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(...) Possibly so but I'm of the opinion that those that make and share the parts are entitled to some narcissism. And I speak having done minimal part authoring in quite some time (due to laziness) so it's not self-interest at work. --snip-- Your (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Developing LDBoxer Again
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After seven years of thinking and hesitating, I have decided to improve my utility progam LDBoxer. There are lots of room for improvements, but to begin with, I will fix a couple of bugs I have discovered. Then I will focus on making two new (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I more meant that it de-motivates me from remaking parts if I don't get the proper credit for them! I'm a human being - I want credit for what I do. But maybe "de-motivating" is the bad word for it. Maybe "annoying" is better there. But I just (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Non-issues to you, perhaps. To an outsider, they are symptomatic of a big exercise in narcissism. Decades ago, when I was without a tv but hoping to see the "Spock" episode of ST:TNG, a friend and I went to Penn State's Star Trek club. They (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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--snip-- (...) Please excuse ne while I become really blunt ;) That information isn't there for the end users. It's there for the people volunteering their time to make the parts. As Philo said it's very easy to add automatically with DATHeader and (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Is it really...??? Anyway, the average LDraw user will never see the Author line or the History ones! I definitely don't subscribe to the all legalese line we see today (in LDraw or in real life!). To me, it's just something that must be done. (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's 100% fair, and I wouldn't expect them to base any policy decisions on a platform that hasn't changed in 13+ years. The number of people who still use it as their primary interface can probably be counted on one hand. The main reason (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) LEdit's pretty much outdated these days. It doesn't support the LDConfig colours, nor can it edit MPD:s and the LSC is not taking it too seriously when making choices. (at least I'm not..) (...) I agree here partially. I too think that some (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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For whatever reason, I've never made the shift to MLCad or other platforms, and I've been served very well James Jessiman's foundation programs. Lars Hassing's L3Lab and Kevin Klague's LPub have been invaluable as well, but everything I do that's (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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--snip-- (...) I must admit that I hadn't realised it was so hard to post now. That, IMO, means we need somewhere new to discuss LDraw. If new people can't easily post in discussions then we are killing fresh discussion and that is a very bad move. (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés jeudi 18 mars 2010
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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 ---...--- ** Règle de mesure d'unités LEGO. ** par Jac le 18 (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Maker Faire is coming to metro Detroit! Call for makers opened
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(URL) Maker Faire main logo> (URL) Maker Faire> is an event created by (URL) Make Magazine> to "celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset." Maker Faire has been held in the Bay Area (SF, California) (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) Hmmm, did you click "Reply" so quickly that you missed the very next sentence in the previous post where it said, "I think you've just been here too long"? Like many of us, you've been here forever. So perhaps you don't realize that it's (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You must have done something to make it that hard for you to use Lugnet. I just click "Reply", write my response, click "Preview" and "Post". Everything else is already filled out. Play well, Jacob (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Film Festival in conjunction with Brick Magic
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I am a bit LUGNet challenged but maybe this will work. Just wanted to announce that there will be a LEGO filmfest held in conjunction with BrickMagic. It will be on Wednesday, May 5th at the Carolina Theater in Durham. I am posting this because the (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: GMLTC to display at La Crosse & Three Rivers Model Railroad Show
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Look at me! I move so fast I'm a blur! /lol/ (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Michiana-LTC to display at St. Joseph Valley Railroad Club Swap Meet - Sunday, March 21st, 2010
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Type: Train Show and Swap Meet Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010 Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm Location: BPOE Lodge 235 Address: 3535 McKinley Ave, South Bend, IN The Saint Joe Valley Model Railroad club sponsors two swap meets a year. At our meet you will see (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.org.us.michiana-lug, lugnet.announce)
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(...) <much goodness of newsreaders deleted to save space> While true, most newer Internet users don't have a clue what a Newsreader is. That's because Newsreaders are mostly used by Usenet users and Usenet (at least the groups I read) is dying. In (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickMagic: Motorized LEGO Boat Race
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(...) "have fun, not to exclude anyone", that's a great answer all by itself. Yes, I'm trying to keep my question very specific to keep that 'can of worms' closed. Since the RC Car race looks to be open to the public, but is happening Friday night, (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) We'd like for contestants to be AFOLs, simply because of potential water damage to electromechanical items; but we'd consider making exceptions. 'Simple heats' (not 'heaps') are geared more towards younger contestants -- a boat haul & a few (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) I have to ask if this is open to all ages ? I noticed that the RC Car Race for Friday night that was just posted on the Brickmagic site is for 16yr and younger only, no AFOLs. Totally understand the links to previous boat races was a all age (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego City Police Car - 7236
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(...) Maybe you are just looking for mpd files for official files? Then please try (URL) There are more than 900 mpd files for download from official sets. I did not remember how good they are (maybe missing parts at the time I build). cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | WHaCKOLuG - March, Sunday the 21st.
