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At the recent LEGO Engineering Conference 2007 in Singapore, (URL) showed how kids using ROBOLAB 2.9 could learn about proportional control and apply it to their robots like making a model car go a precise distance and a proportional control line (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.loc.sg)
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| | GBC in the Classroom
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We've just had our first LEGO Engineering Conference in Singapore with Prof Chris Rogers as the Keynote speaker. (URL) other things I had the opportunity to give three presentations, of which my favourite is the one on "GBC - A Fun Way to Learn (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.loc.sg)
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| | Re: Come promesso - [was: LDD 2.0 is out!]
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(...) .NET???? Questo spiega perché sia così lento 'sto programma... Io ho imparato la modellazione 3D con 3D Studio MAX su un Pentium 166 e 'sto coso non gira su un Athlon 3000... bah... Ciao Gabriele -- gb at biffuz.it (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 is out!
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(...) Exactly my problem. CPU usage goes to 100% an the program is unable even to move a window or open a menu and crashes if I try to close it. I have a graphic card Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 with 128 Mb ram. Useless to say that I'm VERY (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: some 'puter/math help please
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(...) ALl this so you can become the most proficient NXT game deceloper in the word? :) Dave, the world dose NOT need another snake game. :) how about - ummmmm NXT connect 4, or.. um.... nxt project X naw... :) Chris (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: peeron inventory update
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(...) I think they had the grooves but I couldn't swear to it and I can't check. I realised I was a little unclear in my first post, the set also included an extra 1x2 plate that could be used to replace the 1x1 plates somehow (I think). I am going (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: peeron inventory update
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(...) Tin: Did your set come with the sleeper rails with or without the grooves. Mine was with grooves. It does fall in the years that both were available. John P (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Boosting power in a gear train / torque amplifier
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Alexander, Thanks for the differential/pole-reverser idea. Based on your description, I was able to get a prototype running very rapidly! I'm still seeking a clean more mechanical version, but this certainly will work for now. Along the lines of a (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) Well, it seems I may have spoken too soon. By going through and updating all of my drivers (I suspect the graphics card driver was the critical one) I've been able to get it to run on my Windows 2000 Pro machine. It freezes occasionally when (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: peeron inventory update
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(...) It is interesting how many mistakes are not made by Lego. When ever I am short a piece I am totally surprised. For those who do not know, Lego will send replace pieces free, even when you lose them. I steped on a blue airtank, called Lego (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 is out!
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(...) From my Firefox translator, it sounds like you're having a similar problem to me, you can read about my problems here (URL) english only, and no solution yet). ROSCO (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: peeron inventory update
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(...) My copy of 7710 was missing two 1x1 plates (3024) that were featured in the instructions. I still remember it almost 20 years on since it was the first time I'd encountered a mistake in the instructions/inventory of a set. Tim (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: peeron inventory update
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Thursday updates 7710 Push Train: 3024 should be 8 not 6 (engine st8,10...ramp step 4 and 6) 163 Cargo train is correct 162-1: Locomotive without Motor: is correct. This was a hard one as there are three different models that can be built, however (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Lego Stories Videos Uploaded to YouTube
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Sometime in the late '80s, an Eastern European branch of TLC made a stop-motion animation video. The video had seven cute stories all animated with Miniland-scale figures and scenes. I've uploaded clips from this video to YouTube: (URL) Main (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ross Neal goes 6 wide! {:-0
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(...) Wow. That is incredibly clever. Excellent work, Ross. What do you eat for breakfast? later, James Mathis (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Sea Monkey Sleds and Figs
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(...) Well if you won't do it, then I guess I'll have to... Felix, if you don't start building and posting Sea Monkeys again soon, I will have to beat you up, tar and feather you, then post your photo on creepy singles websites! Aaron (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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| | Re: some 'puter/math help please
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(...) I think that's all I need for the 'precision' I want Thanks I'l ltry when I get home tonite (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: some 'puter/math help please
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(...) I love stuff like that :) Thanks Dave (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: some 'puter/math help please
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David, Check out Bresenham's Algorithm for line drawing: (URL) It's been around forever and does not require complex math - which was not available on older computers anyways. Sometimes the old guys knew how to do stuff right. Ralph (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: some 'puter/math help please
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(...) You mean like this? (URL) have that packaged up in a MyBlock, and other than rounding errors it works nice and fairly quickly. (...) Not exactly; it really depends on the precision you want/need. (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: some 'puter/math help please
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rafe Donahue wrote: <snip> (...) I guess this is where pythagoras will factor in--I want the number of points to be the same as the length of the initial line (from random (x,y) to (0,0))--if the line is 17 units long, (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: some 'puter/math help please
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rafe Donahue wrote: <snip> (...) actually, that helps quite a bit! I thought I'd have to get pythagoras in the equatinos somehow, but htis is much easier! Much appreciated! (...) It'll be a wide range of starting points, (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Come promesso - [was: LDD 2.0 is out!]
