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I've been working on 6898.dat, the cook's hat, and I think I nearly have a finished part to submit. The hat of course is in reality a more "sculpted" piece without true 8-way symmetry, but I decided for simplicity to make it symmetrical. The bottom (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) The part looks great. As far as file size, I don't think 29.2K is too large at all, especially for a complicated curvy part like this. Others may disagree but I thinl that quality should never be sacrificed for file size concerns. -Orion (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Lee: I tend to think the same thing. File size is important in that it impacts load times, render times, memory consumption while editing designs and etc., but it's not like there are going to be scads of models (unless someone CADs up a chef (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) About 10 times that. Including the optional line subfile the combined size is 1018K. Worth every byte as far as I'm concerned. -Orion (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I think the filesize:quality ratio is good. I notice that almost everything is coded to 4 decimal places. Except when (and maybe not even then) a surface joins to a circular primitive, 3 DPs should be sufficient in parts (0.0001 LDu < 0.00002 (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) LDraw Design Pad can do this. You can find it at (URL) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Thanks everyone for the advice. After posting last night I went ahead and changed the hat puff to a 1/8 segment and called it s/6898s18.dat. Any conditional lines falling along the x, z, x+z (diagonal), or x-z axes were moved into the main file to (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Sorry Orion, I was not aware of that neat feature. I should get out of my LDAO-centric world more often. So, what I meant to say was : "There's this really cool tool called LDraw Design Pad that can do this for you". Chris (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Great work. The subpart naming standard(s)n are documented at (URL) So, I'd rather your subpart were named s6898s01.dat. Submitting a new part to the Parts Tracker is easy. You need to register as an LDraw.org user (at (URL)) and then request (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) 10 times is "well over". :-) (KIDDING!)... Thanks for the elaboration. I forgot just how big it actually is... (...) Exactly. (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I'm guessing you mean s\6898s01.dat :) ROSCO (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) You can do it in LDAO as well, although there's no direct "round my decimals to 3 places" command. First, open your file in the editor. Second, go to Options | Decimals, and enter 3. Then put a line "0 SCALE 1" at the beginning of the block of (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Yes, of course - now where did I leave that backslash? Chris (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Shouldn't it be a forward slash (s/6898s01.dat)? Parts use forward slash in the actual part code (which is good, because it makes viewers in other operating systems slightly easier to make). --Travis (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) No, the back slash is correct. -Orion (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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