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Re: Mirror Building
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Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:37:39 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Cristian Sala wrote:
hello guys,

I want to know if someone has ever thinked about doing a program to mirror a
model!
in other words, when you build a symmetrix model, you build only one side
and then mirror it to the other side

thank you
Cristian


Why using a special program?

First build the half of your model.
This model is then referenced by the main file with a line like
1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 modelhalf.dat

The next line is then
1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 modelhalf.dat

Got it!

Or did I missunderstood your question?

cu
mikeheide



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Mirror Building  [DAT]
 
(...) Christian, Mike is showing you a very nice magic trick that can be performed using the rotation matrix associated with each part added in an LDraw model. An LDraw type 1 line has this format: 1 <color> <x> <y> <z> <a> <b> <c> <d> <e> <f> <g> (...) (16 years ago, 30-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
  Re: Mirror Building  [DAT]
 
(...) hello Mike, I think that this method only rotates the model... was if I have somthing like that: 0 Untitled 0 Name: test.ldr 0 Author: MLCad 0 Unofficial Model 0 COLOR 71 Stone_Gray 0 163 162 164 255 163 162 164 255 0 COLOR 72 Dark_Stone_Gray (...) (16 years ago, 30-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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  Mirror Building
 
hello guys, I want to know if someone has ever thinked about doing a program to mirror a model! in other words, when you build a symmetrix model, you build only one side and then mirror it to the other side thank you Cristian ___...___ Information (...) (16 years ago, 29-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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