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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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Thanks for that, i managed to do that and it looks a lot better. Just one more thing for now, I take it that to make ends for the 'tube' I use '1-4disc.dat' but how do i manipulate it, whenever I change any values it goes haywire. I'd be (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Don't worry about replying to my previous post, I have downloaded Jonathan Wilson's excellent program and it works fine. thanks for all the help. John (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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