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Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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Sat, 21 Dec 2002 09:38:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Chris Dee writes:

Manfred Moolhuysen developed this naming convention and posted (probably to
the old lcad list) in May 1998, but I cannot locate a copy right now. IIRC
the # was intended to indicate that the missing edges were not adjacent
(which is what the '-' means in other primitives) but in a parallel set. I'm
happy to use another (more html acceptable) character, but not '-'. I prefer
the underscore '_' character. We can replace box3#8 with a moved to file in
the interim.

Chris

Another suggestion is using the dash '-' and have an additional letter
give some more information.
a = adjacent
p = parallel
... (more?)


Niels



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  Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
 
(...) There already is a 'p' suffix meaning parallel - the primitive is actually named box3#8p.dat. I found the original text from Manfred (dated 16Oct1998) copied here with minor spelling corrections - note that Manfred uses the word 'rib' for (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
 
(...) Manfred Moolhuysen developed this naming convention and posted (probably to the old lcad list) in May 1998, but I cannot locate a copy right now. IIRC the # was intended to indicate that the missing edges were not adjacent (which is what the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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