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Re: Part: Plate 2 x 2 with hand rail
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Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:25:10 GMT
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:36:19 GMT, "Tim McSweeney"
<tim##NO_SPAM##@ams.co.nz> wrote:

> Ok Here's my first attempt at modeling an Ldraw part. It's the 2 x 2 plate with grab rail, commonly seen in the divers sets
> 
> I only have one issue with it (that I know about),  On the diagonal arms, the intersection with torus in the corners is Drawn as a
> perfect circle but in fact it should be some sort of funky Ellipse.  Is this acceptable as is?  if not is there an easy way to
> calculate what the correct shape is?

Take your circle primitive, and skew it instead of rotating.

Instead of

1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4-4edge.dat

start with

1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4-4edge.dat

This makes Y the same value as X at all points on the curve.  This may not
be right, I'm not able to test it right now, you may have to involve the Z
component of Y as well.

Steve



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  Re: Part: Plate 2 x 2 with hand rail
 
(...) Ok, I'm not sure I understand that 100% but I'll go have a play and see what I can do, It's given me somethign to chew on. (Time to drag out the graphics text book ) Tim (27 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)

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