| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) I see. So what you really want to do in LDView is ignore the Type 5 lines (at least for smoothing) and smooth wherever there's no Type 2 edge lines between the triangles (and quads). (...) Did anybody ever did actually fix the parts though? I (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) Ok so it's been a few years, but I took another look at this. Did anybody ever make a twist primitive? It appears like all you need to do is something like this. Don 0 Wedge 4 x 2 Sloped Left 0 Name: 43721.dat 0 Author: Donald Sutter 0 (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) Ah, I was not. Very interesting. I'm still plowing ahead with upgrading Edger regardless because I'd like that built into this tool, but options like making inlining parts optional and not adding conditional lines within a certain angle (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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(...) It's true that 8.5"x11" (US letter size) is not the same size as metric A4, but the above page includes an entry for QPrinter::Letter, which is exactly 8.5"x11", so unless that's not supported by LPub, I don't think that's the problem. (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) algorithm. LDView uses Type 5 lines in the LDraw file for smoothing, and considers any two surfaces that have a Type 5 line joining them to be part of a smooth curve. The problem is that two co-planar triangles sitting next to each other (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) It would be interesting to have a configurable threshold, a 0.1ldu move is not visible and might bring more quads to flat state. (...) Thanks - fortunately it was certified by two other peoples ;o) (...) Probably... (...) There is a special (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) I am short of time at the moment for a more detailed answer, but are you aware of Edger2? ((URL) The code is a mess, but it does a pretty good job... Philo (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) Well, at least splitting into triangles at the middle would produce a fairly clean result in that it would eliminate artifacts, but at the cost of creating extra triangles. I've been working on my adjustment tool and my initial results have (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: ... snipped ... (...) Another thing that LPub 4 does is automatically center step groups and assembly steps in the center of the page. If there is a single step and with callout(s) on the page, then LPub (...) (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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(...) I found a bug in LPub. (...) Yes, your highest level model is interesting because the entire model is expressed as steps in submodels, so when it placed the model scale meta, it did it at the top of the step (which is before all the add lines (...) (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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