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Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:30:10 GMT
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jsproat@io.comSPAMLESS
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> Actually, it didn't look so good in L3Lab -- because L3Lab balked at using
> color 24.
I only added lines #6 - 36 -- all the color 24's were there before.
Whoops, I see what happened now. When I ran it through LDAO's inliner (see
below), it changed all the type-5 lines to type 4. I just now changed the
pseudo-4's back into real 5's, which cut down on L3Lab's alarms. :-,
I'd upload the fixes now, but I'm still unsure how to handle the
intersection of the handle and the ribbed body. Is it okay if I just shove
the upper part of the handle into the body (but not poking through to the
interior), or should I make the top of the cylinder all jagged to exactly
match the shape of the ribs?
> A totally different approach would be to construct a subfile, which would
> contain one segment of ribbing. Then use the subfile to build the ribbed
> section of the part. Include some 4-4edge.dat files for where the ribs
> intersect each other.
This is how I did it, actually, but I ran the part through LDAO's inliner
before I posted the part -- which changed all line-5's to line-4's... I
don't actually remember which version -- it was either v1.4.5 (which I keep
for LDraw->BMP rendering) or v2.1.0 (which I keep for the cool editor, but
the LDraw->BMP rendering is broken), both of which is woefully behind v2.1.4
(which I was too lazy to download until today :-).
> If you don't want to mess with the Lathe, but can get the diameters for me,
> I can whip up the subfile.
Your spreadsheet rotate.xls was actually really useful here; it showed me
which ring to use (RING7.DAT). I figured if I could just reduce it to the
rings and cylinders, it would be much a quicker part to modify.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
I'm betting I'm just abnormal enough to survive!
- The Tick
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