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Re: LPub question: how to change angle of view for instructions
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst
Date: 
Sat, 2 Aug 2003 02:18:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Allan Bedford wrote:
> For the first couple of instruction sets I did, LPub seemed to point the camera
> in almost exactly the direction I wanted, when producing instruction images.
> Example:
> 
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=445276
> 
> Lately though, it seems to have flipped around and is looking at the models from
> the other side.  Example:
> 
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=461317
> 
> I prefer the first angle, since that's the direction the model generally faces
> as I'm building it in LeoCAD.  It's also the angle I presume, in cases where
> brick locations might be ambiguous or confusing... I put them toward the 'back'
> of the model first, so that they're not hidden by something closer to the front.
> Then I put the nearer brick in the model in the next step.
> 
> Anyway, I've tried playing with the camera angles on both the L3P > Camera tab
> and also on the Building Instructions > Parts Images tab.  Neither seems to
> affect how the instruction images turn out.  The first seems to have an effect
> on creating the complete assembly, but the second seems to affect nothing.
> 
> Is there something I'm missing?  Or doing wrong?  Have I changed a config by
> accident?  Is there some way to fix this?  :)

Hi Allen,

  MLCAD rotation steps are what define the camera angle for building
instructions.  That way you can reorient the camera at *any* time.  I prefer
relative rotation steps, but absolutes work as well.

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Allan B.

Kevin



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(...) Hi Kevin, I'm not very familiar with MLCAD, I use LeoCAD as my main modelling tool. Is the term 'rotation step' something specific to MLCAD? Regardless, I decided to work on this problem again the other night. I opened the original file for (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)

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For the first couple of instruction sets I did, LPub seemed to point the camera in almost exactly the direction I wanted, when producing instruction images. Example: (URL) though, it seems to have flipped around and is looking at the models from the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)

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