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Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:06:23 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:

--snip snip--

Fredrick mentioned part 6222, the 4x4 round brick.  This part was done just
before the hi-res primitives were established.  If it had been created after • the
primitives, it surely would have been written to use them.

-snip-

Definitely use the hi-res, 48-agon primitives found in ldraw\p\48\.

There is an established policy of not created primitive files until they are
needed.  So you're likely to notice that there are not many hi-res primitives • (I
count 7 files right now).  If you see a need for a primitive that doesn't • exist
yet, you can certainly create one, or request that one be written.
-snipalot-

Hmmm I feared that much:) So I've just finished the calculations, and are
about to punch numbers again:)
BUT, there's one large problem (well to me it is:)). I've never been good
friends with matrices, so I use LEdit to rotate subparts with (works quite
painlessly) but when I tried to load a dat file containing:
1 5  0 0 0 0 -192 0 0 0 40 40 0 0 48\1-4cyli.dat
nothing happened, in fact LEdit converted 48\1-4cyli.dat to 48\1-4cyli.d (or
something very similar, the path and name got truncated).
Now, how to avoid that? Am I just using the part wrongly?

BTW. Just to get it perfectly clear. The cylinder part I need is 142 degrees,
so I'm going to take two hi-res 1-4cyli's and slide them into each other by
7.5 degrees increments, and use a type 4 line for the last 7 degrees.
Is this okay? I guess I could create a hi-res 1-8cyli, but if the above is
legal, acceptable and approvable I'd rather stick to as few primitives as
possible.

Sincerely John Jensen.



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  Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
 
(...) You could just replace 48\1-4cyli.dat with 1-4cyli.dat before doing the rotation, and then replace back again afterwards. That should work, shouldn't it? (...) This sounds ok to me. But then agian, I've been wrong before! ;-) (The technic seat (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: part 2951, more questions, nearly done  [DAT]
 
(...) Fredrick mentioned part 6222, the 4x4 round brick. This part was done just before the hi-res primitives were established. If it had been created after the primitives, it surely would have been written to use them. (...) Definitely use the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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