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(...) That's quite an interesting list. It looks like they're focusing on only the bigger markets though. The 3 Zellers stores closest to me aren't on the list (Hanover, Listowel and Owen Sound ON). These stores are in smaller communities, but draw (...) (14 years ago, 27-May-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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We have some Cool activities and collaborative displays planned, Such as: JaC TraC A Nano HEX bug maze where registered members bring the maze pieces, assemble them and then release the BUGS! OBB Town Standard If you would like to add your creations (...) (14 years ago, 28-May-11, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX) !
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| | Boba Fett escapes Sarlacc
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(URL) As usual, click the pic for more details... AC (14 years ago, 27-May-11, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | TRU sale May 27 - June 2
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TRU flyer good from Friday May 27th through Thursday June 2nd. 20% off LEGO Kingdoms and Creator items. Excludes clearance, selection varies. Save $5 on all LEGO branded video games. Assorted prices depending on platform and age of the game. Walmart (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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(...) The bug in LDView means that any sloped bricks that have LGEO versions won't work if they use a color not directly supported by LGEO. Your model used color 0x6FFFFFF (which is transparent full white) for at least one brick that contained a (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Official LPub manual online
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Thank you both. Saso (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Leaning Tower of Pisa made out of LEGO bricks
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Architectural Engineering Students Build the Leaning Tower of Pisa On Wednesday morning, a group of ten engineering students from MSOE put the finishing touches on a five-foot-tall replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa — made entirely out of LEGO. (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun, lugnet.loc.us.wi.mil, FTX)
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| | Leaning Tower of Pisa out made of LEGO bricks
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Architectural Engineering Students Build the Leaning Tower of Pisa On Wednesday morning, a group of ten engineering students from MSOE put the finishing touches on a five-foot-tall replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa — made entirely out of LEGO. (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun, lugnet.loc.us.wi.mil, FTX)
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| | LEGO® Universe Opens Nexus Tower
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LEGO Universe Opens Nexus Tower Posted by Bjorn - May 23rd, 2011 The LEGO Group today announced the opening of the "Nexus Tower" in "LEGO Universe", which is claimed to be the largest in-game structure ever built. "As Nexus Tower opens its doors (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | Re: Official LPub manual online
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(...) In lugnet.cad, Saso Tomat wrote: (...) Hi Saso, You need to work with submodels and call those out. You should also apply Show submodels as parts in the PLI. Download the LDraw MPD (Multi Part Dat file): (URL) the PDF: (URL) you want to learn (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LEGO® Group and X PRIZE Foundation Announce MoonBots 2.0 Challenge
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LEGO Group and X PRIZE Foundation Announce MoonBots 2.0 Challenge Published on May 25, 2011 By Andy Choi The MoonBots 2.0: A Google Lunar X Prize LEGO MINDSTORMS Challenge has been announced by the LEGO Group and the X PRIZE Foundation. This contest (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Emaar Properties and the LEGO® Group to launch Burj Khalifa Architecture Series model
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Emaar Properties and the LEGO® Group to launch Burj Khalifa Architecture Series model on May 25, 2011 Dubai, UAE; May 25, 2011: Emaar Properties has joined hands with the LEGO® Group to unveil the Architecture Series model of Burj Khalifa, the (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | LEGO Burj Khalifa is not a tall story
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LEGO Burj Khalifa is not a tall story. From The National.ae May 26, 2011. DUBAI - An architect who meticulously designed and built a 141,971-piece LEGO sculpture of the Burj Khalifa wants the model to serve as an inspiration to others. The 2.7m (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer 2010-03 beta
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(...) I think that's awesome! Do you think that eventually you would tackle uninstalling? Even just aborting is very helpful though as the user then knows that they have to do some more investigation. (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer 2010-03 beta
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(...) A new version is available at: (URL) checks if there is a C:\\ldraw folder and if found it looks if it contains Parts.lst. Otherwise it performs a search for Parts.lst in the user's program files folder. If found it warns the user that there (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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Travis, cool, many thanks, will be able to test the file tomorrow. What can I do within LDraw to avoid this prob in future times? Thx, adrian (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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(...) I got your email, tracked down the problem, and sent you a link to a test LDView build. Thanks again. For reference, LDView was referring to sloped brick faces using LGEO's _slope variant of the color even when the color wasn't a color (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | All sets reduced, lots of parts marked down!
