(2019-04-18, 5:39)Philippe Hurbain Wrote: Three tricks that come in handy in this kind of situation:
- If you select a part before adding the new part, the new part will use previously selected part orientation. This will work here, select the blue angled beam before adding the white one. The white beam will have the right orientation and you'll just have to use snapping to place it exactly on pins.
This trick i use it allways but it looks that i did not implement this when i was building this part of the car.



- Use relative grid: in the previous case, default orientation of parts could result in the need of rotating the added part by 90° in the local orientation of the part. pressing "o" with the part selected will allow to do that (see http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/docs/basicEdit, "building at angles" section).

After i wrote the question i found this also in the software. but i feel that its better the other solution you mention upper.


- If none of these tricks are enough, then rely on LDCad angle measurements and triangle closure tool. (see http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/docs/advEdit, "shock absorber section" and LDCad Youtube videos).
This one i was not aware.

As a general rule, I never use fine moves and visual placement when doing a model, except when the model relies on flexiblility of parts, forcing me to distribute the error to compensate.
Good to know.

thank you very much. i was thinking also an option that can be added to ldcad, its to copy properties from other bricks to current selection. like color, angle, position etc.

Quote: I was thinking also an option that can be added to ldcad, its to copy properties from other bricks to current selection. like color, angle, position etc.

(2019-04-18, 5:39)Philippe Hurbain Wrote: - If none of these tricks are enough, then rely on LDCad angle measurements and triangle closure tool.

(2019-04-20, 3:08)Orion Pobursky Wrote: Really?!? I've been doing all my calculations with scratch paper and a spreadsheet and this functionality has been in LDCad all along? This is awesome and I feel like an idiot.

(2019-04-20, 14:54)Philippe Hurbain Wrote: I guess I should have realized when you published your spreadsheet, sorry!

(2019-04-21, 18:36)Max Martin Richter Wrote: Seems that something with your snapping doesn't work correctly.
I tried this just now and finished with all axles aligned after a couple of minutes.

Maybe you should check the settings of your shadow library or your snapping setting in LDCad itself.





Max

(2019-04-21, 22:01)tatubias Wrote: i was able to remake the part, using relative grid and was much faster it took me a pair of minutes. but as you can notice, this brick has an angle of 157.5 degrees, the default grid cant make smalers steps that 1°

so we can only make an aproximation, by the moment if good for me

thank you very much.

(2019-04-21, 23:20)Orion Pobursky Wrote: Do you have part snapping on? Mouse over the grid and see if it says ps or gs

(2019-04-21, 23:43)tatubias Wrote: yes i do have selected part snaping

(2019-04-22, 8:11)Max Martin Richter Wrote: Good to hear, that it works now.

As mentioned above, I think, there was a problem with the shadow library. The shadow library includes snapping information for most of our parts.
Please read here for more information.

Here is how it is configured on my machine:


/Max

(2019-04-22, 12:02)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: How do I get rid of that part snapping information? The red and blue crosses.

(2019-04-22, 12:02)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: This is my main issue using LDCad.

EVERYTHING seems to be reconfigurable, and once you get lost it is virtually impossible to get back to a "default" state.

(2019-07-06, 2:29)John Sio Wrote: Bro you can align that white part with new one with orientation, Thats will be work make sure the white beam have complete measurement and then you can snap the Pins in it or strips liteblue

(2019-04-22, 2:15)Victor Di Rienzo Wrote: The problem was that i did not have shadow library working.