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Re: Type 5 lines at the edge of primitives
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 5 May 2002 19:09:25 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Ross Crawford writes:
> > I'm not sure if I understand this properly - if the second "test" point is
> > down the line where the cylinder joint (between two rects) would be if it
> > was attached to a cylinder, won't that work? It'll mean the same line may
> > occasionally be displayed twice, but generally it'd be displayed by one or
> > the other hemisphere - if one misses it, the other would get it, wouldn't it?
> >
> > Or am I totally missing the problem?
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> Hmm... Good point; I hadn't thought of that. But I'll have to check to be
> sure (it's hard to visualize). The way I currently have my sphere, the
> joins between the segments are always drawn either twice or not at all.
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> If this does work, though, then the type 5 lines need to be added to the
> other end of the cylinder primitives (currently there is a type 5 line on
> only 1 end). And I need to update my code to have different behavior at the
> edges.
There was a discussion on this very issue in cad.dat.parts about
2 months ago. This one includes a link to a picture.
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dat/parts/?n=3375
I don't think it was completely resolved though, as fixing it probably
requires changing quite a few primitives and/or parts.
Don
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| (...) Hmm... Good point; I hadn't thought of that. But I'll have to check to be sure (it's hard to visualize). The way I currently have my sphere, the joins between the segments are always drawn either twice or not at all. If this does work, though, (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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