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(...) Thanks I glad you liked it:) as for the population well.. you know how it is LEGO WORLDS are full with weirdos :) (14 years ago, 27-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés dimanche 26 septembre 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 ---...--- ** Fana'briques 2010 ** par Erik "brickerik" (...) (14 years ago, 27-Sep-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Wedding Bells
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(URL) --Tony (14 years ago, 27-Sep-10, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder 0.5.5.3 - FLEX part anticipation
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(...) This is absolutely wonderful! I love the WYSIWYG nature of your hosing mechanism, especially the instantaneous feedback of where the hoses go. I also really like how you can control the length of the hose between any two "constraints" (that is (...) (14 years ago, 26-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder 0.5.5.3 - FLEX part anticipation
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(...) I know... I'm working on it... (14 years ago, 26-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder 0.5.5.3 - FLEX part anticipation
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(...) With Tabs and Chain? What would be really awesome but much more technically challenging would be cloth items. Keep up the great work. -Orion (14 years ago, 26-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder 0.5.5.3 - FLEX part anticipation
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(...) I sure do! very impressive... though it seems that the air will have a hard time going through the first yellow tube ;o) (14 years ago, 26-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Geneva wheel or Geneva mechanism
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(...) Excellent! I enjoyed the video. (14 years ago, 26-Sep-10, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | SR 3D Builder 0.5.5.3 - FLEX part anticipation
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Hi, here is a new video anticipating my application next release Hope you like it Sergio (URL) (14 years ago, 25-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces [DAT]
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(...) is inset a little way and this stud only juts out by 1 or 2 LDU at most. I find I can get a reasonable facsimile of the interior by using this set of primitives: 1 16 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 13 4-4edge.dat 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 (...) (14 years ago, 25-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Edger2 update
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(...) LETGUI is now updated to work with Edger2 version 1.3. Complete package (LETGUI and all tools) can be downloaded from (URL) here> cu mikeheide (14 years ago, 24-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | 2 day TRU sale
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TRU flyer this week is mainly a 2 day sale, Friday September 24 and Saturday September 25. Buy 1 get 1 1/2 price on all $19.99 video games. The flyer shows Nintendo DS LEGO Batman. As well they have a "summer blowout!" Save an additional 20% off (...) (14 years ago, 24-Sep-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Edger2 update
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(URL) Primitives such as partial cylinders or spheres have conditional lines on edge. For cylinders, these integrated conditional lines are expected to match a tangent plane, for spheres they match a joining cylinder. If you try to join something (...) (14 years ago, 24-Sep-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Another Castle:)
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(...) Lovely job on the detailing! I really like the carriage and the performers. I have to say, though, that you have a very strange population at your castle! :-) -Chris Gray (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle)
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| | SMART meeting this Saturday, September 25, 2-5pm
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I just got confirmation that we will be able to use the new Michelangelo auditorium in the *new* DigiPen facilities for our meetings this year, starting with this Saturday's meeting. The meeting starts at 2pm, and goes to 5pm. Please note the new (...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Big lot of 9v train sets for sale!
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Hello everyone! For sometime I have been sitting on a pile of Lego 9v train sets that I had planned to set up, but never did. Time to move on! I'd like to sell everything as one lot, for $600US. Email me if interested, joe_botATverizonDOTnet. Here's (...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) Hmmm, it seems to me that any algorithm that can find the missing Type 5 lines (in order to create the dummy entries) should be able to find *all* of the Type 5 lines. Some missing lines is just a special case of all missing. So just include (...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) Actually, no. That is indeed a long-term goal, but it is hampered by two things. First of all, it's a lot of work. Secondly, the current algorithm is actually useful to part authors, since it can visually highlight missing conditional lines. (...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: NEW LEGO Forum.
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(...) ZING! That is all. JOHN (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: NEW LEGO Forum.
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(...) Right under the post if you use the web interface ;) Tim (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NEW LEGO Forum.
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(...) Where's the "like" button on lugnet? (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NEW LEGO Forum.
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(...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.general) !!
