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Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Sat, 25 May 2002 22:23:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Damien Guichard writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Chris Dee writes:
> > In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Chris Dee writes:
> > > In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Chris Dee writes:
> > > > Here is my work so far on improving the minifig arm. It is provided as an • MPD
> > > > file of a torso and arms at two different angles; right - upper arm • vertical;
> > > > left - forearm horizontal.
> > > >
> > > > There is still much to do on the inner arm and not all the necessary type 5
> > > > lines are done. The new arm part still contains a lot of working comments.
> > > >
> > > > But hopefully it shows the direction I am going - all comments welcome.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > >
> > > Repost to fix line-wrapping mess.
> >
> > More progress, at last. I think this now just needs a little work on type 5
> > lines at the elbow bend. I believe I have done as much as I can to use the
> > cyli, cyls and cyls2 primitives, which should improve the appearance by
> > renderers which do primitive substitution.
> >
> > Thanks for all the comments so far - more welcome.
> >
> > Chris
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> Hi Chris,
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> With this physical connection arms will be much easier to rotate accurately.
> When placing the official hand at arm ends I noticed that hand hole is
> significantly larger. When comparing to actual part I found your hand hole
> more realistic. Official hand hole is too small, even for official hand part.
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> Thanks,
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> Damien
Thanks for your support. Rotation still wont be that easy, but I hope to be
able to build some usage notes into the comments, to show how to do the
rotation.
It was already agreed that the official hand part needs to be reworked also.
Chris
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