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(...) Of course I start counts from zero ;o) (...) OK! My setup seems to work anyway... Philo (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Looks like you found another LDView bug ;-). Zoom out and it works fine. It only doesn't work when the control points are clipped by the edge of the window. I'll have to figure out a way to fix that. (...) It's difficult, but by using polling (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hopefully you have primitive substitution set to two (second notch), since 1 provides 8-sided circular primitives. As for separating the stud logo from the primitive substitution, the logo is an implicit part of the substituted stud. It's not (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Technicopedia Update
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(...) You might also consider PTviewer. It is a java applet, so no plugin to install. See an example of use here: (URL) version of applet is available here: (URL) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: BlueBrick
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(...) Hi Michael, I've just released a new version of BlueBrick that fix the problem for the 4.5V and 12V rails. But you will need to upload some unofficial LDraw parts from the LDRAW.org part tracker, especially the new shortcuts created by Philo (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) When the curvature is the only concern, then yes, but I have to take the screwshape into consideration, the closer I am to the ideal curve, the easier it is to calculate the screwshape and avoid holes in the part. Furthermore when thinking (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I wanted the animation to look smooth, and they look jerky if I use less than about 20 frames per second. I also needed to limit the number of frames to something that would produce a reasonable file size, at the same time not taking forever (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Zellers BOGO until Thursday Dec 18th
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Zellers is doing Buy One Get One 1/2 off again. Good through Thursday Dec 18th. Note, Zellers sales usually last until Friday. Nothing much on the shelves around Halifax, so good luck finding any LEGO worth buying at Zellers. (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO in PharmaSave flyer
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Not sure where (other than Halifax area) PharmaSave stores are in Canada. The flyer good from Saturday Dec 13th to Friday Dec 19th has two LEGO sets in it. Both $6.99 7236 Police Car 7090 Crossbow Attack Both sets are $7.99 on S@H. (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Western Train with instructions
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(...) Love that roof design. -Elroy (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) NB. 'finish off 2008' is what I mean --snip-- (...) Stage II is up now. (2 URLs) ((URL)). Tim (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive? [DAT]
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I made a quick try - and it doesn't work very well, even when it should (between a cylinder and a cone). Example: (URL) (cedge primitive is here included). Cedge seems to behave correctly on the more sloped cone, but not on the other, it appears (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Technicopedia Update
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(...) Nice! One minor 'complaint' though: IMO, the 360 animations are rotating too fast, so it's difficult to really see any details. The super thing would be to have a controllable 360 rotation, so I could stop at any angle and look closer. I don't (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I'll need to keep 3 dp in this case. But since it didn't smooth anyway I had no incentive to enlarge the file... (...) OK, we'll see if there is downsides to this. Maybe for very small details? Have a look at some fine mesh parts such as (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) Something to try. If it works it would help for several shading issues I have seen. See for example around peghole going through curved surface of (URL) Could you send me the LDraw file used to generate 61069s01a1.png? I'll see how (...) You (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) triangle has had its surface normal pulled down. So the triangle isn't co-planar with the quad as far as the lighting is concerned. With curve smoothing, all polygons who share a smoothed vertex use a common surface normal for that vertex. But (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Technicopedia Update
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Good news everyone! I have now added the sets from 1991 to Technicopedia including 8074, 8810, 8815, 8820, 8838, and 8856. (URL) You'll notice some other changes as well. Firstly, I have a new logo which is now rendered in 3D. The logo on the title (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Lego Survey - I really miss 9volt Trains
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There is a survey from Lego at the moment (URL) the section, suggested improvements made by others, there is a check box for "I really miss 9v LEGO trains". Just thought there would be a few people here that would like to remind Lego that 9volt (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | LD4DStudio suggestions?
