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Re: wannabe parts author needs mentor
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:44:06 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Edwin Pilobello wrote:
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There isn’t really a formal system of support but...
All the parts authors are willing to help, if you ask. If you prefer not to
discuss it here (and I prefer that you do so that other beginners can browse
through you questions) then you can email me or one of the other regulars and
we’ll answer you questions or hand you off to someone who can. Please don’t
feel that your questions are too “stupid” to ask here on LUGNET.
-Orion
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I think documenting my learning process “live” on this forum would be a great
idea. I’ll get myself organized and start posting my “part author” questions.
Thanks!
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Great idea, but I think lugnet.cad.dat.parts would be a better choice for such
questions. But I’d suggest that you start with some simple parts while you learn
the basics. Personally I started with the duplo piece
x250.
While you’re still green and impressionable, I’ll just throw in some good basic
rules worth following (especially when using MLCAD):
Rule #1: Build parts just like you would build creations; like an onion with the
innermost parts first, so no things hide later ones: This makes it a whole lot
easier to browse through the part looking for errors and missing (or duplicated)
things (especially for the reviewers that don’t know the part very well).
Rule #2: Instead of putting all the edges in one chunk at the beginning of the
file, let them follow their corresponding surfaces, that’s much less confusing
than having a full framwork from the start, and you get a much better impression
of what the surfaces actually look like (they can get rather fuzzy witout
framing). The edges naturally have to be inserted just before the surfaces so
they’re already there when you reach the surface.
-NB
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| (...) I think documenting my learning process "live" on this forum would be a great idea. I'll get myself organized and start posting my "part author" questions. Thanks! (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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