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Larry Pieniazek wrote...
> OK, I have done a similar thing in my PCC which uses yellow tubing for
> handrails. the tubing needs to be 14 plates high so I changed the length -20
> to -14*8 by hand in the mpd to get the length right, then moved/rotated the
> tubing around in MLCad (rotating it as necessary because as I reported before
> you cannot move it in MLCad in the direction of the long axis, you have to
> rotate it, move it then rotate it back) and replicated it. This worked fine in
> MLCad. You can see the tubing is the right length if you go to my
> www.miltontrainworks.com site and look at the item by clicking on the
> thumbnail on the splash page, there is a side view taken from a screen shot of
> MLCad... (third image down in:
> http://www.miltontrainworks.com/item_info.html#MTW-3001-rw)
>
> However when I exported the model through L3Lab, the tubing got shortened, I
> think. In the render that heads the item list (first image) you can clearly
> see that the tubing is significantly shorter. *I* didn't shorten it.
>
> Is this a known bug of L3Lab? of POVRay? Some flaw with how I did things?
I don't know of any problems (knock knock).
If you would care to e-mail me your DAT (MPD) file,
I will check it with L3Lab, L3P and POVRay.
/Lars
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| (...) Thanks. I'll try to work up a simple one that exhibits the same problem, that particular DAT isn't for public consumption. (...) c ">/"++" c "s"" to yield ( :-) ) ++Lar (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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