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Subject: 
Chains and wires
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Date: 
Sat, 19 May 2001 14:14:28 GMT
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Hi, I am a CAD newbie, and I have a question for you experts. How can I
design chains, technic belts and electric wires? I saw CAD pictures with
them somewhere, but I can't find the parts to be used in LDRAW. Can you help
me please? I have installed LDraw, MLCad, and L3P/L3PAO + PovRay for
rendering. Thanks.

Ciao
Giulio



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  Re: Chains and wires
 
Well, as far as chains, I don't know. But for wires, flex axels, hoses and the like the "segments" of the parts are in the LDraw library. The best way, in my opinion, to create flexible segments in a model is to use Frederick Glockner's LDraw-Mode (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Chains and wires
 
(...) As for the chains, the individual elements exist in LDraw, so it's a matter of placing them out to form the chain you need. This can be somewhat difficult and tedious. (URL) it comes to the belts: Do you mean rubber belts, aka rubber bands? If (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.cad)

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