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  Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
 
It is not part of a sphere. It can be thought of as a virtual cube which has had one corner sliced away in a curved fashion. Or to put it another way, it is the grey area in this image: "(URL) radii are "1", and its angles are 90 degrees (i.e., 1/4 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
 
  Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
 
(...) UPDATE! It _is_ part of a sphere, I just realized, a sphere having a radius of "the square root of 2"! This primitive is one octant of that sphere with three faces "planed/smoothed off" so that the resulting object will fit inside a cube (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
 
  Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
 
Ooo, cool. That means each of the colored faces in your image is a 1-4disc.dat, right? That'll work very nicely. I'll forward this to the primitives committee. Do you mind if I use it in the skeleton leg file? Steve (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
 
  Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
 
I forgot to mention that I have another image (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
 
  Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
 
(...) Yup. (...) Go for it. :-) Also, if needed, please feel free to copy the image(s) for illustrating what this primitive is for. Franklin (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)

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