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Niels Karsdorp <nkp.nkp@hetnet.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HGBE24.1IJM@lugnet.com... (...) I've the same problem on my parts. The parts is (maybe) checked by inlining the edge.dat and then multiplied this with the radius (for example in MLCAD). (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It's me... (...) I have had a few emails with the Parts Tracker admin's lately to discuss the creation of primitives. I was INCORRECTLY using the rounding method that rounded only the final results. Like this; round( r* sin( Angle ), 4). The (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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Paul Easter <pneaster@knoxy.nospm.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HGBwv1.22HB@lugnet.com... (...) For example sin(22.5°)= 0.3827 for R=1 (in edge.dat) 15*sin(22.5°)= 5.7403 for correct point 15* (0.3827) = 5.7405 for stretching the edge.dat A (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanx for the explanation, it's clear to me now. I'll update my primitive generator and reupload the primitives I have put on the PT Niels (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sounds good. Make sure your generator is using spaces and not tabs. I have not checked to see how the original Ldraw responds to tabs as number seperators. Paul (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) My generator (just an excel sheet with some visual basic code) uses spaces as seperators. I hope it's not a problem that values as 1 are written as 1.0000 I also fixed the generation of type 5 lines. (It generated one too less for partial (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad, Niels Karsdorp wrote: <some portions snipped> (...) Ok, Yes, I started out with a spreadsheet that made 1-4 segments. (...) I have made it a habit of eliminating all the extra zeros out of part files that I can. They do not do (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I assume that this apply also to parts? Or not, because parts (partsize) won't be multiplicated as is with primitives. I created the 9V curve 2867.dat with the 'incorrectly' rounding method witch is pending in the parts tracker for (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Just for the record, LDRAW.EXE and LEDIT.EXE both allow tabs as separaters. But they also allow line breaks as number separaters. :O Steve (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think for parts, you can use either method -- because, as the part author, you are responsible for making all the vertices match up. The point with this discussion, is to support using primitives in parts by creating the primitives in a way (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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