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Where should I center this one?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 21 May 1999 20:46:54 GMT
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I'm trying to decide where to set the origin for the SW hinge pieces. Normaly
I would center a hinge piece on its rotation axis, to make it easy to rotate
the hinge. However, the rotation axis for these hinges is 9 LDU below the top
of the brick, meaning that a user would have to go to fine movement in LEdit to
place the brick on a normal model. I think we'd find many of these bricks
placed 1 LDU into the brick or plate below it.
But if i use the top of the brick for y=0, then rotating on the hinges becomes
even a bigger pain.
What do others think?
Also, what the heck should we call these things? Obviously they should be in
the hinge category, but what then? I've heard them called "toothed",
"serated," "click-brick," and probably several others. And how should we
distinguish the male from the female in this case? Since this type of hinge
occurs on the windscreen, the name should be "attachable" to other parts.
-John Van
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Where should I center this one?
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| (...) I think the insertion point should be the top of the brick - better one piece be non-trivial to place than both. Also, often the second half of the hinge will be in a subfile, and therefore will be easier to manually center. (...) I would call (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Where should I center this one?
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| (...) The center should be on the rotation point. Like you said, rotating the pieces when the rotation point is not centered on the hinge is a bigger pain than getting the pieces into the right position. (It would be great if some future version of (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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