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Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
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Fri, 26 Nov 2004 03:00:38 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Chris Dee wrote:
This could save ~10% of the file size, but there's no easy tool
I know to round to 3DPs for you.

LDraw Design Pad can do this.  You can find it at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lddp

-Orion



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  Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
 
(...) 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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  Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
 
(...) 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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