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Subject: 
LSynth rubber band question
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:16:57 GMT
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I built a model containing a rubber band I’d like to model with LSynth and LDraw:

The real
rubber band

So I want to stretch the rubber band between the 1x1 round plates, but it also needs to be pinched together and pushed down slightly between the inverted slopes. I’ve tried to simulate these constraints with a group of bushings, like this:

0 SYNTH BEGIN RUBBER_BAND 4
1 7 -30 0 0 0 -1 0 -0 0 1 -1 0 -0 4265c.dat
0 SYNTH OUTSIDE
1 7 0 8 -10 0 -1 0 -0 0 1 -1 0 -0 4265c.dat
0 SYNTH INSIDE
1 7 30 0 0 0 -1 0 -0 0 1 -1 0 -0 4265c.dat
0 SYNTH OUTSIDE
1 7 0 8 10 0 -1 0 -0 0 1 -1 0 -0 4265c.dat
0 SYNTH INSIDE
0 SYNTH END

However, it doesn’t quite work:

close but no cigar

Should I stick with coplanar constraints, or is there a way to do this? An LDraw file of the relevant area is available here.

Thanks,

Jim



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  Re: LSynth rubber band question
 
(...) Hi Jim, There is a new LSynth in the works. You can see the updates on sourceforge. Willy has been doing a great job testing, and driving change based on his experience. Don Heyse has been taking care of the code, and hammering out the bad (...) (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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