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Subject:	Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives
Date:	Fri, 15 Sep 2000 02:02:34 GMT
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> It is not part of a sphere. 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 having a length of "1". Thanks, Franklin > 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: > "http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/fwcain/lcad/round-corner.gif"

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		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)

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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)

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