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Re: Suggested New Primitive: 4-4cyl12.dat (was: More cylinder primitives wanted)
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives
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Mon, 15 May 2006 19:21:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> If more folks like this idea, how should we name the new primitives?

How about N-4cyla.dat, N-4cylb.dat, etc?

Although I have to admit -- I'm not a huge fan of saving a few lines of code
here and there.  When two such primitives are adjacent, I always have to
double-check which one includes the edge(s).

> There is no rule against primitive files calling to other \P files. I didn't
> have to look very long to find one. And if we inlined them, I suspect the
> primitive substitution in L3P will not work until L3P is updated to support the
> new ones. Correct me if I'm wrong.

You are absolutely correct, on both points.

Here's the one I would like to see the most:
> 0 Cylinder 1.0  with 1 Disc and  2 Edges

I'd most like to see the cylinder with 2 edges.  It's easy enough to add discs
or ndis's on the ends, as required.  But I almost always require the
edge-circles.

Steve



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  Re: Suggested New Primitive: 4-4cyl12.dat (was: More cylinder primitives wanted)
 
(...) I thought of that, but liked the idea of more descriptive names, like the rect*.dat series. The '1' would in this case stand for number of discs, and '2' for number of edges. But I could definifly live with cyla, cylb etc too. (...) Same here. (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)

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  Suggested New Primitive: 4-4cyl12.dat (was: More cylinder primitives wanted)  [DAT]
 
(...) There is no rule against primitive files calling to other \P files. I didn't have to look very long to find one. And if we inlined them, I suspect the primitive substitution in L3P will not work until L3P is updated to support the new ones. (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)

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