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| (...) There are some complex curved parts (e.g. most of the minifig headwear, the minifig arm I'm working on right now, some wheels) where some regions can be represented by the regular cyli, disc, cyls, cyls2 primitives, but there will be regions (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| (...) Very true. In some cases (like the minifig arms), is it better to go with an all-polygon approach, or to use primitives as much as possible and fill in the rest with polygons? (...) When filling in around a hole in a flat surface, one should (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| (...) have (...) Are you suggesting that there is (should be) a command to prevent primitive substitution, or that the primitive should be inlined? (...) Agreed. What I was more thinking of is the situation (in the minifig arm) where one region is (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| (...) I wasn't thinking of either, really. I was wondering if maybe the part should be modeled without any primitives at all. I suppose the practical result of that would be primitive-inlining. (...) In the case of the lower arm (forearm), I don't (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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