Add XYZ axis helper about coffeescad HOT 5 CLOSED

Try http://coffeescad.net/online_edge/#
rather than just http://coffeescad.net/online/
edge has it. (edge is the latest, and possibly less stable version)
I see what you mean about the default orientation, I never noticed that before.

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@Thav : ditto what @se5a said, best to use the edge version for the axis helper ( I could have swarn I updated the regular version to match that one, since the edge version is the latest, will check).
I am surprised you say the X/Y orientation is unintuitive, normally it should be facing the same way as openscad's x/y by default : do you mean the "increase" in x/y should be reversed ?

again, very willing to change things, or add an option to invert things etc

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@mark, when you start, +X and +Y are towards you to the left and right respectively, ie just the rotation of the view, when you first start. at least thats what I think @Thav was meaning. it'd make a little more sense if it were rotated so +Y was away from you and +X to the right. ie, Lclick mousebutton down and drag right till it rotates about ~135 degrees.

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Ah ha! There it is in edge. The orientation of the axes are what I expected. I was just so thrown by the normal view (in the way @se5a describes), that I started making some parts swapping my x and y and just lost track of what was going on. But yes, the cross product |x| x |y| = |z|, so we're good :]

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You are both right , I must confess that it confuses me as well sometimes:)
I could make like @se5a describes, will give it a try to see if it seems more intuitive:à

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