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Hello all, I was wondering if people have some minor suggestions / bug reports for my current LD4DStudio version. Work on the 1.1 version is taking longer than expected so I was planning to release a bugfix only version this month. Any additional (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) My comment about needing twice the geometry for the edge was based on a misunderstanding of what you wrote. Based on what I now assume you meant, two wouldn't be required for each joint. However, your solution would only work if the cones on (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGOLAND Park in Malaysia
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LEGOLAND theme park coming to Iskandar Malaysia. 12/12/2008 JOHOR BARU: Work on the first LEGOLAND theme park in Asia is expected to start here next year. Iskandar Investment Berhad (IIB) will sign a deal tomorrow with the LEGO Group, the Danish (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) It sounds like it would work, but I'm not sure if people would go for it. Of course, if the POTM competitions are anything to go by, you're making a majority of the complicated parts right now, so if you go with it, that's probably all we need (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Some larger sets on sale at Target.com
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There are some large sets on sale from the Target website. For instance: 10182 Cafe Corner $119.99 (was 140, 14% off) (URL) 10185 Green Grocer $112.49 (was 150, 25% off) (URL) Free shipping on both. (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) Mmhhh... maybe by setting 2 conditional rings on the junction. Each condring would be set between a cylinder and a cone. Scaling the ring would adapt to various cone slopes. Of course 2 rings would be needed, one for converging cones, one for (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) That's a primitive I have been longing for... but I realized it is impossible to build: where would you put the control lines? The top control points would need to be scaled differently from bottom ones to match various cylinders/cones (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) I just noticed something else while investigating a fix for the above problem. The above model could really use a circular conditional edge primitive. I would vote for x-ycedge.dat as the filename (ie 1-4cedge.dat, 4-4cedge.dat, (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I played with the settings, and I had to set the precision all the way down to 0.133 in order to get it to fully smooth. (0.125 failed to smooth properly.) (...) .005. I think I'll set the precision to .01, to hopefully give it some leeway. I (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Another color change?
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(URL) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | 1450 Class diesel
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After some more tinkering I have up'ed the screenshots. (URL) it is a cross between the 1400 and 1450, but they are very similar with the main difference being the side grills. I used the dark blue grey train base as the spine, and extended it by 8 (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LETGUI new version 0.1.0.18
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(...) Thanks! For the record: - Ytruder 1.2 is no longer limited to Y direction and can extrude along x, y or z directions - Intersector 1.3 has a new scaling option that improves result for small parts. Philo (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) It makes sense! (...) An example, this button: (URL) I rounded condlines to 2 decimal places since I couldn't get smoothing anyway. I did more experiments, with full precision in condline it works: (URL) but after rounding to 3 dp there is no (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LETGUI new version 0.1.0.18
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A new version of LETGUI ((URL) is now available. Support for new commandline options for Ytruder1.2 and Intersector1.3 are added. Have fun! cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) Welcome back! (...) I agree with Mikeheide, since the total curvature is low I think 6 cones would be more than enough! (...) Seems a good approach. As for the edge line between screw and cones, Isecalc will provide it instantly! (It would be (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) I do not understand correctly what you are saying. If you use a cone primitive you can stretch it in all direction. There is no need to use "about 40 cones". A maximum of 10 should do the same! You should use for this the program "cones and (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Accessing the Shop @ Home Phone Specials.
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We often take for granted that everyone is aware of the process for accessing the LEGO Shop @ Home Specials. Today I got an e-mail from a LUGNET user that indicated they often read the S@H listing, but had no idea how to place an order. I have over (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | GFLTC at the Tampa Train Show - Dec. 20-21, 2008
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For Immediate Release Contact: Robin Werner TAMPA, FLORIDA - The Greater Florida LEGO Train Club (GFLTC) is proud to announce its participation in the Tampa Model Train Show this December 20-21, 2008 at the Florida State Fairgrounds Special Events (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.org.us.gflug, FTX)
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| | Re: Western Train with instructions
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(...) Great stuff Tim! I'm looking forward to your future additions. :-) Cheers, J.P. Manalo (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Western Train with instructions
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Hi all, I thought that it might be nice to do something for the community to finish of 2009. So I've begun a project to develop a Western Train along with some instructions. (2 URLs) BS> (URL) (as (URL)) I'll be adding new posts when I complete new (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.western, FTX) !!
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| | WTB: 80 Assorted Star Wars Minifigs
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I need about 80 Star Wars minifigs to put in goody bags for an upcoming conference. Few, if any AFOLs will be in attendance. I am fine with common figs like Luke, R2, and Chewbacca, but no battle droids please. Thank You. (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | AFOL survey by LEGO community team
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I don't know if this been posted on LUGNET. I saw this other fan sites. (URL) The LEGO Group Wants to Hear From You! As Adult Fans of LEGO, you bring an important perspective to the LEGO Group. We respect your creativity and passion for our brand. (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) Just to refresh my memory ( I haven't done any parts since 2951) The 48 primitives divide a circle in 48 straight lines, right? That would for a 60 LDU diameter mean that each straight line is approx 4 LDU's long, so using coneshapes each 4 (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | ebay - Old Brown Brick and Black Roof Bulk Blow-Out!
