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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 —Larry Pieniazek
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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 —Philippe Hurbain
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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 —Larry Pieniazek
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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 —Larry Pieniazek
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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 —Philippe Hurbain
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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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