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| In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Benjamin Lyttle wrote: Hi Ben, you should also aviod or bring down the number of T-junctions (URL) to a minimum. Bye, w. (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) So I'm sitting here staring at my part and all of the quads I've used to make it up wondering, how do I minimize T-junctions? Are there primatives that can replace the quads/ triangles? I have a LOT of T-junctions in what I've made up so far. (...) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) Ok so for reference I'm going to try to link you to brickshelf where I've uploaded an MLcad screenshot (URL) is where I'm at - I did actually notice the 'holes' talked about in the article when moving the image around in Mlcad. hope this works (...) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) You know what, I just figured how to manipulate rect.dat - do those make a difference with 'holes' or is it the same thing? (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) up wondering, how do I minimize T-junctions? Are there primatives that (...) replace the quads/ triangles? I have a LOT of T-junctions in what I've (...) so far. I'm still getting my head around Quad2dat. Suggestions?!? First of all, as far as (...) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| (...) That's supposed to say that the bottom version is made up of 4 quads. --Travis (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| (...) [SNIP-SNAP] Travis, this is a fine explanation! How about uploading a more formal version to the tutorial page (URL) or the specs (URL) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) It's the same thing. Actually, it's worse -- rect.dat has edge-lines. So it can't be used in place of a quad. Generally, avoiding t-junctions is harder when working with primitives - you have to know where the outside vertices are on the (...) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) you put the two images from my post into LDraw's gallery, and send me links to them, I'll add a page to ldraw.org. --Travis (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) etc. (...) I was wondering if you upload a more concrete example using a lego editing tool and show what the difference would look like between the three examples using one of them - it would be helpful to me to be able to see something that (...) (16 years ago, 27-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| (...) Unfortunately, I don't think that T-junctions can be made visible in MLCad, since I don't think it has a wireframe mode. However, if you use LDraw Design Pad with LDView in polling mode, you can set LDView to wireframe, and the T-junctions (...) (16 years ago, 27-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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