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RE: Parts and Pattern
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:16:47 GMT
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John VanZwieten wrote:
> Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:37cbd256.57550883@lugnet.com...
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 02:30:51 GMT, • jprobst@shadow-corner.ows.es (Joachim
> > Prost) wrote:
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> > > Nice. And had there been some result of the discussion?
> >
> > Yes.
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> > Sticker-files should be just the stickers, not
> > stickers-stuck-on-parts.
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> > The numbers for the sticker files should use the ID number
> > printed on the sticker sheet, but I don't remember if the
> > long (7 digit?) or short (5 digit) number is appropriate.
> > The Numbers Committee would know. Since there are
> > generally multiple stickers per sheet, each filename would
> > require a suffix to make it unique.
> >
> > The 'thickness' issue was never decided, I think. But
> > LDraw doesn't model solid objects, so having thick stickers
> > wouldn't offer many advantages. So just model the sticker
> > in 2D.
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> I thought the consensus was to do the stickers in 3D, maybe
> 2LDU thick. This would at least give a sticker a shot of
> being recognizable in LDraw, and would make for better POV
> results than a plane floating somewhere above the model.
I think 2D is enough: when you apply the sticker, just offset
it by e.g. 0.1 LDU (or even less) and it won't float noticeable.
And stickers should be modeled using linetype 3 and 4 only.
/Lars
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| Lars C. Hassing <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:57F1FE754246D21...@aarhus... (...) But LDraw novices won't be able to offset something by 0.1 LDU. I was using LEdit at least 6 months before I learned you could hit "x" and any number to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Parts and Pattern
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| (...) And you won't be able to see it reliably. LDraw requires a positional difference of at least 2LDU to prevent co-incident surface bleedthrough. (...) That's an entirely different issue. Using line commands to draw lines on a sticker is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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