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These parts look good to me! Cool ones! I also agree with the placement of the origin (in the centre of the innermost connection holes), however I find it a bit strange that they have the opposite orientation: The 6572 points to the left while the (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks for the praise. Glad that the origin is acceptable, that's always a debatable topic at work. Sorry about the different orientations. The 6572 was coded the way all good programmers code. . . via snippets from other peoples code. I used (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: 6572 Steering Knuckle Arm w/ Towball
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(...) It's acceptable to me, but I can only speak for myself! (...) There appears to be a lot of unwritten rules about the LDraw language and parts library. When it comes to orientation and origin of parts, though, it normally pays to look at (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) But long parts oriented along the X-axis are usually symmetric -- like bricks and beams. Often, parts with one asymmetric axis (ie, parts with a sense of 'front and back' or 'left and right' or even 'base and tip') are oriented with the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: 6572 Steering Knuckle Arm w/ Towball
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(...) This certainly adds a new dimension! :-) Thanks for clearing this issue up. I appreciate the information. Fredrik (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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