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Rieccomi alle prese con LDD 2.0! Ieri ho installato il software in questione su questa stessa macchina (HP Compaq Pentium D 820 con 2 GB di RAM e una ATI Radeon X1300 con 256 MB di DDR2) e mi sono messo a lavorarci un po'. Ho notato sicuramente un (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: 30 NEW Train Sets! -- Or Individual Hobby Train Models Pricing
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(...) :: snip :: (...) Ahh, Mike, looks like you're right. I went to the "Pick a Brick" page and there it says that the right train doors (yes, right, not left) are unavailable presently - that may be a new feature. It's nice to know exactly which (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: some 'puter/math help please
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(...) The points on the line take the form y = mx + b, where b is the intercept with the y-axis and m is the slope. For the problem as you describe it, b is 0 since the line crosses the y-axis at zero, and m = 1.5 or 15/10 since the slope is the (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Sea Monkey Forsaken Stingray
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(...) It gives me a warm fuzzy to see all this Sea Monkey action. Nice to see one of those Stingray sleds get used. Five years ago when we started this thing the pieces we had to choose from were really limited. Now it seems like there is very good (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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| | Ride-on fun
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(2 URLs) Here are the Ride-on-Viper from Battlestar Galactica and the Ride-on-Whitebase and Ride-on-Don Escargot from Gundam. I envisage Ride-on's as the start of a series. The must follow three rules: Rider must be exposed Rider must be seated (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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| | some 'puter/math help please
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here's the scenario as best I can describe-- x and y co-ordinates line segment starts at (0,0), goes out to whatever--let's say (10,15) I want to make a dot follow the line segment from (10,15) down to (0,0) So the dot startes at (10,15), then moves (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 30 NEW Train Sets! -- Or Individual Hobby Train Models Pricing
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis wrote: ... snipped ... (...) It appears that the Bricklink sellers have wiped out the supply of red train doors because any model which uses them are no longer available. This is also true of the 4 models I uploaded on (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Free To Good Home
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(...) Are these spoken for aleady? If not, I'll contact you with my information. (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: Sea Monkey Forsaken Stingray
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The other Sultan of Sea Monkey returns! That's TWO Sea Monkey MOCs with unusual parts now! That Stingray piece works well, and I like your use of the black wings for flippers - nice detail. (...) This could be the start of the Sea Monkey Revolution! (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Sea Monkey Sleds and Figs
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(...) Ahem! I said no such thing (but, I have no idea what Joe said). Nice to see you building again in this theme. I never thought I would ever see that decorated AT sandblue slope used in a MOC, but it works very well here. Good stuff! Now I need (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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| | Re: Motorized steering
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I will give it a try... just found one in an ozzie bricklink site and have ordered it... let you know how it works out! thanks... (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Get your Wolfpack Money Pouch! 50% OFF!