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Time to make some space! All sets in my store are reduced to be among the cheapest on BrickLink. Lots of parts marked down too! (URL) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: So...
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(...) Dave, How many times, do I have to tell you that your bots are.. how shall I put this: Meh. I've got a secret weapon tub bot that incorporates MANY tug winning features. If you want something to TUG, I got a bot for you. Chris B.E.D. (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: So here's a question....
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(...) I was thinking that once the flame is out, the game is over. The no touching rule was thought of as both a safety feature, AND to make the game that much more difficult. (...) As soon as the candle stays out, its over. (...) Again, open to (...) (14 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | NXT-G and random number usage
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OK, so I'm on my second ever NXT project, and I am wondering if this is even possible. I have a program that currently has 3 WAIT Blocks, each set to different lengths of time (4 sec, 2 sec, 1 sec) at different points. What I want to do, to add more (...) (14 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Official LPub manual online
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(...) --snip-- (...) --snip-- (...) --snip-- (...) There's two ways I can think of. 1) Make the two sections into submodels. Although that will force them onto different pages. But you can always hand edit them back 2) Use buffer exchange to mask (...) (14 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Official LPub manual online [DAT]
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I need a help with Lpub. I just can't get it to work (checked the manual already). I am posting this here so maybe manual could get an update if necessary. 0 Untitled 0 Name: example.ldr 0 Author: MLCad 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 (...) (14 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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(...) You're welcome. I got the POV files, and responded (via email) that I needed the original LDraw file in order to debug LDView. It would seem that you didn't get my email reply. --Travis (14 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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Hi Travis, thanks for your offer, I sent you the file yesterday evening (european time :-) ). cheers, adrian (14 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: SVG renders possible?
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(...) Add the following to LDView's command line: -GL2PSAllowed=1 Alternatively, run regedit, browse into the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\So...are\Travis Cobbs\LDView key, then create a new DWORD value there named GL2PSAllowed, and set it to 1. Once you do (...) (14 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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(...) (FUT lugnet.cad.dev) I draw everything but the edge lines with glColorMask() set to all false. This updates the depth buffer, but doesn't update the color buffer. Edge lines are drawn with a standard glColorMask(). --Travis (14 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: SVG renders possible?
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(...) How would I go about enabling this experimental feature? I'd like to try it out on one of my line drawings. Eric Albrecht (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MLCad Group
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(...) Hi Tore, Jaco has documented it in the LPub4 web page. The idea is that buffer exchange is most commonly used for removing parts from the previous step, but what if you want to remove something from an older step? You could use buffer (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing [DAT]
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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 (...) (14 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 (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGO Scrabble game
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Okay, it might not be real. But it is still pretty cool. LEGO Scrabble (URL) Behance.net> About: (URL) -Abner (14 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 (...) (14 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? (14 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) , (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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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 (...) (14 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 (14 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 (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Export LDD to LDraw
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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 (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | MLCad Group
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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 (...) (14 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 (14 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 (14 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 (14 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 (...) (14 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 (14 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 (...) (14 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 (...) (14 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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(...) Have you tried disabling lighting? (...) I don't know any ether, I'm sorry. roland (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND® Florida Announces Opening Date
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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. (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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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 (...) (14 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 (...) (14 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 (...) (14 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 (14 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. (14 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 (14 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 (14 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw.org website theme.
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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 (14 years ago, 23-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGOLAND® Florida Announces Opening Date
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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: (...) (14 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 (14 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 (14 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 (...) (14 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 (14 years ago, 22-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org website theme.
