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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Janey C. L. Gunning wrote: snipped it all... Cause all that matters is Baconfête. Chris, did you read that bacon thing? "One hundred particularly eager bacon fans spent $100 on VIP tickets, which got them into the event (...) (15 years ago, 13-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Snipped (...) Wow, if the Hobby Show can get Vince, perhaps someday Brickfête... errr I mean Baconfête will too. Cause if I have to see you do this routine live... I dont think I will survive. That was routine, not poutine, which is another (...) (15 years ago, 13-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Mike, This is FANTASTIC news. YES, yes YES, with proper permits, and approval I can say that BACONfete will be part of www.Brickfete.com 2012. Your 2010 registration fee will allow you full on grease filled access to Baconfete. We will need (...) (15 years ago, 13-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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There's a BaconFest in Chicago.. (URL) about a BaconFete 2012 in Toronto? :) --Mike. (15 years ago, 11-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Darn it. I was really hoping you would have been there last month... As for this month... April Meeting, funny enough is in April... the 17th to be exact. Hope to see a bunch of you there! As well... Cut from the LEGO site... (URL) Janey "Wish (...) (15 years ago, 11-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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(...) RSVP regrets because (choose one) My time machine is broken and won't reliably go back a month I never plan things 11 months in advance, ask me closer to 17 March 2012... (15 years ago, 11-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, FTX)
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This Sunday March - 17th Time - 18:30 - 21:00 Location - Angel's Diner, Guelph Hope to see many of you there. Cheers Janey Red Brick (15 years ago, 10-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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(...) It might take me until the May open house to recover! We guestimate between 1500 and 2000 people between 10am and 4pm. This was the first time we had to station a doorman to limit the number of people in the space, because it was so packed as (...) (15 years ago, 10-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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The Open House yesterday was more like a MAD House! (URL) TV news story> of the GMLTC/TCLTC re-aired early Saturday morning, and 1,000s of people came out to see us. The wait to get into the space (we max out at 300 people I'd say) was over an hour. (...) (15 years ago, 10-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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(...) I noticed that too, Larry, just by looking at the pics on RailBricks. The connectors have a certain patina to them that sets them slightly apart from a LEGO-produced plate's gloss. (...) Me too. Ed (15 years ago, 9-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: VOLUME II - Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide 1980-90s
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Almost forgot... Those wanting to see some examples of the Volume I chapters of my LEGO CD (will also be included with the later Volume II years)... here you go... (URL) the ordering function has been disabled.) And the CD will have an Insurance (...) (15 years ago, 9-Apr-11, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | VOLUME II - Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide 1980-90s
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Well a lot of folks have asked when the next installment of my Encyclopedic Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide is going to be ready... and I am now taking pre-orders for the 1980-90s Edition. The first 100 or so pre-orders will get a (...) (15 years ago, 8-Apr-11, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | SR 3D Builder 0.5.6.9 released
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Hi, new version released. available as always from (URL) more note: I really need some "money support" since the costs for maintaining my internet connection to support users is by far bigger than the offers I'm gaining. If things won't changes a (...) (15 years ago, 8-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Bluebrick supports full, half and quarter pieces of both the curved and straight track elements. If I use these elements in the design of my layout, and purchase the ME components, will they marry up? For instance a quarter track piece from ME (...) (15 years ago, 8-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | TRU and Zellers sales April 8-14
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TRU flyer good from Friday April 8 through Thursday April 14th (3 days before Easter). Spend $35 or more (before taxes) on Atlantis, Racers, Kingdoms, Technic or Creator Construction Items and get a free tote, #830496, a $12.99 value. It has minifig (...) (15 years ago, 7-Apr-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) The old 4.5v curves just had a channel if I'm remembering OK, they had just one one anti-stud halfway along as well as one at each end - allowing for very flexible sleeper placement. Would something like that be possible? ROSCO (15 years ago, 7-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) For those of us who add ballast and individual ties to our track the placement of holes along the curved rails will be a key point. (URL) From what I've seen so far ME has put a good deal of thought into this product and I have no doubt you'll (...) (15 years ago, 7-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Questions concerning the implementation of the LDraw Colour Definition Language Extension
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(...) Apologies, I thought I was sending to the main lugnet.cad.dev group. I must have mis-clicked. I was actually a little surprised I hadn't received a digest containing my message, but I guess this explains it. (...) I was just curious, because (...) (15 years ago, 7-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Dave, I am so sorry. Lets do dinner?