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I have several auctions on ebay this week (ending Saturday Dec. 13) featuring a bunch of bricks, plates and tiles in the Old Brown color. These are all new bricks still in the bags in which they were packaged and purchased several years ago. I also (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Train Layout Modules - IR Train Wheel Grip?
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(...) Hi Jason, I bought me some commercial black O-rings that are used as sealing. If i remember me right, i think that the size of the O-ring for the RC train wheels is something around : inner diameter = 14mm (d1) thikness of ring = 1,5mm (d2) (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) None I know... (...) The official way is to ask a number to a LDraw admin. That said there are numerous parts on tracker named px... (would be px210c01 here) (...) Yes you should be able to use stacked cone primitives. As Travis suggested the (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) If you do find a way to use primitives, you'll probably need to use the \48 ones. I don't think 16 segments is enough for the thicker part of the drill, and switching from one resolution to another part-way along seems like it would be tricky. (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) Not that I know of. I'll think about adding a page to the LDView web site. (I don't think it's really appropriate to add it to ldraw.org, since it's LDView-specific.) (...) The precision is 0.0001. I multiply the coordinate by 10000 and then (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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Has anyone been working on this? I used the Peeron partnumber, would that be correct? I have determined that the shape of the "body" of the drill is extremely close to 5+(x+3)^(1/1.58), does any primitives exist that are useable for such a curved (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: BayLUG in the News
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(...) Having worked with a few news outlets local to me and seeing how they can mangle the most simple facts I think it is a great article. The only negatives would be the reference to "unwashed masses" and a lack of a URL for your website. Both (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, FTX)
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| | BayLUG in the News
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Well, I'm a little disappointed. Much of what is said in the article is not what I said in the interview. Oh well. Below is the link and the article should be in print in today's Chronicle in the "96 Hours" section. (URL) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) Thanks, Travis. BTW, are there guidelines for part authors that would improve smooth shading? What about precision in coincidence between conditional lines and matching polygon sides? I have seen _many_ instances where a quad should blend into (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I looked at LDDP sources (very clear BTW!). Threshold is compared against square of cross product of each angle of quad. So it depends of size of quad to 4th power! Not very good imho, but since it works for such a long time I used the same (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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(...) MLCad keyboard controls are not supported since the user interface is totally different and parts are by far much more easy to place and connect MPD saving is not supported, but .L3B format is compatible with .LDR except for some metacommand (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Creator Adventcalender 2004 - Xmas Blog
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(...) Oooo! What fun! Thanks for sharing this. I must admit, I miss the advent calendars like this, with simple pieces because I used to enjoy designing alternate models as the days went on. Remember 1998's set 1298? wow. ten years ago now: (URL) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New 2009 sets at Lego Brand (was: New 2009 sets at Toys-R-Us!)
