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Re: SpiderWalker v0.8
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:02:07 GMT
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 04:48:57 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:
> Here is a SpiderWalker in MPD format. I'm labeling it as version 0.8 rather
> than 1.0 because it's not 100% complete. Future improvements include:
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> - Fix up the alignment in the leg-to-leg overlaps at the hinge elements.
> The alignments are currently only accurate to about .5 LDU, having been
> placed visually rather than mathematically; it may be possible to achieve
> better alignment using Pythagorean triples.
You might try LDLite's ROTATE and TRANSLATE meta-commands. They are
very useful for multi-rotated assemblies, such as legs. You'd have to
make one piece of code to define a leg, then you could reuse that code
for each leg, and easily 'bend' each leg individually.
Unfortunately, ROTATE and TRANSLATE are LDLite-only. So you can't use
LDraw/LEdit on models with ROTATE or TRANSLATE commands.
> - Replace old-style minifig placeholder with a real BT1 minifig someday.
That's pretty straightforward -- replace each of occurrance of 9326.dat
with 9326p52.dat.
Steve
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 | | Re: SpiderWalker v0.8
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| (...) Ahh, so much to learn, so little time. :) I did fortunately model a leg as a separate .DAT file (actually 3 or 4 layers, I think) but didn't know what really was the best way to do it, so I just went with the simplest thing that worked. The (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: SpiderWalker v0.8
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| (...) But LDlite _can_ translate those meta-commands to traditional LDraw format. Just run LDlite with the followiing commandline: ldlite newstyle.dat -roldstyle.dat where newstyle.dat is the input file and oldstyle.dat is the output file. --Bram (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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