 | | Re: Object Orientation & DAT files & CLIPPING/WINDING —Steve Bliss
| | | | (...) Yes the coded inversion is needed, for one big reason: The clipping-ready parts library must be compatible with non-clipping rendering programs, such as LDraw. So the inversions need to occur in the real commands, not in the clipping-extension (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Object Orientation & DAT files & CLIPPING/WINDING —Lars C. Hassing
| | | | | Steve Bliss wrote... (...) "Hey, (...) But it *is* compatible with LDraw! You left out my example (which BTW had the INVERT placed incorrectly :-), so I'll repeat it. stud2.dat is the hollow stud used on technic bricks. It uses two cylinders: 1 16 0 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Object Orientation & DAT files & CLIPPING/WINDING —Steve Bliss
| | | | | (...) You are right. Or more precisely, I was wrong. Matrix-based *inversions* are not required. But matrix-based mirrorings will be necessary, for asymmetric primitives, like 1-4cyls.dat. (...) I was thinking about some approach that would map (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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