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Re: Flattened Primitives (was Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets)
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Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:03:02 GMT
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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> writes:

I don't like having this list (and having to keeping it up-to-date),
but it seems that many part authors are lazy or ignorant and write
lines like "1 16  x y z  10 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 10 4-4disc.dat"

That is wrong?  Gee, I had no idea.  I've used lines like that a lot,
because I've seen them used in other part files, and they seemed to be
more elegant than "1 16  x y z  10 0 0  0 1 0  0 0 10 4-4disc.dat" when
the primitive is flat in y-direction anyway.

If it is wrong to flatten the primitive, I'll stop doing that.

Followup-To: lugnet.cad,lugnet.cad.dev

Fredrik



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  RE: Flattened Primitives (was Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets)
 
(...) I agree. (...) It's not that simple. Together with the POV substitution string I also have other data like the BoundingBox of the primitive, which is used e.g. in the automatic camera positioning. I think it is troublesome to have this kind of (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)

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