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(...) Then he wrote: (...) Or more simply (in LDraw-world), this: 1--2 | | | 4--5 | / | |/ | 6-----7 Leading to: 1--2 |\ | | 4--5 | / \ | |/ \| 6-----7 That was fun! Steve (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) the zoom setting. LDLite takes some 80 seconds on the same model. And I can swing it around to any angle with my mouse. Wow. Thank you so much for publishing this. The choice of yellow as the edge-color for red was unexpected... Steve (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sv: Changing the Rotational Axis
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(...) It's actually pretty simple, once you get the hang of using a couple of tricks. First of all, you want to *visually* define 0,0,0 in your submodel. To this end, insert a 3070.DAT (1x1 tile) located at 0,0,0; its top surface is centered upon (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Alright, that's what I was talking about, rotating submodels. Like I've got a 3x4 hinge plat with some of those hexagonal pieces at the end to make a door (think Message Intercept Base) and I want to set the submodel's rotational axis along (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Here are a couple of Dwarves drinking. Please LMKWYT. Thanks, Franklin 0 FILE dwarves.dat 0 MPD Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 0 This .MPD was compiled using M-Peedy 0 (URL) Dwarves drinking 0 1 16 40 0 40 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 dwarf1.dat 1 16 -40 0 -40 0 0 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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Lars C. Hassing skrev i meddelandet <950263932.570892@ns.cci.dk>... (...) It's not fair! Keeping that gem for yourself for two years :-) Very nice, Lars. It's the first .DAT renderer I've seen that can (really) be used on my large house/castle (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
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(...) UPPERCASE (...) makes (...) Yes, HFS, that's it. A search for "HFS", "rock ridge", and "joliet" turns up several GUI tools for making hybrid CD filesystems such as the ones at www.cdeverywhere.com and www.cdr.com. I've personally only used the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | STL2DAT Download Page and Runtime Error 200 Fix
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I've added the STL2DAT download page to ldraw.org at: (URL) also placed the long awaited Runtime Error 200 Fix on the Get Started page: (URL) this will save headaches from new users. -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: stl2dat conversion tool beta2
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(...) Both those constant should be configurable, eventually within predefined ranges. Maybe You should allow the use of the abs() function to be optional, because if the face normal are correctly calculated (the faces are well defined, CCW or CW) (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) be a great help for checking new parts. Chris (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | How is parts.lst created / solving VEC problem
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Is there a description somewhere of how the parts list is created and maintained, and changed when new updates are added? The reason I ask is, using LDAO, I really hate it when my VEC is wider than one screen's worth of pictures. It appears that the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Apple wants a partition type "HFS" which is their disk system. Having one makes your CDROM appear natively: icons, window placement, file type/creator codes all that stuff is embedded in HFS directories. Many hybrid CDs (games) have separate (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Be careful criticizing the parts authors when you don't know what you're discussing. They've put a helluva lot more thought into this than you have. For example, at which logical rotation point should 0,0,0 be put? A corner? The centerline for (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Sv: Changing the Rotational Axis
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This must be a problem directed to the partwriters, or what?. I have never made a part, but I think parts must have a 0,0,0 which should be at a logical rotationpoint. But if they place 0,0,0 more or less at random, you have no way of knowing where (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | two new critters - a Satyr and a Minotaur [DAT]
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Here are the "DAT" files I referred to in this other post: "(URL) LMKWYT. Thanks, Franklin 0 FILE myth.dat 0 MPD Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 0 This .MPD was compiled using M-Peedy 0 (URL) Mythical Beasties - a Satyr and a Minotaur 0 Author: Franklin (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: stl2dat conversion tool beta2
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(...) No ONLY Triangles. Look for STL format description (URL) >Buy the way, do you correctly generate these lines (expecially the (...) <SNIP> (...) The program check the angle between two adjacent facets if abs(angle ) < 1e-5 No Edge if abs(angle) (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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(...) analysis. It dumps all kinds of diagnostic data on the model. It gives my Tantive IV all kinds of pretty colors. Lars, after I get over how amazingly cool this app is, I'm gonna flog you with a lasagna noodle for keeping it away from us for so (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Ok, my cad program can do that, but I have to mess with it because the options to tesselate a surface are somewhat complex, at least if you want to be able to have some control on the number of polys generated. Does STL allow only for (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line of error
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(...) If a line doesn't have enough orientation numbers, LDraw will usually choke when it tries to treat the filename as a number. One important thing about LDraw and linebreaks: once it's read enough data to complete a command, LDraw ignores (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
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(...) I was under the impression that the ISO-9660? filesystem was only 8.3 UPPERCASE or something like that. All the operating system vendors then added their own extensions to get long filenames with mixed case. Linux uses Rock Ridge. Microsoft (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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