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I'm trying to accomplish two separate effects: #1) I'm trying to pose the arms of a mini-fig "DAT" file so that its arms are "straight out (forward)" instead of "hanging normally", such that a rod/antenna being held in either of its hands would be (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) are you using Steve Bliss' LDraw Add On??? specifially the MiniFig modeller allows for easy manipulation of .DAT minifigs. Makes it very easy to rotate any/all of their joints and the kinematic chain is kept intact automatically check it out (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks, Jeff. I've got LDAO loaded, and I just now used the Mini-fig Modeller feature to create a DAT file. :-) Now I've got a _different_ problem. . . . :-/ The DAT file created by LDAO has a whole bunch of ROTATE and TRANSLATE comments in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ps, MLCAD _also_ squishes the mini-fig, BTW. . . . . Thanks. Franklin (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) right.. LDLite supports the new META command language.. but it was invented after LDraw... to convert the model to standard LDraw format you need to run LDLite on the model with the -R switch.. you have to do this at the DOS command line.. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK... I tried this. It didn't work. :-( My existing file is called "A.DAT", and i'll call the new, LDraw-friendly file "B.DAT". From the MS-DOS prompt, I typed in: LDLITE -RB.DAT A.DAT and LDLite created a one-line file for B.DAT, shown here (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Jeff Boen <onyx@flash.net> wrote in message news:FMr3pu.4DK@lugnet.com... (...) here's (...) as (...) choke, (...) successfully. (...) is: (...) This doesn't work in the most recent version of LDLite. You would have to get an earlier version. -John (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Open the minifig file in LDAO's Editor (not LEdit nor LDAO's Modeller). Notice that the ROTATE and TRANSLATE statements can be nested. Find a ROTATE or TRANSLATE which doesn't have any other ROTATE or TRANSLATE nested inside of it. So you're (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) grrr.. that's right... i haven't used this switch in a while... forgot that 1.6 broke it... and i don't have a copy of 1.5 that i can send... anyone out there have the 1.5 release of LDLite, or a location where it can be DL'd???? J (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) [snipped instructions for TRANSLATE and ROTATE] Great! Thanks, Steve! Now, what do I do about the TRANSFORM commands? (...) What does this mean? Thanks, Franklin (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Argh! There are TRANSFORM commands in there? What was I thinking when I wrote the cursed utility? Hmm. Assuming the worst, you can highlight the lines inside the TRANSFORM ... TRANSFORM END commands, then click the "Subfile" button (along with (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) hehhe.. not *that*, alanis, is irony :Þ J (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Franklin W. Cain <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FMqxx1.8I3@lugnet.com... (...) Since you are having such a hard time with LDLite, may I offer suggestions for the "old fashioned" way of doing this in LEdit and LDAO. The same thing should (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my request for assistance. THANK YOU! :-) Franklin Franklin W. Cain | fwcain@yahoo.com | (URL) OF MY EMAIL ADDRESS FOR UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS _STRICTLY_ PROHIBITED. . . (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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