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(...) In response to my conversation with Tom Beattie concerning using Anton Raves' parts with L3P or LDView, I decided it would be a good idea to create a repository to hold the include files. I've placed this library on my website at the location (...) (15 years ago, 25-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: The RTS Zavala Steamship-of-War
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(...) Sorry I'm so late to the party, but I've been, well, long story. Anyway, this is beautiful, Kurt. Very lovely, and I particularly like the gallery and sail cuts. Now we only must wean you from using hull sections... LFB (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Queen Mary 2 - Making-of
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Rene- Thanks for sharing this. It's always nice to see how people tackle these curvy problems! LFB (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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| | Does everyone live in the Pac NW? (besides Sandlin)
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Hi Ben, Another person in the right neighborhood. Odd how that works. LFB (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.or.eug)
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| | Re: Oh man.
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(...) The ship is still in existence. Rubbermaid actually now makes a bin that's something like 55 gallons, which can actually hold sections. But yeah, transportation sucked. (...) Aw, rats, I cannot remember our roller bearing discussion relative (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.or.eug, FTX)
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| | Re: 8879 no more?
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(...) I had the train reverse on me too, but it was only when the speed was close to zero. So, I assumed I had just clicked twice, and gone from +1 to -1. The issue about losing signals due to line-of-site communication has another side to it. If (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LD4DStudio sample suggestions
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(...) Thanks, actually I did cheat a bit. I made sure the cylinder heads are perpendicular to the crankShaft. With that in place the motion comes down to fairly basic geometry. First step is to calculate the pistonRound angle by reducing the whole (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LD4DStudio sample suggestions
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(...) The linear portion of the crank is easy enough (rotation around fixed axis). But the connecting rods have to have one end stay connected to the crank and the other end stay coincident with the axis of a cylinder. This means they need both an (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassador Cycle 7 now open
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(...) Same here. I know that Stacy Sterling attended it and was a 'Table Lead' for both the LEGO Serious Play and WomenBuild. I will ask her to add her thoughts here. -Dave ToT-LUG (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: LDD to LDraw conversion?
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(...) Thanks, that did it. There are still a number of unidentified files/parts, but the model appears to be all there. The placement of the parts is not very precise: lots of (small) gaps between bricks. Jetro (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | A Seven-Year Old Boy’s Top Secret LEGO Plans
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Here is today's news from Wired Magazine. A Seven-Year Old Boy’s Top Secret LEGO Plans By Jonathan Liu Email Author June 24, 2009 | 7:30 am | Categories: People, Toys and Technology Seven-year-old Quaid Guarino has been in the news lately for (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LD4DStudio sample suggestions
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(...) lol, i went for the first one (small 1.3MB gif fragment): (URL) full version will be a sample with the beta 2 version. That big V8 engine is awesome though, maybe I'll try to animate it some time, have to figure out a more dynamic script for (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Bricks by the Bay Status Update
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Bricks by the Bay, the first ever LEGO convention for northern California, will be held on April 9-11, 2010 in Fremont, California. See (URL) for more information. We have announced a contest for the logo for the 2010 convention. See the (URL) logo (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.events, FTX) !
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| | Re: LD4DStudio sample suggestions
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(...) Well, let's see it then! Is it a Technic V-8 engine like this: (URL) or did you really get enthusiastic and do (URL) this> one? (URL) Eric (URL) Technicopedia> (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LD4DStudio sample suggestions
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Hello all, I just completed a new sample (Technic v8 engine) while hunting for bugs. And while wondering what to do next I thought maybe some of you have suggestions on things they would like see in a sample. Maybe demonstrating some aspect of the (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Kmart Toy sale
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(...) Thanks for the heads up! Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Kmart Toy sale
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(...) sports car $10 campervan $23 Tow truck $16 Garage $108 Separatist shuttle $46 City Corner $78 Helicopter transport $46 (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Kmart Toy sale
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Prices that i have so far are: 10195 republic dropship $349 Also spotted today at Kmart set 7642 garage - $139 and set 8402 sports car - $13 (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Help working the Non-CA and L(EGO)Draw parts queue
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(...) Thx for pointing to - must have slipped my eagle eyes ;-) w. PS. And thx for polishing the Mechanical Arm Straight. (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassador Cycle 7 now open
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(...) Anyone want to chime in on the Serious Play presentation? I got busy with other activities that I missed it. :( --Mike. (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 25 through 35. 25: Cleanup in the util subdirectory - Updated lnpmsg to more cleanly handle and process command-line arguments - Removed in (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Pirate Wars??