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| | Legomaster Summer 2010
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Hey all, I just finished up the summer series of shows in the County Parks called the Kids Kingdom (NJ). Here are some of the links to the photos: (URL) This picture is to funny! June 5th (URL) Cedar Brook Park> (Youtube Video) July 10th (URL) (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.nj, FTX)
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| | Re: Geneva wheel or Geneva mechanism
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Very clever! I myself have been playing around with those quarter circle bricks, great to see what you did! You are right, the mechanism works well, both directions! Eric Sophie Legomaster Biomechanical Bricks (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Tipoca Outpost 930
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I very much enjoyed seeing all of your recent works. Please keep building and posting your MOCs, they are always interesting to see. My offer still stands to join me during an exhibit so more people can enjoy your creations in person. yours, Eric (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Geneva wheel or Geneva mechanism
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In lugnet.technic, Jetro de Chateau wrote: I now have a small movie on YouTube. I wasn't able to upload it on Brickshelf... (URL) Here is a link to my Brickshelf folder: (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NEW LEGO Forum.
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(...) Super. So... why not talk here? (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) Unfortunately it messes up unless you inlude FTX line breaks, or fixed code box characters (pipe). Unfortunately, both make it harder for people using email or newsreaders, so probably best to do it as you did, browsers can just click "View (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) Sorry for that ;o) But (fortunately) here are very few twisted surfaces in LEGO pieces, so I don't think my tool has created too much havoc... (...) Problem is that at this low level I have almost no information about the intended geometry - I (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) So do I... That's why I love Sculptris that has a wonderfully intuitive interface (but it does help to have a reasonably powerful machine). Meshlab is more austere and lacks documentation, but the few needed functions can be conquered without (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) reads the primitives correctly. What I meant about bad lines was that I noticed your tool does some checking for spurious lines; that must just be for lines between coplanar surfaces. (I could see this being a problem for highly detailed parts (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) Very interesting! (URL) I am not so much comvinced by the improvement for flat shading. Looks like we trade triangular artefacts in one direction with artefacts in the other one. But it drastically improves the very ugly condlines artefacts! (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) Not sure what you mean - it doesn't check if a line has its ends properly ending on a surface vertex. (loosely related) I have a pending update for edger2 that check if the angle of existing condlines matches angle between surfaces. If the (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) I see. So what you really want to do in LDView is ignore the Type 5 lines (at least for smoothing) and smooth wherever there's no Type 2 edge lines between the triangles (and quads). (...) Did anybody ever did actually fix the parts though? I (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) Ok so it's been a few years, but I took another look at this. Did anybody ever make a twist primitive? It appears like all you need to do is something like this. Don 0 Wedge 4 x 2 Sloped Left 0 Name: 43721.dat 0 Author: Donald Sutter 0 (...) (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Tipoca Outpost 930
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(URL) Click the pic for more details... AC (14 years ago, 22-Sep-10, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) Ah, I was not. Very interesting. I'm still plowing ahead with upgrading Edger regardless because I'd like that built into this tool, but options like making inlining parts optional and not adding conditional lines within a certain angle (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | NEW LEGO Forum.
