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(...) I cannot guarantee the providence of the torso in my 6040, or my 6285 (which has a plain yellow torso as the figurehead) as my copies of these sets are second-hand. Can anyone else help to answer this (x-posted to .general). Chris (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Newbie help request.... rotation
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(...) Hi Derick, I'll try to explain how I go about doing that kind of work. I recently build the 8880 which needed a lot of angle adjustements. First step: Open a new file - set the grid mode to coarse. Now let's say the beam of your crane is 8 (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Duplo parts?
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(...) yet? (...) No, but there are clear candidates - the top stud and the underneath "stud". Duplo is probably quite a rich development field for new authors, now thatthere seems to be a demand. Chris (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Duplo parts?
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(...) I've thought about modeling some Duplo parts - has nobody really done this yet? Are there any primitives? (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | RE: Newbie help request.... rotation
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(...) Like Lar, I set the fine rotation to something smaller than 15 degrees. However, I also move the center of rotation (little square on the center of the part) to the approximate correct position. I then click the button which looks like a brick (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Newbie help request.... rotation
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The file is 3.5kb - it must be the crane site that's slowing the D/L Ahhhh - I didn't realize that I could change the granularity of the "fine Grid" rotation... Many thanks, Lar! -Derick (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Newbie help request.... rotation
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(...) How close are you looking to get? (very slow link right now, so didn't try to download the file you have so far) (...) When I need to rotate parts I hardly ever use the rotation/position menu. I just go into fine mode (you can set the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw Installation
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(...) Get yourself a recent copy of WinZip and you can specify exactly where things get unzipped to. Hope that helps, if not, ask again. ++Lar (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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A few days ago I described in passing my desire for thicker lines in renderings, perhaps as an option. I'm wondering how hard of an enhancement that would be? I've spent a little time with LDLite and it's difficult to get the same easy renderings of (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Newbie help request.... rotation
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My first foray into MLCAD seems to have been ill-chosen for its' difficulty - I would very much appreciate it if anyone can help. The dat file in question is here: (URL) model is a short length of reinforced bridge span, in one dimension, that (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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