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Hi all. I am modeling the torso of the skeleton and I need help in rotating a cylinder to an exact position. The cylinder is part of the ball-joint. See photo at (URL) use MLCad for view the file I write in notepad. But I can not position the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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A few things. First, I thought I'd point out that the code actually has two spheres, SLIGHTLY offset from each other (If you zoom in far enough, you can see the a slight crease). You'll have to remove one of them in order in order to truly line up (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) First question: do you know your angle of rotation? If you don't know the angle, it's going to be very hard to get the right fit. Answer #1: If you've got LDraw Add-On, use the rotation tools in the LDAO Editor. They are very similar to the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) no (...) 2 24 14.8 -16.4 6.1 16.8 -5 6.1 4 16 14.8 -16.4 6.1 16.8 -5 6.1 16.8 -5 -6.1 14.8 -16.4 -6.1 1 14 21.2 -11.2 0 3.15 0 0 0 3.15 0 0 0 3.15 4-8SPHE.DAT 1 14 21.2 -11.2 0 3.15 0 0 0 -3.15 0 0 0 -3.15 4-8SPHE.DAT 0 Travis, I need a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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OK, here is what I came up with: 2 24 14.8 -16.4 6.1 16.8 -5 6.1 4 16 14.8 -16.4 6.1 16.8 -5 6.1 16.8 -5 -6.1 14.8 -16.4 -6.1 1 14 21.2 -11.2 0 0.547 -3.102 0 3.102 0.547 0 0 0 3.15 8-8SPHE.DAT 1 14 21.2 -11.2 0 0.379 -5.909 0 2.147 1.044 0 0 0 2.18 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have responded to this in the lugnet.cad.dev newsgroup, which is a more appropriate location for the response. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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Travis, I want to thank you for your help and the explaination on the rotation matrix. You can see the results in the Skeleton Torso I am about to post. I have documented your help in the file. Once again, Thanks. Dennis (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I posted the Skeleton Torso in lugnet.cad.dat.parts Dennis (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dennis Osborn" <osbodr01@holmes.ipfw.edu> wrote in message news:G0qCM2.AE4@lugnet.com... (...) rotation (...) I (...) No problem. Thanks for the "credit". One thing about writing a program which displays these models is that you tend to get a (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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