topic Re: How is this object made?? in Libraries & objects

How is this object made??

JGoode — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:35:24 GMT

I found and object in an old library. How on earth is this made??
All the code that is in the object is:

MULX	A/1.096012
MULY	B/0.640000
MULZ	ZZYZX/0.91
Binary 1
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No calls, nothing geometric. How does this work?

Re: How is this object made??

Erwin Edel — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:42:59 GMT

BINARY calls inline binary object. You cannot edit this part of object.

Re: How is this object made??

JGoode — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:46:46 GMT

Erwin wrote:
BINARY calls inline binary object. You cannot edit this part of object.

How is it made to begin with?

Re: How is this object made??

Erwin Edel — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:23:16 GMT

When you save object (which does need a 3D part), you can Save As... binary.

Re: How is this object made??

JGoode — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:24:53 GMT

Erwin wrote:
When you save object (which does need a 3D part), you can Save As... binary.

Oh okay, thanks. It seems like a strange thing to do really.

Re: How is this object made??

David Maudlin — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:02:37 GMT

JGoode wrote:
Erwin wrote:
When you save object (which does need a 3D part), you can Save As... binary.
Oh okay, thanks. It seems like a strange thing to do really.

This was done to speed up the 3D appearance of the Object back when processing power was much less. The Binary code could be processed faster than the GDL code for more complicated forms.

David

Re: How is this object made??

JGoode — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:05:38 GMT

David wrote:
JGoode wrote:
Erwin wrote:
When you save object (which does need a 3D part), you can Save As... binary.
Oh okay, thanks. It seems like a strange thing to do really.
This was done to speed up the 3D appearance of the Object back when processing power was much less. The Binary code could be processed faster than the GDL code for more complicated forms.

David

That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for the information.

Re: How is this object made??

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:22:20 GMT

There is nothing good in these binaries.
You can only parameterize the pen. In case of a problem, nothing can be fixed there.

Re: How is this object made??

JGoode — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:18:18 GMT

SL_GDL wrote:
There is nothing good in these binaries.
You can only parameterize the pen. In case of a problem, nothing can be fixed there.

Yeah, I wasn't really looking to do anything to the object. I was just very curious as to how it worked. Thanks!