Microtechnic

[Jaco van der Molen]

While I am learning LDCad, I am making various official models.
Here I will post the Microtechic models.
http://brickset.com/sets/theme-Technic/s...crotechnic

[Jaco van der Molen]

8203 - Rover Discovery
Image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2IPxka...sp=sharing
Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2IPxka...sp=sharing
Missing stickers.

[Jaco van der Molen]

8218-1: Trike Tourer
Image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2IPxka...sp=sharing
Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2IPxka...sp=sharing
No known errors.

[Jaco van der Molen]

One more to go: 8217 The Wasp (Helicopter)

For the rest, see here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl...omr-models

[Philippe Hurbain]

Nice little models!
For the record I was not able to download them from google translate page, I had to use directly the Dutch version.

[Jaco van der Molen]

OK, thanks Philo!
And thanks for pointing out the download issue. I am trying to get things reorganized with my websites for LDraw and LPub3D.

I did these models to learn more LDCad.
All models have some special things like rubber bands, flex tubes, spring, tyres, gearing, odd angle connections, and so on.
Those features are particulary interesting to build and fun.
I really must say I am getting there where it comes to using LDCad. Very fast modeling with part snapping.
Rubber bands and flex tubes work so nice.
The angle calculation is somewhat mysterious though. I did follow the clip on Youtube where Roland explains it. But must admit, I got the right angles by trial and error. This is something I have to understand yet.

8217 (The Wasp) is to follow!

[Philippe Hurbain]

The angle calculation is somewhat mysterious though. I did follow the clip on Youtube where Roland explains it. But must admit, I got the right angles by trial and error. This is something I have to understand yet.

Yeah it took me a bit of time to get it right. I guess you figured out that clicking on any box puts the value in clipboard. Closing triangles took a little more time to get the right methodology.
- place pins or axles in all 4 holes of the triangle to close (if they are not yet there, or if some of them are unavailable because of subparting/grouping)
- select the 4 pins in order (1-2-3-4). Pins 1 and 4 must be the pins that will be joined after triangle closing. 2 is the rotation point corresponding to pin 1, 3 the one corresponding to pin 4. The red and green closing lines appear. Click on the box of the color of lines that you want to use to copy the two angle values in clipboard.
- Select pins 2, 1 and everything that need to rotate with pin 1. Type ctrl-R or click on manual rotation icon. Paste the values, delete the second one, OK.
- Select pins 3, 4 and everything that need to rotate with pin 4. Type ctrl-R or click on manual rotation icon. Paste the values, delete the first one, OK.
- Remove extraneous pins/axles.
Done...

[Jaco van der Molen]

Ah, your explaination adds more clarification to understanding this. Thanks!