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(...) The Lego brand store in Burlington, MA also has a few sets from the new pirate line as of this week. I happened to be in the area, decided to buy some Christmas gifts for my best friend's kids. Honest! I had no intention of spending more money (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Brown Box Cars
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I have been meaning to build some brown ones... totally inspired by Ben Coifman. Even have the 1x4x3 brown panels in place waiting to be engraved! I added a strip, black and chocolate brown, just for good measure. Maybe I'll do another rev... maybe (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Selling Old MAERSK Ship Model
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Most of you know that Maersk is the Danish transportation company that commissioned TLG to produce several truck and ship models since 1974. The most famous Maersk LEGO models are the 2 Maersk LEGO ships. The first was the extremely expensive 1974 (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Call for event graphic submissions
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BrickFest ’09 - Portland, OR - March 27-29th, 2009 The BrickFest ’09 team invites the creative designers and artists of the AFOL community to submit graphic ideas/artwork for the official BrickFest ‘09 event graphic. It will be used on items such (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.org, lugnet.people, lugnet.general)
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| | Shop @Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, December 10, 2008, to Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Item #4939 Creator Cool Cars Retail Price $12.99 Sale Price $7.98 Item #8686 Bionicle Toa Lewa Retail Price $12.99 Sale Price $4.98 Item #8685 Bionicle Toa Kopaka Retail Price $12.99 Sale Price $4.98 Item #8687 Bionicle Toa Pohatu Retail Price (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Rendering for liberty
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(...) Nice! You could also try wrapping a real photograph of the sunset around a sphere. -Mike (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Creator Adventcalender 2004 - Xmas Blog
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Hi all, On December 1 I started a (Dutch) blog for the Creator Adventcalender from 2004. It features full building instructions for the daily model, its alternative model and downloadable LDR and PDF files. As of today, December 8 there is an (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Rendering for liberty
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I've been working on honing my skills at the whole rendering thing using many of the tools written by members of this forum and with knowledge gleaned here. I thought it was time to share! I asked my kids which model they would like me to use for a (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) It depends on what your threshold is but taking the difference (as you do in a cross product) of two big numbers is less accurate (very much so sometimes) than taking the difference of two smaller numbers. Even without this issue it means that (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) No, I just take the cross product, and if the length (squared) is 0, I give an error. I don't see how normalizing the length of the two vectors that I feed into the cross product would improve things much here. Sure, it might mean that my (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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(...) Wow! Very impressive! I will definitely have to try it out. A couple of questions: are MLCAD's keyboard controls supported? Can I export back into LDR/MPD format? What does the model tree look like? -Mike (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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--snip-- (...) I assume that you divide by the vector lengths first (as in normalise them before taking the cross-product) but if you don't then you should. Tim (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) If they're on a curved surface, you'll get higher quality out of LDView half the time if you split them into triangles. (I say half the time, because OpenGL splits them into triangles in order to render them, and half the time they'll be split (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) As far as I can see the threshold is the number of digits that are used to determine wheather a value is the same as the other. So if you use 6.0 and 6.0001 with a threshold of 0.0001 the value are interpreted to be the same. That makes sense (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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(...) Good timing on your response. We are going through the transparent colors now. I also agree that the transparent colors look washed out. I believe that the RGB values are how they would appear on a white background, but they do not render well (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Up to 25% off LEGO Sets at Amazon.com
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To All, As I was browsing my Wish list to make sure it is up to date, I saw some sets discounted, and low and behold: (URL) you can get some decent deals on sets usually not on clearance! UCS Millenium Falcon at 100.00 off, etc. Sincerely, Scott (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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Hi everybody, here is my just released new version of SR 3D Builder As usual you can download for free from (URL) many big or little news to list. Read history for detailed information Enjoy building Sergio (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's November 2008 Part of the Month Winner
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(...) Thanks, Joshua! I just hope to have more competition, from as many contestants as possible ;o) Philo (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Colinear Vertices
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I am struggling to improve Intersector that sometimes creates quads with _almost_ colinear vertices. An obvious solution is to split quads into two triangles, but this increase size of generated file. Converted the quad into a single triangle by (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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(...) Are we sure about the RGB values for the transparent colours? They look awfully washed-out to me :-( TrDkBlue in particular looks more like TrLtBlue. Alex (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | BrickFest '09 Staffing
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Hi All, Well the staff for BrickFest 09 is reaching critical mass however there are still some choice positions that need to be filled (see below). Please feel free to copy this post in its entirety to your favorite theme specific user group (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | QR 1450 Class diesel
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(URL) effort on the 1450 engine. I must say that the old blue/white colour scheme is a hell of a lot easier to do that the current maroon/gold. (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Shipping LEGO to Brickfest (and other places)
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Thanks Ted for looking into this! SteveB BrickFest '09 - See you all there! (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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(...) As it happens, I've also been experimenting with changing MLCad.cfg, and I've discovered something which may be of interest here: MLCad appears to check only that the _name_ of the colour has not been altered from its in-built setting, not the (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Battlestar galactica reference
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The series of Battle Star Galactica has finished filming and they are auctioning off the props and sets. You can download the auction guide: (URL) of good reference material there. Rob A. (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Little Blue Thing - Building Instructions!
