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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
> I'd like to suggest that the general problem of being able to resize
> things that are linear, but indeterminate in length (rods, string,
> anything with a smooth contour, but not corrogated tubing because
> resizing it would make the corrugations the wrong spacing) be
> something that the tool be able to do at some future point.
I don't think that users would normally want to scale parts. The part
you were presented with just now is probably the exception: No other
parts in the LDraw library should be scaled to other sizes than the ones
they come in. But then again, the part you used used is not an official
part.
Fredrik
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| (...) If I ever had to model string I probably would use a scaled cylinder... I would like to see your part become official! It's very useful. (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) Cool. That worked. I had to edit the MPD by hand, though, I could not just edit the matrix values in MLCad directly. I think I found an MLCad quirk though. With non unit scaling/rotation factors I found that I could not move the part in the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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