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Re: New Part: 6572 Steering Knuckle Arm w/ Towball
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Wed, 31 May 2000 06:13:27 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> These parts look good to me! Cool ones!
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> 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
> 2738 points to the right. Is there any reason for this?
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> Fredrik
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 the 2508
1x2 plate with towball which is oriented along the -Z. So naturally when I
did a rotation about the Y (positive of course, one less key to type '-') it
ended up with the towball along the -X direction. I'll give this a 180
before I submit it for vote. As for the 2738, I made that from scratch.
It's a lot easier to type +X values than it is to do the -X.
Is there some unwritten orentiation rule for parts? Or do we just build
up from prior similiar parts?
Thanks again,
-Chris
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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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| | Re: New Part: 6572 Steering Knuckle Arm w/ Towball
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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