[LDCad] Aligning parts using rotation scripts

[David Manley]

8 Align parts / Linkage Animations, revised

This is a follow-up to provide information about revised scripts for aligning parts and the linkages animation. The appropriate scripts can be downloaded from BrickSafe and installed as per the original description albeit that the installation will also install the script linkages.lua into the sub-directory named global.

A follow up-post, three years later.

I trialed the part rotation alignment script in LDCad 1.7 beta today and discovered the following

1. in Windows, the custom scripts now need to be installed into the directory "%APPDATA%\LDCad\scripts\custom". This is a change from LDCad 1.6, when the scripts needed to be installed into "C:\Program Files\LDCad\scripts\custom" (or whichever directory you installed LDCad into).
   
2. there was a bug in the two parts rotation, introduced when adding the ability to rotate around the current view plane. Up until now, it looks like it would only ever work when the current view plane was the Y plane. This bug has been corrected.
   

The amended scripts are available for download from BrickSafe (replaced with download containing one more code tweak).

Regards,

David

[Edit: updated with new link to v4 of script)