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    Re: New Primitive Class —Paul Easter
   (...) When Steve and I were working on the format for the torii, I believe we said we would deal with this issue when it arose. Now it has. (...) The spreadsheet I made to create p/16 and p/48 torii also included support for this occurance. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
   
        Re: New Primitive Class —John Riley
   (...) I checked some geometry websites, and the consensus is that these are tori. Just not the common type. (...) Inverse-ratio torus is a better name, but is fairly lengthy. An inverted torus, I think, is still a torus, just with the surfaces (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
   
        Re: New Primitive Class —Paul Easter
   (...) This topic still needs some approval before we nac move it to finalization. We have been discussing torii(toruses) where the tube radius is equal or greater than the major radius. This only works for the outside sections since the inside (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
   
        Re: New Primitive Class —Steve Bliss
   (...) If we can only create outside sections,[1] why not keep the leading t, but change the i/o/q? Maybe x, for extended? As for the ratio decimals in the file name, instead of noting the tube:major ratio (which is >1), use the inverse major:tube (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 

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