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Re: Weird Logo Issue at L3P Quality Level 3
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:01:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Steve Bliss writes:
> Considering the usefulness of modeling mirrored parts this way (one file
> just references the other file) (it saves time and bytes), I'd say this
> is a problem that needs resolution in software. I *think* it could
> addressed with a POV-Ray macro, but I haven't seriously played with
> POV-Ray in so long, I wouldn't know where to start.
I believe that Lars agrees with you regarding the fact that we can't expect
parts not to use mirroring. However, based on his knowledge of POV, fixing
this would require a complete change in the way L3P works. It would have to
internally flatten everything, and do the mirror checking itself. This
would result in extremely large POV output files, not to mention being
generally not very "clean".
If there is a way to fix the problem using a macro, I'm sure Lars would be
glad to hear it. However, it is my understanding that the problem with POV
macros (at least in POV 3.1) is that they are only evaluated once. Since
only some of the studs will be mirrored, this won't help.
--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com)
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Weird Logo Issue at L3P Quality Level 3 [DAT]
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| (...) How many parts have this mirroring? I expect that the 4x8 wings are an example. Would it be possible to recreate the basic wing, without studs, as a sub-part, and then invoke it in the two actual wing files? The studs could be added in the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | Re: Weird Logo Issue at L3P Quality Level 3
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| (...) No, flattening everything wouldn't be a workable solution. We had some of that (quite awhile ago). It was scary. (...) Ah. Yeah, if the macros are only evaluated once, that wouldn't work either. I'm not sure how L3P performs the translation (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Weird Logo Issue at L3P Quality Level 3
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| (...) Considering the usefulness of modeling mirrored parts this way (one file just references the other file) (it saves time and bytes), I'd say this is a problem that needs resolution in software. I *think* it could addressed with a POV-Ray macro, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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