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January 03, 2016, 08:57:17 am
IStonia, now if you work when Selection Mode is On you can not see pivot position and orientation but some times you need it, for example if you set pivot manually. Using manipulator for this is not very convenient because you have to turn it always on/off when you need to see pivot position, it take place on screen, you can not select under it, you can move it accidentally etc... It will be better to have this tinny simple tool that will be always ON:



It is just like manipulator but without any arrows and you can not move it by dragging its handles, it is impossible to select it, so you always will select objects under it.
It will just show us pivot position and orientation.
So I think we have to have 2 options:

Preference -> Options -> Show Pivot in Selection Mode, or just - Show Pivot
Preference -> General -> Pivot Size

Can you also pleas add commands for manipulators and this new Pivot tool to Set-Restore tools:
 
R_Turn_On_Move_Manipulator,
R_Turn_On_Scale_Manipulator
R_Turn_On_Rotate_Manipulator
R_Turn_On_Universal_Manipulator

R_Restore_Manipulator

R_Turn_On_Selection_Mode
R_Turn_OFF_Selection_MOde 
R_Restore_Selection_Mode

(For New Pivot tool)
R_Turn_On_Pivot
R_Turn_Off_Pivot
R_Restore_Pivot

Many thanks.
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January 04, 2016, 06:38:15 am
http://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Dec-29-15.rar

  * Edit > View > Display > Pivot Visible In Selection Mode.
  * Edit > Preference > General > Pivot size.
  * Edit > Customize > Set-Restore Tools > R_Turn On Move/Rotate/Scale/UM_Manipulator.
  * Edit > Customize > Set-Restore Tools > R_Restore Manipulator.
  * Edit > Customize > Set-Restore Tools > R_Turn On/Off Selection_Mode.
  * Edit > Customize > Set-Restore Tools > R_Restore Selection_Mode.
  * Edit > Customize > Set-Restore Tools > R_Turn On/Off Pivot.
  * Edit > Customize > Set-Restore Tools > R_Restore Pivot.

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January 04, 2016, 07:37:45 am
It is really great tool, do not know how I worked without it!
Can you pleas modify it a bit so when you run SL tool Object/Mesh Pivot and Manual Pivot this pivot will be shown too. Now it disappears.
Also when you use SL tool Object/Mesh Pivot there is some strange Pivot here it has 6 rays, and when object is small that rays are big, but when it is big that rays are small. What is the purpose of it? May be you will replace it with new Pivot? I think it will looks better and will have fixed size everytime and will not conflict with new Pivot tool when it will be visible.
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January 04, 2016, 09:44:26 am
It looks great with Object/Mesh Pivot!
But with SL tool Manual Pivot it still invisible.

You know sometimes you can not see some rays of Pivot tool because they are too thin.
Can you pleas make Pivot thicker twice I'll check how it looks during work.
Or if it is not so hard add please option thickness of Pivot Tool.
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January 04, 2016, 09:56:47 am
It is impossible to make it thicker. Why you want to see it in SL tool? Manipulator is always on and it sits at the pivot.

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January 04, 2016, 10:01:03 am
Because when you work in Selection Mode you can not see manipulator.
SL tool Object/Mesh Pivot now works great when you are in Selection Mode, can you make pleas the same for SL tool Manual Pivot. So when you activate SL tool Manual Pivot you can see Pivot tool? Now you see nothing.
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January 04, 2016, 10:29:18 am
http://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Dec-29-15.rar

It is twice thicker now. I wonder why you can't see it in SL tool. I can spot it here.

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January 04, 2016, 02:27:02 pm
I just found way how to show Manipultor when Selection mode is On by default:


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January 04, 2016, 08:09:27 pm
Why not use" R_Restore Selection Mode" on Exit?

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January 04, 2016, 08:56:10 pm
I can use it but in this situation I think it does no matter because when tool exits Selection Mode must be On. Or I miss something?
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January 04, 2016, 09:16:03 pm
What I mean is if the selection mode is off before you turn on the tool, selection mode will become on when you exit the tool. If you intend to use this tool to turn on selection mode, you are not wrong.

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January 04, 2016, 09:27:53 pm
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If you intend to use this tool to turn on selection mode, you are not wrong
Yep I wante to achive exactly this  :)
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