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Re: My first DAT file!
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Sun, 31 Oct 1999 15:18:37 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Mike Poindexter wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I saw a double step in one part where only one was needed.
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> 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.
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> 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)
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 goes. Maybe in version 1.6...
> > 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.
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> Or put the plates there first, just hanging in space, before the beam
> assemblies are placed?
I usually build things where you can actually snap them together or lay them
down. I would have put the 1x10's and everything else there first and then
flip the model over and add the yellow technic 1x8 bricks. It is just
building style. I think yours is a little off for kids, but how many 6 year
olds are going to be using the net to build train cars?
> 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?
I have no idea, as I am new to POV-RAY.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Again, thanks for your help and comments.
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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>
> NOTE: Soon to be lpieniazek@tsisoft.com :-)
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| (...) The reason is *either* - the normal pin doesn't seat well inside the 1x1 round because it is slightly longer/shorter/too wide/too narrow (choose one) OR - I had a lot of those other pins when I built it and not very many of the normal kind but (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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