 | | GBDX - Las Vegas 2007
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(URL) Youtube> (URL) Flickr> This was built in summer 2007 by Dan Parker's LEGO studio in Tacoma, WA. The model was created for a human resources convention in Las Vegas. The client had just acquired another company and wanted the merger to be the (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) LPub knows what parts are added at each step. LPub could find the min/max locations of all parts added and have the look at coordinate be (min_x+max_x)/2, (min_y+max_y)/2, (min_z+max_z)/2. This would give a general idea of where to look. One (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) Thanks, Dave. It is also quite sturdy, which is the real reason why I built it. I was running (URL) Trolley> around the tree, but our English Mastiff (URL) kept objecting!> (URL) I needed (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Into The Frozen North
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(...) It's beautiful, Tony. Should have been on the calendar! Now I'm reticent to post my version.... (URL) JOHN (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) Any part can only have one category. The complete text of the !CATEGORY statement takes precedence. If there is no !CATEGORY line, the first word (ignoring any initial ~ or _) of the decription should be used as the category. A !CATEGORY line (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés dimanche 6 décembre 2009
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Set 7747, le transport de l'éolienne ** par Pierre (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Into The Frozen North
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The next installment in my Sava Railways Scenic Tours photo series: "Into The Frozen North" (URL) Image is a link. A heavily photoshopped version of an older picture of my (URL) Polar Express MOC>. --Tony (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) Nicely done! The complexity of the build is masked by the simple look of it all--I love it Dave K (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains)
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| | GFLUG at Tampa Train Show - Dec 19-20, 2009
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For Immediate Release Contact: Robin Werner TAMPA, FLORIDA - The Greater Florida LEGO Users Group (GFLUG) is proud to announce its participation in the Tampa Model Train Show this December 19-20, 2009 at the Florida State Fairgrounds Special Events (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, 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: Color page updated
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(...) OK, I'll update my programs to use this algoritm for colors not stated in ldconfig.ldr /Lars (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) SKIPPING "C:\LDraw\ldconfig.ldr" Line 40: Illegal color code: 0 !COLOUR Main_Color CODE 16 VALUE #7F7F7F EDGE #333333 SKIPPING "C:\LDraw\ldconfig.ldr" Line 54: Illegal color code: 0 !COLOUR Edge_Color CODE 24 VALUE #7F7F7F EDGE #333333 WARNING (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: txt2dat 0.2.3 released
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(...) Voila! Mac universal binary now available at the above link for download! ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 4.1 Released ***
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(...) I like a computer graphic. I make models for rotating it in LDView not for instructions :) . This is a huge work. Thank you, Travis. (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | *** LDView Version 4.1 Released ***
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LDView 4.1 is now available for download from the LDView downloads page here: (URL) Some notable changes: Curve smoothing in POV-Ray exports. Customizable toolbar on Windows and Mac versions. Note: the default toolbar is now missing some features (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) If I've understood it correctly, !CATEGORY precedes title in order of importance. So the shield is a Minifig Accessory. (if it didn't, why there would be that category entry.. ?) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Steam Through the Piney Woods
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(...) .. (...) Tony- Just a beautiful scene in every way. -Ted (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) I like to draw your attention to the following part which is only a sample: (URL) the guidelines in the FAQ and the Article 340 (see above) then this part belongs to the "Minifig" category as this is the first word of the description. But (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ad for Honda Jazz using virtual bricks
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(...) Apparently they're Mega Bloks by design: (URL) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: World's smallest pneumatic walker...?
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WOW, Just fantastic! great job. Chris (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | LDConfig Manager 1.0
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Because of the current discussion about the LDConfig.ldr I needed a tool to visualisise all the used colors. So I just coded LDConfig Manager. It is far from beeing complete and maybe buggy, but it works for me. Maybe you are also interested in (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) The Nerd Herd cars are never smeared with sooty grease that I can recall. Utterly destroyed, on occassion, but otherwise they are clean and pristine. (...) Did I say functional model steam locomotives? Because I meant the kind that can flatten (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) I'm gonna explain (and quit afterwards) why I hesitate adding new and old - what I call "MLCad" - colors to the LDConfig.ldr file: * The current LDConfig.ldr contains only colors you'll find in official LEGO Bricks (with two exceptions (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: World's smallest pneumatic walker...?
