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(...) Would you believe that I ran out of the parts used in the non-orange leg and fudged it? Or perhaps it is a leg warmer? Or maybe it is corrosion from being left out too long? Maybe some leaked turbo-fuel crystalized along the leg, stopped the (...) (15 years ago, 24-Mar-10, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: New Robot: V. I. Rooster
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What's the significance of the orange in the 1 leg? David (15 years ago, 24-Mar-10, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Where does one post LEGO creations anymore? Well, I'm trying here! A new robot that I named V. I. Rooster cuz he has a red thing on his head. (URL) BTW, if you found the flickr pic via Lugnet, leave a comment telling me! Let's bring the Lug' BACK! (15 years ago, 24-Mar-10, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Linked from leocad.org: (URL) (15 years ago, 24-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Swanberg only got 13 months, back in 2006. Surely he's back out of the Big House. This story made me think more about the Pilchers, personally... (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) I've been using LDraw for about 8 months now (as a very casual user), and it's taken quite a while to get into it. I'm mainly using MLCAD to create/edit models and using POV-Ray to render stuff. Here's my take on it... I think the key thing is (...) (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I had no idea LeoCAD was that feature-rich. Looking closer, I see LeoCAD is hosted on google code, which implies it's an open source project. But I can't find any code anywhere... is LeoCAD open-source? Remi (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) No, this is definitely not true. LeoCAD is AFAIK at least as powerful as MLCad. BlockCAD is the most limited of the pack, but also the easiest to use. When I google for "lego cad" I get: LDraw LeoCAD techbricks' link page containing links to (...) (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Crypt - 7079 Drawbridge Defence alternate model [DAT]
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thanks, as always, to developers and maintainers of ldraw!! 0 Crypt - 7079 Drawbridge Defence alternate model 0 may include unofficial parts 0 WRITE Author: Joseph Gonzalez (c) 2010 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION (...) (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 7079 Drawbridge Defence
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With quivering hand the figure grabs at the scorched and blackened ulna and continues scratching out the summoning hexagram into the cool, hard ground. Initially startled by the seeming shift of shadows and sudden change in room atmosphere, he (...) (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Maybe he'll get to share a cell with William Swanberg... (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés lundi 22 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 ---...--- ** 7684 - La porcherie et le tracteur ** par Manu (...) (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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US thieves sentenced after boasting on TV show March 22, 2010 A US couple who boasted on a TV show they made as much as $3,500 (£2,318) a week by selling shoplifted toys online have been sentenced to prison terms. Matthew Eaton, 34, got 27 months in (...) (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) The ones I typically visit (ClassicSpace.com, CrownVic.net, and etc.) all visually show threads with new responses in another color. Some even show you how many new replies there have been since I last visited. It's easy to see what to click (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Have you ever tried it ??????? Philo (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Yes, I agree! New generations looks at what I call 'vapor-ware'! The look is the most important think they watch. When I recreate my website, changing the look but not the contents, I got a 10-20% increased access. On the other side, the (...) (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Chat Room?
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(...) Well, at least I'm not against giving it a try. /Tore (15 years ago, 23-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well yes, but it's not open source nor "free software" in the GNU sense. (...) I don't know has it ever died but I myself have seen newbies come and go on #kvirc on freenode. It is around, that's for sure. (...) I checked the freenode policies (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) As a data point, IRC is used extensively for helping out with WikiMedia Foundation related stuff. A fair bit of the traffic in some IRC channels is bot traffic (some bots posting changes, other bots examining the changes and reverting (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It still exists, believe it or not (being actively using it "ever since"). But... my perception is that it's mostly the "same old" users keeping it alive, and a few occasional new ones dropping in. There are 72708 currently active clients on (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw Chat Room?
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(...) Yes, didn't I? Almost twice as long as your post... ;) (...) Isn't MLCad freeware? I didn't know that. But then again, I'm not an MLCad user. I don't know about a dedicated LDraw chat. Would it really be populated? There's nothing that stops (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Does LDD's LDraw importer actually work?
