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(...) Thanks guys for all the help. I grabbed BrickSmith and moved the ldraw folder that came with it to /Library. I wanted both anyhow so it seemed to be the way to go. Then I built a new (universal?) ldglite with your static libpng and some (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I agree with you in all points. But if I see that also you are thinking that capped cylinders are useful maybe there is somebody out who can write a prog for that. I have tried something similar in the past and was not very happy with the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I think I can follow your thoughts. Have you tried that (48/1-8tdisc) already in some items with different curvatures? If yes and you have found out that this can also be used without dramatically mathematics (I prefer to use triangles so I (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You are right, but there are only three lines of code (easily created with MLCad) that would be substituted with such a new primitive. I think it is not worth. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) OK, I sent an updated version to the tracker admins, and BFCd it while I was at it. --Travis (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) I would use the cylinder as model, with the cap at Y=0 on top and an edge at bottom. But I somehow agree with Steve Bliss that it may be overkill if we decline capped cylinder in all angles... Philo (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) A few examples where I would use the 48\1-8tdisc (to use Travis naming suggestion): 58135s01 (rounded sides), 464s01, 54096, 61068 For the 48\1-8tndis (less useful I agree), an example would be 3455. In many case you can stretch a bit the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) One concern about capped cylinders is that they would lead more multiples of cylinders - single-capped cylinders, double-capped cylinders, 1/4 capped cylinders, 2/4 capped cylinders, Hi-res 3/8 double-capped cylinders, etc. etc. And every (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) One of those. (...) No. They don't distribute the full library; you would have to merge together all the updates with the original LDraw DOS package. Not fun. (...) Wherever you want it. If Bricksmith is installed, you can find out where the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Please let me have some example where they are useful. I found during authoring parts that, just for rounded parts, you would need lots of such truncated primitives, but they would need to be truncated anywhere and not only the way this new (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Oh, and should the cap be at Y=0, or should the base be at Y=0? (For reference, with the stud primitive, the base is at Y=0.) --Travis (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) OK, so I'll make this primitive, but which way should it face? Should it face up, like the stud primitive, or should it face down, like the box primitives? --Travis (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) First of all, I like the idea of a unit capped cylinder. The stud could then be changed to a reference to the new primitive. We could use x-ycylc as the filenames and call the primitive Cylinder Capped. This would be consistent with the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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In addition to the unit capped cylinder I suggested here (URL) I'd also like to see some truncated disc and ndis primitives, like the red ones shown below (the truncated disc can also be seen as a half chrd primitive). (URL) This would help building (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Perhaps if there was a unit capped cylinder in the primitives authors would not be driven to use studs? Philo (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) OK, I'll do that (no votes yet...) (...) I agree. Philo (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) How about I send you a universal binary of a static libpng? (If I remember correctly, it was a real pain to make.) (...) I think I got mine via BrickSmith, which is kind of sad, really, but I just checked, and LDView will happily download the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, gotta work on that... But hey, the kids just got a macbook! And, as of yesterday, it has a sneaky ssh login just for me so I can soak up some of the idle cycles from across the living room. But...my notes on libpng for OS-X are about 5 (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) As far as I remember this is formally ok. But you are right, this should be avoided. Please correct that and send the file to the PT. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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30035.dat uses stud.dat in a location that isn't really a stud, but is the same shape as a stud. This leads to a rendering problem if stud logos are enabled: (URL) (Notice the LEGO logo peeking out from under the pole.) Is the above considered (...) (17 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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