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(...) I figured you may need to see the connections in the chest, but everything looked fine when I first saw your initial post. I was so excited! (...) I still have to look up what colors the helmuts came in. I have a black one I may use for a (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hello Eric, (...) You are right, it is easy. I had it already built, when (URL) the instructions> got moderated. But the instructions showed me where I failed in copying. They are really well done. I'm missing the helmet and the visor so I (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: How to get Dacta #9633 Pneumatics Set
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(...) Here: (URL) $250(1) (used) to $350 (MISB) - plus S&H (1) Caution: This seller has (URL) neutrals and 21 complaints> (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Little Blue Thing - Building Instructions!
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(2 URLs) The Litttle Blue Thing> Building Instructions Make your own and send a picture to mylegomaster at aol dot com and I will add your version to the LBT-by-YOU gallery. Easy to build give it a try! If any one from the CAD community would like (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.inst, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Little Blue Thing - lol idk
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(...) Wow! Marco, what a pleasant surprise! Fasssst too! We must speak the same building language, because you were able to put that together so well! Despite how simple the model is, it sure is nice to see in person! I have a little surprise of my (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hey Mark, Thanks, it was relaxing to build something and have it done in a few hours rather than a few months for a change! Mr. Jeeves seems to think it passes the bar: (URL) I would like to build the "next" step up, both in joint tech and (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Little Blue Thing - lol idk
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(...) Hey Marco, I wish I had more 2x4 wingplates, the Bloobit took up all my blue bits! If you know what I mean. So, I used some light blue 2x3 wingplates instead: (URL) Eric Sophie Legomaster Biomechanical Bricks (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: New Graphic (was New MOC: Bloobit Mecha)
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(...) Hey Mark! Thanks very much! Eric Sophie (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's November 2008 Part of the Month Winner
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(...) Um, yeah... OK. So why does this even COUNT any more? You should just assign it to Philo automatically from now on! :-) (this is more to say that Philo's efforts rock, than in any way to denigrate the contest) Philo, you and your efforts rock! (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Speed build
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(...) Thats not bad at all. Thats about 1 part every 7 seconds. From memory it took 5 hours for me.... Well Done. Steve (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Shipping LEGO to Brickfest (and other places)
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(...) From east of the Mississippi (Boston, Newark, Miami), that's $600.28 round trip for the same load. From Chicago, Denver, Dallas or Minneapolis, that's $411.82 round trip. -Ted (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: New Graphic (was New MOC: Bloobit Mecha)
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(...) I think what I appreciate most is the architecture that is going on with your design. This is really good. (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: My mechanized Maxifigure
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(...) Wow, neat stuff Marco! (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Little Blue Thing - lol idk
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(...) Great Job E. I'm checking out this little guy and like what I'm seeing. Keep working on it. It'd be great to see how you improve it. Mark (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 4.0 Beta 1 Released ***
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(...) I second that. I've been using it for all my latest renders and it's eliminated almost all hand-editing of POVray files. Top stuff! Tim (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Swelug?
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Hej! Jag quotar mig på vad jag skrivit på Legobloggen: Hej igen Johan! Bra initiativ! Jag är en AFOL och stolt över det. Det finns många AFOL´s i Sverige, problemet är att vi inte känner varandra ännu. Men som Josefin skrev så finns vi på flera (...) (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.loc.se, FTX)
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(...) Indeed, it does! (...) OK, I understand. So the information is not written in any partslist file? Jaco (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The application for Known Shipper on Alaska Airlines is one page and contains just simple stuff: name, address, phone, email, date, and signature. You must provide a copy of a utility bill. I mailed an application out yesterday (December 6) (...) (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Swelug?
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(...) Du glömde "Amen". :P Kanske handlar detta mycket om vad man är van vid. Usergroups i denna bemärkning är väl inte riktigt lika vanligt nu som det var för 15 år sedan. Så det är nog inte så många, mig inberäknat, som tänker på lugnet som (...) (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Multiple instances of CAMERA.DAT and LOOK_AT.DAT
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(...) Knowing where the look_at point is actually located is necessary with certain camera types and if you want to do things like add focal blur. Also, it would be needlessly difficult for users to have to try and calculate the proper rotation (...) (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego MechWarrior
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(...) I have no idea what happened to their site, but according to the Wayback Machine (<www.archive.org>), the last update made to their site was on Sep 03, 2004. It appears that their site 'disappeared' off the live internet sometime in October (...) (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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(...) A "version" meta tag might work too. It could be used for any part--not just betas. IIRC, some parts were already released as "official" parts, but were updated at some later point in time for one reason or another. -Mike (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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