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Dave, I know on the weekend, you asked about me doing this post a bit earlier than I normally do, and I said yes. Then I went home, raved about how yummy the guaq(sp) that was made by Iain Greens partner, then I forgot about lugnet, then went to (...) (15 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) The poly bag sets as well as the longer sections come without the 2X8 plates included. We have thrown in the connector pieces with every kit. You are free to use them if you want, but removing them from the kits will not really save you any (...) (15 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | April 30th, 2011 SMART meeting
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We had a great meeting a week an a half ago, and saw a lot of really cool drawing robots! The next SMART meeting will be April 30th, at 2pm. The mini-challenge we voted on was to do "chimney climbing". Build a robot that can climb up the inside of a (...) (15 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Hispabrick Magazine 010
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Hispabrick Magazine 010 is ready for download from our website (URL) In this new edition you will be able to enjoy our regular features, reviews, MINDSTORMS, LDraw, building trees... Of particular interest to the Robotics community are the article (...) (15 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Hispabrick Magazine 010
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Hispabrick Magazine 010 is ready for download from our website (URL) In this new edition you will be able to enjoy our regular features, reviews, MINDSTORMS, LDraw, building trees... Articles on LEGO Sports, Sphere building... Interviews with Mads (...) (15 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Hispabrick Magazine 010
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Hispabrick Magazine 010 is ready for download from our website (URL) In this new edition you will be able to enjoy our regular features, reviews, MINDSTORMS, LDraw, building trees... Articles on LEGO Sports, Sphere building... Interviews with Mads (...) (15 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish) !
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There has been and there will be a lot going on this month. The TCLTC layout will be on display at the Brickmania Open House this Saturday from 10AM to 4PM, and an (URL) AtlasObscura Day> after-party will be hosted there as well, from 7PM to 11PM. (...) (15 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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| | Blogging On LUGNET
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Subject matter says it all really-- I am going to use the TCLTC NG here on LUGNET as a blog for all of the day to day goings on with the club. JOHN (15 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) Q: Are the rails available separately? That is, w/o the sleeper pieces. I have considered getting LEGO trains for the past 2 decades, but never bought a single train set. Therefore, I have no track in my collection. Except for a bunch of 4.5v (...) (15 years ago, 5-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) Me too. Cale (15 years ago, 5-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) Woohoo! My checkbook awaits the next big announcement. (URL) JOHN (15 years ago, 4-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Questions concerning the implementation of the LDraw Colour Definition Language Extension
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(...) Hello, First of all, I think you are in the wrong news group. LCD is about connections not colours. You probably better of in the main lugnet.cad.dev group Second you are right about the DITHER keyword, personally i think it is a typo and (...) (15 years ago, 4-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) The ends, right now, are in dark bley and reddish brown. If there's enough interest, we can do them in other colors as well and maybe offer them as an "add-on". Quite frankly though, unless you're connecting to existing LEGO track, you don't (...) (15 years ago, 4-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Questions concerning the implementation of the LDraw Colour Definition Language Extension
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Greetings everyone, I am a newbie to this mailing list, but I have been using LDraw-oriented software for close to a decade now. I am currently developing (and have been, in my spare time for several years) a sandbox-style building game called (...) (15 years ago, 4-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) Numbers are: R56, R72, R88 where R40 is LEGO standard. Number corresponds to radius of curve on center of ties. The pattern CURVE-STRAIGHT-CURVE...IGHT-CURVE will match up with 4 sections of R72 perfectly. (15 years ago, 4-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) end ties will be produced in? I'd like to see light bley, as well as brown, and possibly tan? ROSCO (15 years ago, 4-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yup. What I'm hoping is that they are making a radius that matches the radius of the straight-curve-straight-curve corner, so we can simply drop them in and laugh:-) JOHN (15 years ago, 4-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) TCLTC and PennLUG are in the same boat John. Our steam fleet will look fantastic on the new wider ME curves and will run much better too. This will probably be the first part of our layouts to be converted to the new rails. Cale (15 years ago, 4-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) use a clumsy straight-curve-straight configuration for our corners; are the numbers on what those geometries are public information yet? We look forward to the Good News;-) JOHN (15 years ago, 3-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure if I fully understand your question here, but I do have the additional geometry available for use in track draw, meaning, I should be able to convert it to BlueBrick (but I haven't played with it much). (...) I should be able to (...) (15 years ago, 3-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) when using CAD based track designers like Bluebrick? The full, half and quarter lengths of both the straight and curved tracks? Does the future also include renditions of the switches are crossings? (15 years ago, 3-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Number of packages in set 10185
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(...) Check out the set contents at the link below. It appears that your contents match the number of bag in the photos. (URL) (15 years ago, 3-Apr-11, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) I have a sample and the edges, while crisp rather than rounded, are not sharp enough to cut. There may be a bit more wear due to the metal corner, not sure. But I'm not too worried about that. The adapter piece is a little less shiny than (...) (15 years ago, 2-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Number of packages in set 10185
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I have set 10185 Green Grocer, but it is opened. There is 8 packages with the #1 on them there is 5 packages with the #2 on them and 10 packages with the #3. There is one with no number, also two green plates and three instruction. Is this correct? (...) (15 years ago, 2-Apr-11, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: SVG renders possible?
