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Re: Where should I center this one?
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Date: 
Sat, 22 May 1999 00:39:37 GMT
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John VanZwieten wrote:
> 
> 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.

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.

> 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.

I would call them "Hinge Locking"
The piece with the single tounge is male to me, and the 2 fingers, female.

--Karim



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  Where should I center this one?
 
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, (...) (27 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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