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(URL) exclusive LEGO based forum! Enjoy! Look forward to talking with you! (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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(...) It's true that 8.5"x11" (US letter size) is not the same size as metric A4, but the above page includes an entry for QPrinter::Letter, which is exactly 8.5"x11", so unless that's not supported by LPub, I don't think that's the problem. (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) algorithm. LDView uses Type 5 lines in the LDraw file for smoothing, and considers any two surfaces that have a Type 5 line joining them to be part of a smooth curve. The problem is that two co-planar triangles sitting next to each other (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) It would be interesting to have a configurable threshold, a 0.1ldu move is not visible and might bring more quads to flat state. (...) Thanks - fortunately it was certified by two other peoples ;o) (...) Probably... (...) There is a special (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: superheroes in the 8486 collectable minifigures
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(...) oops! that ought to read 8684 as the set number. ..jg (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | superheroes in the 8486 collectable minifigures
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don't know if anybody has suggested this already but the weightlifter in the second series of collectable minifigures (8486) would make a GREAT superhero figure. just add a yellow or green cape and he's ready to go (could also make a decent (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) I am short of time at the moment for a more detailed answer, but are you aware of Edger2? ((URL) The code is a mess, but it does a pretty good job... Philo (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) Well, at least splitting into triangles at the middle would produce a fairly clean result in that it would eliminate artifacts, but at the cost of creating extra triangles. I've been working on my adjustment tool and my initial results have (...) (14 years ago, 21-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Geneva wheel or Geneva mechanism
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(...) Maybe you could provide some deep links... Jetro (14 years ago, 20-Sep-10, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Geneva wheel or Geneva mechanism
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Hello I have seen the Geneva wheel for a while now. A few LEGO MOCs have been created before, but I wanted to do my own... This mechanism is running flawless and at variable speed Here is a link to my Brickshelf folder: (URL) I built 2 different (...) (14 years ago, 20-Sep-10, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: St. Saviour Church - Jerusalem
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(...) Thank you for the offer:-) You have an amazing country; one day I should like to do just that! (URL) JOHN (14 years ago, 20-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.il, FTX)
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| | An ad for LEGO
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Better than some of the official ones I've seen... (URL)! (14 years ago, 20-Sep-10, to lugnet.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: ... snipped ... (...) Another thing that LPub 4 does is automatically center step groups and assembly steps in the center of the page. If there is a single step and with callout(s) on the page, then LPub (...) (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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(...) I found a bug in LPub. (...) Yes, your highest level model is interesting because the entire model is expressed as steps in submodels, so when it placed the model scale meta, it did it at the top of the step (which is before all the add lines (...) (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: St. Saviour Church - Jerusalem
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(...) Then come visit once more:) You are always welcome (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.il, FTX)
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| | Re: St. Saviour Church - Jerusalem
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(...) Lol I was just thinking about my time in Israel and how long it has been since I've been there! I spent a semester in Jerusalem when I was in college *gasp* 29 years ago. Then I returned to eretz Yisrael two years later for a 2 month (...) (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.il, FTX)
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| | Re: Investment for a home layout?
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(...) As a long term die-hard fan of 9V equipment I have to agree here 100%: The new motors rock. They are extremely fast, very strong, surprisingly "energy" efficient. After purchasing and testing the new trains, I found that they have great play (...) (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: St. Saviour Church - Jerusalem
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(...) Thanks When you've been in Israel? (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.il, FTX)
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| | Re: St. Saviour Church - Jerusalem
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(...) I thought I recognized that church! (the tower, specifically) I know it as the "Lutheran Church of the Redeemer". I've actually been in it many times:-) I do like it; Well done! JOHN (14 years ago, 19-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.il, FTX)
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| | Another Castle:)
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I finished this a while back but I forgot to post it here (2 URLs) PLMKWYT:) Yaron (14 years ago, 18-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | Re: St. Saviour Church - Jerusalem
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(...) Thanks a few new ones will be added shortly (14 years ago, 18-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.il, FTX)
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| | Re: St. Saviour Church - Jerusalem
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(...) Thanks glad to hear it:) (14 years ago, 18-Sep-10, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.il, FTX)
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| | Re: Investment for a home layout?
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(...) The fact that the new PF train motor seems to be more powerful than the 9 volt motor would incline me to go with the new system. I don't like the dark Blay track, but such is life. I will be keeping my 9 volt track and probably run the PF (...) (14 years ago, 18-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) Isn't this the same problem we ran into with the twisted wedge bricks a while back? Those gave us problematic conditional lines in addition to the ugly zigzag shading artifacts. (URL) thought the solution was to orient the triangles orthogonal (...) (14 years ago, 18-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) Note that I consider this behavior to be a bug in LDView, and as such I will fix it when I get a chance. --Travis (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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(...) ... snipped ... (...) I've moved the PLI around thinking it was underneath it but it didn't seem to make a difference. I will send you the MPD file so you can take a look at it. (...) I tried it but even though I told it to apply to only this (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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In lugnet.cad, Mike Walsh wrote: ... snipped ... (...) Things seem fine through page 14, and then they go away. One of two things come to mind. Either it is an LPub bug, or, possibly the page number is hiding the PLI? I'd make sure that the PLI is (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Your favorite person is not on Face Book!
