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Re: Parts are 'off' in ldraw
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 3 Jan 1999 04:16:21 GMT
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999 18:50:44 GMT, "Linc Smith"
<ldsmith@pfc.forestry.ca> wrote:
> Bert van Dam wrote in message ...
> > If you look at this design you'll notice the parts are a bitt 'off'. This
> > happens almost avery time when I try to make something in ledit. What am I
> > doing wrong??
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> I looked at your dat, and had no problem lining up the parts. I think that
> you have been using only the "normal" part movement function. By pressing
> "m" in LEdit, you toggle through three different movement distances...
> (normal, fine, coarse) you want to toggle to fine, and then line up the
> axles. The ability to have parts placed at locations off of the half stud
> movement of normal provides a lot more freedom in your models, and is
> necessary when dealing with parts like the triangle lift arm you have in
> your dat.
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> Hope this helps... hope that was what you were talking about :-)
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> LINC
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> Ps. You will find that with part rotation and back rotation and funny
> angles, that even in fine movement mode you won't line up perfectly. You
> can look in the view window at the top of LEdit, and see the X,Y,Z numbers.
> You may just need to move the part 0.1 or 0.2 units. You can do this with
> "x [enter] .1", and the same for the other two planes. I thought this was
> what you were having problems with, but after looking at your file it is
> more likely the top scenario. I mentioned this second one, because it will
> come up eventually, and this is a little preventative post.
Good advice, Linc.
You may also notice that you occasionally end up with some odd numbers
that are off by a small amount -- like 10.3 -- that seem to screw
things up ever so slightly, even in Fine movement mode. And you can't
seem to fix it even using the "x [enter] .1" method.
If you save the file, then look at it in a text editor, you will
notice that the line that may say 10.3 in LEdit actually is 10.27 in
the saved file.
So if you are really anal-retentive about alignment, you can round off
that number in the file, save it, then reload it in LEdit.
-- Terry K --
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| Bert van Dam wrote in message ... (...) I looked at your dat, and had no problem lining up the parts. I think that you have been using only the "normal" part movement function. By pressing "m" in LEdit, you toggle through three different movement (...) (28 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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