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Re: It's all clear now... (how to use 1-4cyls2.dat)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:09:16 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Chris Dee wrote:
> Thanks for explaining this again Steve - I am sure I tried to explain this when
> I created this primitive in Oct 1998.
I kind of figured you had, but I totally didn't remember that you had.
> What is really strange is that I created 1-4cyls2.dat specifically for the
> minifig helmet visor (2447.dat), yet the current released version does not use
> this primitive, even though my copy of what I submitted does. Now things have
> gone full circle and the revised 2447.dat in the current voting does correctly
> use this, allowing better rendering by l3p, etc, which is good news.
Hmm. I wonder if the current 2447.dat was inlined at some point, because
1-4cyls2.dat hadn't been made official yet...
> I agree that the L3Lab random colours option is a good way to see what is going
> on but it is still tricky to figure out how to rotate this (and the other cyls
> primitives correctly). What I do during authoring is to massively scale up the
> primitive and rotate it until it looks right, before scaling it down to the
> required size.
Yep. Or, you can copy the primitives to a temp file, zoom in with L3Lab,
and then copy the lines back to your main file once they are set right.
That way, you don't have to rescale your commands.
Steve
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| Steve Bliss <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:nbucrs4msgmalqf...4ax.com... (...) Nope. I think that one was my fault. I sent in a correction to the part, because the bottom row of faces had an incorrect vertex that caused a sawtooth type (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now... (how to use 1-4cyls2.dat)
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| (...) Thanks for explaining this again Steve - I am sure I tried to explain this when I created this primitive in Oct 1998. But it is really hard to get ones head around - it took me some time playing with the *cyls.dat files before I realised I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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