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  eliminating polygons?
 
Hi, I was just wondering, Does a utility exist (either for .Dat or .Dxf or .Pov) that automatically eliminates all polygons that are not visible? I thought this might cut rendering time in POVray, and I'm trying to export *.dat files to other (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: eliminating polygons?  [DAT]
 
[moved to lugnet.cad.dev] (...) There's no such utility for DAT. I know of a few utilities/test programs that are close to this ability, but that's not what they were written for. I don't know about DXF. For POV, you can't drop hidden polygons, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: eliminating polygons?
 
(...) Thanks! I guess I'll have to get pretty involved in the in-to's and out's of part- making. I'm kind of lazy. I thought there might be an easy way of doing it. Anyway, I shouldn't infringe on the LDraw organization, since they're their parts, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: eliminating polygons?
 
"Michael Horvath" <mikehorvath@juno.com> wrote in message news:Fxq871.3vM@lugnet.com... (...) part- (...) doing it. (...) their (...) a (...) On the contrary, you should feel free to hack away at LDraw parts to optimize them for your own usage. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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