[MWForum]Calling mathcats: geometry help please

Daniel Ajoy mwforum@lists.mathcats.com
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:46:30 -0500


On 12 Aug 2004 at 17:45, Jeff Knope wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> I just commented out the two NOTAVAILABLE lines, and in startup I replaced the setpos with show.
> 
> It ran right through all 40 repeats without a hitch. I see your projectsize is [744 426]. One value
> shown was: [1617.52972259 -506.573051519].
> 
> So it's fair to say it can handle working off the grid, so to speak. Now, those two NOTAVAILABLE
> tests can be used to decide how to set that tag (on segs or not), right? 

Right. Those two NOTAVAILABLE lines are the ones that control 
of the segments actually touch.

> Do you see any problems
> with any of this?

I guess that if the lines almost parallel, but "c" is not actually 0. 
then "t1" or "t2" could be "out of bounds"

setpos list 1e500 1e500
The maximum value for setpos is 9999



Daniel
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