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(...) And it's an hexapod in this size!!! (...) A tough challenge indeed. Congratulations! Philo (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | LEGOLAND® Malaysia plan to open in 2012
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LEGOLAND® Malaysia plan to open in 2012. Blocks In Place For LEGOLAND at Iskandar. SINGAPORE, Dec. 3, 2009 — Construction of Asia’s first LEGOLAND theme park — a US$200 million (RM675 million) project featuring 40 different rides and attractions — (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.legoland, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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--snip-- (...) I remember how pleased I was with the brown 1x2 brick and 1x2 plate I got as horse filler back in the 80s. And green was what baseplates and trees came in. I can just remember when grey was rare. Of course those lucky dogs in the LEGO (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Ad for Honda Jazz using virtual bricks
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(URL) that the video description mentions Mega Bloks even though they are virtual... ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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| | World's smallest pneumatic walker...?
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...well, the smallest I can manage, anyway. Of course, I am hoping to see some challenges to this claim! :) Fully automatic - needs only an air supply. Uses two small cylinders and two switches. Roughly 9x9x12 studs in size. I found the small (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) Dood! Model railroaders go to great lengths to get that "weathered look!" (URL) When I was with the GMLTC, we did a show that featured an amazing guy who scratch-built these beautiful 8" gauge live steam locos. They were unfreaking believable! (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) The painted silver parts can take a certain amount of abuse (I mean, the stuff doesn't flake off when you rub it, so...), and simply tipping over probably isn't enough to do much damage unless it's at high speed on, say, some sort of natural (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) I thought "Minifigure Accessory" was already an official category. (URL) haven't gotten around to implementing support for the !CATEGORY directive yet, though. I still just read the first word of the description for the category. (...) Is (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Recreating Vision Center in RoboLab 4.9
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I am working on recreating Vision Center vi in RoboLab 4.9. Currently my Vision Center vi: Threshold, MorphOpen, MorphClose, MorphProperOpen, MorphProperClose, MorphThin and Invert causes a clear outline in the build window. When I try to recreate (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Official alternative model of set 8671
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(...) I hunted down the old LEGO racers site on the web archive (www.archive.org), and found it there, and then deciphered what the old link must have been when it was "available" from www.LEGO.com, and found that the file is still available and in (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) Lol, just bustin' your chops! (URL) (...) Yup. I took on the "dark blue" challenge with (URL) this trolley>. Ahh, the good old days. Remember when orange was new? Or how about green. JOHN (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) I'm not sure what you mean by this. Both LDView and ldglite have ways to share the coordinates used for a particular viewpoint. Something like this: (URL) do you just want a way to set the "look at" point on the command line. I believe that's (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) I assure you any laying down of challenges was entirely unintentional ;) (...) Hah! You're going to have a really fun time detailing that one. There's a certain charm to building in the metallic colours. It's like dark blue in the good old (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Official alternative model of set 8671
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(...) Thanks Joshua. How did you find out the link to that? (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) Hm... wouldn't it be relatively easy to implement (yet effective) just to have the possibility to define the crop window for a certain assembly step? That would then work independently on the renderer. And if the coordinates were given in % (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | txt2dat 0.2.3 released
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Version 0.2.3 of txt2dat has been released, you can download it (URL). Changes in this version: Upgraded to Freetype 2.3.11 Fixed -f option to generate "0 Name:" instead of "0 FILE" as per Ldraw spec. Thanks Philo! Added -g option to generate glyph (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) I guess I dropped that ball. Someone contacted me about Lunix patches for LPub, and I ignored them. I should have encouraged him to put those patches onto sourceforge himself and join the team. I'll work on that. (...) Kevin (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) In the case of L3P and POV-Ray, there was the ability for look at coordinates so that you could control what is the center of the viewed image. If such a mechanism were to exist in LDView and LDGLite, LPub could support that. This combined (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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