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Re: Slope Brick 1x1
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lugnet.cad
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:54:00 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:

the sin of the angle is height/hypotenuse
from there you take the sin inverse to get the angle.

Hmm. Is there some reason you couldn't just jump right to using Tan?
Tan(theta) = opposite/adjacent

--
Brian Davis



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  Re: Slope Brick 1x1
 
(...) Indeed. I make it 31 degrees. Tim (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Slope Brick 1x1
 
(...) Why does the follow-up go to the Robotics group? This is a CAD / LDraw issue, so it should be lugnet.cad.dat.parts. (My mistake in the first place to post it to lugnet.cad ;-) (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Slope Brick 1x1
 
(...) The part file has the dimensions needed to answer this question. The triangles on the sides tell you the width and height of the end. From there you can calculate the length of the hypotenuse. h = sqrt(w*w+h*h) the sin of the angle is (...) (16 years ago, 27-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)

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