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I have reduced the price on the Wolfpack Money Pouch by 50%! (URL) I am the only one on BL that has these, it's the best price you will get on this cool item! Troy Troy's Surplus LEGO (URL) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Motorized steering
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(...) But the brickshelf gallery is still there: (URL) It's a shame such a cool part had been released only in unpopular hockey sets - (...) Indeed! But some people do find it: another good use of this part as a tread tensioner (URL) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Motorized steering
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In lugnet.technic, Ian Power wrote: [snipped] (...) Hi Ian, This part won't entirely solve your "problem" (URL) it provides return back to center help to a spring and has been yet used succesfully for a motorized steering (Sorry, I have not find the (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Edu NXT #9797 Inventory count
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Have you ever heard the story of the Grandma who wanted a new washing machine? Grandpa was a such a good repairman, that he kept the old machine going, and going, and going. Finally, Grandma got an idea. While Grandpa had the machine stripped down (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Sea Monkey Forsaken Stingray
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There have been some reports from Alpha Team Deep Sea of some activity in the area known as Forsaken territory. While there have been isolated readings on the deep sea sensor grid at the Marianas Trench, there has been no sightings of the Forsaken (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.aquazone, FTX) !
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| | Re: BrickFest 07 Draft
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(...) Am I the only one that read that and immediately thought: Wouldn't it be great to build each of them in jet form and create an enormous "BrickFest 07 Squadron"! What? Just me? Drat. It's too bad the speed build won't use this set and the Jet (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Free To Good Home
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I have a mix of loose Lego pcs. (bricks, figures, etc.)(100s) and assorted Bionicle figures/pcs. (also 100s) that I would like to donate to anyone willing to accept them. The Bionicle collection is hardly that: there are loose pcs, never quite (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Spring is here.
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To ring in the season, I built this last night: (URL) My second vignette. And I did not even know, it's the first day of spring when I built it. scott "I wuz just springing into it!" Frischmann. (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | My first vignette - Joe Vig visits the Schleim Factory.
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Being in a mostly studs-up world, he decides to do something diff. He pays a visit to a place that makes studs point every which-way but up. What'll happen now? (URL) This is my first Vignette. I concieved this schleimy idea about a year ago. I just (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | MOC: Sea Monkey Sleds and Figs
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Nelson Yrizarry and Joe Meno told me if I didn't start building Sea Monkey stuff they would beat me up. (URL) I've got some more ideas floating around so hopefully I'll get them built soon. I'd like to apologize to everyone who has made Sea Monkey (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.aquazone, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Military display and MOCs
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(...) like the 1X1 brick with eye print on this tank. David (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: FYI - old grey
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(...) Thanks Mike, I will reply shortly to your email... and I didnt buy any old, but a few cups of new... so its all yours for the taking... smile. Janey "Red Brick" (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Motorized steering
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OK - for all the mechanical gurus here... You've probably seen my RC manas truck on the sidebar here. The steering is controlled by one manas motor, geared down so it's really slow. This is done so that I can get the wheels back to center, because (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Yay, Lugnet Spotlight! A happy thread
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(...) lol yea no kidding! it's deffinitly something i'd like to seem more often. it's been pleasure to see extreemly cool and creative moc's verses the bickering threads that allways seem to get spotlighted. ondrew (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Rural Train Station LEGO Factory
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(...) Thanks. I am rather enjoying the LDD 2.0 experience. Stand-alone Motorbike (motorcycle): (URL) Done. Motorbike uploaded to Factory. Cost US$2.47. Awaiting approval. later, James Mathis (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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Hi Brendan! (...) No, of course it's not. The fonts, pictures are fastidiously chosen. I never realised how lovingly your homepage is made. (...) Well, not exactly what I meant... ;-) Regards, Barbara (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Memory Level NXT-G Block
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Here's a block to monitor amount of NXT Flash memory available: (URL) Ziv NXTasy.org (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | 30 NEW Train Sets! -- Or Individual Hobby Train Models Pricing
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I found listings for each train model from the Hobby Train set 10183. Available for purchase individually: (URL) Pieces: 568 Price: USD 76.38 (URL) Pieces: 298 Price: USD 38.91 (URL) Pieces: 243 Price: USD 34.07 (URL) Pieces: 426 Price: USD 54.11 (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Rural Train Station LEGO Factory
