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Owning Palette: 3D Picture Control VIs

Use the Transformations VIs to apply common transformations—such as rotation, translation, and scaling—to objects in a 3D scene graph.

Palette Object	Description
Clear Transformation	Clears any transformations previously applied to an object in a 3D scene by modifying the identity matrices that describe the transformations.
Get Rotation	Returns the rotation applied to an object in a 3D scene in axis-angle form.
Get Scale	Returns the scale factors applied to an object in a 3D scene.
Get Translation	Returns the translation applied to an object in a 3D scene.
Rotate Object	Rotates an object in a 3D scene by the values Axis and Angle. This VI performs a relative rotation from the object's current position.
Scale Object	Uniformly scales an object in a 3D scene by the factors you specify. This VI performs a relative scale from the object's current position.
Set Rotation	Clears any rotations previously applied to an object in a 3D scene and rotates the object by the values Axis and Angle. This VI performs an absolute rotation from the object's initial position.
Set Scale	Clears any previous scale operation applied to an object in a 3D scene and applies the scaling factors you specify. This VI performs an absolute scale from the object's initial position.
Set Translation	Clears any translations previously applied to an object in a 3D scene and translates the object by the vector you specify. This VI performs an absolute translation from the object's initial position.
Translate Object	Translates an object in a 3D scene by the vector you specify. This VI performs a relative translation from the object's current position.