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Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote in message news:Pine.GSU.4.10.1...0@is-sv... (...) and (...) point (...) I don't see a problem with doing this for the 4-4disc, but it would be a problem for the 2-4disc. The 2-4disc is often used in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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Oops ! wrong links. (...) Should be HTTP://is-sv.link.pt.../nstud.png (...) Should be HTTP://is-sv.link.pt.../xstud.png (...) Also I forget to mention that this reduces the number of triangles by 2 (for each stud) isn't that great ? See ya Rui (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Since the BFC discussion has everything to do with performance improvement, I would like to propose the following changes to the primitives: - 4-4disc.dat - 2-4disc.dat Remove the point which lies in position (0,0,0), because it's NOT required and (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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(...) I'd like to have all parts compliant by making a second copy of the primitives that can't be inverted instead of using "0 INVERSE" commands. Leonardo (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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(...) I believe that it's possible to create a program that automatically fixes the orientation of a part. Take a look at this picture: (URL) The red faces are the back faces and the green faces are the front faces. The image on the left is the part (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Rui Manuel Silva Martins writes: <SNIP> (...) until (...) <SNIP> This is not true: Since the renderer has to assume a certain state for his models. The thing (at least in MLCad) works as follows: If BFC is on than the model is (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Completly agree, but part authors should strive to (if possible) present the parts for voiting already BFC compliant. But it's NOT a requirement. This reasoning also favours the "non branch BFC dependence", even authors which don't supply BFC (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This is common to both every approach I have seen, obviously ! (...) Nope! No imediate benefits, because with the parent dependence restrictions, you have to have an entire branch compliant to be able to do BFC, which includes the root,i.e. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | My DeLorean LMKWYT (thanks whoever made that.) [DAT]
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This took me more than a week to make. Mainly because I had to think of how to get the things to fit together correctly. The wheels themselves took about four days, with six tries, all of which failed my needs. The wheels I finally came up with are (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Flying cars. Wheels like in "Back To The Futre."
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(...) I've seen some pictures of some models that were actually used in the movie. Unfourtunatly, I don't remember the web address. The wheels folded down with some kind of pump, either pnumatic, or hydralic, I could't tell for sure. You might try (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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Just wondering, does anyone know of a web-site with the history of parts with their release years and modifications since release [Does not have to include printing in modifications, but things like change from lattice base to cylinders on plates (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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You Rock Todd! Thanks for the quick reply, you'll see why I was asking soon. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Need to find ldraw part!
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(...) Do you mean this part? (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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It is like the Minifig Tool Hose Nozzle but different. Its dimensions are the same as a 1x1 round brick. But it is skinny in the middle of it (minifig hand diameter) and it has a horizontal protrusion on it which also has the diameter of a minifig (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: One more town wall
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Joachim Probst wrote in message .. . (...) It's great! I love your towers. This is the size that I originally was looking for, but somehow it got out of hand. And I just realized that I either need to make the whole thing taller or I'm going to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Flying cars. Wheels like in "Back To The Futre."
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(...) Mine fold under, too, instead of out. That must've been a complicated mechanism on the functional film models... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:7cjkescmg077t76...4ax.com... (...) into (...) IMHO, no. If a mostly automated cleanup tool can be devised, then a few of us could clean up new parts after they are voted in and before (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A second question: *should* parts be required to be BFC-compliant? There is a certain amount of extra work required to make parts work for BFC. Without a mostly-automated cleanup tool, does it make sense to put this burden on part authors? (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Reflecting on (my impressions of) what Steve, Mike, and Rui have been saying, it seems we have two possible directions to go. One direction, which Steve has developed, assumes we will have some files which are BFC compliant, and some which are not. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: Flying cars. Wheels like in "Back To The Futre."
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(...) It's pretty good, but I think they need to slide on the "tap" piece just a bit to get underneath. Also, the wheel does not stick out to the side the way it does in back to the futre, it goes underneath just a tad to much. Thanks for the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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