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Re: Technic Plate Placement
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lugnet.cad.ldd
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Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:09:16 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ldd, John P. Henderson wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ldd, John P. Henderson wrote:
> > How does one place a technic plate such that it places with a vertical
> > technic peg properly threw one of the plate's inner holes?
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> Well, I apologize for answering my own post, but here's what I found and thought
> was worth sharing in case anyone else has this problem:
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> First, lego.com actually admits there are such faults with the program sometimes
> not being able to connect pieces in ways they could be in real life.
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> Second, in the case of connecting railroad wheel trusses to a technic plate,
> start with the plate, flip it over, then bring in the connector plate with the
> pin, flip that over, and set it down. For me, this finally made the plate
> connect the way I wanted. After adding all the wheels I wanted, I then used the
> select all function to flip the entire model over, making it upright.
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> Anyhoo... It might not be the only way to deal with this issue, but it is one
> way to.
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> Cheers,
> -Hendo
I, too, find that I just can't make pieces connect in LDD like they're supposed
to. When this happens, I'll build up part of the model in LDD and then save as
a .LDR file. Then using MLCAD (in LDraw), I fix the stuff that didn't work in
LDD and, if I want to order it from Factory, bring the model back to LDD and
clean it up. There are some glitches in this process - certain things (colors,
pieces) don't carry well between LDD and MLCAD, but it at least allows accurate
piece placement.
-Jordan
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