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Re: 2736 (Technic Axle Towball)
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Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:06:12 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the proper procedure, ...
Actually, if you want to submit the fix to the parts library, you need to
send it to partsref@home.com.
> ... but I noticed a problem in
> part 2736 (Technic Axle Towball) which appears to have been caused by the
> part being authored without rotating the viewpoint away from the standard
> one.
Doh! Thanks for pointing this out. And posting a correction.
> The cylinder which was supposed to join the ball to the base didn't
> actually reach the ball. Below is my fixed version, with comments at the
> changed parts.
Nice. I'd disagree with:
0 You cannot
0 draw an edge between a cylinder and a sphere which
0 have different radii.
From the standpoint of creating a set of lines which follow the exact
intersections of polygons which simulate the cylinder, with the polygons
which simulate the sphere, you are almost correct -- it can be done, but
it's a lot of work.
But looking at what we are modeling, it is definitely possible -- you are
modeling a sphere, a cylinder, and a circle. You know the sizes and
positions of the primitives. The fact that their approximations don't meet
cleanly could be considered a problem with the underlying system, rather
than a problem with the partfile.
One other modification is needed in the file: a standard file-header is
required.
I would modify the file as follows. Notice that the edge-line still
doesn't quite reach the sphere-polygons, at very high resolution. But it
would lay on the cylinder-sphere intersection, in a rendering program that
kept edges and did p-file substitution:
0 Technic Axle Towball
0 Name: 2736.dat
0 Author: James Jessiman
0 Original LDraw Part
0 2000-09-13 TC Fixed gap between cylinder and sphere.
0 2000-09-14 SEB Added standard header and adjusted fixes.
1 16 0 0 0 0 18 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 axle.dat
1 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 4-4edge.dat
1 16 -2 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 4-4edge.dat
1 16 -2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 4-4edge.dat
0 1 16 -6 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 4-4edge.dat
0 Previous line removed by Travis Cobbs
0 And re-added/adjusted by Steve Bliss:
1 16 -7.0718 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 4-4edge.dat
1 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 4-4disc.dat
1 16 -2 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 4-4disc.dat
1 16 -2 0 0 0 2 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 4-4cyli.dat
0 1 16 -6 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 4-4cyli.dat
0 Previous line fixed by Travis Cobbs to be:
0 1 16 -8 0 0 0 6 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 4-4cyli.dat
0 And then modified by Steve Bliss, to not intrude
0 into the sphere quite as far:
1 16 -2 0 0 0 -5.5 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 4-4cyli.dat
1 16 -14 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 8-8sphe.dat
0
--
Steve
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