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(URL) have missed some of the BL people over the past year I have been off that site. I am now on facebook! Feel free to contact me. I have a nice lady running the facebook site, but I can still get messages! Thanks to all the past supporters, and I (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | TRU flyer (two weeks)
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Last week's (URL) two week flyer> is still valid for another week. This weeks two week flyer (Sept. 17 to Thursday Sept. 30) isn't thrilling. TRU has the LEGO games "12 to choose from". Flyer shows Creationary $44.99 Harry Potter Hogwarts $39.99 (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.loc.ca, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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(...) It doesn't help much, but it appears only on pages with a submodel used twice (x2). Perhaps it would help to see the mpd source file? (...) Right click on the model in the step where you want to reduce scale, choose "Change scale" and choose (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Investment for a home layout?
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(...) Not off hand but I've seen people use the edge of a plate with bar for it. I have a vague memory seeing a link on RAILBRICKS a while back but I could be mistaken. Tim (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LPub Q's
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: ... snipped ... (...) I still come up for air every once in a while! ... .snipped ... (...) ... snipped ... I've resolved almost all of the issues I had run into but still have two I am struggling with, (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) On the opposite! splitting stupidly into triangles is radical! The method you suggest is much more sophisticated and interesting ;o) (...) Yep. have a look at discussion here: (URL) it would be nice to have a tool to adjust vertices (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) Good question! + reduces file size by 50% + 50% less vertices to adjust when building "by hand" + triangles plays havoc with smooth shading (the helical artefact that can be seen here (URL) disappears when triangles are converted to quads. But (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Investment for a home layout?
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(...) Build your own? Do you have any url's handy? (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 8258 crane truck back on the US shop at home site
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Are you saying that they still have this model? (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Investment for a home layout?
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(...) Whoops... missed that bit. All indications are that LEGO will be using the RC track for a long time and they seem very committed to PFS in trains too and have invited various AFOLs to help out with it. I'd be very surprised if this system (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) I noticed the 4th-batch part I worked on had a significantly better format. That must be why. It was missing some edge lines, but Edger took care of that handily. (...) Heh, I would've thought my idea of a utility was more radical. I'm not (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Investment for a home layout?
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(...) Honestly I wouldn't even think about switching 9V if you don't already have a bunch. The IR track is far more versatile (and you can even build your own) balanced by the downside that you have to hide a battery box for power. Save your money (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Investment for a home layout?
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I am using Bluebrick to design an abstract layout at 4.5m x 2.5m to simulate my home suburb. What I am trying to decide on is do I invest in the 9v track, use the current RC track (I have a fair bit thanks to the sets I have bought eg: 7939), or is (...) (14 years ago, 17-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Why quads? Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) I realise this is largely off-topic to the oriinal thread but I've always been curious why the use of quads is encouraged when just about every other format and rendering engine sticks to triangles. So the part author merges triangles into (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Advice on hair pieces
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(...) Actually original parts only have triangles and have been merged by stl2dat (the 4th batch used a different concerter and no triangle to quad merge is done). That said, I had a look at m62696, there are only 5 non-coplanar quads, all within (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Advice on hair pieces
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I've moved on to looking at part 62696, "Minifig Hair Ponytail with Long Bangs" (x1930 on Peeron), and I found the part needs a lot of cleanup. (So does 30475, which surprisingly has received no cleanup at all desipte its submission to the tracker.) (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: SRW Scenic Tours: Burning the Midnight Oil
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(...) That's really nice, Tony, but it leaves one wanting: wanting to see more detail of the actual MOC! I realize that it is an evening scene, but heck, and really, is there anything Photoshop can't do? I'm imagining an engineer standing in the (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: PCC Street Cars and NJT PATH Train
