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Subject: 
Re: BFC and Primitives
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 01:50:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Steve Bliss writes:
> Dear All (but mostly PT Reviewers),
> 
> I'd like to update all the current primitive files to be BFC compliant.
> This wouldn't be a huge task, at least for the geometric primitives (boxes,
> circles, discs, rings, cones, cylinders, and torii).
> 
> But when I start submitting these files to the Parts Tracker, most part
> files will change status to "one or more subfiles not certified".  This
> could wreak havoc with us reviewing and certifying files - if no one reviews
> the primitives, the parts can never reach a "certified!" status.
> 
> So my question is this: if I submit BFC'ed primitives, is anyone ready and
> willing to review the files for correctness?  If no is able to review these
> files, I won't submit them at this time.

I have a question.  Given that the cylinder primitives (among others) are
used in situations where they are either the inner surface or the outer,
won't adding BFC information to them cause problems?

--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com)



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  Re: BFC and Primitives
 
(...) This was an issue during the BFC Thread Wars. We figured there were basically two ways to resolve the issue: 1. Make two versions of each primitive, an "outer facing" and an "inner facing". Each BFC'ed part file would need to use the correct (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  BFC and Primitives
 
Dear All (but mostly PT Reviewers), I'd like to update all the current primitive files to be BFC compliant. This wouldn't be a huge task, at least for the geometric primitives (boxes, circles, discs, rings, cones, cylinders, and torii). But when I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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