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(...) In LDView, I do a few things. First, I check to see if the file I just loaded is a part. In order to be a part, it has to satisfy two criteria. First, it can't be the child of a part. Second, it has to either be in the LDraw Parts directory, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) parts directories, researching parts stuff... :) (...) This version is very nice, just as it is. :) But if you were to figure out to make LDraw files display rendered images in Explorer's "thumbnail" view, that would be awesome... Steve (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, I'll start 8?) Step 6 - thats radius Step 7 - should be sin T = L / R ROSCO (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK. Here's my rather convoluted analysis: 1. Find the plane of pulley A 2. Find the plane of pulley B 3. If they dont intersect, no tangent so stop here 4. Find the angle between them, call it T 5. Find the normal to plane A that passes (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have a child in fourth grade, and like many his age, he is a natural born lawyer looking for loopholes, so 'm well versed in the tactic because it is hard to resist.... If you notice my original post, I didn't even mention pulleys, I just asked (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah Ha! Apparently there were TWO other pulleys you weren't telling us about. (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Agreed! -- Steven B. Combs, Publisher Bricks in my Pocket (BimP) (URL) Submission Information: (URL) member #414 "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H92o80.D83@lugnet.com... (...) question! (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don, I'm assuming four pulleys in this case. Two are parallel to each other where the rubber band bends to be non-planar, and two others that pull the band around the two parallel pulleys. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Don, this is what I do for planar rubber bands and it works great if the two pulleys are in the same plane. But I can imagine a four pulley configuration where the first pulley is parallel to the YZ plane, the second pulley is parallel to the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It sounds like you want the intersection point of the 2nd circle with the plane of the first circle. I guess that should be exactly one point unless they're in the same plane. However, I don't see how the rubber band gets back to the first (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm sure you're probably looking for a solution with x,y,z coords, but just in case, the 2D solution is on page 7 of Graphics Gems, and also here: (URL) think you should be able to transform your circles into the x,y plane with one center at (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steven, I debated with myself about adding L3PAO, because it certainly has had a positive effect for people who don't like command lines (and even for some of those that do). LPub has all the capabilities of L3PAO plus a *lot* more, so I felt like (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) With two circles in the same plane you can have four possible tangent lines. LSynthcp uses this to calculate straight line segments of rubber bands around pulleys. In 3D space you can have circles that are tangent along one line. Imagine a (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What have you tried so far? And which tangent? Think about it, there's an infinite number of solutions. Even on a plane there are multiple solutions. Recommendation: start with the book _Computational Geometry in C_ by Joseph O'Rourke. -Erik (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wouldn't they have to be on the same plane in order to find the tangency? Or did you mean the tangency of two spheres? Steven (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I just completed Chapter 9 of your book and I think I answered my own question! Steven (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Anyone know how to find out the tangent between two cicles in 3D space? Kevin (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ;^) Relax, we are talking about both on the command line that starts the program, as well as on the LDraw meta-commands that start synthesis of a specific part. Notice he said getopt() style parameters, not getopt() to get the parameters. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Whoah, wait a minute! I like getopt() as much as anyone, but I thought we were talking about something to go *inside* the file on the SYNTH BEGIN line(s), not necessarily on the command line. Units may be universal for all synthesized parts in (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Much better! I've been programming on Windows too much lately (isn't any amount too much? ;^) Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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