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Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 24 Mar 2002 02:54:11 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Ryan Farrington writes:
> Don Heyse wrote:
> > Hmmm, what technique did you use to do the scaling? 0 SCALE
> > meta-commands, or scale and then inline. I used the inliner approach.
> > Here's how it goes in ldglite using the familiar LEDIT style commands
> > (with the scale and inliner extensions). I'm sure you can do the same
> > thing in LDAO.
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> Well first of all I don't have either ldglite or LDAO! And I am not sure
> what you mean by 'scale and then inline,' nor am I sure of the meaning of
> inline/inliner in this context. I'm off to a real good start! :]
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> I could add 0 SCALE lines to scale down the line-type 1 e-rod0.dat in the
> k0002.dat part file, and that would work fine (though the file of e-rod0.dat
> never changed). By opening k0002.dat in MLCad and saving it, it would
> integrate the scaling into the rotation matrix:
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> 0 K'nex rod 0 green
> 0 Name: k0002.dat
> 1 16 0 0 0 0.64 0 0 0 0.64 0 0 0 0.64 e-rod0.dat
> 1 16 0 0 -96 -0.64 0 0 0 0.64 0 0 0 -0.64 e-rod0.dat
> 0
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> But when I tried this same procedure with k0315.dat, the lines and quads in
> the file didn't scale down (it's really no surprise).
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> Every time I read your latest instructions, I interpret them in a different
> way. So I don't know what to do
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> --Ryan (who is probably having a couple of dense-headed days...)
Nah, my documentation stinks. I'll try again with pictures.
http://ldglite.sourceforge.net/knexscale.html
You can probably do something similar in MLCAD, but I'm not positive.
Don
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| (...) Well first of all I don't have either ldglite or LDAO! And I am not sure what you mean by 'scale and then inline,' nor am I sure of the meaning of inline/inliner in this context. I'm off to a real good start! :] I could add 0 SCALE lines to (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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