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Re: Description of MLCad extensions available now
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lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:35:45 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Don Heyse writes:
In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Michael Lachmann wrote:

The ROTATION command is a LDLITE command, not a MLCad command. You will find
information about this command in the ldlite documentation I guess.

Actually, LDLite has a ROTATE command, which is different than MLCad's
ROTATION command.  ROTATE is literally a directive to rotate a set of
command-lines around a vector by a specific angle.  ROTATION seems to
define a point in space around which an editor may rotate a
part/subfile?

Is the ROTATION command the one that's sorta documented here?

http://news.lugnet.com/cad/mlcad/?n=306

Michael's reply seems to indicate he planned on implementing it,
and that was about 2 years ago, so I imagine it's been done by now.

Uh Oh, we need some *unlicensed* documentation on this meta command.
It's already used in some official parts.  If I have to get permission
in writing to use all the features of the official parts (or be liable
for unspecified damages) I'm gonna find myself a new hobby.

Don



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Description of MLCad extensions available now
 
(...) Perhaps the use of the "ROTATION CENTER" meta statement in the parts library can be changed into a different, non-licensed format? The word "CENTER" breaks the standing LDraw tradition of using British English terms anyway. In my opinion it (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
  Re: Description of MLCad extensions available now
 
(...) That, and the fact that MLCAD adds two 0 ROTATION statements to the header of every model file it edits. (...) Actually, only commented-out versions of the ROTATION meta-statement have appeared in parts (ie, '0 0 ROTATION'). The submit process (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Description of MLCad extensions available now
 
(...) Is the ROTATION command the one that's sorta documented here? (URL) reply seems to indicate he planned on implementing it, and that was about 2 years ago, so I imagine it's been done by now. Don (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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