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Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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Date: 
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 06:11:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes:

If i just go in with MLCad and select all the quads and rotate them so that
the part looks right, the parts tracker utility complains that you can't
have rotations in parts...

no, your both wrong. the rotating/mirror problem is within q2dat.
-bug report-
when doing a 1 x 2 tile q2dat mirrors your quads.
when doing certain panels or bricks, like for instance. do a 1 x 4 x 3 panel
and make a quad in it. then save it. when you reopen the file it thinks the
template is a 1 x 4 brick.
so  good idea once your file is done in q2dat just create a second file, put
in the original file, rotate it and inline it, clean it up and its correct.
i use ledit so i dont deal with al those mLCAD commands. mlcad is to slow
for me. so i stick to ledit for all my modelin needs.  with win xp it doesnt
have dos (thats what i have been told)  myself and george barnes have used
q2dat alot.



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  Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
 
(...) Sorry for any confusion on that point, I knew that but maybe didn't state it very clearly... the initial error is being introduced there. But the tool is SO useful that it's worth working around, hence my questions... I think I've got it now. (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)  

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  Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
 
(...) OK, this isn't because of the "rotation" of the parts, it's because MLCad is inserting bogus commands at the top of the file 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 It also is changing the value of the filename (removing the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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