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(...) Awesome work, James. I'm incredibly impressed and especially that it's LDD pure. I'd love to see the bike sold as a separate model (hint, hint). Tim (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Three of the new Maersk Line container ship available - 134.94 USD+s/h
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They are slighty dinged, but all the boxes are, they really do not cater to box collectors for these it seems. (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Rural Train Station LEGO Factory
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This (URL) train station> was designed using LEGO(R) Digital Designer 2.0 and the LEGO Factory palette of parts. (URL) It is presented in two forms. One presentation places the station into a scene complete with railway platform, grass area with (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | More firmware enhancements
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I have implemented OP_WAIT and a variant of OP_WAIT which takes a variable rather than an immediate numeric value (which in nbc is called "waitv"). I also modified NBC to accept a command line switch that tells it whether the firmware supports waits (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: Running NBC/NXC on a Mac (OSX)
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(...) Yeah, I know. My command line parameter parsing code is pretty yucky. :-) John (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: I shall call him... Mini Me
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(...) Thanks! I hadn't thought about putting plates/tiles on the wheels, but I had thought about grey light sabre blades. After I read your post I tried putting a plate and then a tile on the wheels, and as you said, it's just too big for the scale. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | BrickFest 07 Draft
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Yes there will be a draft at BrickFest this year! In case you forgot, a draft is where everyone brings an unopened copy of the same set. All the sets are sorted into lots and then lots are chosen in a round robin fashion till all the lots are gone. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community) !
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| | Re: Running NBC/NXC on a Mac (OSX)
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(...) Unix nerds would say it shouldn't be there in the first place ;) ROSCO (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Running NBC/NXC on a Mac (OSX)
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Brian Davis wrote: ... (...) Not too sure about NBC (I'd classify for clueless newbie too), but if you didn't see it already, there is also a tool you might find handy if you happen to have bluetooth on your Mac: (URL) It (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: GBC MOC: Track Wheel Reservoir (was Re: Tunnel Mouth / Bridge Arch)
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Hi Mark, Nicely done, and welcome to the never ending fun of the GBC! I've been also toying with the idea of using these tracks, and made a module using them as part of the GBC setup we had at Modelma (a modelism fair here in Belgium) Nothing really (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Elenco iscritti ItLUG, adeguamento normativo ed una proposta
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(...) All'Associazione l'Ufficio del Registro assegnerà un CODICE FISCALE (composto da 11 numeri simile alla Partita Iva). Questo ci permetterà di acquistare anche dai grassisti o nei negozi, l'unica cosa che non possiamo scaricare (recuperare) (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Running NBC/NXC on a Mac (OSX)
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(...) I accidentally left off the "=" after -I. ./nbc -I=/usr/local/include program.nxc -O=program.rxe Sorry about that. John Hansen (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: peeron inventory update
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(...) 4073 transred above should be trans yellow that are not listed, sorry also Peeron is beginning to update the corrections that I am sending and posting the pictures John P (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Running NBC/NXC on a Mac (OSX)
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(...) Here's a really simple way to use NBC/NXC on a Mac: (URL) you want to execute the compiler yourself then you just open a terminal window, change directory to your source code path, and execute nbc like this: nbc program.nbc -O=program.rxe or (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: peeron inventory update
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Wed sets: 120-1: Complete freight train set with tipper trucks: 3034 plate 2x8 white should be 18 not 16, hopper cars use two as the base and thee are 16 for the track, otherwise correct. 7722: 4073 plate 1x1 round trRed there are 2 not listed (pg15 (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Running NBC/NXC on a Mac (OSX)
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Assume I'm an idiot. As many will tell you here, this is at many times a reasonably safe assumption. Yes, I know who you are, stop snickering. How do I work NBC/NXC under OSX? When I download the latest package and double-click the app, it opens the (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Yay, Lugnet Spotlight! A happy thread
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Hey all, Often it seems that noone seems to post about the state of the Lugnet Spotlight function except to complain about how it gets filled up with the conflict threads. Look at it today (and for the past week afaik) - all cool MOCs, in themes (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: Australian road train
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(...) They're also hideously ugly. I'll make an MOC to use them after you display them at a show ;) Tim (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | lgauge.com updated
