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Subject: 
Lining up parts
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:46:22 GMT
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I've been experimenting with Ledit to model some of the MOC's I have and it
seems that whenever I rotate something the alignment of anything after that
piece and that piece go screwy. Like the LDraw part 2436, whenever I rotate
a part to put on it, I can't get it on right and any pieces after that get
all messed up? Also is there a program where I can use my mouse to model
things and yet still have all the functions of Ledit

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Matt Marshall
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Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Lining up parts
 
..... (...) Try LeoCAD from Leonardo Zide..very nice program.. Selçuk (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Lining up parts
 
(...) It's because when you rotate in LEdit, the piece rotates around around the origin (the center-point, (0,0,0), where X, Y, and Z are all 0), not around the center of the piece. This tends to change the part's position, throwing it out of (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Lining up parts
 
(...) The other answers I read here addressed the "go screwy" side, so here's some tips to fix the "anything after that piece" problem. Try these techniques: 1. Before doing the rotation on the piece, make another copy of it by pressing "I". The go (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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