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  Re: LDraw coordinate system driving me crazy
 
(...) I've been having difficulty with importing/exporting .dat files from SketchUp. In SketchUp, if you stand at the Origin; X is right, Y is forward, and Z is up. The LDraw Primitives Reference ((URL)) says the LDraw axes are: X is right, Y is (...) (18 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
 
  Re: LDraw coordinate system driving me crazy
 
(...) It is still a right-handed system. The handedness is unchanged by rotation (in ldraws case 180*x from standard). Tim (18 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDraw coordinate system driving me crazy
 
As I understand it, LDraw has negative y in the up direction, which is neither right nor left handed, but something else entirely. I don't know that it has a name. James (18 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDraw coordinate system driving me crazy
 
(...) I've always understood it is: X positive is right X negative is left Y Positive is bottom Y Negative is top z Positive is back z negative is front In fact you can show this by adding a brick in MLCad and moving it around, watching how the X, Y (...) (18 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  LDraw coordinate system driving me crazy
 
Hello all, I'm having difficulties with the ldraw coordinate system. As fas I understood it it's Right handed, just like OpenGL. So X positive is right X negative is left Y Positive is top Y Negative is bottom z Positive is front z negative is back (...) (18 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: BrikTrak
 
(...) Hehe, I guess made a fool of myself there. BrickTrak is some kind of part tracker, not the track designer that came into my mind. Well, err... /Tore (18 years ago, 17-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: BrikTrack
 
(...) Hi, you can either change the year in your system clock into 2002 before running Briktrak, or you can give BrickStore a try: (URL) Godt! Rene (18 years ago, 16-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: BrikTrak
 
(...) My LTrax, with Thomas Wölk's extensive additions is still available. Very basic, but it works on any Windows - or even DOS - based machine, not depending on external program or plug-ins. (URL) plain text system may have its limitations, but (...) (18 years ago, 16-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: BrikTrack
 
(...) If that can help: (URL) thare is no 'c' in trak... but www.briktrak.com does no seem to exist any longer! Philo (18 years ago, 16-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad)
 
  BrikTrack
 
Does anyone know what happened to the BrikTrack software? I installed an old copy that I had from back in 2002 but when I try to run it the sofware tells me that "this version of the beta has expired" and to go to www.briktrack.com to get the latest (...) (18 years ago, 16-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad)


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