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It has been ages since I posted or updated (URL) but I finally added one new loco and two trackside signal designs (bridge and cantilever) with instructions. I also experimented with a different photography technique to get the black LEGO to show up (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Australian road train
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(...) But the new LEGO containers are 6 wide! JOHN (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) Actually, from my fooling around with the software so far, I can say that there is some compatability between LDD 1,6 and LDD 2,0. When you try to load a file created with version 1,6 with version 2,0 it asks you if you want to try to import (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Faster NXT LCD Screen Refresh
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(...) Okay, there's a little more to it than this. If you have a display that supports greyscales, it can control the level of the voltage jolt that's applied to each pixel during the actual refresh cycle. That way you get a smoother display with (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, FTX)
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| | Re: Australian road train
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(...) lol. I just look up the dimensions of these things and they're restricted to 2.5m wide including mirrors. 8 wide is about 0.8 studs to the foot for US trains (IIRC) so 7/0.8=2.66m so you're right. I thought these things were bigger. They sure (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Ross Neal goes 6 wide! {:-0
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This is a little project Ross began last year that I never got around to documenting. He was tinkering as usual, and figured out a way to lay the old 4.5 volt battery train rails 3 studs apart and make a complete loop. Here is a pic of just a curve: (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Faster NXT LCD Screen Refresh
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(...) So that is how you did it. I was wondering about this ever since I saw the announcement. Incidentally, this would have been great cross posted to .color as well. <</robotics/nxt/?n=539>> Doug (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, FTX)
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| | Re: Australian road train
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(...) Very nice, but let's be honest here-- it may be six-wide, but it is 8 wide scale:-) And its 6 wide containers would look spiffy on (URL) this>:-d (hmmm, intermooodal:-d) JOHN (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Australian road train
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(...) I remember as a kid being scared s**tless when we overtook those things between Mackay and Brisbane. As an adult knowing what sort of stresses and 'cures' the drivers put themselves through I think I'd be even more scared. Tim (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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Hi all, I've converted the old conversion file from LDD 1.6 (with Jason Railton's adaptions) to LDD 2.0 format. It is far from perfect but is also far better than what is currently available. To install it just quit LDD 2, go to (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Faster NXT LCD Screen Refresh
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(...) This kind of works. In the first instance, you get two identical shades of grey. In the second instance (and I've tried this) you'd be surprised to see that the difference in shades between the two greys is actually very small. You really need (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: Military display and MOCs
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Very nice! There is a lot of good work in there. Particularly eye catching were the well placed and well designed figs. Keep up the great work! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: Australian road train
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Having recently traveled the entire length of the Eyre highway from Norseman to Port Augusta in both directions and passing many road trains of all kinds, I can tell you that you got the look down perfect :) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Faster NXT LCD Screen Refresh
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(...) I already got one shade of grey out of it by flicking between two images at the current rate: (URL) I use all those spare cycles to mix and merge screen layers in real time, so this image has full parallax scrolling. I've been trying to do (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, FTX)
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(5 URLs) BS> (when modded) (URL) Flickr> Hi all, A different sort of train but still six-wide ;) Been wanting to do one of these for a long time but was never happy with the grille and nose. Thanks to many ideas and some harassing by misterzumbi I (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) :: snip :: (...) I share Jason's sentiment - I wish they would have kept compatibility with all but the most recent versions of Windows. I guess the software people decided that was the best thing to do. But it does pose an inconvenience for (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Faster NXT LCD Screen Refresh
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(...) <snip> (...) This is really interesting. If I understand correctly, to get colors, or at least shades of grey, you have to refresh the screen quickly and the "darker" the pixel, the more often it shows up in the pattern. For example, let's say (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: 10183 Plans
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(...) Did you actually get this to work? It has been my experience that it doesn't work yet. Mike (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) On the plus side, it does seem to run on older hardware. I could only run 1.6 on my wife's laptop which she bought last year. Last night, I was able to install and run 2.0 on my 5+ year old machine. -Elroy (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 is out!
