Subject:
|
Re: Suggestion for new meta command & help request
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad.dev
|
Date:
|
Mon, 24 Apr 2000 06:30:24 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2263 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.cad.dev, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> writes:
>
> > Maybe I'm wrong and such a thing is available already, but what about
> > a meta command: 0 CENTER x y z which defines the default center for
> > rotations?
>
> The problem with such a thing would be that many parts have _many_
> natural rotation points. Take, for example a simple thing as a 1×n
> plate. A user may very well want to rotate it by any of the studs,
> depending on how it is connected to another brick. And that's not all:
> it can also be connected to a hollow stud by any of the "nibs" on the
> underside of the plate, meaning a total of 2n-1 natural rotation points
> for a common 1×n plate.
>
> Of course there are parts which have one and only one natural rotation
> point, but in these cases the part _should_ (in my opinion) have this
> point as the origin. We should make review new parts thoroughly to make
> sure that this applies IMO.
I believe the problem is not the rotation point itself if the center for
rotations is set to a stud or between two studs every thing would work fine,
since the default step width of MLCad is halve a stud. So after rotating you
can place it very exact.
I learned in the last days the problem is with parts which are e.g. 1 + 1/2
stud wide, since MLCad now rotates somewhere on 0.75 stud which is wrong in
such a case. In this case a CENTER command would help.
The bigger problem I saw is the fact that the step with on the axes is not
equal meaning x and z have a step width of 10 (= halve stud) but on the y axle
its 7 ... no problem until now, but if you rotate a part by 90 degree arround
the z axle than this step widths are no longer valid and this is the point
where it seems to me MLCad runs into troubles.
For the moment beeing I have realy no idea how to come arround this problem,
but maybe someone reads that and has a good idea.
Remembering the orientation of a part or recalculating it all the time does not
seem a good way, since this would work only if the part is rotated in 90 degree
steps, any other angle will cause other step widths at all.
The only way I can see at the moment is changing the snap methode in MLCad
somehow ... but how?
>
> > What would you suggest as the best way to define the rotation point?
> > Please try to describe it as clear as possible from the user point of
> > view!
>
> I think the LEdit approach work very nicely.
Yes sure but not in MLCad since that doesn't have a cursor, and placing the
center point with the mouse is not realy easy I think.
>
> Fredrik
Thanks,
Michael
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Suggestion for new meta command & help request
|
| (...) I don't understand this. What if the user wants to rotate by something which isn't a multiple of 90°? Say, 30°? If the rotation point is off by one (or even a half) stud, it isn't going to work to offset the part afterwards. Unless you offset (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Suggestion for new meta command & help request
|
| (...) The problem with such a thing would be that many parts have _many_ natural rotation points. Take, for example a simple thing as a 1×n plate. A user may very well want to rotate it by any of the studs, depending on how it is connected to (...) (26 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
8 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
