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I guess I'm thinking about this differently. It's not that the individual studs on the brick don't allow other mating angles. (IE you can place a 1 x 6 technic plate with rounded ends on any single stud at some funcky angles) It's the combination of (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I really like the way the .dat format reuses geometry e.g. stud.dat. I think the clicking format should be able to do the same thing. I imagine that would be quite a bit more difficult to reuse if the clicking info was in the dat files. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I do indeed think it would be undesirable. As we all know Stud.dat gets used every ware. There are a fair few instances were the clicking behaviours of two bricks would be different even though they are both referencing the same stud.dat file (...) (20 years ago, 23-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?
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(...) Unreflect is a better word--just undo the X coordinate swap that -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 does. I believe they're equivalent things--I'm doing a clockwise rotation, then negating the X coordinate swap, you're doing the opposite rotation. I think (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I agree, but in the short term, I think seperate files may be simpler. (...) I thought so too, but the format document (way at the bottom) implies that this might be undesirable. I'm not sure I understand why, though : ( (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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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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| | Re: *** MLCad V3.10 is available ***
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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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