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I’m having some trouble getting a smooth surface on curved parts which do not
have an LGEO substitue. Mesh Enhancer does a great job on triangular meshes,
however there is a problem in parts with some sort of faceted symmetry. For
example, the Technic Power Tyre has a subpart which is made of triangles. Mesh
Enhancer takes care of this. But this subpart is repeated many times around the
circumference and the facets between objects are not triangles and are
therefore not replaced with smooth triangles. Does anyone have a solution to
this?
Thanks,
Eric Albrecht
Technicopedia
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote:
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I’m having some trouble getting a smooth surface on curved parts which do not
have an LGEO substitue. Mesh Enhancer does a great job on triangular meshes,
however there is a problem in parts with some sort of faceted symmetry. For
example, the Technic Power Tyre has a subpart which is made of triangles.
Mesh Enhancer takes care of this. But this subpart is repeated many times
around the circumference and the facets between objects are not triangles
and are therefore not replaced with smooth triangles. Does anyone have a
solution to this?
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You could inline the subparts so that L3P outputs the triangles as one subpart.
This will allow Mesh Enhancer to work on these triangle as one unit. Let me
know if you need help with this.
-Orion
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In lugnet.cad, Orion Pobursky wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote:
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I’m having some trouble getting a smooth surface on curved parts which do
not have an LGEO substitue. Mesh Enhancer does a great job on triangular
meshes, however there is a problem in parts with some sort of faceted
symmetry. For example, the Technic Power Tyre has a subpart which is made
of triangles. Mesh Enhancer takes care of this. But this subpart is
repeated many times around the circumference and the facets between
objects are not triangles and are therefore not replaced with smooth
triangles. Does anyone have a solution to this?
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You could inline the subparts so that L3P outputs the triangles as one
subpart. This will allow Mesh Enhancer to work on these triangle as one unit.
Let me know if you need help with this.
-Orion
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I think I know what you are saying but I don’t actually know how to do it. I
think you saying that instead of calling the subparts from the main part file I
should just insert everything into the main file. Does this mean I need to try
to manually rotate it around the axis 20 times or can I do this automatically
within just the one part file?
Thanks,
Eric
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote:
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I think I know what you are saying but I don’t actually know how to do it. I
think you saying that instead of calling the subparts from the main part file
I should just insert everything into the main file. Does this mean I need to
try to manually rotate it around the axis 20 times or can I do this
automatically within just the one part file?
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I believe that you can use LDAO
to inline subfiles in a part.
--Travis
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote:
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I’m having some trouble getting a smooth surface on curved parts which do not
have an LGEO substitue. Mesh Enhancer does a great job on triangular meshes,
however there is a problem in parts with some sort of faceted symmetry. For
example, the Technic Power Tyre has a subpart which is made of triangles.
Mesh Enhancer takes care of this. But this subpart is repeated many times
around the circumference and the facets between objects are not triangles
and are therefore not replaced with smooth triangles. Does anyone have a
solution to this?
Thanks,
Eric Albrecht
Technicopedia
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I’ve often felt it unfortunate that the LDraw format doesn’t support normal
vectors. They’re not a substitute for cone/cylinder replacements, but they go a
long way toward making objects *look* smoother.
-Mike
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote:
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I think I know what you are saying but I don’t actually know how to do it.
I think you saying that instead of calling the subparts from the main part
file I should just insert everything into the main file. Does this mean I
need to try to manually rotate it around the axis 20 times or can I do this
automatically within just the one part file?
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I believe that you can use LDAO to inline subfiles in a part.
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Or you can use LDraw Design Pad...
Philo
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