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(...) FWIW, 1) I run LEGO Digital Designer 3.0.11 under Windows 7 2) I chose Creator Freebuild (shouldn't matter with this test) 3) I executed menu: File | Import 4) Picked exported.dat off my desktop (how I saved this text, using notepad) (note (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Does LDD's LDraw importer actually work?
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--snip-- (...) Well it's definitely not overlap then. I assume that both coloured 1x1s exist too... Did you try removing the superfluous fractional digits? I'm relying on hunches here and don't have LDD installed but I do remember weird problems to (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson wrote a big lengthy post. Maybe we could have a chat channel for LDraw? I myself would suggest of creating an IRC channel for users to sit, ask help for and just chat in. As LDraw itself is free software (even though (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This is the file that LDD exported: 0 exported 0 Author: LEGO Digital Designer 3.0 1 71 -190 -24 -190.0000152587890625 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3005.dat 1 14 170 -24 210.0000152587890625 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3005.dat The two bricks are about 20 studs (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) First, let me make it clear that I am not a supporter of this policy (the fact that I have to write "policy" makes me feel a tad ill, to be honest). I was reporting, not defending. You quoted the most relevant portion of what I wrote. "The (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've never had it properly confirmed but I'm fairly certain the problem with import is that the overlap detection is way too overzealous. Which means that when you read in a file it decides the parts conflict and can't be there. It's (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) How widespread a problem is that, though? I know that some parts do indeed have two numbers, but this would seem a glitch that should have been resolved eight or more years ago, no? I mean, when you can turn a brick over and say "Yep, it's a (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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I recently had a Bricksmith user write asking for help importing an LDraw file into LDD. (He was using LDraw because LDD made it very difficult to build his model.) But when he attempts to import the LDraw file, he sees at most the first brick of (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: Developing LDBoxer Again
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(...) Thanks, Tim! Along with a couple of bug fixes, support for the two other categories is now implemented. Right now, I'm creating the studless parts for the \B folder. Without them, LDBoxer would still not be able to boxer them. /Tore (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) --snip-- (...) This sounds like an excellent development. I had to hand alter some of my Boxer'd MOCs to get the bottom detailing back in. And I think I forgot some. Tim (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a really good explanation of why the 'rules and regulations' have grown alongside the part library and software. Tim (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) I wanted to make sure people weren't turned away from LeoCAD because they might think they'd be dependent on third parties to provide a parts library, that's just not true, so people SHOULD check it out. It's certainly my LCAD tool of choice (...) (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | BrickHelper v1.1 released
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Hi guys, Just thought I would announce the release of BrickHelper v1.1. This is my utility program that lets you list the parts inventory of creations made in LDD, and export that inventory to a Bricklink wanted list, which you can then upload to (...) (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Nod. But if the people responsible for LUGNET don't want it to gradually fade away and become even less relevant, changes are needed. Without them, other sections won't return either. I note that there's a facebook discussion group started on (...) (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDBoxer Available at SourceForge
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(...) I've played around a little with my old LDBoxer program. The new version auto-boxes a lot more safe-to-box parts than previous versions. Added support for parts without studs and parts without bottom details (URL) Replace button is made (...) (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Yes that is correct, but importing the files is not using them directly, as most other LDraw programs do. And for folks that have multiple parts folders, that can make a big difference. ROSCO (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) LeoCAD directly imports LDRAW parts. There's no need to wait for an update of its database. It is as simple as downloading from the parts tracker, and then importing into LeoCAD itself. Some folks don't like to manage parts at that level, but (...) (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Welcome back. My issue with that is that it's out of the hands of LDraw. It's hard to expect the people responsible for LUGNET to make big changes when it's pretty much just one small section that is active. Tim (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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In lugnet.cad, Dave Schuler wrote: --snip-- (...) I think I see a bit better what you were getting at (and what Tore is getting at too which is the same issue I think). I kind of do agree with you both that making new parts is too hard due in part (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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