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Re: Where should I center this one?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 24 May 1999 15:45:57 GMT
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JSPROAT@spamlessGEOCITIES.COM
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> 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.
The center should be centered on the top of the brick, between the studs, as
it is with every other hinge piece in LDraw. Moving the center of rotation
to the hinge is a trivial amount of work, as it is with every other hinge
piece in LDraw.
> > Also, what the heck should we call these things? Obviously they should be in
> > the hinge category, but what then?
> I'd rather name them after the function than the shape. So "stepper",
> "discrete" or "lock-step".
> 2 Finger and 1 Finger?
Both of these sound *great* to me.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
May the Force be with y'all.
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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