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Has anyone got a tool, that can mirror a portion of a part? What I need to do is change the prefix (from positive (nothing) to negative (-)) of a whole bunch of "X" values, leaving the "Y" and "Z" values intact I don't feel like doing it by hand:) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Sure, if I understand your question correctly, that was one of the main reasons I started developing LDS. Have a look at this:. (URL) mirror x 2 24 100 24 12 200 24 12 mirror off gives: 2 24 10 24 12 20 24 12 2 24 -10 24 12 -20 24 12 and so on. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Boy, am I tired! Of course I mean: 2 24 100 24 12 200 24 12 2 24 -100 24 12 -200 24 12 (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) One way to do this with the tools you have at hand would be to put the portion you want to mirror in a subpart, mirror the reference to this manually, and then inline the subpart again to retrieve it mirrored. Fredrik (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) And the commands should go in the input file:) (took me a little time to figure that out:)) Nice tool! It was really helpful. I think you would agree, if you take a look on the 2951 i posted in cad.dat.parts, that the second bracket would have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Documentation is not my strongest side. :o) (...) I know, that's why I spent so many hours developing it. Sad thing LDraw doesn't support some of the commands, like FOR - TO -NEXT. Imagine someone got this crazy idea of making the 50x50 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote in message news:388873F6.9A09BC...pnet.se... (...) look (...) been (...) doesn't (...) LDAO's Gridder works well for things like this, too. -John Van (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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