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Re: Circular Primitives
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:18:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad, John Kennedy wrote:
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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?
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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.
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> The code to make a complete cylinder is:
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> 1 16 0 0 0 R 0 0 0 H 0 0 0 R 48\1-4cyli.dat
> 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 R 0 H 0 -R 0 0 48\1-4cyli.dat
> 1 16 0 0 0 -R 0 0 0 H 0 0 0 -R 48\1-4cyli.dat
> 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 -R 0 H 0 R 0 0 48\1-4cyli.dat
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> Where R is the radius of the cylinder, and H is the height.
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> Steve
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 grateful if you could email me with the sort of thing
above.
thanks
John
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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 (23 years ago, 10-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 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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