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Subject: 
Ribbed hoses synth
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Date: 
Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:08:52 GMT
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There are quite a few problems when I try to cad ribbed hoses, first of all, the
elements existing are not appropriate. I addapted them to make sure they are as
big as the real ones, but I can't use Lsynth, since it places not the amount of
parts I want, and it places all elements far too close to eachother (I want to
be ably to decide myself how many there will be and what their distance from
eachother should be). Currently, I do all hoses manually (description of how is
in the Viper topic) here is a picture:
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1025606>
Since this takes very very very very very long, I ask if anyone knows an
alternative or has suggestions...



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Ribbed hoses synth
 
(...) There are plenty of other hose generators. Mlcad, LDDP, ldglite, and LEDIT mode for emacs all have them. And I think some of them do support fixed length hoses. But I think the right thing to do is adapt lsynth to do what you want. The source (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Ribbed hoses synth
 
(...) Hi Misha, I actually think that the offical LDraw parts for ribbed hose, are not for the kind of rib hosed we get currently. I would love to see parts that are really made for the modern rib hosed. Kevin (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)

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