Philo wrote: > Hello Oliver, > >> >> i started to build the model 8421 in LeoCAD and i'm wondering how >> will get all the flexible parts in there? > > As of today, you have no other solution than adding the flexible parts > outside LeoCAD. Lsynth (http://kclague.net/LSynth/index.htm) is the > tool of choice for that, see also this tutorial: > http://www.holly-wood.it/lsynth/tutorial-en.html I will look into that, thanks a lot. > > You will have to save your work in LDraw format to use that (do it in > the end) > > See here http://philohome.com/pwheel/pwheel.htm what can be done with > LeoCAD+Lsynth+LPub! > I looked at your page earlier today and at that page in particular. Nice work :) >> Any suggestions are welcome. >> Further i have difficulty aligning parts correctly. The built in >> snapping seems to be helpful, but very often parts just >> end up at the wrong position. Then i turn snapping off and move parts >> around which then end up in better positions >> but still have to be moved over the Modify panel. All in all a >> sometimes frustrating process. >> Especially when small alignment errors add up to a total of like 5mm. >> An even bigger problem is when rotation is involved. > > Did you have a look to these tutorials about grids and angle grids > (http://trac.gerf.org/leocad/wiki/LeoCadDoc)? > I did not. But i just gave them a quick look and will inspect them further tomorrow. Thanks again. > Cheers, > > Philo >
PS: My current progress: http://www.ibw.nl/alien/legovgay.png http://www.gkmotu.com/temp/stuff.jpg Two friends of mine are regularly trying the model out on the render of their choice :) _______________________________________________ Leocad mailing list [email protected] https://list.gerf.org/listinfo/leocad
