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  Re: New Partsref is pure bliss
 
(...) Beige is whiter than the "tan" bricks (white bricks do turn "tan" in the sun though). Tan, before TLC started making it, was a brownish grey, wasn't it? I would like to call the brick colour "sand". (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: New Partsref is pure bliss
 
(...) Another reason to call it 'tan' is because that's a lot easier to spell! :-) -- David Schilling (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: How do I speed things up ?
 
It sure would ! I was thinking along these lines a few days ago and I tried a small experiment. I manually edited copies of the .dat files for the basic bricks that my model uses and removed all of the "extraneous" quads and studs so that each part (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: repost: chains1.dat
 
(...) And one quadrant is still "squirrely". Try a zoom of about 6000 in l3lab, select the menu option "View/Random colors" and then spin the chain link around a few times. You'll see that all the polys are nice and parallel in 3 quadrants, but all (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: How do I speed things up ?
 
(...) Yes, it would help. How about having an option to draw all prior steps in wireframe mode? Or have a meta-statement to turn wireframe off and on? Either of those might be easier to use than flagging specific parts. Steve (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)


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