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Re: Making parts: circles
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:34:45 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Daniel Collis wrote:
> > I apologize if this is a oft asked question: but where is the best place to
> > learn how to create a non-official part? I'm specifically looking to make rings
> > of specific inch/mm sizes. What I found on LDraw seemed to go over my head, nor
> > can I figure out how much inch/mm on LDU is equal to. Maybe I'm looking too hard
> > and overlooking info. Help???
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> I'm not sure there's one place to go for help. You should probably start by
> reading the LDraw file format spec on ldraw.org. After that, you pretty much
> need to dive in and start playing around with some files.
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> However, I can tell you that 1 LDU = .4mm.
steve,
you'll never get me to agree to this rounding - never ever ;-)
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/org/ldraw/?n=3474
therfore daniel, 1 LDU = 0.015625 inch = 0.396875 mm or just use paul easter's
lcad calculator at http://www.geocities.com/pneaster/lcad_calc.htm
bye, w.
ps. I suggest to handle this over to the LSC. they can add it to the LDraw File
Format proposal 1.0.0 http://www.ldraw.org/article/218 once they ratify the
document. thoughts?
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