Random thoughts about this issue:
- Tim's suggestion seems good, especially since - AFAIK - there is no legs with side pattern in LDraw library yet.
- Care must be taken not to utterly break models in the field using present leg.
- About patterns: hopefully it should be possible to keep existing patterns, using a relatively simple transformation?
but....
IMHO, the best solution would be to let existing legs / patterned legs as-is (after all they worked for years and nobody complained!!!), and create a brand new leg model (3816b or so) with all these issues corrected.
- Tim's suggestion seems good, especially since - AFAIK - there is no legs with side pattern in LDraw library yet.
- Care must be taken not to utterly break models in the field using present leg.
- About patterns: hopefully it should be possible to keep existing patterns, using a relatively simple transformation?
but....
IMHO, the best solution would be to let existing legs / patterned legs as-is (after all they worked for years and nobody complained!!!), and create a brand new leg model (3816b or so) with all these issues corrected.