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Re: DAT voting page up
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Date: 
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:04:10 GMT
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It's not an update.  It's an A/B version thing--Tile 1x1 Old Style, Tile
1x1 New Style.

Steve

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:30:56 GMT, "onyx" <onyx@flash.net> wrote:

> Roy Earls writes:
> > Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> > 
> > > The 2x2x2 crystal ball is not like a tile because tiles have little finger
> > > grooves going all around the bottom edge, and the crystal ball does not.
> > 
> > Old version tiles didn't have these grooves and LDraw, to my knowledge,
> > doesn't model it because of precision.  Case in point ...
> 
> hmmm... i never noticed that before.. that the LDraw model of 3068 (as
> well as other tiles) doesn't have the fingernail groove around the edge...
> although i say that's BS.. in my opinion (looking at a couple stacked here on
> the desk, up against various plates, etc) it looks like that edge is 1LDU in
> height/depth.. that could be edited into the part in like 10 minutes.. why
> AREN'T we using them??? there's no "precision" issue that i see... hmmm... i
> think i'll throw an edited version terry's way and see what he thinks... never
> too late to update...
> 
> J



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  Re: DAT voting page up
 
Since I am not an LDraw part developer (although I did try my hand at one part), I will add my $0.02 to the fracas and be done with it. This outlook is based upon my knowledge of engineering documentation systems in the real world. With that said, (...) (28 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) hmmm... i never noticed that before.. that the LDraw model of 3068 (as well as other tiles) doesn't have the fingernail groove around the edge... although i say that's BS.. in my opinion (looking at a couple stacked here on the desk, up (...) (28 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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