Hi all,

I've tried searching this mailing list but haven't found anything to answer my problem.

I'm placing primitives inside (transparent) primitives and have found that they have 
different sizes despite being given apparently correct values.

Eg. I place a sphere of radius 0.5 inside a Box of dimensions 1x1x1. There is a 
significant gap from the extremities of the sphere to the sides of the box. If I make 
the radius of the sphere 1 instead of 0.5, then the sphere seems to touch the sides of 
the box (implying that it's in fact a 2x2x2 box).

Eg2 I put a cone of radius 0.5 and height 1 inside a 1x1x1 Box and once again the cone 
is much smaller than the box. But if I make it a cone with radius 1 and height 2 then 
it fits snuggly inside what I thought was a 1x1x1 box.

It's important because I'm doing automatic arranging of shapes inside other shapes, so 
the positions and sizes matter.

Has anyone had similar problems, or have I read the docs incorrectly?

Thanks very much for your help.

Derek.

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