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Issues with coordinate system transformations

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Issue with transforming between reference frames
Peter Smith
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Hi all,

I have been having an issue with Tracker regarding transforming between reference frames. In an activity, a student tracks the motion of two objects (A and B) and is asked to view the motion of B wrt A or vice versa. The coordinate system tracks along just fine but the data do not update for the change of reference frame.

I did not have this issue in previous installations, as the data seemed to update automatically (more or less). So, I'm wondering if this is a bug or if there is an extra step that I'm missing here. Would appreciate any help I can get here!

Cheers,

Peter


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