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(...) Err, I'm not sure what you mean by unmirror. I got (0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0) for a mirror.ini exception matrix, which looks yours except for the sign of that one number. (...) Me neither. (...) And generating the MIRROR.INI file. I did some (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Steve, Don--thanks for the explanations; this now makes complete sense to me (finally!). For a reflection about the plane containing the Z & Y axes (left-to-right), the reflection matrix (Mp) should be: -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 Then Mp * (part-file (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDBoxer - Next Step and My Datsville Plans
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(...) (snip) (...) I *am* working on it, though slowly :-( The idea is that you can specify any number of part directories, e.g.: <MODELDIR> <LDRAWDIR>\P <LDRAWDIR>\Boxer <LDRAWDIR>\Boxer\B <LDRAWDIR>\Boxer\B\A <LDRAWDIR>\Boxer\BB <LDRAWDIR>\PARTS (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) There's a difference between supporting POV inline (which is not controlled in the community) and supporting LCD info (which could be integrated into the DAT format). I'd like to see programs support both options - both as an external .lcd (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hey! that was precisely what I whised for!! Apparantly my nose is big enough to block out what's right under it ;-) But actually I had a look at that function some days ago, and decided 'cleverly' that I didn't have any use for something that (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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The it would be slick to have the LCD info in the dat file, but it might complicate issues being dicussed by the Ldraw committee : ( It seems that pov style includes aren't allowd in official files either so maybe keeping it seperate for a while (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) inline in a valid DAT file? Perhaps make all the lines start with a "0 LCD" before anything else? Then, when reading a DAT file, a program can recognize and parse LCD info, in addition to looking for the .lcd file. Does that make sense? Do you (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hi Glide has been on hold now for about a month but its back in development. You can look forward to clicking bricks in about two to three weeks. Once I have the system implemented is there anyone out there who would be prepared to start writing (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model? [DAT]
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(...) Hmm, I don't know. I'm pretty sure there's documentation on language DLL creation, but I'm not so sure about the generators. Ask this on the .mlcad group. (...) XML works, but it's harder for humans (ie. me) to read. (...) Under Steve's scheme (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Niels, your wishes are welcome, just send them by e-mail. Regards, Michael "Niels Bugge" <buggelego2@+antiSPAMmail. dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HznpD2.o2v@lugnet.com... (...) get (...) right (...) close to (...) scroll (...) something (...) wait (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Is there any documentation about what functionality needs to be exposed to make an MLCAD plugin? I've been playing with this in a class-based architecture, that has an LMirrorExceptionList that contains an array of LMirrorExceptionPart. I've (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for getting this out for us, Andrew! Even though the URL above doesn't work I was able to grab it and am now happily using it! (It should read mbc.html at the end I believe...) Greetz, Anton (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Heh, I was thinking 2-dimensionally. It's easier for my tired old brain. All my sketches were happening on the XZ plane so mirroring across the Z axis made total sense to me. Oh well. (...) Ok, now I have to follow through and actually make a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry, I misunderstood the terminology. I figured you could either mirror across a plane, or along a line. You can't mirror across a line - it's 1D. So I assumed when people were writing about mirroring 'across the Z axis', they meant to use (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Err, Shouldn't that be (-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1)? You have to negate the X coordinate to mirror across the Z axis. Don (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Or generate a parts.lst (and stash it somewhere) before adding parts, then diff it with the new parts.lst. I'm not sure how grep fits into your plan though... (...) My math intuition says it should be. There are only two choices for the sign (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Keep a full.mirror.ini, with all the default entries. A simple grep drop the extra lines, giving us mirror.ini. (...) Well, it depends entirely on whether or not applying two mirroring transformations always gives an un-mirrored result. If (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDBoxer - Next Step and My Datsville Plans
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(...) Well, I tried to pull you into the discussion at least twice, by mentioning your boxer subdirectories, but no luck. (URL) think some sort of consensus *was* reached and Lars was working on some reference code to handle it. But I have to admit, (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just for the record, this is set out in the BFC standard, (URL). In the section "Parts Library Guidelines", it is stated: (...) Interesting side note: this section also says: (...) Which means we should be slapping 0 BFC NOCERTIFY tags on all (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDBoxer - Next Step and My Datsville Plans
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(...) That's not a bad idea, but the advantage of messing up the PARTS\ folder is that no extra adjustment or setup will be required. (...) "121 Messages in This Thread" - It's very hard for anyone who did not participate in the discussion to find (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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