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(...) Shouldn't it be a forward slash (s/6898s01.dat)? Parts use forward slash in the actual part code (which is good, because it makes viewers in other operating systems slightly easier to make). --Travis (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Yes, of course - now where did I leave that backslash? Chris (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) You can do it in LDAO as well, although there's no direct "round my decimals to 3 places" command. First, open your file in the editor. Second, go to Options | Decimals, and enter 3. Then put a line "0 SCALE 1" at the beginning of the block of (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I'm guessing you mean s\6898s01.dat :) ROSCO (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) 10 times is "well over". :-) (KIDDING!)... Thanks for the elaboration. I forgot just how big it actually is... (...) Exactly. (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Great work. The subpart naming standard(s)n are documented at (URL) So, I'd rather your subpart were named s6898s01.dat. Submitting a new part to the Parts Tracker is easy. You need to register as an LDraw.org user (at (URL)) and then request (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Sorry Orion, I was not aware of that neat feature. I should get out of my LDAO-centric world more often. So, what I meant to say was : "There's this really cool tool called LDraw Design Pad that can do this for you". Chris (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Thanks everyone for the advice. After posting last night I went ahead and changed the hat puff to a 1/8 segment and called it s/6898s18.dat. Any conditional lines falling along the x, z, x+z (diagonal), or x-z axes were moved into the main file to (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) LDraw Design Pad can do this. You can find it at (URL) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I think the filesize:quality ratio is good. I notice that almost everything is coded to 4 decimal places. Except when (and maybe not even then) a surface joins to a circular primitive, 3 DPs should be sufficient in parts (0.0001 LDu < 0.00002 (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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