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(...) Thanks! The cat looks much better with the conditional edge lines. (...) That's a good idea for a LDraw tool! I generally find that edge lines are fairly difficult to handle, so I reckon other people will enjoy the idea as well. Fredrik (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I've done a little more work on the edger, and in the process I've discovered it's a *dandy* integrity checker. Edges that don't match up to just two shapes tend to leave one edge dangling; this helped me find an unnecessary triangle in the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) <snip> With a handle like LummoxJR and a very refreshing laziness (write a Really Useful Tool to avoid hard drudge work), you must be a RAH fan. I haven't seen a showier "first part" in a while. Now if cats were just available in really large (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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"Lee Gaiteri" <LummoxJR@aol.com> wrote in message news:G9G8nL.GL8@lugnet.com... (...) discovered (...) shapes (...) triangle in (...) This could be of huge benefit to parts authors. Manually adding conditional lines on complex surfaces has to be (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Indeed. The task was way too daunting for me with all the triangles and quadrilaterals that were in place. (...) This is the sort of case that exists in my cat. On the bottom, back edge of the stud hole, there's a slight raised section in the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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"Lee Gaiteri" <LummoxJR@aol.com> wrote in message news:G9I0FC.Jr5@lugnet.com... (...) But once your cat is rotated in a model, the line may no longer be vertical. The rounding errors occur at the rendering stage, not the part creation stage. This (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Lee Gaiteri wrote: [earlier, John VanZwieten wrote:] (...) Remember, there's no such thing as a completely vertical line in 3D modeling. As soon as someone views the kitten from any viewpoint other than straight-on (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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