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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> > Inspired by parts\s\4186a.dat, I would like to see "clusters" of studs, say
> > 6 x 6 and 8 x 8. That would make a lot of part files *much* smaller.
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> > Maybe we could call them Stud36.dat and Stud64.dat?
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> I'm coming at this from the POV that stud-groups are needed primarily for large
> files. Like baseplates, where 90% of the file is all stud-references. 1xN and
> 2xN stud-groups would be convenient (to part authors) for regular-sized plates
> and bricks, but no one else would benefit from their existence. When we code
> large-dimension parts with stud-groups, we realize a significant file-size
> savings -- which benefits everyone who has to download the file, and store it on
> their harddrive.
Just to clarify, would these include the surface between the studs, or just the
studs? I think logically they should include just the studs but just wanted to
make sure.
> However, if there's truly a part-author demand for 1xN (and maybe 2xN)
> stud-groups, I'm not totally opposed to them. But maybe we could call them
> 'stud rows', instead of stud-groups? So they'd be stur*.dat files?
Maybe, if that is a future possibility, the square ones should be named
stus*.dat? As there may in future be demand for other (non-square) stud groups?
ROSCO
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| (...) Yeah, they'd be just the studs. (...) I'm not opposed to that; I don't see a compelling choice between stug* and stus*. Because I had files that used them, I went ahead and submitted stug3, stug4, stug6 and stug8 to the PT. If people want (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| (...) Wow! Has it really been 2 years since we had this discussion? Either that, or I missed something in my newsgroup searching... Since I'm not seeing any stug*.dat files in the parts library, I'd like to revive this topic. I'd also like to (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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