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From: curts@usenet.umr.edu (Curt Schroeder)
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Subject: Re: 2 Questions
Summary: 3d point entry
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Date: 29 Nov 90 01:37:23 GMT
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In article <61699@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jclst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Joseph C. Lappa) writes:
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>	1) is there a resonable way to enter 3D points into a window
>	(Xwindows)  using only a mouse.  

I saw an article back in 1987 about a scheme where you use your standard three
views from drafting.  You anchor two of the three dimensions in one view 
(window), and then move two one of the other two views (windows) to get the
other dimension.  I had been thinking about a scheme like this myself for a CAD
package I wanted to write before ever seeing the article, but they published
it first.  Alas, I do not remember WHICH graphics journal I saw it in.

Curt Schroeder

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