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(...) Actually, I'm not hammering away at it. I put the support in back in May of 2008, but I haven't really done much with it since then. --Travis (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) Our manufacturer of the rails runs the rail through a "de-burrer" machine. Basically there is a wash and bunch of ceramic stones. The unit vibrates and a unique smooth finish comes about when each rail comes out of the bath. There are no sharp (...) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) make this announcement... Neat system, but I have a concern that the plastic wheels against the sharp inside edge of the rail will wear down the wheels faster than usual. If I buy some, I might have to round off the top of the rails just a (...) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego globe...
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(...) I've been thinking about this a bit more. I wonder how you would accomplish this using an arbitrary data source and without having your own physical server. All the software I've looked at so far connect to existing GIS databases based on the (...) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Canadian prices
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I am totally in agreement with your sentiment and have been complaining about this for three years as the gap has been so small for most of that time. I spoke with a LEGO rep @ BrickCon in 2009 when the dollars were almost at par and he basically (...) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: SVG renders possible?
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(...) Yeah, in Google Chrome I can see the edges faintly between the polygons. -Mike (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | ME Models Metal Rails
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ME Models has just released metal L-gauge train rails: The video: (URL) review: (URL) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: SVG renders possible?
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(...) Wow, I must be getting really old. The deja-vu didn't didn't set in until I slept on it. I can't hardly believe this was 8 years ago. (URL) at that point ldglite already had experimental support for the similar gleps code that seems to have (...) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: SVG renders possible?
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(...) There must be a way to weld all those polygons together and do vertex shading, but I'm sure its no 5 minute programming exercise. --Bram (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | TRU and Zellers sales April 1-7
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TRU flyer good from Friday April 1st through Thursday April 7th. 20% off all Atlantis, Technic and Creator. Excludes clearance. Selection varies. "New Low Price" on these LEGO games: Monster 4 - $14.99 (S@H $19.99) Pirate code - $19.99 (S@H $26.99) (...) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Canadian prices
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(...) Count me in on this as well! I find the price differences when ordering from S@H particularly unfair. I call S@H and talk to the same person who is taking orders from the US, the LEGO set comes out of the same warehouse as those going to the (...) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: SVG renders possible?
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(...) LDView actually has experimental support for this built-in (although it has to be manually enabled via either a command line switch or a registry setting). Unfortunately, it's effectively useless on anything other than individual parts due to (...) (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: SVG renders possible?
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(...) Rendering from 3D to 2D vector graphics should be possible: (URL) I don't know how efficient it is. --Bram (15 years ago, 1-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 4x2ReVu: Anakin's Y-Wing Starfighter
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Madd Nomen's looters at the abandoned Erithrista capitol building are surprised by the sudden appearance of a squadron of the republic's new Y-wing fighters. "Are you serious?" barks the pirate leader. "I could outrun those bloated beasts on foot! (...) (15 years ago, 31-Mar-11, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: Texas State Railroad Engine #400
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Anthony Sava wrote: <snip> (...) Hey, Tony- This is a fantastic build, and I must say that I totally love your project of building all of the steam engines of a museum. They all look great together; what an exhibition they (...) (15 years ago, 31-Mar-11, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | SVG renders possible?
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Is it possible to create a SVG version of a rendering of an LDRaw model? I am only interested in the visible portion, such as what you see from one of the several default views (front, left, back, etc.). -Mike (15 years ago, 31-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDView requests
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(...) Awesome, can't wait! -Mike (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego globe...
