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Re: 6-stud road baseplates with dark grey road pattern parts
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Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:22:50 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, William Howard wrote:
> As I'm almost in a position to upload these 3 road plates to the parts tracker I
> have a few questions
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> 1) what are the correct part numbers? 44336p01/44342p01/44341p01 or some other
> identifier to indicate a patterned part? (There is another variant of the
> straight road - http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=44336pb02 I'll
> model this one as well when I've opened the set! I'm assuming that will be
> 44336p02)
Whilst there is probably a unique TLC number for decorated parts, the LDraw
convention is to use a Pxx suffix to the part number, based on the ranges of Pxx
numbers documented at http://www.ldraw.org/library/tracker/ref/patterns/. In
this case p01 is appropriate. I'm assuming that the 443.. numbers are moulded on
the parts? 44336p02.dat is OK for the second variant.
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> 2) what is the correct Category? Baseplate?
Yes Baseplate
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> 3) having replaced all my custom primitives with quads and lines, should I
> remove all the lines between co-planar quads? (These exist only to make the
> wireframe views work as opposed to indicating an actual edge between two
> quads.)
Yes please. Type 2 commands (lines) should only be used to instruct the renders
to generate a line at the join of non-coplanar regions. Also (although
challenged by some) these are allowable completely inside quads of patterns to
ensure the fine detail shoes at low-res. They should not be used to delimit
different colours in the same plane.
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> 4) Having had chance to study a friends cross-roads plate in detail I shall
> model this one as well. It has 4 fold rotational symmetry. Should I model
> this as one sub-part and rotate it 4 times in the model or "in-line" the
> pattern 4 times?
Yes please do this as a subpart. The subpart should be named s\443NNs01.dat
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> thanks in advance
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> William
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> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, William Howard wrote:
> > 6-stud road baseplates with dark grey road pattern parts
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/whoward69/LDraw/parts/6studRoadBaseplates/road6studs.jpg
> >
> > 6-stud straight (part 44336, set 4110)
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/whoward69/LDraw/parts/6studRoadBaseplates/road6studsstraight44336.jpg
> >
> > 6-stud curve (part 44342, set 4109)
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/whoward69/LDraw/parts/6studRoadBaseplates/road6studscurvea44342.jpg
> >
> > 6-stud junction (part 44341, set 4108)
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/whoward69/LDraw/parts/6studRoadBaseplates/road6studsjunction44341.jpg
> >
> > I don't have the 6-stud crossroads (set 4111), so haven't modelled it, but it
> > looks like the crossing section of the junction (triangle from centre to corner
> > to corner) rotated 4 times. If someone with both baseplates confirms this I may
> > model it.
> >
> > BrickShelf folder with part and sub-part files (when moderated)
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=78504
> >
> > The baseplates I have vary in printing quality with the pattern "moving" by +/-
> > 3degrees and/or +/- 2mm so in some cases I've picked the mathematically easiest
> > location. All the parts were created via MS-Excel so if anyone wants to
> > "improve" them, especially the curved sections, email me and I'll send the
> > spreadsheet with all the point calculations.
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