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Re: Bow-tie quads in BFC-certified parts
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Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:35:48 GMT
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Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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> > On a side note, I've added code to LDView that will disable BFC support in
> > any file that contains bow-tie quads (as well as generating an error). So
> > it's not like the problem can't be worked around, but it does go against the
> > official review guidelines. (Yes, I could have made it so only those
> > particular quads didn't get BFC'd, but that would have been a lot more work,
> > and I didn't feel it was worth it.) So the the first official LDView with
> > BFC support won't be hampered too much by this problem.
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> It's funny how quickly I can forget the details of a complex task. For
> instance, I totally forgot about the NOCLIP BFC command (which can disable
> clipping for specific sub-sections of a file). Mind you, I implemented it, and
> believe that it works correctly, but I forgot that it existed when dealing with
> the above problem.
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> So I went back and changed my fix to use the functionality already present to
> deal with the NOCLIP command, and now only the "bad" quads have BFC turned off.
> Oh, and this change was cleaner and required less code changes than the old one.
> Gotta like that.
How often do you find bow-tied parts in BFC CERTIFY'd parts?
I meant that's a real error that shouldn't be allowed by the parts
tracker isn't it? Is there a rule that can be added to the checks
done on the files that are submitted that will check for this?
Do you spit out any error messages?
-Kyle
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| (...) I've seen them in one official part, and one part on the tracker. But since I haven't really been looking for them, I'm guessing they exists in other parts. The main culprit appears to be pre-existing parts that were later BFC-certified. (Both (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Bow-tie quads in BFC-certified parts
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| (...) It's funny how quickly I can forget the details of a complex task. For instance, I totally forgot about the NOCLIP BFC command (which can disable clipping for specific sub-sections of a file). Mind you, I implemented it, and believe that it (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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