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Salvatore Russo ha scritto: (...) Non vorrei che il problema fosse la scheda grafica... Io su questa macchina ho una Radeon X1300 e sull'iMac a casa ho una X1600, con cui non credo di avere problemi... Alex (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 is out!
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"Alex Cordero" <alecchisi@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:JFAsDn.C1F@lugnet.com... (...) Io l'ho scaricato e installato ieri ma... è mai possibile che con un Athlon 64 3200 e 1Gb di ram sia tanto lento che non si riesce a fare nulla!??!? (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Automated shunter/switcher
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(...) I can't find any pictures right now, but I built a small steam shunting engine around a battery box and my own home-made IR receiver (this contains a circuit built from a kit from an electronics shop): (URL) the engine's coal wagon was this (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) Unfortunately, LDD 2.0 no longer runs on earlier versions of Windows. LDD 1.6 ran quite happily under Windows 2000, but the new version crashes as soon as you place a brick. It's also a bit mean to write off all the previously uploaded models. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.trains)
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| | LDD 2.0 is out!
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Ciao a tutti, Se avete notato che la sezione Factory del sito LEGO è rimasto in manutenzione per alcuni giorni, ora si sa perché: è appena stato rilasciato LDD versione 2.0! Ora lo scarico poi vi fo una mini recensione... Speriamo ci sia qualche (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Elenco iscritti ItLUG, adeguamento normativo ed una proposta
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(...) Per esperienza personale ti confermo quello che dici. Per il Legofest di Ballabio (l'anno scorso e quest'anno) mi presento sempre come Itlug. E' chiaro però che quando si parla di patrocinio, sponsor o altro devo obbligatoriamente appoggiarmi (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: sempre più spesso sui giornali...
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(...) Mi sono trattenuto non poco dall'evidenziare quest'oscenità! Ho soprasseduto perché preferivo aspettare una notizia che mi è giunta ora: il sito www.permalink,it ha pubblicato oggi un lungo articolo sugli AFOL e sulla LEGO. Si trova da pagina (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Elenco iscritti ItLUG, adeguamento normativo ed una proposta
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(...) La partita IVA ci servirebbe per poter acquistare da grossisti. Tempo fa qualcuno, qui sul forum, aveva profilato l'opportunità di acquistare da un grossista lombardo ma aveva bisogno di partita IVA... Se ci registriamo, almeno facciamo in (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Elenco iscritti ItLUG, adeguamento normativo ed una proposta
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(...) Secondo me c'è anche una questione d'immagine: presentarsi come socio di un'associazione presso enti-comuni-e magari anche negozi, sicuramente ha un impatto diverso sull'interlocutore che dire: "sono uno che si diverte a giocare con i (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Adding syscalls/opcodes to NXT-G
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(...) John - I know you don't like this and I agree that the best solution is NI changing their compiler to allow extending firmware with new syscalls. The way things work, I'm afraid, this will not happen anytime soon. I'm trying to suggest (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: 10183 Plans
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(...) LDraw support is under the Import and Export options. Sadly, only flat LDR files are supported, not MPDs. (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Elenco iscritti ItLUG, adeguamento normativo ed una proposta
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Ciao, non sono esperto di queste cose ma un paio di commenti.... (...) Sono d'accordo! (...) Vero anche questo, mi pare (...) Questa cosa mi sembra complicata, poi costringe qualcuno a fare da "segretario" e so che alla fine porta via tempo e (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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