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Lego Instructions app part cleanup guidelines - Iris - 2026-09-10
Hello! I've recently taken my first steps into the world of part authoring and would like to know the general guidelines for cleaning up parts exported from the Lego Instructions app. For context I'm currently working on part 8094 which has a lot of curved/circular parts as well as a fairly complex front profile, and I've been wondering on the best ways to approach a few things:
- I'm assuming it's a good idea to replace 24-sided circles with 16-sided circles/primitives, is that correct?
- Should I be attempting to make pairs of triangles coplanar so they can become quads?
- If I can't exactly reproduce a circle (like one with a radius of 10.532) is rounding it to 10.5 fine as an approximation?
