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| | | (...) That's odd -- my copy of 1-4con3.dat does have optional lines, but 1-4con4.dat doesn't. I'll send Terry fresh copies of both. Steve (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Cone primitives —Karim Nassar
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| | | | (...) Hmm, I'm using the cone primitives in 30384... How do the cone primitives work? The geometry of the canopy doesn't match either the con3 or the con4 primitive... right now I am scaling 1-4con4 to create part of the half-cone, and then using it (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: Cone primitives —John VanZwieten
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| | | | Karim <knassar@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3738A084.5D7527...ing.com... (...) in (...) Glad you asked. I just did this for the cone on the SW laser piece. You have the correct idea, using multiple cone primitives. Remeber it's OK if the (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: Cone primitives —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) (URL), or go to (URL) and click the link. I don't think I uploaded the version with the cone-sizing page... (...) Especially in 1-4 and 1-8 versions. (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: Cone primitives —John VanZwieten
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| | | | Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:3739a571.374265...net.com... (...) slope (...) Well by all means, please do. When I finally get around to finishing my quad/line segment intersection worksheet, I'll send you that as well (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: Cone primitives —Karim Nassar
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| | | | | (...) What does the numeral at the end of the name signify? (1-4con'3') If I make a cone that matches the slop I need for the canopy, how would I determine what to call it? --Karim (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Cone primitives —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | | (...) without (...) too, (...) The 3 refers to the inner radius of the cone. All cone primitives (like ring primitives) are made with an outer radius which is 1 LDU greater than the inner radius. So a con3.dat would have inner-radius 3 and outer (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Cone primitives —Karim Nassar
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| | | | | | (...) the (...) Ok, I'm just about done with this part... but the hangup is the final section of conical canopy at the nose. This cone goes from a radius of 20 to a radius of 1.943 in a Y-scale of 12.243. I've tried Steve's spreadsheet, and it (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Cone primitives —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | | Karim <knassar@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FBp65M.C8D@lugnet.com... (...) radius (...) to (...) advice: (...) it (...) huh? (...) Using your 1-4con1.dat, here's the cone you requested: 1 16 0 1.317 0 1.943 0 0 0 1.317 0 0 0 1.943 (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: Cone primitives —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) OK. It's uploaded. Follow the links above. The "Rings" tab will help to pinpoint the best ring/cone primitives to use for a particular scale. It includes Y scaling, for those times when you have to overlap two primitives to make things fit. (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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