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| | | (...) It's me... (...) I have had a few emails with the Parts Tracker admin's lately to discuss the creation of primitives. I was INCORRECTLY using the rounding method that rounded only the final results. Like this; round( r* sin( Angle ), 4). The (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster —Bernd Broich
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| | | | | Paul Easter <pneaster@knoxy.nospm.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HGBwv1.22HB@lugnet.com... (...) For example sin(22.5°)= 0.3827 for R=1 (in edge.dat) 15*sin(22.5°)= 5.7403 for correct point 15* (0.3827) = 5.7405 for stretching the edge.dat A (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster —Niels Karsdorp
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| | | | | (...) Thanx for the explanation, it's clear to me now. I'll update my primitive generator and reupload the primitives I have put on the PT Niels (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster —Paul Easter
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| | | | | | (...) Sounds good. Make sure your generator is using spaces and not tabs. I have not checked to see how the original Ldraw responds to tabs as number seperators. Paul (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster —Niels Karsdorp
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| | | | | | | (...) My generator (just an excel sheet with some visual basic code) uses spaces as seperators. I hope it's not a problem that values as 1 are written as 1.0000 I also fixed the generation of type 5 lines. (It generated one too less for partial (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster —Paul Easter
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| | | | | | | | In lugnet.cad, Niels Karsdorp wrote: <some portions snipped> (...) Ok, Yes, I started out with a spreadsheet that made 1-4 segments. (...) I have made it a habit of eliminating all the extra zeros out of part files that I can. They do not do (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Just for the record, LDRAW.EXE and LEDIT.EXE both allow tabs as separaters. But they also allow line breaks as number separaters. :O Steve (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster —Ludo Soete
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| | | | (...) I assume that this apply also to parts? Or not, because parts (partsize) won't be multiplicated as is with primitives. I created the 9V curve 2867.dat with the 'incorrectly' rounding method witch is pending in the parts tracker for (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) I think for parts, you can use either method -- because, as the part author, you are responsible for making all the vertices match up. The point with this discussion, is to support using primitives in parts by creating the primitives in a way (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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