKOWSKI

Color()

color

mirror