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From: Marc Schimmler
Subject: nut macro annoucement
Date: 8 May 1999 17:37:49
Message: <3734A0D1.7C4E164B@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>

Hi there!

I sat down the last evenings and wrote my first macro. Nothing
incredible, just a little tool to create realistic nuts (see small
example at the bottom).

You find the macro and a small tutorial how to use it at:

http://www.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/~marc/nuts.html

Any comments are welcome!

Marc
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From: David Wilkinson
Subject: Re: nut macro annoucement
Date: 9 May 1999 19:39:22
Message: <37360c0d.43013676@news.povray.org>

On Sat, 08 May 1999 22:38:41 +0200, Marc Schimmler <mar### [at] icauni-stuttgartde>
wrote:

>Hi there!
>
>I sat down the last evenings and wrote my first macro. Nothing
>incredible, just a little tool to create realistic nuts (see small
>example at the bottom).
>
>You find the macro and a small tutorial how to use it at:
>
>http://www.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/~marc/nuts.html
>
>Any comments are welcome!
>
>Marc

Very good Marc.  I like the use of simple engineering terms as the macro
parameters.  I can understand why you had difficulty with your "slope" term.
The english engineering expression for this quantity is "lead", but it is more
usual in the UK (and I believe in the USA) to use the term "pitch" which is
1/lead.
David
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From: Marc Schimmler
Subject: Re: nut macro annoucement
Date: 10 May 1999 03:45:59
Message: <373680A6.FBAAEC9@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>

David Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 08 May 1999 22:38:41 +0200, Marc Schimmler <mar### [at] icauni-stuttgartde>
> wrote:
> 
> >Hi there!
> >
> >I sat down the last evenings and wrote my first macro. Nothing
> >incredible, just a little tool to create realistic nuts (see small
> >example at the bottom).
> >
> >You find the macro and a small tutorial how to use it at:
> >
> >http://www.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/~marc/nuts.html
> >
> >Any comments are welcome!
> >
> >Marc
> 
> Very good Marc.  I like the use of simple engineering terms as the macro
> parameters.  I can understand why you had difficulty with your "slope" term.
> The english engineering expression for this quantity is "lead", but it is more
> usual in the UK (and I believe in the USA) to use the term "pitch" which is
> 1/lead.
> David

Thanks David! The book about construction of machines I've got are in
german only. Pitch is actually the term I was looking for. I will change
the term slope to pitch in the documentation and maybe in the macro as
well!


Marc
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