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Dear Joe, I'll write more about your previous (good!) suggestions when I have more time later. For now, I'll point you in the direction of the Tools menu, where you'll find a "Show Colors" selection. You'll notice that the Colors palette tracks (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: A LEGO double-throw switch?
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(...) I'm here - just amazed at the chaos I kicked up :-). Incidently, I've grown to hate those tank tread belts (those, originally, were going to be the conveyor, but they are just too stiff). I've now got more ideas running around in my head as to (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Midsummer of '05
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(...) Adrian, as always, vary nice work. R U bringing it to the SanDLUG meeting? Mat (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.sandlug, FTX)
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| | Truckfest/Scotfest
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29th October 2005. The Boat Club, Aberdour, Fife. In an attempt to open it up to all Brickish members it is called a Truckfest. This is because at the last Scotfest it was suggested we each build a 8-wide minifig scale truck. It can be any length - (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lego Train Factory - "preliminary wagon design"
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(...) Thanks for finding the images. The wagon is much more complex that I expected. I had been looking at the Duplo wagons, expecting to be like them or very much juniorised. Will 5-7 year olds be able to build the wagons? I tell parents of young (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Newport advanced
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(...) BIOMECHANICAL BRICKS SHOW TODAY! ==== One block East of the Newport/Pavoina PATH Station. 5-8pm Eric Sophie Bots-Mecha-Robotics-Moonbase (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.ny, FTX)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) Unfortunately, I am very busy right now. Once again, I have to move and it sure takes its toll from my resources. But I'd like to repeat what I've said earlier on creating LDraw based animations. We have LD4D, we have POV-ray's support for (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: A LEGO double-throw switch?
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(...) Actually, I was working on this very thing (45 degree angles) for a new GBC module over the weekend. (you remember GBC, don't you? You know, the creature that wouldn't die :) - thanks Steve for such a wonderful way to waste all my free time :) (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Legway (Sensor Type Correction)
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(...) Absolutely!! I am always interested in seeing unique solutions to the same quest. Sounds like a neat idea. Thanks, Bryan (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: tornato !
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(...) Beh, però sarebbe carino fare una scenetta simile nel diorama cittadino :-) Il tuo modello sarebbe già troppo grosso (infatti non hanno usato quel veicolo), quindi basterebbe fare due veicoli più piccoli, il sommergibile... e una marea di (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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(...) It's always nice to see new stuff like this. Especially with the source code available in CVS on the sourceforge site. Cool! (...) Hmm, I don't know, the file looks OK to me. I don't remember any limit on nested MPD subfiles. And I also don't (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Siete ingegneri o artisti ?
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Ciao a tutto il newsgroup, Ho visto le vostre stupende creazioni, i raduni (LEGOFEST) che organizzate, le ardite soluzioni tecniche che utilizzate per superare le difficolta' di riprodurre la realta' coi beneamati mattoncini. Ho conosciuto i LEGO a (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Modellmessen 2005
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In lugnet.loc.no, Bjørn-Erik Gunnerød wrote: ... (...) Ser du har lagt ut ljanmtak.ldr, men for at denne skal fungere, må du legge ut subfilene Ljanst2.ldr og hovedtakfb.ldr også. Thomas (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.no)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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(...) Yeah, you aren't suppose to distribute the library with your app. The cool shniz would be to have the app auto find the library or download it for you if it can't find it though! The path should never change: (URL) looked at the app yet but (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: gears
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(...) I don't know about stronger, but they're definitley smoother. There's less play between the newer gears. They're also wider, so there's more contact between the tooth and the gear perimeter. That may make them stronger. The only drawback is (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: BrickSpace now available for download.
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(...) D'oh. That's me copypasting and not double checking it. :p Fixed, thanks fer noticing. (...) Thanks! Specs on the PC that took that are - 2ghz Athlon (so 1.67ghz or something), Radeon 9600XT, and 512M Ram. It's also been run on a 2.5ghz (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Formerly Known as "The Royal Knight's Castle"
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Well my folder is now public, so you can look at my pictures, and I'll try to get pictures of all my siege engines that I've made. (Siege tower, battering rams, a working ballista, and a trebuchet.) Any ways I'm open for your comments, both good (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: MLCAD mirrored submodels - Help please
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(...) MLCad usually orient any new part like the one before, so it sounds like you mirrored the previous part accidentally. So you should be able to fix the problem by unmirroring the second last part. If you don't know how, insert the part in top (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | tornato !
