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Re: Question on (unneeded?) lines in printed parts
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:35:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tony Hafner writes:
> I have noticed recently that some printed parts have edges around all the
> printed bits.
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> For example, look at 3010p06.dat. This is a 1x4 with stripes on one side.
> But between each red stripe and its neighboring bgcolor stripe, there is a
> light-red line. At first I thought this was totally unnecessary. As I
> thought about it, I realized that it would sorta make sense if the part
> itself were red- you'd be able to see where the divisions are. Then I
> thought some more and realized that was silly. Then again, when you rotate
> the part in MLCAD the lines show up and it looks kind of cool. But that
> seems like a weak reason to keep them in. Or is this something done to help
> align the parts during development that just didn't get removed?
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> So I figured I'd ask here. From my spelunking around the parts directory,
> it seems that such lines aren't usually part of a printed piece... or are
> they and I've been looking at the wrong ones?
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> So the question is: Should I include such lines in printed pieces?
It's a backward compatibility issue:
a. These lines help to identify the various printed pieces in Ledit, which
does show the parts as wireframes only.
b. In a Ldraw render, it prevents the background color bits "eating up" the
pattern color when you render the part in a small scale.
(And yes, I still use both programs)
Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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