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In lugnet.cad, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
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> > I'd like to suggest that the general problem of being able to resize
> > things that are linear, but indeterminate in length (rods, string,
> > anything with a smooth contour, but not corrogated tubing because
> > resizing it would make the corrugations the wrong spacing) be
> > something that the tool be able to do at some future point.
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> I don't think that users would normally want to scale parts. The part
> you were presented with just now is probably the exception: No other
> parts in the LDraw library should be scaled to other sizes than the ones
> they come in. But then again, the part you used used is not an official
> part.
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> Fredrik
If I ever had to model string I probably would use a scaled cylinder...
I would like to see your part become official! It's very useful.
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| (...) That sounds very reasonable. But the cylinder isn't a part, it's a primitive. So to insert one, the user would normally use a text editor of some sorts, not an LDraw editor. The user, being an advanced user, would probably scale the element in (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: tubing
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| (...) I don't think that users would normally want to scale parts. The part you were presented with just now is probably the exception: No other parts in the LDraw library should be scaled to other sizes than the ones they come in. But then again, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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