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  6. Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:26:18 -0500
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  14. From: harlock@raindrop.com (Mike Harlock)
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  16. Subject: easy way to make bolts in metal?
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  20.  
  21. I'm trying to figure out an easy way to make bolts around the edges of metal
  22. plates in modeller.
  23.  
  24. So if I have a square like this
  25.                               _____________
  26.                              |             |
  27.                              |             |
  28.                              |             |
  29.                              |             |
  30.                              |             |
  31.                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  32.  
  33. I'd want to stamp down bolt objects around the border, inset a certain distance
  34. from the edge, like this:
  35.                               _____________
  36.                              |.............|
  37.                              |.           .|
  38.                              |.           .|
  39.                              |.           .|
  40.                              |.............|
  41.                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  42. And yes, the areas to be bolted may be odd shapes, and some of them even curves
  43. and such.
  44.  
  45. Along a similar line of thought, how do you get curves that aren't curvy?
  46. If I could make curves that just followed straight lines from point to point
  47. I could copy the points from the metal plates and make straight lines,
  48. I could possibly use rail extrude to do the work.  Mebby?  Possibly?
  49.  
  50. There's probably something simple here I'm missing, but rail extrude doesn't
  51. let you use regular polygon edges as a path reference.
  52. ---Mike
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