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Eccomi di ritorno dalle vacanze e da... un'influenza! ..ma come si fa a farsi attaccare la febbre del proprio filgio di 17 mesi !! Devo rimettermi al lavoro al + presto per portare qualche cosa di bello al prox lego fest di Torino... è che sono un (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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(...) Sure it's handy, but i wonder whether the LDraw Standard Commitee and the Jessiman family will agree. damien web page: (URL) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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Sorry, two more suggestions: Changing the color of multiple parts appears to be a royal PITA, because the Inspector palette just says "Multiple Selection". Well, yes, I know I have a multiple selection -- I want to inspect it anyway! You could still (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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(...) First, let me say: Great work, Allen! We Mac-using ALEs really appreciate efforts like this. Initial impressions: Wow -- an LDraw editor that I can just download and use! I didn't have to install anything extra or futz about with paths; I just (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: A LEGO double-throw switch?
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(...) Well, given that technic is quantized down to stud or half stud sizes, the solution may not be obvious. The easiest angles to create are due to 3-4-5 triangles. Most of the bent liftarms are bent based on those angles. The tri-blade liftarms (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) I mostly agree with James (use POV-Ray for animations), but I'll throw my 2 cents in anyway ... It seems like an LDraw-based animation format is reasonably possible, with the following requirements/additions: - Use MPD format. This isn't (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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(...) Only 6 months! You certainly have worked really hard! Congratulations :) I don't own a MAC but it's always good news when LDraw is lesser and lesser confined to the Microsoft world. Anyway i have seen the pretty screenshot, downloaded the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | The Midsummer of '05
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A few months ago I saw a MOC using an inverted slope that looked like this: (URL) The part itself is too small for my needs but I figured its general shape could be passed along in a larger form (open sides and jutting corners). I wasn't ready to (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !
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| | Re: BrickSpace now available for download.
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(...) Looks like the link to the ZIP version actually points to the rar version. The videos are cool though. What are the specs of your PC? I'm wondering if I have a good enough computer at home to run the game at least as fast as you show in your (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) Well that's my duh! After spending a few weeks trying to secure Apache, I entirely forgot that I took all permissions away except read-only on almost every directory on my website. So I added write permissions, and basically ran smooth as (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: LDD Help Needed
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(...) Not that I know of. You can rotate the whole model and then use PgUp/PgDn to jiggle the piece you need to move - then rotate the whole thing back. Obviously, this is a pain when working with a model of any real size. (...) I'm not sure quite (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) Stupid typos :) (...) Does the webserver use have permissions to write to the targetted directory? Absolut path is the right way to go. Anything in the error log? (...) My god, why did you even bother replying?!? Git! (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) Thanks Dan! That was very quick! I've implemented and changed approriate settings (fixed type-o as well) THe script does something--it runs and will redirect the user to the appropriate page, but it does not copy the file to the specified (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | LDD Help Needed
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I just started playing around with Lego Digital Designer a couple of days ago and had a few questions. I am having trouble placing a part in my model. I have found how to use the PgUp/PgDn keys to move a piece along the z-axis, but is there a way to (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) uh huh uhuh uhu hu huh .... (URL) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) This was a few days ago when he announced it...it wasn't a happy face. And I only got to the first two strokes of H... So it was more like: | |-- | And then some bastard started drawing away. :) I will try and make a web cam some day. It won't (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) Here ya go - plop this in your cgi-bin, and update the 3 configuration lines, and you're all set. To take a snapshot, just link to the CGI. Ideally, it'll work - but I haven't actually tested it. :) Dan -- #!/usr/bin/perl -wT # *** STANDARD (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | gears
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Does anyone know if the newer double bevel gears are stronger than the older lego technic gears? By stronger I mean won't break under pressure like the older ones. (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: steering
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(...) This I sort of figured out when I was trying to test the steering. Maybe when I strip it down, I 'll revamp the steering (but the thing is I want all the steering axles to steer). (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) huh, ha - huh, ha viewing porpoises. :-) Derek (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) it was a happy face with 1 eye... :) Dave K (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: New LEGO RoboCam'Bot
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(...) I saw the Hi.. then the rest of the squiggles--right now it says Hi *squiggle* MIELEC -- no idea what that's suppose to be... That's always been the problem with my web'bots--the non-excusive use to the user. I looked into locking it down for (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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