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Re: Suggested New Primitive: 4-4cyl12.dat (was: More cylinder primitives wanted)
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Tue, 16 May 2006 12:33:56 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> > > If more folks like this idea, how should we name the new primitives?
> >
> > How about N-4cyla.dat, N-4cylb.dat, etc?
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> I thought of that, but liked the idea of more descriptive names, like the
> rect*.dat series. The '1' would in this case stand for number of discs, and '2'
> for number of edges. But I could definifly live with cyla, cylb etc too.
Since we've already got primitives like '5-24cyli.dat', I think it would be a
good idea to restrict the suffix of the file name to 4 characters. I wouldn't
want to start right out making specialized cylinders-with-edges for every single
variation of N-Ncyli.dat, but we might need one sometime.
> That's my second highest request. I haven't even thought of adding ndiscs,
> because you might want rings just as often. But a disc or maybe two can be very
> useful.
Of course, the problem with adding rings is we'd need a separate primitive for
each size of ring. We'd only need one (size) cylinder-with-ndisc. So I don't
see a lot of utility in cylinder+ring primitives.
But I'd hate to have to deal with people doing things like combining a
cylinder+ndisc matched to a cylinder+disc, to make a single cylinder with a disc
on one end, and an ndisc on the other end.
Steve
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