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| (...) Well I am sort of doing that right now, although not in perl. I chose to use my company's product, sort of as a learning exercise. If someone has perl code that recognises the various line types that would be spiffy. If you have the formula (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) If the viewpoint is at location (a,b,c) and the part is at (x,y,z), then the distance between them is: ((a-x)^2 + (b-y)^2 + (c-z)^2)^0.5 Since all you want to do is sort, there's no need to take the square root after summing the squares. HTH, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Bram Lambrecht gave you the formula. Depending on what you want to do and what kind of viewing transformation (if any) you are using, the euclidian distance _may_ be the wrong kind of measure to use. But it is probably an ok approximation... (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Whoops, duh. This thread didn't have any posts for a while and I missed all the other ones, thought yours was the first! (...) Seems to work for me for now. Mostly I am trying to get a rough ordering of a large model so I can refine it to put (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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