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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 (14 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 (...) (14 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 (14 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 (...) (14 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 (14 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 (...) (14 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 (14 years ago, 20-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Updating LDConfig - Request for New Colors
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(...) Bricklink color 150, Medium Dark Flesh, does not have a matching color name/number from TLG or LDraw in any color chart I've seen. It may be too new; it only first appeared in sets from 2010. Their color 151, Speckle Black-Gold, also first (...) (14 years ago, 20-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Updating LDConfig - Request for New Colors
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I was recently informed that LDConfig does not have the proper colors for this part: (URL) anyone know of any more colors that may be missing or need to be added? I have also been asked to change a few colors in LDConfig that don't look quite right. (...) (14 years ago, 20-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD and LDraw - which has the most parts?
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(...) OK, but that rules out parts that were in before that have been removed. I recently opened an old LDD file which was complete, but is now incomplete due to lack of parts. Also correct models opened in free build mode give incorrect colors (...) (14 years ago, 20-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Putting The Pieces Together (Video) - LEGO Group, CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
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Putting The Pieces Together Interview with LEGO Group, CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp & Kirsty Wark at European Zeitgeist 2011. Video is about thirteen minutes long (12:58) release May 16, 2011 on 'ZeigeistMinds' channel: (URL) Putting The Pieces (...) (14 years ago, 20-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| | Re: LDD and LDraw - which has the most parts?
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An estimation made by JC Tchang gives 2433 parts for LDD and 4506 for LDraw. These figures include patterned parts, but not the 550 LDraw shortcut parts. Philo (14 years ago, 20-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD and LDraw - which has the most parts?
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--snip-- (...) The newer versions have a free build mode with all parts available in all colours. I'd guess that LDraw has many more non-minifig parts but LDD may pip it now for total due to the proliferation of minifig parts. Tim (14 years ago, 20-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New buildinginstruction on the LPub Manual Site
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Howdy folks! Check out my new buildinginstructions on the LPub Manual Site! https://sites.google...ons/cowboy I Love Building too... digitally... :-) Cheers! Jaco (14 years ago, 19-May-11, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LDD and LDraw - which has the most parts?
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I am glad import function for LDraw in LDD has been restored. For me it didn't work a while. Pitty not all parts are in and parts that are in LDD get removed now and then. (14 years ago, 19-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD and LDraw - which has the most parts?
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(...) Hmm, and I am sure that LDraw has more though (correct me if I am wrong or prove otherwise). I mean, take all old parts that _are_ in LDraw and _not_ in LDD. Take the color availability in to account, and there you go. If I'd model my designs (...) (14 years ago, 19-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Zellers sale May 20-26
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Zellers flyer good from Friday May 20th through Thursday May 26th. Buy one get one 1/2 price on all LEGO construction sets. Regular $2.99-79.99. Second item must be of equal or lesser value. Flyer shows a wide variety of sets including Ninjago, (...) (14 years ago, 19-May-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | New Google Group for SMART
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Mark Kenworthy has created a new google group for SMART with the goal to ease communications within our group. The name of the group is smart_robotics. To keep the group clean and away from the despicable acts of spammers, the group is closed. (...) (14 years ago, 19-May-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Why does "dark tan" in LDConfig not look like dark tan?
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(...) Thanks...I'll change them and upload them soon. Scott W. (14 years ago, 19-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD and LDraw - which has the most parts?
