!Restored: RotX

[Anonymous]

Has anyone got the time to explain a way of adding a RotX to a library part? My colleague has the GDL cookbook, but i have had a look through it and it isn't as simply explained in there as it says, unless you have the time to read the whole book and pactice and master using all the scripts!

I know you can save them out as library parts by looking at them in the 3D window at a certain angle but i want to be able to change the angle to an obscure one.

Not to anything complicated even, just a simple cube so that i know the process.

Any help would be much appreciated,

Cheers,

[Anonymous]

Hello Craig,
The first thing you must do is to open the library part and
look at the 3D view with the the coordinates showing to
determine the orientation of the object with respect to
the three axise. Then in the parameter list you create
an angle type parameter, name it something like xrot ,
and describe it in the description field with something like
"Rotation angle about the "X" axis". In the 3D script right at
the beginning of the script you type the line:

rotx xrot

and if you want to be purist you go to the very end of the
the script and type the line

del 1

this deletes the rotation transformation.

I hope this is helpful.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Thanks that is excellent, I'm not worried about the 2D representation of it so that works fine.

Cheers again

[Anonymous]

You can delete all the 2D script and write...

PROJECT2 3,270,0

...to have a top view of the rotated 3D-object in the plan.