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Has anyone modeled a bit of flex tubing that has beveled ends? I think I know what I need to do to model it but actually doing it may be beyond my patience, (but maybe I'm using the wrong tool, working with quads in MLCad is a bit hard) Thanks. (14 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) For anything with radial symmetry a little perl script is the right tool :) Tim (14 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) Or alternatively, you could use ring/cone/cyl primitives, should be lots easier than doing individual quads. ROSCO (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) Larry, would you have a picture or drawing of what you need exactly? Philo (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) I was looking at trying to use your cutting tool, actually,.. stretch a 4-4cyli.dat to a long enough length (somehow?) and then just use a big quad tilted to 45 degrees as the "blade". But I can't quite suss out how to do it, being somewhat (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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OK, I think what you miss is the 4-4cyls.dat primitive, add it to a regular 4-4cyli and you basically have what you need. For the tip, you need a slanted primitive (ring and edges). There is a tutorial (unfortunately in French) here (URL) , (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) Google translate does a pretty fair job, actually, enough to suss out most of what is being said... Manfred's section of notes in the part authoring "tutorial" (URL) is also helpful (URL) wasn't aware that there was a sliced cylinder primitive (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing [DAT]
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(...) That did it! Here's the part I needed... thanks again!!!! 0 ~Technic Flex-System Hose 45 bevel End 0 Name: 76_bevel3.dat 0 Author: Lar with hints from Philo 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 0 WRITE Inner cylinder (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing [DAT]
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(...) Great! Note that it may be easier to use slant instead of stretch/rotate. It is a bit more difficult to figure out at the beginning, but it avoids calculations and gives simpler coefficients. Here is the result, applied to your file: 0 (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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