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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Travis Cobbs writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Mark Kennedy writes:
> > Travis, here is a low res version of your sphere primitive. I moved the type 5
> > lines from the edge into the other sphere primitives, as to prevent them from
> > showing up when it placed against a torus. I could move the edge lines back
> > into the file if people think I should though, (It would save some space off of
> > the 2-8, 4-8, and 8-8 versions)
>
> I have two comments. The first is that while I prefer my sphere tesselation
> to the standard one (and presumably you do also :-), a number of people
> prefer the standard one. I think that a vote of some sort might be in order
> before replacing the standard one.
FWIW I also like the new one better.
> My second comment is about the type 5 edge lines. I don't think the real
> problem with removing them is the file size of the other sphere primitives;
> the real problem is the fact that all (or at least almost all) parts that
> use a sphere primitive will have to be updated to put the type 5 edge lines
> back in. To make matters worse, this isn't actually possible to do in a way
> that is compatible with arbitrary complexity primitive substitution.
I agree. The type 5 lines from the edges belong in the file. See
here for my convoluted and poorly written reasoning.
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=7192
Don
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