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Re: New Part, 99% done: 6203.dat - Container ???
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Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:07:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse writes:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=136034

Notice how the optional line (represented by a zigzag in l3glite) at
the top of the half cylinder extends beyond the solid portion of the
cylinder and into the expected next piece of cylinder.  When the half
cylinder is mated to something else this is guaranteed to be wrong.

It took me a minute to grok what you were saying.  The 'test line' is
inaccurate for anything except joining one half-cylinder to another.

Perhaps a better system of would be to remove this optional line from
the end of the half cylinder primitive and provide a half cylinder
joiner primitive containing the optional line for those times when
you want to join two cylinder primitives.  But who knows how many
part files would have to be rewritten to use this.

We could push the cylinder polygons into one file, the final edge-line into
another file, and reference both files from the current 2-4cyli.dat file.
That way, new parts could use the new un-delimited half-cylinder while
existing files continued without change.

Files which are currently broken will need to be updated, no matter what
else we do.

Steve



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  Re: New Part, 99% done: 6203.dat - Container ???
 
(...) Do you have a naming convention in mind for the new un-deliminated partial cylinder files and the joiner files? How about X-Ycylu.dat for un-deliminated partial cylinders, X-Ycyla.dat for the leading optional line, and X-Ycylb.dat for a (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)

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  Re: New Part, 99% done: 6203.dat - Container ???
 
(...) I agree. I think the problem is that the current half cylinder primitives expect to be mated with other cylinder primitives to create a whole cylinder. Connect edge A with optional line to edge B without optional line. But connect edge A to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)

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