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Re: tubing
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Date: 
Thu, 5 Oct 2000 03:19:53 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Lars C. Hassing writes:
Larry Pieniazek wrote...
Ok, for anyone that wants to give this a whirl... I've attached a sample • MPD.
It has tubing the length I expect... 14 plates high. It renders fine in • MLCad
and in L3Lab (using the versions I posted earlier). Running it through • either
L3P or L3Lab to produce a POV file gives the shortened tubing effect.
(snip)

1 14 -70 -129 50 0 0 -1 0 112 0 1 0 0 76.DAT
1 14 70 -129 50 0 0 -1 0 112 0 1 0 0 76.DAT

My "fake" seams seem to be the problem ;-)

Great sleuthing. I'd say that is it.

The suggestion given earlier to create an ersatz part that embeds the scaled
76 in it, ensuring that the 76 is somewhere else, sounds like it might fool
your scaler into just shrinking the end by the .5 LDU standard instead of 28
times that much.

Thanks!
++Lar



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  Re: tubing
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote... (...) No, I'm afraid this won't work. The 76.dat is NOT somewhere else, it is still in PARTS. You only move the referencing line type 1 to another file. (I take it you are referring to Steve's 112.dat) The clue is to prevent (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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  Re: tubing
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote... (...) My "fake" seams seem to be the problem ;-) As you can see on (URL) scale parts a little bit to make a seam between parts. ("parts" are here DAT files found in the PARTS directory [1]) Normally this works fine, because (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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