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Re: A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones)
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Fri, 25 Jan 2002 02:03:31 GMT
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Don Heyse wrote...
> In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse writes:
> > In lugnet.cad, Lars C. Hassing writes:
> > > I don't know when Jonathan Knudsen wrote his tutotial,
> > > but the camera angle option -ca has been there since January 1999.
> > > http://home16.inet.tele.dk/hassing/l3p_ca.html
> > > - or he just overlooked it.
> > > In stead of uncommenting the orthographic keyword,
> > > it's better to use e.g. -ca1.
> > > The effect is the same, but you can still enjoy L3P's
> > > automatic camera positioning.
> >
> > Actually what I think this shows is that there really *are* people out
> > there who would like a -co option on the command line to automatically
> > uncomment the orthographic keyword.
>
> One such example is if I were creating building instructions for a
> mecha and wanted to focus on the left foot for a particular step.
> I think it's pretty well established that a true orthographic projection
> makes for the easiest to understand instructions. Also in this case,
> the l3p automatic camera positioning does me no good because it focuses
> on the whole model, not just the left foot. However I still want the
> whole model built because this is the step where I attach the foot to
> it. I apologise if this example sounds too contrived.
No, it makes sense. Sorry for not posting
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=6751
sooner. I can tell you are eager :-)
But in Jonathan Knudsen's case I think he missed a point.
/Lars
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