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(...) You got docs with your version? I couldn't find any docs with the LDD that was installed on my Mac. Documentation would be nice. Sure I wouldn't read it first, but I would read it. Chris (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) -snip- Here is what I mean, better to provide a picture: When I try to move the 1x3's down 1 stud, they will not. When they get close to what I am trying to do, they sit in mid air just outside the desired connection point. Something about the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Congratulations Allen on getting a 1.0 version out the door so quickly! I've added a quick fix to my Converter at: <link(URL) so that it no longer chokes on the excessive amount of space-characters, Bricksmith generated LDraw-files can now use (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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Allen, Congratulations on your work, I had a quick look and you present some nice elegant and "Mac Like" solutions with a pleasant interface. Some competition might be what I need for me to make the time to further my own project. If you want some (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I ran in to that too! Your right! On the arm on my Little Blue Bot, there are 1x3 slopes in the center section of the elbow, but when the section I am adding a part to has an angle to it, like putting a part on a section of a model that has (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) -snip- (...) Hmmm, something is dawning on me. I mean I think I see the same principle our MOCs are derived from in real life. When we see someone's My Own Creation, we look and say wow, look that spaceship has 40 monkey left arms! Oh wow, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) since i seem to enjoy math wayyy to much and i was having a hard time sleaping, here's some figures i came up with there are 2,572 light grey and dark grey parts. - apox 350 are technic bushings, pins and 1x1 plates there are 724 red parts the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) snip I'd love to share my impressions, unfortunately the new version doesn't run on my machine. :( The previous one did, but apparently the software has outgrown me. And after BrickFest, there's no way I can afford to upgrade my hardware, at (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) One more: The categories in the Brick Tray are not consistent: they change depending on the order in which you add additional palettes. For example: if you add all the palettes, starting with 'My Car', the steering wheel, the 1x1 cylinder (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Forgot one: Why is there a limit of one per customer when buying custom LEGO Factory sets? Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Today I downloaded the Lego Factory software for the first time. I tried playing with it a little but I was disappointed in the parts selection. Based on what was just mentioned in this thread..... ...If I say wanted to build a model with 24 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) A few nits of my own: The cursor no longer changes to reflect what tool you are using. In 1.3, if you pressed 'd' for the clone tool, the cursor switched to a little version of the clone icon. Now the only indication is that the current tool's (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Yes! Finally! Now I get to be as poor as everybody else who lives within easy commuting distance of a LEGO Store. The Portland (Oregon) store just opened in Washington Square, near Meier & Frank, and it's very nice. I slipped in before it was (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.year.2005, lugnet.general, FTX)
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GEH?!? Bloody Sweet. -Stefan- (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Probably they have standard bags of parts - it's as if you buy an entire tub or most of one to guarantee you can build that model (and 5 others pointed out helpfully by the factory.) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Maybe the Rage M3 in my Powerbook G4 can get together with the Radeon 7500 in my G3 and somehow make it work.. oops, I need 10.3.9. Where's that Mac Classic? (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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What the? They're not going to come out on top with that sorta setup. 40 bucks if the kid just wants a small animal-thingy? No way'll they convince their mumsies. Here's hopin' they change it. -Stefan- (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Well, I've built my first LDD model (a Railroad Crossing sign) and uploaded it to LEGO.com. Some initial impressions: 1. LDD is very frustrating if you're trying to do anything even slightly nonstandard with the parts. In my example, I want to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX) !
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(...) I sure hope that is the case. (...) Of course, some people might consider (URL) attack choppers> excessively violent. I might upload some similar military hardware as a test. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) You actually read that stuff? ;) (...) That is weird. I bet they just don't want any model that could be interpreted as representing a real person, who might then sue them. (...) Well, that's good perhaps that answers the question about (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the answer Eric and thanks for asking the question Joe. However, I am going to be a bit annoying here (no surprise really). This clinging-part thing is a bad metaphor because the "page up" and "page down" keys don't work on the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It can also be accessed by right-clicking the top of the window when you are in LDD. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The LEGO Digital Designer button in your task bar (the bar that is by default at the bottom of your screen for win 2k/XP unless you moved it) next to the start menu/program button. You get one of these buttons for each running program, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Some weird stuff in here... "Your model must not show human beings"? Do they mean actual, living persons, or any generic human figure? Is this some sort of Islamic thing? THE LEGO ® FACTORY TEAM WILL NEED TO REVIEW YOUR MODEL BEFORE IT GOES UP ON (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, FTX) !
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Exactly wich button should we be right clicking on? I've clicked on just about every one and nothing Thanks Tom D (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Me too! And the first thing I am trying to do is build a micro scale car. Grabbed a black 1x1 round plate as a wheel. Can't see it on the screen! How do you change the background color? JB (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Turn off automatic brick binding (the lock icon) and you willbe able to rotate in finer steps. -- Thomas Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I think the GPU would be the factor. For a tower, this one has a Radeon 9000 in it... (URL) iMac G4 has a GeForce 5200 in it.. (URL) eMac has the Radeon 7500.. (URL) of the iBook G4's appear to have at least a Radeon 9200 in them. The (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Forgot to post here...anyway, some new Classic Space MOCs... enjoy! Cheers! (URL) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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Hello everyone.. it's been a long long time since I've posted. Here are a few of the Classic Space Mocs I've been working on. The Galaxy Explorer inspired ship is the Galactic Explorer Mark II.. The original was destroyed in a car wreck I was in (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.announce) !
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(...) Never mind, the task button is on the task bar! The doc actually explains this but who reads docs? (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote: SNIP WOW! It certainly does kick my class 50! And IMHO Mark's too! I always love functionality, and for such a little diesel, this one sure is packed with features! That is some seriously amazing work. The (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Are you on the Mac? right clicking on the program icon in XP gives me general properties of the program, not specific config options, so I'm guessing you are. if so, does anyone on Windows know how to do this, and if not, can you clarify a (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) You can select more than one piece at the same time, and move or rotate them all at once. Click on the carrot on the right of the pointer tool in the toolbar to expand it. Experiment with Select Multiple, Super Select, Same Colour Select, Same (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) At Joe's suggestion, I've captured this tip (and another one Joe contributed) in the new BrickWiki article (URL) usage notes) You are all invited to share further tips there if you like! (21 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've already sent in a request for a Mac readme/helpfile thru a LEGO Ambassador buddy :) ~Kevoh (21 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Ciao e benvenuto anche da parte mia. Anch'io mi definisco più un artista che un ingeniere, preferisco andare allo sbaraglio e lasciare che il modello che creo prenda forma man mano che la costruzione aumenta e che la fantasia, le conoscenze di (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(URL) Cheers. Carlo LugNet #24 (21 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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I would like to request a new LEGO Digital Designer Newsgroup; a subgroup of lugnet.cad ----> to be ----> lugnet.cad.ldd . Please. Thanks. Eric Sophie LEGO Digital Designer user (21 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.suggestions) !
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(...) Hey no fair you guys get a documentation folder?!? There's no such thing in the Mac version. (...) Well, the mouse does a decent job of that. What I'm more concerned about is: how do I rotate a brick in anything other than 90-degree (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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