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(...) Are you sitting down? A friend even talked me into signing up for Twitter! Relax, though; I've never been to the Twitter site since then:-) I don't actually use FB that often, either (Maybe once or twice a week) (...) Lol (...) Well, there's (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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There is one more thing to add to Joshua extensive explanations: coplanar triangle pairs are not assembled into quads. I advocated for that, because it offers the maximum flexibility when splitting into subparts or adjusting vertices position (no (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | SRW Scenic Tours: Burning the Midnight Oil
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The next installment in my Sava Railways Scenic Tours photo series: "Burning the Midnight Oil" (URL) Image is a link. --Tony (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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This year's robot competition at BrickCon will be a racing competition. Build and program a robot able to race around an irregularly shaped gradient track while avoiding obstacles on the track. The track is approximately two feet wide, with black in (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: PCC Street Cars and NJT PATH Train
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(...) Hehehe. John has Facebook. Well I never! I mean the gibberish in the center of the page, not the gibberish in the ads. All the status updates, who is 'friends' with who, and occassionally something 'useful' like a picture of a tram. Ummm... (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Code Pilot LDraw
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(...) Depends on the model. Some models I can "see ahead" enough to change the order to make it easier to build virtually. But with a model this big, I mostly follow along with the instructions. The file does NOT have instruction steps though (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 4th batch
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(...) The astute parts author will notice a slightly new format to these new files. I thought it might help to describe them. The first line is the official LEGO Group name for the part. These are almost always exclusively in UPPERCASE, so you'll (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Code Pilot LDraw
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(...) Reading is in "landscape" mode, while RCX/Scout are in "portrait" mode. (...) Yep. Differences are very low anyway, except in the reader area. (...) Wow! (...) VERY blocky ;o) (...) Interesting to see the sequence. Do you follow LEGO building (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO Universe parts cleanup etiquette
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(...) If the part is on the wiki pages it would be a good hint for others to modify that page with the comment "cleansing in process". If not, just upload to the PT if you are ready. (...) Should be standard practice, but I am not sure all (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Code Pilot LDraw
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(...) I agree, and if these were final renders I would be more careful. But since they are just "work-in-progress" pictures, I just used the same lighting for each. For full models it works very well indeed. (...) True. Although you can see that (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LEGO Universe parts cleanup etiquette
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I have two authored parts under my belt, but both of them were modeled strictly by eye and patience. Now with the LEGO Universe Team releasing part files in need of cleanup I feel like I can contribute more. I've been working on cleaning up a part (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Advanced minifig animations
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(...) You don't have to work from scratch; there are several versions around on the web of a LDraw import plugin for Blender. Here's the one that I use: (URL) of a steep learning curve, I've found that once you've imported your model, you should (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Code Pilot LDraw
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(...) That's what bothers the photographer in me ;o) (...) Maybe, yes. Black seems OK. Finally I did a mockup... Battery lid is done, still a lot of work for cover! (URL) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PCC Street Cars and NJT PATH Train
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(...) Trolled? By me??? Shirley you jest;-) Tim, you might find it surprising that, not only do I know about Facebook, I have an account there as well! So I know about the gibberish ads on the right side of the page. What I didn't understand was how (...) (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: PCC Street Cars and NJT PATH Train
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(...) I can't quite tell if I'm being trolled here as I believe you've mentioned before that you tend not to waste too much time on the broader internet. So... (URL) facebook>. Tim (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: PCC Street Cars and NJT PATH Train
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(...) Is that some sort of setting you have for LUGNET or perhaps MOCPages? JOHN (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) It's the typically meaningless jibber jabber that uses your screen real estate when you look at Facebook. Tim (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hey, what does that mean? ("Facebook stream") JOHN (14 years ago, 15-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: PCC Street Cars and NJT PATH Train
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(...) Great work on all of these. Was nice to see them pop up in my Facebook stream. Tim (14 years ago, 14-Sep-10, to lugnet.trains)
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