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Re: tubing
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:51:29 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> I'm not a parts author, I don't really understand the theory of making things
> the right size. How hard would it be to make up a spreadsheet or something to
> let me generate arbitrary lengths of tubing (straight only) that don't have
> the "can't move in the long axis direction" problem (*which I hate!*)? Is that
> something that I could puzzle out in short order? Are there spreadsheets for
> generating things that would help me figure things out? Is this a daft
> question?
I think the "can't move in the long direction" problem would be solved if
you put the modified command line in a separate dat file, then used that
new file like a part.
For example (and only slightly in a different direction, style-wise), you
could make a new DAT file, called tube112.dat (store it in your main model
file's directory), and put the following lines in it (sniped from 75.dat
and modified):
1 16 0 55 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 76.DAT
1 16 0 -55 0 1 0 0 0 110 0 0 0 1 77.DAT
1 16 0 -55 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 76.DAT
Steve
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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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