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Just to let everyone know I'm tentatively starting the Darth Maul head, but as it's my first attempt at a part I'm going to wait until I've finished before sorting out the pattern number as I may not get chance to complete it. I've already done 1/4 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Darth Maul minifig head - hints and tips?
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ACK! That's gonna be a toughie! Good luck. One of my little "secrets" is that I often "draw" the face in a two-dimensional image (i.e., Z = -13 for all points on this preliminary image), and then check the "Front View" box in MLCAD to make sure the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Darth Maul minifig head - hints and tips?
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"Franklin W. Cain" <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G4DuCp.IKM@lugnet.com... (...) This is sort of what I'm doing, although I have a little VB app to calc the Z co-ord for me as I enter each triangle/quad. It only works for the vertical (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Darth Maul minifig head - a work in progress [DAT]
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OK, here's a the main part of the pattern (no quads between the pattern yet, and still the mouth, outer edges and eyes to do, plus the upper part of the pattern needs to be angled back instead of in a vertical plane!), any criticism you want to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Darth Maul minifig head - a work in progress
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(...) First of all, because of the requirement for backwards-compatibility with MS-DOS "8+3" limits on filenames, this filename is too long. I suggest calling it "3626b-dm.dat" for now. [snip] (...) Aaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhh!!!! Line-wrap! Try (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Darth Maul minifig head - a work in progress
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"Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message news:G4DyFE.81v@lugnet.com... (...) yet, (...) the (...) I'm going to take things a little slower before I post a DAT again! Firstly (the easy problem) was that I posted using OE, next time (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Darth Maul minifig head - hints and tips?
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Dan, How're things going on this? Thanks, Franklin (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Darth Maul minifig head - hints and tips?
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"Franklin W. Cain" <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G5znGB.Ewn@lugnet.com... (...) It's getting there. I've got the main parts of the pattern done, I'm currently adding the outer edge around the face. The biggest problem I've got at the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | algebra help (was "Re: Darth Maul...")
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(...) I don't know if this will help you, but this is how I calculate the formula for the X-vs-Z co-ordinates of the top and bottom edges of the quad in question (for ex., the quad bordered by the co-ords (0,4,-13), (0,1.172,-11.536), (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: algebra help (was "Re: Darth Maul...")
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(...) Hi Guys, I have a spreadsheet that might be of some use. It was created to help find a point on a 3 point plane. After a few trial runs with it, you will find yourself using it a lot. Here is a link to my web page that has a bit of info on it. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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