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Re: Stretching cylinders
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Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:11:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Santeri Piippo wrote:
Well, it's my second thread today, but how would you go to "stretch" a cylinder,
like a cone, but only in Y-axis, not X-axis? I've again attached a dat file to
show what I mean.

Basically I'd need a cylinder that'd fit those two 4-4edge.dat:s, any ideas?



1 16 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 -35 0 4-4cyli.dat
1 16 0 0 -35 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 -35 0 4-4edge.dat
1 16 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 15 0 -35 0 4-4edge.dat

There is no way to get your shape using primitives, it would require non-linear
transformations. So, as mentionned by Michael, the best way is to use Coverer.
You can nonetheless get a similar (but quite different) shape using shearing as
explained by Mark:

1 16 0 10 0 5 0 0 0 -10 5 0 -35 0 2-4cyli.dat
1 16 0 -10 0 -5 0 0 0 10 -5 0 -35 0 2-4cyli.dat
3 16 5 0 -35 5 -10 0 5 10 0
3 16 -5 0 -35 -5 -10 0 -5 10 0
2 24 5 -10 0 5 10 0
2 24 -5 -10 0 -5 10 0
1 16 0 0 -35 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 -35 0 4-4edge.dat
1 16 0 10 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 -35 0 2-4edge.dat
1 16 0 -10 0 -5 0 0 0 0 -5 0 -35 0 2-4edge.dat
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Well, it's my second thread today, but how would you go to "stretch" a cylinder, like a cone, but only in Y-axis, not X-axis? I've again attached a dat file to show what I mean. Basically I'd need a cylinder that'd fit those two 4-4edge.dat:s, any (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)

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