 | | Re: Torus primitive discussion. was( Updated Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus) [DAT]
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Sorry about taking so long to reply to this message. I have been working on trying to make a few of these torii mentioned below. (...) That is what I meant. :-) (...) If we worked with the method used for the rings and similar existing primitives, I (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Torus primitive discussion. was( Updated Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus)
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Does anyone have anything to say or add about the torus primitives? I have a few parts in process that use parts of a torus that can be finished up once we decide on a format and file name structure. Any comments are welcome. Some of the parts can (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Torus primitive discussion. was( Updated Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus)
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Other than questioning the practice of putting POV-Ray code in files for the parts library, I've got no problems with the torus files. Steve (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) I put the POV codes in since I wasn't sure how long it would be before they would be adopted into the parts library. Do you think that this can be easily implimented into L3P? Lars? I have put a few small pictures on my Utilities pages with (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Torus primitive discussion. was( Updated Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus)
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Paul Easter wrote... (...) Sure, I'm just awaiting the final filename convention, so that I can make a programmatic (versus hardcoded) substitution covering all future primitives released. Something like "NtiFFFF.dat" for "1/N Torus Tube Inner Major (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) How about using: TNNXFFFF.dat Where T is T, NN is the fraction of the major circle, X is I/O for inner or outer, and FFFF is the fractional ratio of tube radius to major radius. I'm suggesting this specific format for the following reasons: 1. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Torus primitive discussion. was( Updated Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus)
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Ok, Let me see if I can make some sense of this... I have read it sevaral times. (...) OK, great! (...) Sorry, can't seem to follow this statement. (...) OK. (...) I agree, but not sure about the 3.6 degree version, that's a bit extreme. (...) ah... (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Torus primitive discussion. was( Updated Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus)
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(...) OK, let me try to explain. Lars had suggested: (...) Which uses 7 characters in the filename, out of the 8 allowed. I just dedicated the 8th character to N, so we had NN instead. This gives us a fixed-format for the filename, no matter what (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) OK, Got it! Sounds good to me. So we are going to use; tNNxFFFF.dat t=Torus NN=sweep of torus, 01=1/1, 02=1/2, 04=1/4, 08=1/8, 16=1/16, 48=1/48? x=i:Inner or o:Outer FFFF=Tube Radius Ex. 1/3=3333 I have already changed my spreadsheets and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Absolutely not. (...) Send them to parts@ldraw.org. (...) Leave it in for now. Steve (23 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Oops! I meant "Absolutely not" as in "I have no more suggestions", not "Don't do it, no way." Sorry if it didn't come across the way I meant it. I think this pot has definitely boiled long enough. Steve (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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