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Virtual Truck Build

Alasdair Ryan
Alasdair Ryan
in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling

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Good to see you using LDCad! How do you find it?

Hot tip: There are a lot of keyboard shortcuts that will really help you out. I especially use the following:

"P" to turn the "pin" on/off

"C" to center view on current selection

1, 2, 3, 4 to quickly switch between preset stepping (just saw you went into the menu to change that)

ctrl + 1, 2, 3, 4 to change rotation stepping

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You can also use the arrow keys to rotate the held selection in 90 degree increments, very helpful and a lot faster than switching to rotation mode on the pin (as I also just saw you do)

EDIT 2:

Also, the part snap feature works very good with most Technic parts in the library.

I don't know how long you've been working on that assembly, but it could easily be built in less than a minute, gears alligned perfectly and all :thumbup:

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    Just throwing a couple of helpful hints in your direction :classic:

    Also (depending on what you're used with), you might find it helpful to go into the View menu and select "spin" for rotation control instead of "trackball"

    I too have used a lot of CAD (mainly Creo Parametric), and see very few similarities to Lego CAD software (except that you build something in 3D :sweet: )

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    I'm watching it yeah! But it's obviously slow!

    But I don't understand what you mean when you say "you may even learn something" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    Maybe he meant he'd may even learn something :laugh:

    Anyway, I'll check back in a couple of hours, hope to see some good progress both in the build and use of the software! :thumbup:

    How long do you plan to keep going?

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    Maybe he meant he'd may even learn something :laugh:

    :tongue::grin::laugh:

    Also tell us a bit more about what kind of truck you building! I'll check it time to time aswel! Seems fun!

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    It defiantly is slow it would be quicker in mlcad or LDD I guess.

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    I plan on going the full day,I am going for a 6x4 truck

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    Oh cm'on switch to LDD/ SR3 then! It will be faster and nicer to watch!!!

    I think I'll do something like that aswell one day! I'm enjoying watching you!

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    I say keep going with LDcad, it's quick to get a hang of it! Believe me, I have used MLcad a lot as well, and find LDcad to be probably ten times faster, and I am by no means an expert!

    But seriously; have a look into my suggestions, as I'm sure you'll find some of them extremely helpful and time saving. You can switch effortlessly between snap/no snap

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    I say keep going with LDcad, it's quick to get a hang of it! Believe me, I have used MLcad a lot as well, and find LDcad to be probably ten times faster, and I am by no means an expert!

    True if you know how! :laugh: I'm not familiar with LDcad, does it work well with Lpub?

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    True if you know how! :laugh: I'm not familiar with LDcad, does it work well with Lpub?

    As mentioned, it is a lot faster than MLcad, but if you plan to make instructions, there are some things you need to keep in mind. While it features stepping, .mpd support for submodels, etc, as far as I know, it doesn't have the "list" from MLcad (at least the version I use, but from what I understand, this has been implemented in a newer build?), nor the rotation step function. But I found it easy to build and step it in LDcad, and then use MLcad (or you can do it in LPub, if you're familiar with that) to rotation step.

    When I make instructions, I tend to export all from LPub as pictures, and then use MS PowerPoint or Publisher to arrange the final .pdf (makes it easy to add arrows, some helpful text, not having to dive too far into the more advanced functions of LPub). But I guess it all depends on how you prefer to work yourselves. If you already spent a lot of time becoming an expert in LPub, I don't see why not to use that knowledge to its full extent :classic:

    @Alasdair

    It's good to see progress already! Watching your stream reminds me very much of when I started using it, and how different I use it now :thumbup: Most notably, I used the 2D function a lot in the beginning, but now I hardly use it at all! :classic:

    Good luck, this is very interesting!

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    The suspension is looking good so far!

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    So Ryan as I've followed this since the beginning I'm curious to see how it evolves! Not sure about the suspensions choices....front indipendent and the rear ones don't convince me either :cry_sad:

    But it looks nice all together...really can't wait for the cabin!

    Are you making something that exists in real life? or will be a generic truck?

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    Also, the part snap feature is very good with most Technic parts in the library.

    I don't know how long you've been on that assembly, but it could easily be built in less than a minute, gears alligned perfectly and all :thumbup:

    Is this part snap feature only in LDcad?

    I tried looking for this feature in MLcad, but couldn't find it.

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