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Re: New Part, 99% done: 6203.dat - Container ???
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Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:40:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Steve Bliss writes:
> 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.

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 trailing optional line?  What
about the sloped cylinders parts?

> 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 ???
 
(...) I thought about it for like 2.5 seconds. Does that count? I figured it would be some X-YcylZ.dat type of thing. :) (...) X-Ycylu.dat works for me. (...) We should only need a single file for the optional line,[2] the leading and trailing edges (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)

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  Re: New Part, 99% done: 6203.dat - Container ???
 
(...) 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. (...) We could push the cylinder polygons into one file, the final edge-line into another file, and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)

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