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Re: Do these parts exist in LDRAW?
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:15:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Ronald Vallenduuk wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> > > The 1 x 1 "cheese" slope
> > Yes, official http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/parts/54200.dat
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> And also http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/parts/50746.dat
> According to the comments in 50746.dat:
> "54200 is used for moulding opaque parts, 50746 for transparent parts."
That comment is an oversimplification (and I helped put it there, so I feel
qualified to denegrate the statement a bit), but Ronald is correct in that
technically one should model transparent copies of this part in 50746 (without
fail), and should use 54200 for non-transparent, even though there is a
possibility that non-transparent colors were used for 50746.
-- joshua
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| (...) What is the purpose of having two versions? I assume that the transparent version has all the internals accurately modeled so you can see them when light passes through, but why not just use this one even when it is opaque? I am obviously (...) (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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