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Whale and Ale Pub Victoria St. Kitchener 6 pm (ish) Build challenge, "Spring has Sprung"... no limit on piece count or size. Hope to see you all there. Janey Red Brick (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: Datsville Rev030 - Added Tim's DB425 Train and more
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(...) And here's a rendering with Tim's Train entering the station (URL) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Thanks for the offer Remi. I have my own personal webspace that I also use to test out LDraw.org ideas and a server running locally on my laptop so I can develop without an internet connection. -Orion (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Datsville Rev030 - Added Tim's DB425 Train and more
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In lugnet.cad.dat.models, Tore Eriksson wrote: The new revision of my unofficial Datsville is available at: (URL) even more of an "in progress" version than usual since big changes at several places are in progress. rev030 - 2010-03-18 Town-20.ldr: (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) This sounds promising. Doesn't seem very actively developed anymore, but then it's used here: (URL) you're interested, I've got some webspace where I can set up a test phorum, give you full access to try out & play with. I'm also proficient in (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Also threads with recent discssion are marked visually as being such and there's an Active Topics list available next to View New Posts. I'm going to be a little stirring here and suggest that possibly many of the same people demanding that (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Group discussion comments are very searchable ((URL) Image comments aren't which I agree can be frustrating. And flickr is very good at telling you where there is activity. Which isn't to say it's a good place to discuss LDraw. It is not. The (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe you're missing the 'login' part? When you're logged in you get a link "View new posts" on top right under the banner. You can also (when logged in) select the "Options" menu in the upper right (although a bit lower than the other link) (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mardi 16 mars 2010
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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 ---...--- ** Une LGV pour nos trains LEGO ** par Denis HUOT, (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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(...) I have trouble navigating Eurobricks because it requires so much scrolling and clicking on <next> links to find things. I mean, how do you find your way to a particular post when there are 318 *pages* and you have to scroll through them all to (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Shop @ Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, March 17, 2010 to Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
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Item # 9833 LEGO® Mindstorm Transformer 9 Volt Retail Price: $23.99 Sale Price: $4.98 (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I tend to agree with you... Anyway it may be OK to post images (though I don't like the way we are supposed to browse them), but it's definitely not a place for serious discussion, as comments are not searchable. Philo (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) I toyed with this a few years back: (URL) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry, but I'm a little slow. Was it at LUGNET or Eurobricks you couldn't find your way back to that topic? /Tore (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Really? I kinda like to browse Eurobricks. Lots going on there, with plenty of great pictures. Once I tried to help someone with lsynth and then (I'm embarassed to say) I couldn't find my way back to that topic the next day. Even logged in I (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego City Police Car - 7236
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(...) There is no single list, but there are some links here: (URL) Eric Albrecht's Technicopedia has Ldraw files for many Technic sets: (URL) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Not sure which forums you visit but they must be unusually obtuse. Just about everywhere I visit tells you which threads have new posts since you last visited and an unread topics page. --snip-- (...) Tim (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Err, how am I supposed to remember which "dozens of threads" I visited yesterday? Most "forum" software seems pretty aggressive about not showing visited/unvisited links. I don't spend a lot of time in forums, but the only useful one I've (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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