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Re: Part: Plate 2 x 2 with hand rail
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:54:58 GMT
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> > 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?
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> Take your circle primitive, and skew it instead of rotating.
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> Instead of
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> 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4-4edge.dat
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> start with
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> 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4-4edge.dat
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> 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.
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
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 | | Re: Part: Plate 2 x 2 with hand rail
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| (...) In this case, you're taking a circle and projecting it onto the plane where X=Y. So the commandline I gave you does exactly that. Makes the X and Y components exactly the same. Steve (25 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Part: Plate 2 x 2 with hand rail [DAT]
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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