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Re: Hose spreadsheet now available
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Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:45:16 GMT
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If you open the file in LDAO's editor, select all the lines with extra spaces,
from the Edit menu select Move Exact, type in 1 for the x move, and hit enter.
This will remove all extra spaces, and move the first line's x-coordinate by
1. You can then fix this manually or select that line and do a Move Exact
of -1 x.
There's probably a better way to do this, but this will work.
-John Van
SCOTT R DENNETT wrote in message <199904151741400060.01F1A9D6@agate.net>...
OK, it looks like I would be able to make a basic hose, but it will
take time to learn the control point thing. One thing that I find
frustrating is that you have to edit the dat file by deleting a bunch
of spaces before you can put it in Ledit. This would be ok if I knew
my hose would work, but it would be too much work to delete all
those spaces just to find out that the hose won't work. Is there a
way that I wouldn't have to manually eliminate all those spaces??
Ryan
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On 4/15/99, at 4:17 PM, John VanZwieten wrote:
> Sorry about that. I'll try to get the correct zip file up today. In the
> meantime, here's the text:
>
> "Hoser" is an Excel 5.0 workbook which can be used to create flexible hoses
> for use in Ldraw.
>
> To use Hoser, you will need to know the end point coordinates of the flexible
> portion of the hose. I always place the ends (parts 750 and 755) first, with
> the 755 rotated so that its insertion point is not touching the 750. Then • the
> coordinates of the two 750s will serve as the end points to the flexible
> portion.
> In the spreadsheet, there is a grayed section for inputting the endpoints and
> two "control points." The sign and size of these control points determine • the
> shape of the curve. A "-5" value for the x of control point 1 will cause the
> curve to extend slowly from endpoint 1 in the positive direction of the
> x-axis. A value of 50 would cause the curve to extend more sharply in the
> negative direction of the x-axis.
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> I usually have to "fiddle" with the control points a bit to get the curve
> shape just how I want it (usually based on a real-life example). A sampling
> of point values is contained in the "Records" worksheet. I recommend adding
> your successful sets of values as well.
>
> Once the endpoints and control points are entered, the "Hosed" worksheet will
> contain the actual .dat content needed to create your hose. If you "Save As"
> this sheet as a .txt file, you can then open the file "hoser.txt" and copy • the
> contents into your LDraw .dat file.
>
> Best of luck. Questions/comments may be sent to • john_NOSPAMvanzwieten@msn.com
> or posted to the lugnet.cad newsgroup on lugnet.com.
>
>
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> SCOTT R DENNETT wrote in message <199904151141480290.00A8263E@agate.net>...
> Nope. I still didn't get it. Are you sure it was included in the zip?
> Did nayone else who downloaded it get the readme file??
> All I got was: hoser.txt and hoser.xls
> Ryan
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| OK, it looks like I would be able to make a basic hose, but it will take time to learn the control point thing. One thing that I find frustrating is that you have to edit the dat file by deleting a bunch of spaces before you can put it in Ledit. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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