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Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
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Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:33:52 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Carl Nelson wrote:
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 ones).  Rather than make 4 different models, is there a quick way to
flip my model into the four different towers?

Thanks for the help!
Carl

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 also a lot of left and right parts which need to be swaped.

or in povray you can use scale with a negative value (ex. scale<-1,0,0> ) this
will mirror around the x axis.

There is no easy way.

Steve



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  Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
 
(...) 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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  Quick way to mirror-image a model?
 
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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