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Re: panel with round windows (for 10020) updated
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:54:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Jeroen de Haan writes:
> > The rings aren't actually for POV- they're for LDraw. They are simply
> > sections of 16-sided "curves" (and yes- they are in the "p" directory). The
> > rotation/scaling matrix turns them and scales them up to fit onto the
> > panel's surface. You can do this manually by tweaking the values directly,
> > or do the rotation in a tool like MLCAD. Once you know how to work with the
> > primitives, they make parts like this trivial to create.
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> I don't know if we understand each other. As I understood from de L3P
> manual, some primitives from the P-dir are substituted by L3P to POV
> primitives. If you take a look at
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=152159 (where the new panels
> are used) you will notice that the circels are now round, and not, as in my
> version, 18-sided.
> Let me get this staight: I don't want to sound as a know-it-all!
I stand corrected- I didn't realize that L3P did that. I just checked
through the text file and found the reference to it. So yes, using
primitives is a better way to go.
Ugh, and now I have to rethink how I lay out some parts, as the primitive
substitutions may mess up transitions between adjacent non-primitive surfaces...
--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com
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| (...) I don't know if we understand each other. As I understood from de L3P manual, some primitives from the P-dir are substituted by L3P to POV primitives. If you take a look at (URL) (where the new panels are used) you will notice that the circels (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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