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Re: Chains and wires
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 20 May 2001 11:47:27 GMT
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"Giulio Ferrari" <giuliof@iol.it> writes:
> Hi, I am a CAD newbie, and I have a question for you experts. How
> can I design chains, technic belts and electric 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.
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=link
When it comes to the belts: Do you mean rubber belts, aka rubber
bands? If so, I suppose most people use cylindrical primitives to
model them. This takes a bit of mathematical geometry knowledge to
do.
Finally, the electrical wires. You may have seen the CAD images John
VanZwieten made for Joe Nagata's book:
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=5833
They were made using LDraw-mode:
http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/ldraw-mode/index.html#bezier
The section in the file above explaining the use of the electrical
wires is commented out, avaiting the sub parts to become official.
An unofficial version of the sub part needed is in the current
unofficial part update.
Fredrik
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
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