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Old 08-30-2012, 02:02 PM
nabrahamson nabrahamson is offline
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Axis Coordinates from Inspector

I am having a little trouble finding the axis relative to the global coordinate system of an object from within Vizard. When I get the handle for the object in question, and try to get the coordinates, I see that it should be perpendicular to the global axis.

Code:
screw.getAxisAngle(mode=viz.ABS_GLOBAL)
[-1.0, -0.0, 0.0, 90.0]
The information I am interested in finding is the angle of the straight line coordinate system relative to the global coordinate system as shown in the attached screenshot of inspector below. Is this the Normal angle of the object? It's obviously available in inspector, I'm just wracking my brain trying to figure out what it is in Vizard.
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