<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear Gaters, <div><br></div><div>I have difficulties rotating my volume as I want.</div><div><br></div><div>I've searched in previous mails from the mailing list and I saw that I was not alone !</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From: Kesava S Kalluri <</span><a href="mailto:kkalluri@lsu.edu" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">kkalluri@lsu.edu</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"hi,</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></i></div><div><div><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/</span><span class="il" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">gate</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/cylinder/placement/</span><wbr style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">enable</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/</span><span class="il" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">gate</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/cylinder/placement/</span><wbr style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">setRotationAxis -0.571 0.571 0.571 #(1/sqrt(3))</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/</span><span class="il" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">gate</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/cylinder/placement/</span><wbr style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">setRotationAngle 45 deg</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/</span><span class="il" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">gate</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/cylinder/placement/</span><wbr style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">setTranslation 1 1 1 cm</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></i></div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Following up with a previous thread, I was able to orient it @ 45* to each axis using these commands. Now I would like to orient the cylinder at 3 different angles with respect to each axis . Any ideas?"</i></span></div><div><br></div><div><br><br>First I've discovered that setRotationAxis acts as a boolean, so no need to put anything esle than 0 or 1.</div><div><br></div><div>So for example if I want to rotate my_volume 35° in both the x and y plan I would write :</div><div><br></div><div>/gate/my_volume/setRotationAxis 1 1 0</div><div>/gate/my_volume/setRotationAngle 35 deg</div><div><br></div><div>So that's all working fine, but now what if I want to rotate my volume, let's say, 10° in the x plan, 20° in the y and 30<span style="font-size: 12pt;">°</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> in the z ?</span></div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has an answer to that, i'm ready to ship a mars bar !</div><div><br></div><div>I thought about a possible solution which is to:</div><div>- rotate a volume in one plan</div><div>- create a daughter to this volume (benefiting from the initial rotation) and rotate it in another plan</div><div>- create a third grand-daughter volume and rotate in the last plan if needed</div><div><br></div><div>But first, it seems crazy complicated to do something that I'm sure is really simple (and I'm too dumb to have thought about it), and second, each time I rotate the daughter volume I need to expand the mother volume and I create some dead space where I cannot put any other volume if I don't want deadly overlapping volumes.</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas would be much appreciated :)</div><div><br></div><div>Ed<br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br><br><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div> </div></body> </html>