invert input value

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Permalink Reply by Theunis du Toit on November 2, 2009 at 2:45pm

What exactly do you mean with invert?

Like 21 becomes 12?

Permalink Reply by Tim on November 3, 2009 at 1:58am

sorry, i meant to negate. Or in this particular case to reverse the direction of a line.

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Permalink Reply by carlos lara on November 3, 2009 at 2:45am

multiply it by -1 ???

Permalink Reply by Tim on November 3, 2009 at 4:45am

Doesn't work, tried that first.
Or where exactly do you mean to multiply it? With an extra component or in the "expressions" field?

Permalink Reply by Theunis du Toit on November 3, 2009 at 9:39am

On the Slider Component itself in the expression field type "-(Slider)". You can negate any input slot on another component as well as long as the name of the slot is in the Brackets.

It is the same like changing the input for a component looking for an angle from radians to degrees. Say the slots name is "A", then in the expression field type "rad(A)".

Permalink Reply by carlos lara on November 3, 2009 at 12:35pm

yeah, what he said

Permalink Reply by James Coleman on November 3, 2009 at 9:55am

If you need to reverse the direction of a line there is a flip component under CURVE>UTILITY>FLIP. If you would like to find the reciprocal of a slider value or make it negative, use the expression line within the operation.

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on February 1, 2010 at 11:04am

what he wants is to invert the NUMBERS not the geometry.

lets say a multiplication result 4 * 4 = 16

How do you invert positive 16 into negative 16.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 5, 2011 at 10:46am

multiply it by -1. Also you could set the minimum of the sliders to a negative number. Same with vectors, just multiply the vector by -1

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on August 5, 2011 at 10:57am

There is also a negative component now since this thread is over a year old.

 

You can find it on the dropdown menu of the Math Tab > Operators Panel

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on August 5, 2011 at 8:56am

How about something like that?