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(...) "Get cracking" ? Am I the ONLY one who sees a good deal of what Jonathan posts as overly demanding, if not downright rude? Did I miss something or did this whole community stop being a bunch of talented volunteers working to help each other (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) "Kind of" is a gross understatement. If the parts Steve sent me were done using the torus generator, then he did a *LOT* of very careful post-processing. Steve would _NEVER_ send me a part that looked like the baseplate you posted in cad.dat. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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thanks for the vb routines. do i have your permission to package them into a utillity for the ldraw parts making community at large? i amy be writing it in delphi (converting your algorithim to delphi in the process). it will be called ldcg (ldraw (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: baseplate 32 x 32 road curve with road pattern-9 studs
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you are all right. this part is crap. we really need to get a decent way of making large discs,rings,not disks etc come on all you math wizzes. get cracking. (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) First of all, it's been 12 years since I last did any higher level math, my junior year in high school when I did trig. So I don't think there's any shame in not knowing (or remembering) anything about it. Then again, I don't think that (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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JW, you really, really, *really* need to slow down... this isn't about quantity, it's all about *quality*... more and more i'm getting the impression that your goal is to have every element in the catalog ASAP, no matter what the level of (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Okay... I have gotten the webring site situation stable enough I feel I am able to move on to start this project. Right off the bat, I'm going to need a few volunteers (no less than 2, probably no more than 5) I need someone to work with me on the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: baseplate 32 x 32 road curve with road pattern-9 studs
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(...) Unless you're 14 years old, that's very sad. (...) You would ask the community to lower its standards of quality rather than raising your own? --Todd (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) In the absence of example, surely you still have common sense to go on? Approximating a very large circle using increments of pi/12 radians either isn't appealing to common sense or shows a lack of common sense. --Todd (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I am contemplating making a new metacommand to allow the definition of useful named viewpoints and using them to provide a pop down list of points from which to view the model. Basically these would not be used at all in the rendering process of (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I posted my little spreadsheet of utilities to (URL) (It's in Excel'97 format) Sheets are included to interpolate a point on a 2D line segment, find the intersection of two 2D line segments, figure out which ring primitives to use for a torus, and (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I didn't use the torus generator program on the new parts. I wrote a couple of Visual Basic routines that I used on the new pieces, which generate circular rings and edges. I've included the routines below, but I haven't done anything to (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part Request: 30200
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(...) to (...) Without getting into the metric versus imperial debate again... but using my assumption that the are 64 LDUs to the inch, 0.1325 inches is close enough to 8.5 LDU. Chris (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Chris Dee wrote in message ... (...) IMHO (...) in, (...) with (...) Thanks, Chris, for your comments and for taking the time to download and examine the file. What I've decided to do is produce several different resolutions of this file to give (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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i know that the torus generator generated part looks kind of shit but i know nothing about circular maths (trig?). steve tells me that the helipad and road curve 7 studs have both been made with the generator... have you seen those yet tery? do they (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <... snip ...> (...) Wow, what detail. An impressive computer graphic, in its own right, but IMHO too much for LDraw. I tend to agree with Jeff Boen about using the basic 16-sided polygon, but do appreciate how facetted this can make things (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have to agree with Todd here. Jonathan, if the part you intend to submit for voting is the same part as posted to lugnet.cad.dat, don't bother. Just a cursory look at it makes it obvious that the part needs major repair. As Todd pointed out, (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm thinkin' maybe the torus generator was designed with smaller parts in mind, where the coarse angular granularity is far less noticeable than on a baseplate. What other mathematical methods of generating coordinates on a circle do you know (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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SCOTT R DENNETT wrote in message Very nice. I like some of your models. It is also nice having pictures for different angles. I didn't read through the text, but it looks like you put quite a bit of time into making the pages. Good job :) Ryan (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: baseplate 32 x 32 road curve with road pattern-9 studs
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(...) yes... that is becahse of the number of quads in the output of steves torus generator. (...) rather than (...) i will look at that. regarding the baseplate problem. ldraw does not yet have the 8-stud versions. i will submit it for voting as (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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