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Title: rotating from the front view
Post by: drain on 22 Jun 2003, 05:41:22

hello all

i'm trying to make a set of fold up cultivators to tow behind a tractor and i cant work out how to get them to fold up. instead of folding up they up from a front perspective they rotate around my axis from a top persepective.

i'm on msn... nicknewman@hotmail.com

[edit: sorry if that didnt make much sense ill rephrase it. i have a set of fold up cultivators, instead of folding up they swing around to the left and right.]

is that any better?

Title: Re:rotating from the front view
Post by: _hammy_ on 22 Jun 2003, 07:30:14

so... whats your question? :-\

Title: Re:rotating from the front view
Post by: drain on 22 Jun 2003, 07:40:16

ok

i want to make a set of cultivators that fold up
from this
(http://shell.world-net.co.nz/~newmdj/flk/cult2.jpg)
to this
(http://shell.world-net.co.nz/~newmdj/flk/cult3.jpg)

but instead of folding like it should above, it swings around like this

(http://shell.world-net.co.nz/~newmdj/flk/error.jpg)

so what i want to know is how to get it to fold up like in picutre two.

Thank you :)

Title: Re:rotating from the front view
Post by: drain on 23 Jun 2003, 02:21:06

*bump*

Anybody?

Title: Re:rotating from the front view
Post by: DeLiltMon on 23 Jun 2003, 09:41:38

Seems you've got your rotation points in the wrong place, they should be at 90o to the rotation, imangine them being a bar to which the arms are atatched and rotate on.
Have a look at Colonel Klink's tutorials (http://www.dc3d.co.nz/Tutorials/index.htm (http://www.dc3d.co.nz/Tutorials/index.htm)) if my ramblings don't make any sense, they helped me with rotations, I'd recomend the the undercarridge one for what you are trying to acheive.