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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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(...) 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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By all means. I can't really claim that it's original since most of the material I used to derive the results came from my Calculus Text, which, if anybody cares was: Calculus with Analytical Geometry, 3rd edition by Howard E. Campbell and Paul F. (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Say, before you submit it for voting, I have a couple more questions: Did you also notice that the curved lines look a bit choppy and that the green and white decorations seem to float below the main surface rather than above or coincident (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) implement that one. In that case, only parts by the author you select will be displayed. Otherwise, all parts will be displayed on one page. This week will be pretty busy with a few papers and midterms, but I've already thrown together the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks Todd! I can finally post large DAT files without worrying that chunks will be left out (eg, my truck). --Bram (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Just a note for the installation instructions.I always need to make a new tool with the same name as the block in the ini file(in this case, M-Peedy), before I click update tools, and after I put the block in the dat file.The settings automatically (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Dave, Thank you very much! This will help me on some parts-work I was avoiding, just because I didn't want to figure out these intersections. I'm planning on uploading a spreadsheet with some basic interpolation and intersection templates. Do you (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Umm, I must have misunderstood here. Based on Manfred's response, I thought you meant that the new green roadplates had the same printing as the previous gray plates. I checked, and this is impossible, because the new green plates have 8 studs (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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thanks for the photo... the only thing i noticed was that the white line is briken in that one but not in the one i was working from (set #6321). the piece appears to be finished and i will submit it for voting in vote99-03. (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Steve, I've been lurking for a while and thought your post was interesting enough to figure it out. I brushed off my Calculus text book, and after a page and a half of algebra, and remembering what determinants and cross products are all about I (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, hey, that's not so bad -- the resulting news article was 34986 bytes. (...) Tell you what. Here's a photo of the element: (URL) photo is a bit grainy, but it is dark outside and the only easily available illumination I had was a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, I think Netscape imposes something like a 32K or 128K limit on the <TEXTAREA> tag. It's also set to a max of 65000 characters in the HTML code, so even if Netscape didn't impose a limit, the web page would. Strictly speaking, News-by-Mail (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 "Build or build not. There is no (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ok, I've got my calipers here, and I'm reading .1325 inches in diameter. I plug that figure into my trusty HP28S and get a conversion to 3.3655mm, and half of that is 1.68275mm radius. I'll leave the conversion to LDUs to you :) --Karim (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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