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Subject: 
Circular Primitives
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Date: 
Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:39:50 GMT
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hi,

I have been using mlcad for just over two months, so i'm not fully clued up
yet. I need to make a part which is a wide diameter cylinder. I have managed
to do so by creating a 24 sided polygon and extruding it. However due to its
size, the straight sides are plainly visible. Is there any way to produce a
'pure' circle and then extrude it, or to create a cylinder in one go?

thanks

John



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  Re: Circular Primitives
 
(...) You can try using the 48-segment primitives in the ldraw/p/48 directory. The cylinder primitive is 1-4cyli.dat. The easiest way to code this up is in a text editor, but you should be able to do it through MLCAD as well. The code to make a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)

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