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Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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Date: 
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:11:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Ryan Farrington writes:
Sorry, all, :]  I forgot Steve Bliss already briefly mentioned redoing the
hand, so ignore anything in my post that sounds like I'm the only one who
ever thought of it. :)

I might have talked about it, but I'm not doing anything on it right now.
Feel free to run with it. :)

I wonder if it would be worth it to re-make the minifig hands too. The
hand
should tilt away from the hand "stem" at an angle of about 15 degrees.
Right
now, to get the correct angle of the hand to the arm, the hand has to be
tilted so the solids intersect.

I think I measured it at 17 degrees once, but I might have mis-measured (or
be misremembering).  Or maybe Tore told me that was the angle.  It's been
awhile.

Steve



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  Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
 
(...) Well, at first glance, using a spear as pointer, it looked like 17 degrees to me also. However, I did the following and came up with 14.5 degrees: 1. Lay a minifig up next to a piece of paper, with the hand in the up position and a spear in (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
  is BOX5.DAT really BFC compliant?
 
I've been working on the BFC code in my application, and well, either I need to go to bed now (which is probably true either way :) or the BOX5.DAT primitive slipped into the last update with wrong-way wound quad. Am I reading this right? (...) This (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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  Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
 
Sorry, all, :] I forgot Steve Bliss already briefly mentioned redoing the hand, so ignore anything in my post that sounds like I'm the only one who ever thought of it. :) But since the arm has now gotten attention from Chris Dee (thanks, Chris!), I (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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