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Re: New to digital LEGO
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lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad
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Sun, 7 May 2000 22:39:32 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Christopher Weeks wrote:
> > Also, I'm trying to rotate them around the y axis and it just doesn't work. • Is
> > there something weird about what Ldraw and L3P do with axes? I'm not really
> > getting it. I have to flip the skimmer 180 to put it right-side up. Then • when
> > I try to rotate them, to tip them down one of the far-off hilsides, I just
> > can't do it. It'll rotate around the other two axes, but I'm not sure I
> > understand when and why. The instructions and help for POV make it seem • easy,
> > but it's not working the way they say it should.
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> If you're in LEdit: One thing you need to figure out is where your center of
> rotation is. By default, it's on <0,0,0>, but you can move it around.
> Personally, I keep a fake part line (e.g. 0.DAT) and move that around to help
> setting the center of rotation.
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> If you're not in LEdit: Which modelling too are you using? MLCad? LeoCAD?
Thanks for the response. I am using LEdit. But, I don't get how to use the
fake part line, or how editing the center of rotation will change the output to
POV code.
thanks,
Chris
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| (...) In LEdit, you can use the menu sequence { / -> (T)urn -> (C)enter } to move the center of rotation over to the centerpoint of the current piece. Any piece you rotate will then turn around that centerpoint. I use the fake part line as a weak (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New to digital LEGO
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| (...) If you're in LEdit: One thing you need to figure out is where your center of rotation is. By default, it's on <0,0,0>, but you can move it around. Personally, I keep a fake part line (e.g. 0.DAT) and move that around to help setting the center (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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