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#1 Add bounding box (with info)

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2008-05-19
2007-09-11
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This came via email from Jindrich Kubec:

Showing the bounding box (including dialog for info about LEGO sizes of it).

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  • Travis Cobbs

    Travis Cobbs - 2007-09-11

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    Forgot to mention, he also had the following to say about this feature (which provides better justification):

    Info about bounding box in povray units. Since I don't know almost anything about povray, I usually only run l3p on my file and then use camera info reported by LDView. But I sometimes need to specify the 'floor' and the only way I found is to guess the number and doing lots of test renders only to get that right. If I can get the 'lowest' coordinate of bounding box, I'd just put that number as a floor coordinate.

     
  • Travis Cobbs

    Travis Cobbs - 2007-09-11

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    Just as a note, L3P uses LDraw Units unconverted, so the "povray units" are just LDraw Units. It would be fairly nice to have an option to show the units in inches of mm, though, for general-purpose use.

     
  • Travis Cobbs

    Travis Cobbs - 2007-09-11

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    As it happens, there is already code in LDView to draw the main bounding box, but there's no way to get that code to run right now. Adding support for that part is pretty straightforward. I'll probably add a Bounding Box dialog to the Tools menu to take care of reporting the information back to the user.

     
  • Travis Cobbs

    Travis Cobbs - 2008-05-19
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  • Travis Cobbs

    Travis Cobbs - 2008-05-19

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    Done.

     

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