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We are creating our "Datum" surface for a corridor and when we use the datum links with overhang correction set to bottom it still wigs out in some areas.
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My "Datum" surface is not entirely accurate, and as far as I can tell, it is because the surface will not recognize datum links on the curb subassemblies that I have used.
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My "Datum" surface is not entirely accurate, and as far as I can tell, it is because the surface will not recognize datum links on the curb subassemblies that I have used.
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"Datum" surface for a corridor and when we use the datum links with overhang correction set to bottom it still wigs out in some areas.
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He was at a junior officers’ club called the Datum one night and stepped into a fight between a commander, who’d had a little too much sauce, and a couple of large, nasty linebacker-sized lieutenant JGs, who’d decided to tattoo a new set of stripes on the commander’s face.
Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992
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Datum remains standard and retains the general meaning of “a unit of information”, though it tends to appear mostly in academic and specialist disciplines such as philosophy, surveying, geodesy, topography, technical drawing, and cartography:
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[Image sources: Chicago City Datum; IBM electronic data processing machine]
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I used to wonder why not ‘Datum’, as he was only one …
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Directly tied to their stimulus packages. sam Datum
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Datum: Amazon says that they are discounting the next Harry Potter so much that they will make zero profit on it.
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