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Re: Optional lines ... brain ache!
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 7 May 2001 13:43:27 GMT
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"Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message news:GCtKDI.KIM@lugnet.com...
> I want to complete my Darth Maul head but I'm having trouble visualising how
> optional lines work. The FAQ on Ldraw.org is extremely vague, and looking at
> other heads in MLCad I can't see how the optional lines work. I can't run
> Ldraw/Ledit on my NT Workstation machine so I can't see what they do there
> either. I'm assuming they are there to put edges on surfaces from particular
> view points but the FAQ doesn't really explain it (and the 2 pictures of the
> "stud" supposedly showing the lines and which ones are removed when handling
> optionals look identical so it's difficult to see what they do!). Anyone
> have a good description of where optional lines should be put and how they
> are handled?
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> Dan
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You can probably just use all the optional lines from the original head file. To do a patterned version, you should just be
working with the surface faces of the part file.
-John Van
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| I want to complete my Darth Maul head but I'm having trouble visualising how optional lines work. The FAQ on Ldraw.org is extremely vague, and looking at other heads in MLCad I can't see how the optional lines work. I can't run Ldraw/Ledit on my NT (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
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