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(...) awesome! It would be cool if you could submit a building as part of your LUGNET membership. (...) Way above my skill level unfortunately. -Mike (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Heightfields in LDraw
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(...) I split the terrain mesh into many pieces and it renders much more quickly now. It still takes a while to load initially though. -Mike (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView requests
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(...) I'll keep it in mind. (...) My development code has a new feature that will be in LDView 4.2 called "Keep Right Side Up". When in fly-through mode, if you enable this feature, the camera isn't allowed to roll side to side at all. However, it (...) (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego globe...
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(...) I like the idea of a Lego globe or world! Having recently been involved in building an OpenStreetMap tileserver I came across the following project that might be of interest: Isometric 3D map of Czech Republic (URL) this page that gives you a (...) (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Heightfields in LDraw
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(...) I found the sources, and did a quick fix (no hardcoded files anymore). It still only generates a BlockCAD .LGO file but that is easily translated to LDRAW with BlockCAD. (URL) no part optimizing - the whole landscape is built with 1x1 bricks (...) (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego globe...
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(...) I think it was just a silly question, sorry. I meant somewhere in between the 3-D globe and 2-D map... but you can't really apply a square map to a round globe without squishing things. :) -Mike (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDView requests
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(...) Some more requests while I'm at it. You currently have a camera mode that limits the "Examine mode" to exactly horizontal and vertical movement. If you could do something similar for the "Fly-through mode", such that regardless of where the (...) (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texas State Railroad Engine #400
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Love the details in the cab. Very nice. Looks like the cheese slopes are your friend big time. (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Texas State Railroad Engine #400
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(2 URLs) Gallery> Texas State Railroad Mikado (2-8-2) Engine #400. From the TSRR Website: This locomotive began its career on the Tremont & Gulf Railway, a Louisiana short line. Wearing number 30, it was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in (...) (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Animated minfigs
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(...) Hmm, I don't think that would work too well - inevitably the action you want will be slightly different from the action you have in the library (e.g. each minifig action will require 4 different animation sequences, depending on whether he has (...) (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Heightfields in LDraw
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(...) It could be nice if the tool switched between polygons and studs depending on the slope of the terrain. I like how some of the molded TLG baseplates aren't entirely covered by studs and have some empty spaces. -Mike (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGO® Group "Spins" New Ninjago Property Into Animated Television Series
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ENFIELD, Conn., March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ LEGO® Group "Spins" New Ninjago Property Into Animated Television Series The LEGO® Group today announced that Ninjago, its original property centered on a rich story inspired by martial arts lore, has been (...) (15 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Primitives and long file names
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(...) <snip> (...) Didn't mean to cause nightmares :) But if your program is doing 'special' stuff for those kinds of folders, does it handle use of relative folders in models etc correctly? Cause you could supply a model e.g. d:\mystuff\coolCar.dat (...) (15 years ago, 29-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Heightfields in LDraw
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(...) A long time ago I wrote a terrain generator whose final output was a BlockCAD file. The surface of the landscape was built up with 1x1 bricks and tiles. I belive I also had the possibility to generate bricks all the way up from the bottom, but (...) (15 years ago, 29-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego globe...
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(...) I guess that depends on whether you're talking about a 3-D LEGO globe or a 2-D LEGO map? I'm not sure I quite follow exactly what you're trying to do. I played around a while ago and got a program that would build an LDraw globe based on a 2-D (...) (15 years ago, 29-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Primitives and long file names
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(...) Nooo...ooo! Please......... Do not make lDraw folder structure more complex than what is now: If you follow the rules of using separates folder for Unofficial files (like SR3DBuilder does), it will make things harder to manage since my (...) (15 years ago, 29-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Animated minfigs
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(...) have a library of animations for different minifig actions, such as running, walking, crawling, etc. -Mike (15 years ago, 29-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Heightfields in LDraw
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I've been experimenting with importing terrain heightfields into LDraw. Here are the results: (URL) (One pair of triangles in the terrain mesh is equal to a normal LDraw baseplate in dimensions.) The steps I took: created the heightfield in Wilbur (...) (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Lego globe...
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If you were to create a computer simulation of a globe completely made of Legp with cities on it and everything, how would you overcome the limitation imposed by the fact that you can't tile squares across the surface of the globe? Are there (...) (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Primitives and long file names
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(...) Hey, I really like the idea of new line types and I made a little experiment. Not for curves, discs, spheres, cylinders, rings, cones and torii, but for gradient brushes. LDraw lives in a (linear) text based vector world. And when I zoom in, I (...) (15 years ago, 29-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad) !
