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Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:54:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:
I don't think so.  5 is for keeping track of which parts we've looked
at, not which ones to ignore when your run your mirror program.
Eventually I think we'll remove all the ones marked with a 5 from the
MIRROR.INI file.  (And that includes the left-right symmetric slopes
because they use the default matrix).

IMO there *is* value to knowing that the proper exception matrix is indeed an
exception rather than coincidentally the same as the default matrix.  If the 5
is not the place for this, there should be a new flag for it.

It's especially important if all the 5s are removed.  If so, the left-right symmetric slopes with an exception matrix of -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 will only function properly for left-right reflections because that's the only case where their exception matrix would equal the "default" matrix.  ("Default" in quotes because it should probably be the mirror-plane matrix or some other term that describes what it is.)

Of course, this supports your methodology of treating every part listed in
mirror.ini as an exception regardless of whether it happens to use the
reflection matrix. ;-)  But it would still fail if those true exceptions were
removed.

Thanks,
Carl



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(...) Sure, but you still haven't convinced me there's any difference between a 2x2 brick and a 2x2 slope brick. I must be getting senile in my old age, because I just don't get it. Anyhow, use 55 if it makes you happy. We'll figure out what to do (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
 
(...) I don't think so. 5 is for keeping track of which parts we've looked at, not which ones to ignore when your run your mirror program. Eventually I think we'll remove all the ones marked with a 5 from the MIRROR.INI file. (And that includes the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)

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