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Re: Modeling without the real element -- bad
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:50:49 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, brandone@mounet.com (Earls HouseHold) writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> > What we're talking about here is someone carelessly modeling something
> > without the actual element in hand -- that's not roundoff, but pure
> > guessing. And guessing Wrong.
> >
> > It's one thing to omit detail -- it's quite another thing for a
> > measurement to be off by 4 LDU when it could just as well be right on
> > target.
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> Whoa, big boy. Calling someone careless when they are doing the best they
> can is pretty ... oh how did you put it... ah, yes... anal-retentive.
OK, fair enough. But I submit that someone who is modeling an element blind
(without an actual copy of it to work from) is *not* doing the best they can.
> Shall
> that be "mother's milk" or "milk of mag". The point is point to the errors
> without pointing at the author. The author in this case has been pretty
> restrained about commenting IMO. We all want LDraw to move forward, but not
> at the expense of losing a promising new parts author. Hell, at least he
> has done some authoring. If want to kick someone kick me because I'm to
> lazy too do it myself. Show a little respect, sheez.
OK, I probably shouldn't talk then. I haven't modeled any parts myself. :-/
--Todd
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) without (...) to (...) Whoa, big boy. Calling someone careless when they are doing the best they can is pretty ... oh how did you put it... ah, yes... anal-retentive. Shall that be "mother's milk" or "milk of (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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