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SNOT Fractional Offsets
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Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:31:20 GMT
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All Right,
I'm in the process of building a boatm using the now popular SNOT studs-out
hull contouring approach. Given that a plate is 0.4 studs thick, one can get
the following offsets pretty easily:
-0.2 studs: use one of the 1x1 side-stud headlight bricks
0 studs: just a plain brick
0.2 studs: use one of the 1x1 side-stud headlight bricks, with a plate on it
0.4 studs: use a 1x1 technic beam with a half-pin-with-stud, and a plate on it
+/- 0.5 studs: use a 1x2 tile with center stud
Combinations work well also - one can easily, using the above, add them to get:
0.6 studs
0.7 studs
0.8 studs
0.9 studs
There are some more complicated techniques as well:
0.1 studs: use a 1x2 tile with center stud (-0.5 stud offset), add a headlight
(-0.2 stud offset), then add two plates (0.8 stud offset). TOTAL = 0.1 studs
0.3 studs: use a 1x2 tile with center stud (-0.5 stud offset), then use the
technic-beam-with-pin to add two plates (0.8 stud offset). TOTAL = 0.3 studs
... and so on. Without trying for very long, I wasn't able to come up with a
nice easy solution for 0.3 studs.
A couple of questions:
(1) How can one make a 0.25 stud offset in small assemblies such as these?
(2) Is it possible to make these offsets (0.5, 0.1, 0.3) without the use of
1x2 center-stud tiles? I'm trying to think if there's a small brick or piece
that serves the same role as the 1x1 side stud headlight piece, but with a 1/10
stud offset instead of 1/5.
As I alluded to above, I'm trying to keep the walls as thin as possible for
interior detailing, while still being able to make as smooth as a SNOT
contoured hull as possible. The use of 1x2 center-stud tiles is problematic
for me, as it essentially eats up at least 1.5 studs of wall thickness PLUS any
additional plates (or fractions thereof) projecting over the edge.
Thanks in advance,
-s
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| (...) 1/10 (...) As a followup to my own inquiry, is the bracket on the "1x2 plate w/ 1x4 bracket" ((URL) 1/10 of a stud thick? An easy way to check this would be if the bracket, plus one plate, plus one tile is the same thickness as a brick is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.build)
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