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(...) Yuk! I guess it makes sense to add support for ROTSTEP instead. (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You reinsert all the lines that came before the CLEAR, except without STEP commands. Steve (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe the -D command line option does what you want? From the docs: -D, will tell LDLite to start ignoring STEP commands after levels of included files. Use the option -D1 to have LDLite only wait for a keypress or save a bitmap at STEP (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Woohoo, thanks, that worked! (the path was just set to C:\) I wonder why it wasn't set correctly? Tim (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I have constructed a small McDonald's as part of a small layout MichLUG is providing the Detroit area Festival of Trees as a raffle item. I've also done a version of the model in MLCAD with the goal of creating instructions. As usual, though, I've (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Not yet. The current release always picks -4/3*x for the aspect ratio. I know the negative sign is required to convert the y axis from ldraw coords to POV. I'm not sure how that gets worked into the upcoming version of l3p, which does have a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe you have a Libray_Path wrong in POV, so it's looking for include files in the wrong place? POV: 'Tools' -> 'Edit Master POVRAY.INI', go to the end of the file, You may have any number of lines like these: Library_Path=C:\Program\POV-Ray (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) The 4/3 is the aspect ratio of the POV generated rendering (matches 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200 etc.). If you for some reason want POV to do a high, narrow (or low, long), rendering this factor has to be changed. It's often easier to do a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Tim, I have everything running on my E drive, so it is possible. :-) Here's my thought... There should be an LDRAW.INI file in your Windows directory. Make sure you have the "LgeoDirectory" entry set correctly under the "[LDRAW]" section, (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I assume that L3P allows the output to be any aspect ratio. The page is a little confusing that way. However, it's trying to tell you how the camera angle argument works, going on the assumption you haven't changed the aspect ratio. Just (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why do high-res primitives make it easier to realize? Considering the size of this object, I'd lean toward needing to reduce it. Steve (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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And here is the primitive: CU Bernd 0 Click Rotation Socket Cogwheel Quarter 0 Name: 1-4crs.dat 0 Author: Bernd Broich 0 Unofficial Primitive 0 BFC CERTIFY CW 0 Inner Ring R = 11 LDU 0 Outer Ring R = 12 LDU 0 Upper Ring 2 24 0 0 11.2 0.5 0 11.35 2 (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Sorry but there is no finished part yet. (...) I could send you a nearly finished part (48169) where the bottom is open. But else it's finished. To Steve Bliss or Chris Dee: I've made the cylinder-thing with high-res- primitives because it was (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) aspect ratio is always maintained even if the (horizontal) viewing angle is changed"? Does l3p not allow tall skinny windows? Should (width/height) always be (4/3) even if the window is tall and skinny? Or does it just mean the pov file will (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, sorry, its not either of them, L3PAO knows the location correctly. the filename is ccb2.pov (mirroring the .mpd filename) and so it is not too long and has no spaces. I don't think its a problem with your auto-installer, I used to get the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) I thank you for the complement, but in this particular instance, I have to give credit where credit it is due. I'm sure I could have derived the above equation on my own, but here is the actual comment out of LDView that I got the above from: (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) See, this is why ldview is so much better. I'm still trying to absorb the first post and you whip out the math. Ok, apparently I knew about the horizontal/vertical bit at one point because the code to print an l3p command line contains this (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, they'd be just the studs. (...) I'm not opposed to that; I don't see a compelling choice between stug* and stus*. Because I had files that used them, I went ahead and submitted stug3, stug4, stug6 and stug8 to the PT. If people want (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Try the following. 1) Open L3PAO 2) On the file menu select "TOOLS -> LOCATE LGEO LIBRARY" If L3PAO does not know where the LGEO library is at it will prompt you for the path. In your case choose D:Program FilesLdrawAppsLGEO] 3) Also make sure (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Just to clarify, would these include the surface between the studs, or just the studs? I think logically they should include just the studs but just wanted to make sure. (...) Maybe, if that is a future possibility, the square ones should be (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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