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Re: The geometry of minifigs
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Date: 
Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:36:56 GMT
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"Chris Dee" <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> writes:

The angle of the side of the minifig torso as Ldrawn is 9.782
degrees (arctan 4.655/27) from the vertical. Hope this helps.

Thanks.  Can I safely assume that the author used 10 degrees when
modeling the part?

BTW: This is just what I find unuserfriendly about the parts library:
You had to reverse engineer the part to find the angle.  I'm sure the
information I asked about in the original post was available when the
parts were modeled in the first place, but now they're "hidden".

Fredrik



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  Re: The geometry of minifigs
 
(...) No, the part is authored with an angle of 9.782. The (x,y) values of the lower facet of the shoulder is (14.345,2) and that at the waist is (19,29) - hence 4.655/27. Or alternatively the top of the torso is (14,0), giving 5/29 - the same (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: The geometry of minifigs
 
(...) The angle of the side of the minifig torso as Ldrawn is 9.782 degrees (arctan 4.655/27) from the vertical. Hope this helps. Chris (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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