Is it possible to change the default view?

[snapo]

Hi,
When i generate in cadquery code the view differs from the freecad view. Is it possible to adjust the perspective of the panes?
Re-assign (1) the views of the panes to my preferred axis
Re-assign (2) the iso view default coordinates

Currently i have to rotate the object to get the same behavior as in FreeCad. It works, but everytime i resize the window i have to click and drag to get the view correct and see the front. This generates a lot lot more click and i would like to prevent that.
Or are there some other ideas how i might solve this?

(Everytime i move the window, or do a change, or re-render it... i have to rotate the object with the mouse again)

Code Sample:

import cadquery as cq
from cq_server.ui import UI, show_object


height = 150.0
width = 50.0
depth = 100.0

r = cq.Workplane("front").box(width,height,depth)

r = r + cq.Workplane('top').text("YX / Top", 8, (height / 2) + 1)
r = r + cq.Workplane('bottom').text("XY / Bottom", 8, (height / 2) + 1)
r = r + cq.Workplane('front').text("ZX / Front", 8, (depth / 2) + 1)
r = r + cq.Workplane('back').text("XZ / Back", 8, (depth / 2) + 1)
r = r + cq.Workplane('left').text("ZY / Left", 8, (width / 2) + 1)
r = r + cq.Workplane('right').text("YZ / Right", 8, (width / 2) + 1)

r = r.rotate((0, 0, 0), (1, 0, 0), 90)
r = r.rotate((0, 0, 0), (1, 0, 180), 0)
show_object(r)

[bernhard-42]

@snapo From the screenshot I derive, you are using cadquery-server, right?
Jupyter-Cadquery shares the viewer (three-cad-viewer), however has nothing to do with cadquery-server.

Nevertheless, I think, these are three issues:

1. Resizing browser window resets camera => needs to be fixed by cadquery-server
2. A different camera position for the isometric view
3. Swap back/front with left/right orientation button view to align with cadquery workplanes

Point 1 seems to be on the roadmap roipoussiere/cadquery-server#37
Point 2 and 3 I will look into in the next release. It is an issue in three-cad-viewer, however bubbles up to Jupyter Cadquery

[snapo]

Hi,
Yes correct it is for the cadquery-server (i did think its the same :-( my fault).
Would you like me to close the feature request and create one in the cadquery server?

[bernhard-42]

Let's keep it open to track points 2 and 3.

For the future, the dependencies are:

jupyter-cadquery --> cad-viewer-widget --\
                                          |--> three-cad-viewer
cadquery-server -------------------------/

jupyter-cadquery, cad-viewer-widget and three-cad-viewer are my projects, cadquery-server is maintained by @roipoussiere. I'd recommend to always first open an issue with cadquery-server since much of the logic "around" the viewer component is implemented there.

[roipoussiere]

(Everytime i move the window, or do a change, or re-render it... i have to rotate the object with the mouse again)

Yes, after using cq-server, I confirm it's really annoying, that's why I created the issue linked by bernhard.

Yes correct it is for the cadquery-server (i did think its the same :-( my fault).

You are not the first person to be confused here. There is a note about this on the cq-server readme, but it might be necessary to make it more visible, maybe at the very first lines of the readme and in the project description.

[bernhard-42]

@snapo v3.3.0 of Jupyter CadQuery is out and should now per default behave like FreeCAD (as you described above).
It dependes on three-cad-viewer 1.7.0 , which @roipoussiere would need to integrate first before this change is visible in cq-server

[roipoussiere]

I updated three-cad-viewer to v1.7.0 in last commit.
You must install from source to see the changes (see readme), or wait for 0.4.1 which should be released in the next days.