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Re: Beveled flex tubing
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Date: 
Tue, 24 May 2011 17:20:44 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
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).

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 (unbeveled part to bring inner bevel to same endpoint )
1 16 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 4-4cyli.dat
0 STEP
0 WRITE Inner and outer bevels
1 16 0 0 0 -4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 -4 4-4cyls.dat
1 16 0 2 0 -2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 -2 4-4cyls.dat
0 STEP
0 WRITE Face ring, stretched 1.414:1 and rotated 45
1 16 0 4 0 0 -0.707106 2 0 0.707107 2 -2 0 0 4-4ring1.dat
0 STEP
0 WRITE Edge lines for face ring, stretched 1.414:1 and rotated 45
1 24 0 4 0 0 -0.707106 2 0 0.707107 2 -2 0 0 4-4edge.dat
1 24 0 4 0 0 -0.707106 4 0 0.707107 4 -4 0 0 4-4edge.dat
0



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  Re: Beveled flex tubing  [DAT]
 
(...) 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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  Re: Beveled flex tubing
 
(...) 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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