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Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:19:50 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, James Reynolds wrote:
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I’d happy to announce a new tutorial: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino
LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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It is strangely suspenseful watching someone search for an unknown part! I’m
sure you’ve found it by now, but the part you were looking for in the third
video is a “wedge.”
So for your benefit or others’, don’t forget that in many cases you can actually
find the part number printed on the bottom of the brick:
In this case the part number is 4855. So if you don’t know the canonical name
for a part, you can just type that number into the Bricksmith search field (it
works with part numbers as well as descriptions).
Another thing that came to mind is that if you want to rotate a bunch of parts
around a point other than the selection center, you can use the Edit->Rotate
panel.
Pressing x, y, or z will rotate the selection incrementally around the
respective axis (hold down shift to rotate in the opposite direction). These
controls also respect the grid size setting: the rotation increments are 15, 45,
and 90 degrees for the small, medium, and large scales. Obviously this won’t
help much for precision positioning, but it can be handy to quickly change
something’s general orientation.
It’s not always intuitive but sometimes this is useful, too: holding down option
while moving parts with the arrow keys moves them along the axis perpendicular
to the view.
Again I just thought I’d share this trivia with anyone else who’s taking this
opportunity to learn the ins and outs of Bricksmith.
Jim
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