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(...) Great! Note that it may be easier to use slant instead of stretch/rotate. It is a bit more difficult to figure out at the beginning, but it avoids calculations and gives simpler coefficients. Here is the result, applied to your file: 0 (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing [DAT]
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(...) That did it! Here's the part I needed... thanks again!!!! 0 ~Technic Flex-System Hose 45 bevel End 0 Name: 76_bevel3.dat 0 Author: Lar with hints from Philo 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 0 WRITE Inner cylinder (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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Okay, it might not be real. But it is still pretty cool. LEGO Scrabble (URL) Behance.net> About: (URL) -Abner (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) Google translate does a pretty fair job, actually, enough to suss out most of what is being said... Manfred's section of notes in the part authoring "tutorial" (URL) is also helpful (URL) wasn't aware that there was a sliced cylinder primitive (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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(...) Hey, this is interesting. Is it actually just drawing the visible lines in some final rendering stage? Or is there more going on there with the Stencil and/or Depth buffer? (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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OK, I think what you miss is the 4-4cyls.dat primitive, add it to a regular 4-4cyli and you basically have what you need. For the tip, you need a slanted primitive (ring and edges). There is a tutorial (unfortunately in French) here (URL) , (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I was looking at trying to use your cutting tool, actually,.. stretch a 4-4cyli.dat to a long enough length (somehow?) and then just use a big quad tilted to 45 degrees as the "blade". But I can't quite suss out how to do it, being somewhat (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MLCad Group
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(...) Interesting indeed! Is there any kind of documentation on these META-commands anywhere? I think this may be a better alternative to my unfinished LDSwitch approach(?) /Tore (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Export LDD to LDraw
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(...) Could you send me a couple of samples of files exported to LDraw that are slightly off the grid so I can see if there is any easy way to auto-adjust them? /Tore (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Hello, When exporting an LDD file to LDraw the xyz position is slightly off the grid. What I do now is replace all dots with comma's, import the LDraw file in Excel, round all xyz coordintates on whole numbers, copy that to notepad and past in the (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Hi all, Currently I am working on a model where I make extensive use of Groups in MLCad in combination with LPub command REMOVE GROUP. Regarding Groups in MLCad, can someone verify this: - Elements in a group should all be part of the same step in (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND® Florida Announces Opening Date
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(...) John, Thank you. Just helping out the AFOL community, even if it is small. -Abner (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) Larry, would you have a picture or drawing of what you need exactly? Philo (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) Or alternatively, you could use ring/cone/cyl primitives, should be lots easier than doing individual quads. ROSCO (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote: ... (...) You don't need to disable primitive substitution; just uncheck "Texture Studs" in the "Primitive Substitution" box. (If you follow my instructions from my other post, the stud logo isn't present, and (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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(...) See this thread: (URL) Maybe outputting only lines could give much smaller file sizes. Then you could live paint in Illustrator to consolidate faces. --Bram (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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The "Show Edges Only" feature in LDView is intended to be used with Wireframe disabled. I believe it does exactly what you want in combination with "Black Edges": (URL) Note that the image above was saved with the "Transparent Background" check box (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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(...) Wow do I feel stupid. No, I hadn't tried that, and it works perfectly. It's still not a vector image, but at least it gets me to a good raster image in one step instead of five. It is a bit counter-intuitive to me that the way to get a good (...) (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Have you tried disabling lighting? (...) I don't know any ether, I'm sorry. roland (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Abner, Not many people comment on the press release posts that you provide for the AFOL community, but let me speak for many AFOLs and say it is greatly appreciated! John C. (13 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) You are right that I can approximate it simply by making all the parts white (as shown). However, shaded white is not really white. Every angle of white reflecting to the camera is actually a different shade of gray. I really want no shading (...) (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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(...) <snip> (...) I'm not sure I 100% understand your goal(s), but I think what you need is: All white shading with all black edges. This way the (OpenGL) 'Z-Buffer' does all the hard work for you. Maybe travis could implement it in LDView, (or (...) (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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For various reasons, I've been attempting to extract a vector line drawing of a large LDraw model. On the surface, this would seem simple (which is always the case for the hardest projects). LDraw itself is a vector format. Each edge line is defined (...) (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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(...) For anything with radial symmetry a little perl script is the right tool :) Tim (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Beveled flex tubing
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Has anyone modeled a bit of flex tubing that has beveled ends? I think I know what I need to do to model it but actually doing it may be beyond my patience, (but maybe I'm using the wrong tool, working with quads in MLCad is a bit hard) Thanks. (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ukulele out of LEGO bricks?
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(...) Awesome, Rosco! When I clicked, I didn't expect it to be able to be tuned to pitch! Well played;-) JOHN (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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(...) That sounds like an LDView bug. If you send me your model, I will investigate. --Travis (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I've pretty much decided on Joomla 1.6. Unless I hit any major snags, that's what I've prepped for. When I get everything setup, I'll send out a call for help. -Orion (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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LEGOLAND® Florida Announces Opening Date World’s Largest LEGOLAND Park Will Debut Saturday, October 15, 2011 May 23, 2011 (Business Wire) — To the delight of youngsters everywhere, LEGOLAND® Florida today revealed its official opening date: (...) (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, lugnet.loc.us.fl, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org website theme.
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(...) Orion, What CMS are you going to use? I have some experience in making websites and want to help if needed. Jaco (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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Hi, I tried the installation, works fine, but get same error as with the tip of Larry: "No matching in 'material', undeclared identifier 'LDXColor117440511_slope'" Any idea? Thx, adrian (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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Hi Larry, no, Ben wasn't there, I forgot the name of the guy you've visited, I will ask Ralph, maybe he remembers. Your tip with the library path helped a bit, the error I asked about doesn't show up again, but now there is a new one: "No matching (...) (13 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw.org website theme.
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(...) Hi Orion, You may find more people with those skills over on Flickr. I've copied the message to there. Tim (13 years ago, 22-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi all, I'm going to be working on the website over the next few weeks. I suck at graphic design, I think this is a perfect to solicit ideas/designs for the website theme. No coding experience is required. I can handle that aspect if needed. -Orion (13 years ago, 22-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ukulele out of LEGO bricks?
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(...) This is cool, but you already know that, since I already told you how awesome it is. Of course, the only thing that would make it cooler was if it was going to be displayed at Brickfete. Janey "Yes, I used Rosco for a shameless plug, Red (...) (13 years ago, 22-May-11, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Ukulele out of LEGO bricks?
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Click pic for the answer... (URL) ROSCO (13 years ago, 21-May-11, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !
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| | Re: LDraw.org File Encoding Standard Ratified
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(...) Wow, that was fast! Thanks, Chris. Unfortunately it doesn't solve the issue. LDraw Apache server sends the page telling that charset is iso-8859-1 (why???) and this overrides page head specification. If I save the page and open it with my (...) (13 years ago, 21-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org File Encoding Standard Ratified
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(...) Parts Tracker pages now specify charset=UTF-8. Chris (13 years ago, 21-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org File Encoding Standard Ratified
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(...) It would be a good thing that Parts Tracker generated html pages use utf-8 as encoding charset instead of iso-8859-1 See discussion here (URL) this message (URL) it seems that a new CMS is on its way, maybe the charset change should be done in (...) (13 years ago, 21-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Updating LDConfig - Request for New Colors
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(...) Personally, I have always used color 256 (Rubber Black) for that part and it looks very good. See this picture as an example: (URL) Albrecht (13 years ago, 20-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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