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Re: Unofficial Part: 2500 1x8 Light Bar
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Date: 
Sun, 30 May 1999 11:33:48 GMT
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Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> wrote in message
news:3750d68d.10562626@lugnet.com...
> On Sat, 29 May 1999 14:23:53 GMT, "Kevin B" <kevinb01@netfocus.net> wrote:
> > Now, next question:  Should the 'lights' be a separate primitive (as far • as
> > I know, this is the ONLY piece on which they are used), a separate piece, • or
> > part of the piece itself?
> 
> If they are only used here, then a primitive is out.

That is what I thought.  And as far as I know, they are only used in this
model.


> In looking at the file, it appears the lights are not very large, and the
> overall file size is not too bad.  In that case, you might as well inline • the
> lights and leave them in the file.

That's what I'll do.  I STILL have to change the center from a cylinder to a
cone.  Maybe with Karim's new cone primitive I can get that done.


>  Remember, you can safely delete all those
> extra lines beginning with zero.  Clean up the unneeded lines.

I know.  I mainly put them in there as reminders to me just what the heck
those lines are doing.  More often than not I wake up in a new but strangely
familiar world every morning! ;)

[Doorbell]: "Ding-Dong"
[Kelly]: "What was that?"
[Bud]: "See Dad?  When you try to fit a quart of knowledge into a shotglass
of a brain, you're bound to get a little overflow."

Kevin B
aka Battlehammer



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  Re: Unofficial Part: 2500 1x8 Light Bar
 
(...) If they are only used here, then a primitive is out. You could use a single subfile in the parts/s directory. But that is mainly used for subassemblies that are used repeatedly, and where the use would significantly save space and simplify (...) (27 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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