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Re: Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2
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Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:16:24 GMT
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At 07:11 AM 3/12/99 +0000, you wrote:
3)  For LEdit, mouse positioning of new pieces.  Although the mouse is
only 2D and the piece needs to be moved 3D, this can be gotten around to
a large extent in isometric 3D views by adjusting the third "in-out"
dimension based upon the presence of pieces already placed, and sort of
"snap-to" the model being worked on where the 2D cursor happens to be.
(Does that make any sense?)

Good idea.  To solve the 2d problem, you could have it hold down the
primary (generally left) mouse button to move the piece left, right,
forward, and back, and then hold the secondary (generally right) button to
move it up and down in a vertical plane.  I think Creator does this..

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  Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2
 
Here are 5 ideas of mine (although I don't claim to be the first to have thought of them) for an upcoming LDraw/LEdit package, in what is most likely to be increasing order of difficulty to implement. 1) Support for a "virtual filesystem" such as (...) (26 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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