Hollow up to 95% - Why?

I can kinda understand (esp due to past tech reasons) why prims were limited to 10m in size.

Also, I have to say it does stop some people building (shall we say) VERY unrealistic items and kinda keeps the SL world in check and in scale a little more than is every noob was going 100m in every direction............

But, can anyone tell me why we can only hollow to 95% ?

(95%hollow)i think some math are involved,10m prim size lag involved too and some hardware requirements etc, and more etc etc, maybe some one has the exact answer for this...

Yeah, even without understanding the maths, I can comprehend there being an issue with giant prims all over the place (as well as them being eyesores if every noob just used them all over the place)

It was just the 95% I was wondering about.

That's not a bad question. There are certainly times when it would be nice to hollow a 1m cube and have the walls be 0.01m thick instead of 0.05m. There may be a technical answer buried deep in the math, but I suspect that it was an arbitrary design decision when they were creating the Edit tool.

EDIT: Ooops. 95% hollow on a 1m cube gives you walls that are 0.025m thick. Still, you get the idea.

Perhaps someone will know

To be honest, I don't find it an issue with small "normal-ish" sized prims, but when you are making things that start getting 6m, 8m, 10m, or even megaprims in size, then even 95% can leave you with massivly chunky wall thicknesses

I have used a client which has the hollow limit removed (among other things), however it appears this 95% hollow limit is also enforced Server side as well. For whatever reason, LL doesn't want people making hollows bigger.

I was pondering this issue just the other day, because I have a build which would *greatly* benefit from having a 98 or 99 percent hollow. :\

I agree with Piggie's request.
It's time to ask this question to a Linden Lab employee at h*s Office Hour!

I hope I'll remember to do it myself - if not ... :

the only thing I can think of, why there is a limit, is when you path cut the prim with a measure of 0.01m, the thickness of the pane then is probably equal to a 99% hollow, could that be it?