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| | Re: LDView requests
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(...) Seconded! Tim (15 years ago, 29-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Primitives and long file names
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(...) And a piece of software to cheat with :) Tim (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Injection molding: LEGO Group wins Arburg’s Energy Efficiency Award
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Injection molding: LEGO Group wins Arburg’s Energy Efficiency Award By Matt Defosse Published: March 23rd, 2011 Everyone knows the toys they make, but few realize the lengths LEGO has gone to reduce its energy use. The company has increased its (...) (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: Primitives and long file names
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(...) Just a thought, but you could also utilize new sub directories e.g. 1 16 ......... ring\5-24-24.dat or even 1 16 ......... ring\24\5-24.dat This should work on existing software cause 48\ or s\ are already in use, so most software should be (...) (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) As long as you provide parts authors with a cheat sheet, this should work too. Regardless, the naming scheme should be according to a regular system. -Mike (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Something to keep in mind: I think you should pad leading zeros. I.e. turn "4" into "04". Doing so makes it possible to sort files by name in a file manager. -Mike (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDView requests
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I think it would be cool to be able to set/input camera parameters directly. Currently, you can only export them to POV-Ray. It would be nice to be able to set them as well to get a sort of preview before a final render. I also think it would be (...) (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2x1x2 slope trouble
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(...) Thanks again, Philo. I'll give that a try today. Jonathan (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: ML-CAD 3.30 Problem while parts authoring
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(...) I get this bug too. -Mike (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Animated minfigs
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(...) I use LD4DStudio for all my LEGO animation needs. You can get it here (URL) examples of what you can do here (URL) here (URL) (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Account issues
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Dear all, The webmasters have made a difficult decision on LDraw accounts due to a proliferation of spambots and other non-genuine accounts. Please see (URL) for updates. The text below is copied from that article. Tim ---- Of late there has been a (...) (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Re: Some help or advice requested
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(...) SNIP (...) So I bet you had all been waiting with bated breath for the revelation of my project, and then I bet you had all thought that I had given up, when there was no revelation forthcoming. In actual fact, I had been working on this until (...) (15 years ago, 27-Mar-11, to lugnet.technic) !
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| | LDraw equivalent of MakeHuman
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It would be cool if we had an LDraw equivalent of the MakeHuman project. I.e. a 3D model of a minifig that is compatible with LDRaw and can be deformed in external tools such as Blender in the same way that lots of TLG animations "cheat" by bending (...) (15 years ago, 27-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Animated minfigs
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Which tools can be used to create minifig animations? And who has created some of these animations? -Mike (15 years ago, 27-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Canadian prices
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Hi all, I Wanted to ask all Canadian Lego fans and anyone else that wants to support this, to contact Lego and let them know that we are not happy having to pay up to 20% or more for the same sets sold in the US. As the Canadian dollar is worth more (...) (15 years ago, 26-Mar-11, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NO LUG
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(...) LOL, is the follow-up really supposed to be going to "aquazone"??? You need more than Lake Erie to qualify, dont you??? Janey "I just posted where the followup told me to" Red Brick (15 years ago, 26-Mar-11, to lugnet.aquazone)
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| | Re: Need help testing 9751 Serial Interface
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2 more links that may come in handy for future users of 9751: (URL) (15 years ago, 26-Mar-11, to lugnet.dacta)
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| | Re: NO LUG
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(...) snipped LOL, I actually like "NO LUG"... I wouldnt change it at all... however... I would like to add something new to the agenda. While I see you have your first road trip already planned (to the new LEGO store)... may I offer an other idea (...) (15 years ago, 26-Mar-11, to lugnet.aquazone)
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| | CAD for Lego , and related research questions...
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Hi, Way way back in 2000, I asked about CAD (Computer Aided Architectural Design) for Lego(R) system on this forum. Since 2000 a lot has changed, and I'd like to update my original analysis to a much fuller one, based on intervening developments in (...) (15 years ago, 26-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | NO LUG
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NO LUG Clearly we need a better name A number of AFOL’s in the area (Arthur, Ken, Troy, Adrian,Todd etc.) are interested in forming a new Lego Users Group for the Northern Ohio region (Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Youngstown, etc.). The first meeting (...) (15 years ago, 26-Mar-11, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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