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    Chains and wires —Giulio Ferrari
   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 (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: Chains and wires —Ronald Scott Moody
     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 (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: Chains and wires —Jaco van der Molen
     How to install and get emacs for win98 I looked at (URL) went to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gn...acs/latest What should I download for installing this Emacs? (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: Chains and wires —Fredrik Glöckner
     (...) You can download "emacs-20.7-fullbin-...86.tar.gz" or "emacs-20.7-bin-i386.tar.gz". The latter will take up less space, but does not include the full Lisp source, only the precompiled Lisp files. The .tar.gz files should be uncompressable with (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: Chains and wires —Jaco van der Molen
     OK, bin there, did that. I guess it works. I am now going to try to create a curved hose... Thanks Fredrik for the quick response Greetingz... Sjaacko (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: Chains and wires —Jaco van der Molen
     WOW! Just created a hose between two parts! This is great. Here it is... not perfect yet, but I am getting there! 0 1 0 100 8 110 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 3839.DAT 1 0 -100 8 110 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 3839.DAT 0 1 0 -73.94 14 141.85 1 -0.03 0 0 0 1 -0.03 (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: Chains and wires —Fredrik Glöckner
   (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
 

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