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Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions
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Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:57:01 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Travis Cobbs wrote:
   Also, it’s kind of obvious that you and I would be biased on this issue. When people complain that LDView or ldglite aren’t working right, all we can do right now is say, “Too bad. There’s nothing I can do to fix it.” If there were an official policy saying that T-junctions are bad, we could say, “The part needs to be updated.”

T-junctions are a quality issue in part files. I don’t think they should be strictly forbidden (that is, having T-junctions is not a reason to hold a part file from official release). Generally, I wouldn’t even say that a part with T-junctions needs a “(Needs Work)” tag. But I will encourage part authors to avoid T-junctions. It is worth having a few more polygons to avoid the rendering artifacts.

Sometimes, T-junctions can be avoided without any extra polygons -- it’s a matter of knowing better ways to lay out polygons to cover a surface.

Steve



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  Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions
 
(...) Sounds reasonable to me. Any chance a T-junctions FAQ could be created on the parts tracker reference page, and the above could make it into a policy statement in the parts review FAQ? Most of my original post here could be used as the FAQ, (...) (17 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)

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  Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions
 
(...) Much as I'd like to agree on this, I don't think the fact that nobody posted back then disagreeing with my statement really counts as consensus. I pointed out the problem, but didn't ask for opinions on whether parts should be modeled that (...) (17 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)

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