 | | Re: Suggested New Primitive: 4-4cyl12.dat (was: More cylinder primitives wanted)
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[Lotsa snipping] (...) I'm fine with that. Taking up the issues Chris raised (but out of order): (...) I think we need to allow for partial rods. (...) It seems fair to limit rods to single-digit denominators. Since these are primarily convenience (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Suggested New Primitive: 4-4cyl12.dat (was: More cylinder primitives wanted)
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(...) We could use "rod" as a short base name for these. Do we need to allow for non-360 degree versions? I didn't see any requirements for partial cylinders in the thread so far. Was that implicit in the request? 1) If not, one would be to use a (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Suggested New Primitive: 4-4cyl12.dat (was: More cylinder primitives wanted)
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(...) Since we've already got primitives like '5-24cyli.dat', I think it would be a good idea to restrict the suffix of the file name to 4 characters. I wouldn't want to start right out making specialized cylinders-with-edges for every single (...) (18 years ago, 16-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Suggested New Primitive: 4-4cyl12.dat (was: More cylinder primitives wanted)
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(...) I thought of that, but liked the idea of more descriptive names, like the rect*.dat series. The '1' would in this case stand for number of discs, and '2' for number of edges. But I could definifly live with cyla, cylb etc too. (...) Same here. (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: New Part: 3069bpw0.dat - Tile 1 x 2 with "Wanted - Flatfoot Thomsen" Pattern
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(...) This kind of part can really point out the usefulness of having a viewer that automatically downloads unofficial files: 21 sub-parts. Yowzers! (See (URL) here> if you're confused.) Running with my dev code, I just created a file that (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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