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(...) Darn it, I meant the first ROW. (Doesn't show that I have a math degree, eh? ;-) Carl (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I found the answer to this ((URL) the first column should be a d g. My poor layout doesnn't change the rotation matrix (I think). Carl (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wouldn't that still be a 180 degree rotation rather than a flip, since -1 0 0 (x y z) * 0 1 0 = (-x y -z) 0 0 -1 ? Or am I laying out my rotation matrix incorrectly (is the first line a b c or a d g)? Sorry for all the stupid questions, I'm (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I didn't necessarily mean quick, I meant easy. Hey, I'm lazy. ;-) I like both answers because you gave me what I needed to know to accomplish the task quickly, Dave gave me what I needed to know to understand what I'm doing! Carl (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If this bothers you, a partial solution is here: (URL) the results from running the program aren't really appropriate for distribution to others, you can at least do your own POV renderings (as long as you don't use -lgeo). Additionally, the (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model? [DAT]
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(...) Dumb, dumb, dumb. To be a true "mirror" as you've requested, the second example should have read this way: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P 1 16 -100 0 -10 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 3001.DAT The way I originally posted it, the 3001 brick would be (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You know, I think you're correct about that. I think I'm the last person who still uses LEdit as his primary LDraw platform, and for reasons of my own I always orient my parts and models rotated 90 degrees relative to the true LDraw standard (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for the responses--they were very helpful. I found the disadvantage to Don's rotation matrix method to be that when it's used the mouse commands in MLCad are reversed, i.e., dragging the part left moves it right--but it sure worked (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Fair enough--I guess "quick" is in the eye of the beholder. 8^) Dave! (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad, Dave Schuler wrote: [snip] (...) Bad choice of words "silly". Sorry about that, but he asked for a "quick" way to do it. He used the word "quick" twice in fact. But everyone seemed intent on providing a thorough, but complex method (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Won't that cause all of the LEGO logo on all of the studs in the mirrored parts to be reversed? I thought that part of the point of the question was to avoid that. I think that measures are being taken to correct the mirrored-logo issue, but (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Oops, wrong color. That should be 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 subfile.ldr 1 16 320 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 subfile.ldr just in case... Enjoy, Don (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) L (...) This is silly. Just put the structure you want to mirror in a subfile and do this. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 subfile.ldr 1 0 320 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 subfile.ldr You can do it in ldglite using the scale by (-1,1,1) command (just (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The way I usually do this is clunky, but it basically works. It also requires a little familiarity with MS Excel and some kind of text editor, as well as an understanding of the LDraw DAT-file format. Create a backup of the MOC file. Open the (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) One bug I've found so far: When I enter a value in the size (radius) box, the filename of the generated part does not use this value. When I use the up/down buttons, the filename is correct. For a large radius it is more convenient to enter (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I usually use submodels save your tower as a tower-left or something. you have to go thruogh each part and change either the x or z value to the opposite value (ex. if the X is -300 change to 300) then rotate each part 180 degrees. There are (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi-- Does anybody know a quick way to do a mirror image of an LDraw model? For example, a castle that I'm working on has a left and right tower that are mirror images (not rotations) of each other (and the rear corner towers are mirrors of the front (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Can you set the BFC so the default winding is CCW? That is the standard winding for primitives in the part library. Steve (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Does anyone have any errors or things that need fixing for the next release of the primitive generator. So far the only thing I have planned to do is making the remove leading zeros (built in function) become an option in the options menu. This will (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) One bug I'd really like to see fixed though is in the parts reports, where a sub-model is included more than once, the part count is incorrect. Thanks again! ROSCO (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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