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Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:14:57 GMT
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Matthew Bates wrote:

Larry Pieniazek writes:
But rotations in 22.5 degree increments would be better, of course, and
11.25 might even be best, as we are then at the resolution of a curve
segment, no?

No, curves are 22.5 degrees.

Duh, yes. 11.25 is just wishful thinking. Never mind.

Well one teeny downside to your switch proposal is the new geometries
that would result. worth it though, to be free from the tyranny the
current geometry imposes.



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  Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
 
(...) No, curves are 22.5 degrees. If you give Track Designer bitmaps at 0, 22.5, 45 and 67.5 degrees it can generate all the other possible rotations. However, the existing registry only has track at all these rotations, road plates, monorail[1] (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)

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