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Subject: 
Re: Segmented parts (ie hoses and flex tubes)
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:51:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Lars C. Hassing writes:
In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Steve Bliss writes:
Actually, by the guidelines for parts I posted, the flex-axle subparts
should be in the parts directory.

Moving the hose segments to parts/s/ would prevent the shrinkage
problem, but I think there are better solutions.

No, moving the hose segments to parts/s/ would NOT prevent the
shrinkage problem.

[snip]

Therefore IMHO the solution is to put all pieces of a curved hose into
a new part (or an MPD subfile).
Then the complete hose will be shrunk as a whole when referenced from
the model, just like the other parts referenced from the model.

I agree, I did that with the hoses on my loco
http://www.lugnet.com/~469/projects/n-class and it seems the best solution.

ROSCO



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  Re: Segmented parts (ie hoses and flex tubes)
 
(...) No, moving the hose segments to parts/s/ would NOT prevent the shrinkage problem. It doesn't matter whether a part is located in PARTS or PARTS/S, it is still considered as a part. Whenever a (sub-)part is referenced from another part, it is (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)

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