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Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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