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Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:35:53 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > You could make mirror.ini more human-readable if the 'normal' parts
> > were just flagged. Something like:
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> > 2546.DAT default
> > 41770.DAT exception 41769.DAT 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
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> Actually I was thinking of deleting them from the file to make it
> smaller. The only problem is remembering which ones were deleted and
> which ones are new at update time. I'm not sure how to automate
> additions either way. Probably have to use the sorted properties of
> parts.lst
Keep a full.mirror.ini, with all the default entries. A simple grep drop the
extra lines, giving us mirror.ini.
> I think that makes sense. Apply the mirror transform and/or substitution
> from MIRROR.INI individually to all parts in the subfile, then apply a
> global mirror (across whatever axis you want) to the whole subfile.
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> It sounds so simple. Could it be?
Well, it depends entirely on whether or not applying two mirroring
transformations always gives an un-mirrored result. If that's true, then we're
good.
Steve
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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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| (...) Actually I was thinking of deleting them from the file to make it smaller. The only problem is remembering which ones were deleted and which ones are new at update time. I'm not sure how to automate additions either way. Probably have to use (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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