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Re: BFC checking program (was Re: Some Words To BFC)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:54:57 GMT
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I seem to be missing a required .dll file: MFC42D.DLL. Can you send this,
or can I find it somewhere else?
-John Van
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> I have uploaded the program to http://gerf.org/~leo/editor.zip (source
> + precompiled exe) there's no homepage or docs so please read this
> before you ask any questions.
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> This program was going to be a new editor to create parts easily with
> solid primitives and CSG but I never got very far so there's a lot of
> weird code that you can ignore. I haven't touched this code for a while,
> I tried it today and it was still compiling but there might be some
> hardcoded paths to my LDraw dir somewhere in the program.
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> The algorithm is not perfect but is a good start, it detects most
> wrong faces and fixes them. There are several other algorithms that can
> be implemented to make the detection work better, if someone wants to
> continue the project I can list some ideas.
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> The code is just for testing purposes so it inlines all primitives
> before checking what's wrong. An idea I just had is to ignore the studs,
> I don't know if there are any parts where it would make things worst but
> that's an idea that should be easy to try or even add as an option.
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> Almost forgot: Run the program, open a file and click on the red
> triangle icon to fix the backfaces, then you can use the zoom/rotate
> tools to view the part from different angles.
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> I hope to be able to help the comunity with this.
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> Leonardo
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| (...) I'm assuming that you're calling "BFC-ready" primitives that have all faces in the same direction. Primitives are not closed volumes so you'll always be able to see the backfaces. (...) I agree technically it doesn't make much difference, I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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