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(...) Hi Paul, The group you want is lugnet.pirates. The root of all Pirate games is Evil Stevie's Pirate Game. Find it at (URL). I've run a couple rounds of Evil Stevie's. It's a lot of fun, here's a write-up of one session: (URL). There are (at (...) (15 years ago, 23-Jun-09, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: Summer's Bridge Study 24
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Super! I always enjoy seeing your Bridge Studies. Oooh the supports on this one look great! Really nice to see your work. Best regards, Eric Sophie (15 years ago, 23-Jun-09, to lugnet.build)
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| | Pirate Wars??
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Can someone point me to a resource on Lego Pirate wargames? I vaguely remember that sort of thing happening at one convention or another... Thanks, Paul Sinasohn BAYLUG LUGNET #115 (15 years ago, 23-Jun-09, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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| | Re: 8879 no more?
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(...) I'd say it's no biggie since you can just keep turning the orange knob until you're happy with the speed. A bigger problem would be that the 8879 I had a chance to play with a while back (I'm still waiting for mine, ordered within 12 hours of (...) (15 years ago, 23-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet� design.
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(...) Hi Mathew, It took me a while scrutinizing your pictures to finally figure out how you made the vertical supports for the side railings on your engine--it's brilliant! I hope you don't mind if I steel your design. Since my original post here, (...) (15 years ago, 23-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help working the Non-CA and L(EGO)Draw parts queue
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(...) This one is also on the parts tracker: (URL) (15 years ago, 22-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Summer's Bridge Study 24
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It's been a while but I'm back. And now that it is officially summer, what better way to kick things off than with a summer study- Study 24. Not the longest or tallest bridge (H=24.5", L=73"), it is the first to really use schleim/SNOT not just for (...) (15 years ago, 23-Jun-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !!
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| | Re: LDD to LDraw conversion?
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(...) Not all parts that LDD have are also modeled as LDraw files. This could be one reason. There is also a file called LDRAW.XML that contains the conversion informations. Maybe you should update that file. Please see here:(URL) (15 years ago, 22-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD to LDraw conversion?
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(...) D'oh that's really simple... or not so simple. I tried toe xport some of the base models LDD has and only about 2/3 of the pieces actually turned up in the resulting LDraw file :P Jetro (15 years ago, 21-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD to LDraw conversion?
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(...) There should be an option 'File' - 'Export Model' and then choose the right file format 'Ldraw-Files (*.ldr)' and you have what you are looking for. That is what I do in my version 2.3.19 of LDD. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 21-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Reverse Ratio torus naming convention
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I have endorsed the Primitive Generator's naming convention for "reverse ratio" tori (toruses) with a minor update to the Primtives Reference ((URL) of the form r{ff}o{rrrr}.dat represent the outer section of a torus where the minor radius is (...) (15 years ago, 21-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Reverse torus naming convention
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I have endorsed the Primitive Generator's naming convention for "reverse ratio" tori (toruses) with a minor update to the Primtives Reference ((URL) of the form r{ff}o{rrrr}.dat represent the outer section of a torus where the minor radius is (...) (15 years ago, 21-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | LDD to LDraw conversion?
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I've seen the tutorial at LDraw.org about imprting an LDraw file into LDD, but can the opposite be done? I'd like to open an LDD file in order to make a decent render with LDView. Jetro (15 years ago, 21-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Toyworld sale now on
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Not oo much in the discount price department but i did manage to get my 8038 endor base $199. They also had the new castle sets exclusive apparently for now at shop@home prices 7097 Troll mountain $149, 7079 drawbridge defense $69.99, 7078 Battle (...) (15 years ago, 21-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Can anyone get these parts to intersect at right angles in LDD?
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(...) IIRC, what I did was copy-paste the opposite end of that moonbase module. (...) That is certainly doable. However, I have more pressing matters to attend, and my knowledge of computational geometry (or lack of) could pose a problem. Those (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Mesh Enhancer
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Hello Eric. Wow!!! Talk about teaching a man to fish!! Well I followed all the instructions and presto... In my enjoyment, I put paid to another rendering bug bear, the 6 x 6 Inverted Dish. (URL) It's now a gloriously smooth (URL) The process of (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Help working the Non-CA and L(EGO)Draw parts queue
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(...) (URL) already on the PT mikeheide (15 years ago, 19-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Help working the Non-CA and L(EGO)Draw parts queue
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(...) (15 years ago, 19-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Mesh Enhancer
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(...) This all sounds very familiar. I only started rendering myself late last year, and I also struggled through all of these questions. Hopefully I will be able to answer most of them so you can get through it more quickly! (...) OK, as you have (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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