RE: Part x351 (41850) - Body, Racers Driver
2024-11-05, 14:00 (This post was last modified: 2024-11-05, 14:02 by Chris Böhnke.)
2024-11-05, 14:00 (This post was last modified: 2024-11-05, 14:02 by Chris Böhnke.)
(2024-11-05, 13:32)Jasper Speelman Wrote: Apparently there's a lot of invalid lines but I'm not sure what is invalid exactly.... I added some of the metadata but it seems to be the rest causing problems... can someone help me figure it out?
Also x351 is apparently not supported, so I changed it to the alternative part number 41850.
Nice work there! I really like to finally have this part available
Regarding the errors, most of it seems to be caused by the usual Stud.io export mess-ups. It can be very easily fixed in LDraw Parts Editor (at least it seems so).
The meta data should look something like this:
0 Body, Racers Driver
0 Name: 41850.dat
0 Author: Jasper Speelman [JappaWakka]
0 !LDRAW_ORG Unofficial_Part
0 !LICENSE Licensed under CC BY 4.0 : see CAreadme.txt
0 BFC CERTIFY CCW
A few more issues I found thus far:
*edge lines (Line Type 2) should be reworked, there are a few missing or misplaced I would say
*Conditional Lines (Line Type 5) are missing entirely, those are needed to make the round areas look 'smooth' (use Edger2, then manually check for errors)
*many triangles could be merged to quadrilaterals (use Rectifier from LDPE)
*the neck connector pin should probably be replaced by a cylinder primitive
Most of this can be done with LDraw Parts Editor (LDPE):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/partcreator/
br, Chris
EDIT:
Also, mirroring this part seems like a good idea. It's entirely symmetrical I guess?