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Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:34:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Sproaticus wrote:
> An idea, straight out of left field: named rotation centers. Why restrict
> yourself to just one? It should be possible to have *several* user-defined
> rotation centers, and when the user wants to rotate a subpart, MLCad could use
> the *current* named rotation center.
Cool idea.
> Named rotation centers could be saved in the MPD as 0-line comments. In fact,
> (and I'm just spewing now :-) a buncha MLCad-specific stuff could be saved as
> special 0-line comments (e.g. "0 MLCAD Named-Rot-Center Yadda 20 -8 40" or even
> "0 MLCAD Named-Rot-Axis Yabbadabba 20 -8 40 20 -16 40", etc.) in a special MPD
> subpart file consisting entirely of such directives -- which could make setting
> model-specific (or user-specific) MLCad settings as easy as including a canned
> subpart.
Is there an advantage to stuffing them in a separate subfile, other than
neatness? That approach *requires* the use of MPD for storage.
If they could scoped to be 'located' in specific subfiles (or the main
file), that would be useful...
Alternately, they could be stored (in any line format *except* DAT) before
the first 0 FILE meta-command in an MPD.
Steve
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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| I like this idea of storing the rotation data. But I wouldn't restrict it to mpd but store it in any dat file ... This allows having different rotation points per sub-model. I will forsee something like the statement suggested from Sproaticus (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
| | | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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| (...) An MPD header, hmmm? Handy for storing metadata, non-DAT directives, loose change, etc... I *really* like this idea. How many MPD-capable tools would need changes to allow this? Is non-DAT content before the first 0 FILE generally ignored? (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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| (...) An idea, straight out of left field: named rotation centers. Why restrict yourself to just one? It should be possible to have *several* user-defined rotation centers, and when the user wants to rotate a subpart, MLCad could use the *current* (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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