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(...) I'm pretty sure LDD has way more parts, patterns being a possible exception. Many LDraw parts that have been developed more recently were done so with the gracious help of the Lego Universe Team, who did us the favor of converting batches of (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi all, I recently found this post on the Eurobricks website: (URL) you can find a huge list of Lego sets that are available in LDD format. It was interesting to note that many of the sets are missing certain pieces (mainly sticker parts and minifig (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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(...) I am the Larry behind MiltonTrainWorks.com ... and I think I have been the Larry you met in Germany way long ago. Was Ben there? (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POVRay Error: lg_defs.inc
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Hy Larry, I am also going to try this on friday, thx. BTW, are you THE Larry I have met years years years ago for one day in Germany (forgot the name of the boy you visited, I have been there with Dö (Ralph)) and built some cool stuff together? Some (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide 1949-90s
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Still taking pre-orders and working on the Volume 1&2 LEGO CD (1949-90s).... The merged edition is going to be big. I've been busy finishing chapters... the final chapter count isn't there yet... But so far it's 71 Chapters... 4 Appendices and 2 (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Cool, thx, will give it a try on friday (have no access to my Mac Mini with the Windows Installation at the moment) and tell you the results. Great, adrian (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | May 21 SMART Meeting
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The next SMART Meeting is this Saturday May 21. Challenge for the meeting is to build a robot that resembles some type of creature, real or pretend. We will also do an mini-class/group programming with NXC. Bring a robot and a laptop and we will see (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Why does "dark tan" in LDConfig not look like dark tan?
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(...) I think dark tan is so far wrong in the official file that it's in desperate need of a correction. It looks much closer to the color Bricklink refers to as medium dark flesh, which appeared in some of the Prince of Persia sets. That has a rich (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | So here's a question....
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Since my last post got eaten by the sub-ether... I have a new question-- Regarding the candle'bot, right from the rules-- Eligible:Public & AFOL Goal: The First Robot to find and extinguish a candle flame will be the winner of that round. Robots (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer 2010-03 beta
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(...) That might be a good idea, offer to abort if you find it, though, rather than just uninstalling silently. :) (...) Thanks... So that's a fairly good argument for taking a VMWare approach I guess. I DO have a new machine I need to get "render (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I've been ruminating in the addled brainspace I call my head about my tug o' war 'bot.... And I thought it would be a good time to finally pull out the 18 battery boxes 'bot idea that Chris and I've been yipping about for well most a decade--I can (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | LEGO Systems, Inc. Completes Upgrade of its ‘Brick House’
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LEGO® Completes Upgrade of its ‘Brick House’ May 16, 2011 Toymaker LEGO Systems, Inc., Enfield, CT has completed its $7 million upgrade of approximately 125,000 square feet of raw, high-bay manufacturing space into bright, efficient and comfortable (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Why does "dark tan" in LDConfig not look like dark tan?
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(...) OK, I'll keep you in mind if I find other color issues. The "rendered look" came out great!! (URL) (14 years ago, 17-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why does "dark tan" in LDConfig not look like dark tan?
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(...) Yeah, I use this LDConfig_alt for working in MLCAD. It makes it look a lot more fun / realistic than black edge lines. Its not good for making instructions, but I get an almost rendered look in MLCAD without having to run a separate rendering (...) (14 years ago, 17-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer 2010-03 beta
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(...) I had newbies in mind with little or no knowledge about LDraw who wanna give it a try when I set up the new AIOI. Therefore it will never carry LDDP, DatHeader or other part author stuff. I could code in checking for an existing installation (...) (14 years ago, 17-May-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Why does "dark tan" in LDConfig not look like dark tan?
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(...) definition I use for rendering. It's running now. I also noticed that you used much different edge colors than the basic file. You used unique edge colors instead of #333333 for everything. Eric (14 years ago, 17-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why does "dark tan" in LDConfig not look like dark tan?
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(...) Yeah, the LDConfig definition is wrong. Dark_Tan has been in the file for a long time, and I think those who can change it have chosen not to mess with colors that we did not add to the file. I'd be happy to change LDconfig in the next update. (...) (14 years ago, 17-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why does "dark tan" in LDConfig not look like dark tan?
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(...) lighting. However, I think that this screen capture from LDView looks totally different than the photographs issued by LEGO. (URL) (14 years ago, 17-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why does "dark tan" in LDConfig not look like dark tan?
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(...) Color 28 looks right to me, see for example this color chart (done with LDView) (URL) (14 years ago, 17-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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