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Re: My first DAT file!
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 31 Oct 1999 11:37:59 GMT
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lpieniazek@noveraNOMORESPAM.com
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Mike Poindexter wrote:
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> In lugnet.cad.dat, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Well, actually an MPD. If this works right, it's a model of my yellow and
> > black Hydrogen Tanker.
> >
> > This car has been around a while, since I got my AucZILLA VII winnings, I think
> > it was, which included a bazillion yellow 1x1 round bricks...
> >
> > I would be interested in feedback on the number of steps, as well as on whether
> > I should have done things in a different order.
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> I saw a double step in one part where only one was needed.
I caught that after I posted it, I was working by inserting a lot of
steps in front of the trucks (which actually were the first things
placed in the model, but then I built everything in front of them.
I notice some people put the trucks first... should I move them first,
and make two different submodels, one with all the step pauses to see
the detail and one without them? That was the idea behind the hy_tube
submodel, the first tube is built up out of individual parts, but I
think I need a step to show that it's a technic pin that holds one end
of the tube to the technic beam (the other (stud) end just plugs in)
> Also, when you add the yellow round 1x1 plates to the back side, you should use
> a rotation step where you spin the model around 180 degrees. Although it
> doesn't show when you go through in MLCAD, it does show up when you print
> instructions.
Or put the plates there first, just hanging in space, before the beam
assemblies are placed?
LDLite won't show the rotation step either, I assume. Also, if this
model is eventually POVRayed, do the rotation steps have any effect at
that time?
> That is all I could find that might need to be changed. Order of steps is
> fine. Nice model. When I first saw it, I thought that it was solid 1x1
> rounds, which would have been absolutely crazy.
Hehe, it's SUPPOSED to look like it's all 1x1s but even I don't have
THAT many. It looks like it uses 300 but it actually only uses 165. The
yellow bricks in the center are there to hide the fact that it's hollow.
There is one other bug in the version I posted. One end of the car has
to have the tubes reversed as you cannot have the axle/pin go in the end
of a beam that has a 1x1 round plugged in. Easy fix though as you just
rotate (around the Z axis) the 4 assemblies at that end, they're even
centered correctly so you don't have to move them after you rotate 180.
Again, thanks for your help and comments.
--
Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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| (...) think (...) whether (...) Any reason you use an axle pin instead of a normal pin? There are some instruction features that need to be added, like a submodel having a x33 for your hydrogen tubes and a part with an arrow pointing to where it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I saw a double step in one part where only one was needed. Also, when you add the yellow round 1x1 plates to the back side, you should use a rotation step where you spin the model around 180 degrees. Although it doesn't show when you go (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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