(2021-12-04, 11:03)Philippe Hurbain Wrote: Not really a shadow problem, but the stud of the telescope (64644) is next to impossible to insert into tube of plate 1x1 round (6141). Most of the time, the telescope jumps to connect its tube to plate stud. Moving the plate instead doesn't help. It works much better with a regular plate 1x1 (3024)!
Finally got to the bottom of this issue (message #109)
It is caused by how 'best fits' are determined when there are multiple candidates.
The current engine can not be (easily) fixed for this as it introduces a chicken and egg problem.
So it will have to wait for the 2.0 rewrite (if ever
![Angry Angry](https://forums.ldraw.org/images/smilies/angry.png)
Instead I changed the 1x1 plate to prevent the issue entirely.
Code:
0 LDCad shadow info for "Plate 1 x 1 Round"
0 Author: LDCad Shadow Library
0 !LICENSE CC BY-SA 4.0, see LICENSE.md
0 !HISTORY 2015-10-20 {Roland Melkert} Initial info for 6141.dat
0 !HISTORY 2023-05-01 {Roland Melkert} Split bounding cylinder in two, to prevent 'best fit' fighting shortcomings
0 !LDCAD SNAP_CLEAR
0 !LDCAD SNAP_CYL [gender=F] [caps=one] [secs=R 6 5] [pos=0 8 0]
0 !LDCAD SNAP_CYL [gender=M] [caps=none] [secs=R 10 3 R 6 4] [slide=true] [pos=0 3 0]
0 !LDCAD SNAP_CYL [gender=M] [caps=none] [secs=R 10 3 R 8 5] [slide=true] [ori=-1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1]