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Re: Hinge wall alignment
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lugnet.build.schleim
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Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:38:42 GMT
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Richie Dulin wrote:
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Jason J Railton wrote:
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I have one other technique that I haven’t documented yet. I saw William
Howard doing some slanted walls for shop fronts, and had to work out the
maths behind it.
-snip-
If you rotate that
yellow plate, its other diagonal - the same length - bridges the gap just as
well.
The same trick works for any length plate. You just need wall or plate
hinges at each end to hold the diagonal in place.
Jason R
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This is very cool! It seems obvious now you’ve highlighted it, but I could
never have spotted it.
(I can’t wait to use it in practice!)
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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Believe it or not, I worked some of this out whilst placing sheep.
We use a lot of the sheep based on a 2x3 brick, but they all tend to line up in
the same direction. So, next time you’re building a flock, try this:
Place two 1x1 round plates one knight’s-move apart. Then you can stand a 2x3
brick on top so the round plates are under diagonally opposite corners. But,
you can also rotate the brick so that they’re under the other diagonal.
Now you have a brick attached to the baseplate, but at an odd angle. And no
3-4-5 triangles required. It works for any rectangular area, and for any
pattern of n-studs up and m-studs across. If you can make a grid of 1x1 plates,
for example, that is rotated slightly, you’ll find an odd diagonal at which you
can place a plate on top. It can be a bit difficult to predict though.
Jason R
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| (...) This is very cool! It seems obvious now you've highlighted it, but I could never have spotted it. (I can't wait to use it in practice!) Thanks for sharing! Cheers Richie Dulin (17 years ago, 18-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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