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Re: Dimensions of the parts
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Date: 
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 02:50:40 GMT
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Karim wrote:
> 
> > This seems to me to be the best idea.  Allow planes on the surface of the
> > pieces to share the same space, but not the interiors of the same pieces.
> 
> Hmmm, this strikes me a pretty cool way to do a basic "snap to" function... when
> two surfaces are near to co-planar, the program could nudge them together so
> that they are actually co-planar.  This would not work all the time, obviously,
> and is probably too simplistic (I'm sure one would have to have all manner of
> case handlers so that the routine was smart about it), but it might be cool for
> basic brick stacking, especially when a given stack of bricks is rotated at an
> odd angle.

  That's a good idea, maybe I'll add it too ! You could also add another
function to align the pieces.

Leonardo



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  Re: Dimensions of the parts
 
(...) This is the issue I was trying to describe a while back concerning a hypothetical "Copy Parallel Surface" tool... I never was able to put it so concisely... (...) Hmmm, this strikes me a pretty cool way to do a basic "snap to" function... (...) (27 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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