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As I understand it, LDraw has negative y in the up direction, which is neither right nor left handed, but something else entirely. I don't know that it has a name. James (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Well that was fun...
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(...) Cool Vid. Congrats Dave. You're a natural!! :) I like it at the end where the hostess says the hottest toy that kids want... and they soon zoomed into the BSNF engine.... yup they had that right, not the Mattel toy they finished off on.... (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: LDraw coordinate system driving me crazy
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(...) I've always understood it is: X positive is right X negative is left Y Positive is bottom Y Negative is top z Positive is back z negative is front In fact you can show this by adding a brick in MLCad and moving it around, watching how the X, Y (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello all, I'm having difficulties with the ldraw coordinate system. As fas I understood it it's Right handed, just like OpenGL. So X positive is right X negative is left Y Positive is top Y Negative is bottom z Positive is front z negative is back (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Time for a time-out from eBay
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(...) $70 brokerage for 200 dollars worth of Lego? (URL) This UPS table> must be either lying or is about something else, or is not giving the whole story... (starts Calculator) ... My crude calculation says that of your $70 "brokerage" only $37.6 (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.market.shipping, FTX)
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(...) I thought so too! Ahhhhh, I am bad as well. :p Keith (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: {Mini-event!!!} (With capacitors, even!!!)
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And just a quick heads up, we have only one capacitor left now, other 2 disappeared into rtl member hands today, so that's the last one left if someone wants to reserve it. I just don't want to have a fight outside the store like for a PS3!! If (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: {Mini-event!!!} (With capacitors, even!!!)
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You can charge it either way. It won't blow up. But it does work better one way over the other. So you'll have to experiment with it. Derek (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Newbie question about old lego trains
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(...) Another option is to buy a voltage converting transformer to convert from whatever voltage your power is to whatever voltage the transformer wants. They will probably also convert the plug shape too. (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 2 new micro space ships
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(...) SNIP (...) Thanks, I wanted to put accommodations in miscroscale ships & be able to move the little microfig, just to see what it would look like. Jeff (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: {Mini-event!!!} (With capacitors, even!!!)
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So I stopped at the store and picked one up on the way home from judging... There were no instructions.....any direction on using the capacitor??? (I don't want to reverse bias it and blow it up or anything...) -Rob A> (19 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | BIs from 2006 Orleans Model Train Show
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Hi, As a bonus to the report of Orleans Model Train Show to be published (in french on the freelug website), I made building instructions of Didier Malon's MOCs : a tip wagon (URL) (brick build model picture : (URL)) and a simple car (intended to be (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - All Hail King Saul!
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Hi. I can't come up with so much specific points to comment on except what has already been mentioned by others. I would just like to say that the stories seem to be up to your usual high standard and that I'm following the new stories with (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | NALUG Royal Alberta Museum display
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The year 2005 was the centennial for the province of Alberta. So, members of NALUG built several historic structures from the local Edmonton area, to display at the 2005 Great Edmonton Train Show. That show, and the structures, can be seen on our (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) aaahhh! I always thought it was pronounced "coo-dis". My bad :) -Rob A> (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | One day left to see NovaLUG at the Dartmouth Sportsplex
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NovaLUG completed their first day of a two day show at the Dartmouth Sportsplex today. You can still come see us tomorrow (November 19th) from 10 am til 3 pm. Better to show up early as we start teardown about 2:30 with an application of Agent (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.novalug)
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made from set 8666 Tuner X (racer): (URL) Jeff (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: New NXT updates at 'mindstorms.LEGO.com'
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I installed them by following the instructions in the readme.txt. (importing the blocks, etc) I'm pretty sure it was 1.02. I was able to resolve the problem by doing a fresh install. Deleting the application folder and the mindstorm files in (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | another air car
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from set 4100 Maximum Wheels: (2 URLs) gallery when moderated> it started as a test of making the forward 'bulges' with wedge pieces: (URL) Jeff (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: 2 new micro space ships
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(...) Hi Jeff, Cute little microships. Nice alternate models. Tim (19 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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