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  Re: Air lock and ship docking discussion
 
(...) It can also be helpful to use LDLite's block meta-commands, either with or without submodels. Specifically, LDLite (and l3p) supports 0 ROTATE, allowing you to easily rotate around any vector, and 0 TRANSLATE, which allows you to relocate (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Dat web sites
 
(...) [snip] I believe that the big shock absorber has been drawn, submitted and did show up 2 or 3 vote cycles ago. It has been but on hold because there was concensus over an idea how to make the spring coil appear compressed with differend (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: MLCad Suggestions
 
(...) Ok, thank you, I will implement this into the program. But wy does index and contents not work for you, or in which case? Michael (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: MLCad Suggestions
 
"Michael Lachmann" wrote... (...) If it fails, you could try launching the user's preferred browser by calling: ShellExecute(0, "open", "MLCAD.htm", NULL, NULL, 0); However, you will miss the Index and Contents buttons (which I cannot get to work (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: Where did 3005.dat go?
 
"Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote... (...) You need both complete.exe AND ldraw.exe to be *really* complete :-) Why complete.exe is incomplete I completely don't understand, but I guess it has to do with James Jessiman original package (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: 3D Modeling
 
(...) use ? (The background look like Photoworks rendering in Solidworks) If your CAD program can save STL files (standard for stereolithography), you could use my converter stl2dat to create DAT files. You have modelised some parts that are not yet (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: MLCad Suggestions
 
(...) You must be doing some interesting optimizations for the drawing? It doesn't seem any harder to render the last N parts than the first N? (...) I also noticed that when you delete a part, MLCad jumps back to the start of the list. It would be (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: Air lock and ship docking discussion
 
(...) [please FUT .cad] It can be a pain to make multiple angles...just ask Jeremy Sproat, Karim Nassar, or others...however, it can be done using submodels and patience. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)
 
  30285ts.dat - Town Tread Section  [DAT]
 
here is the section file., 28 sections in each tread, it tends to bend in 45 degree angles as it goes around the rim 0 Town Tread 12 stud section 0 30285ts.dat 0 Author: Thomas Burger(tburger666@aol.com) 0 Unofficial LCAD Element 2 24 4 2.50 6 -4 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  x504.dat - Town Tread  [DAT]
 
Just completed, the town tread found in the new arctic sets, requires subpart 20385ts.dat; which is the section file. the rims for this tread (30285.dat)I am working on, just have to find the torus generator... 0 Town Tread 0 Name: x504.dat 0 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Request: wheels for 8459
 
Has anyone done the wheels for the 8459, the tires are marked 68.8X40 I just need them for pictures, and haven't really got the time right now to do them myself:) Regards John (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: MLCad Suggestions
 
(...) alternate (...) ... (...) I agree it's better than the current system and not really modal operation but I still find it unintuitive. There is no obvious reason why vertical movement should be zoom and horizontal movement should be pan. Worse, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: Minifig Thermos Bottle(?) - Help Needed!  [DAT]
 
(...) Like this: 0 Inlined: 1 16 0 8 0 0,94 0 -0,342 0 1 0 0,342 0 0,94 a11.dat 0 Name: a11.dat 2 24 7461.122 -46 2713.514 7461.122 -43 2713.514 2 24 7460.438 -46 2715.394 7460.438 -43 2715.394 1 16 7460.78 -46 2714.454 -.342 0 .94 0 -1 0 .94 0 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: MLCad Suggestions
 
(...) A DAT->PostScript converter would be awesome, either as a stand-alone utility, or as a plug-in to MLCad. But I don't think it needs to be in the core of MLCad (in other words, maybe someone else can work on this besides Michael? Not that I'm (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: who choose parts numbers ?
 
(...) More specifically, after you submit the part for inclusion in the L-CAD update, we do some more research to try to find the 'correct' number. If no number can be found, the partfile will be given a 3-digit number. For your own work, you can (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: MLCad Suggestions
 
(...) Gestural activation is way different than true modal operation - there is no additional interface component (the "specification of operation" is part of the operation itself) and there is no state change either before or after the operation. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  3D Modeling
 
Hello, At this moment I am drawing (Technic) Lego parts in a 3D CAD program. The advantage of this program is that you can easy visualize the working of you model. (e.g. when you make a motor and turns the crank axle, the pistons will be go up and (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Help! - MLCAD won't read 754.dat
 
The problem is in the dat file itself, due to another problem in MLCad it is reported as if it would not exist. The file 754.dat contains some illegal character-combinations in the lines 29 and 30. Both start with "01" instead of "0" or "1". The (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: Minifig Thermos Bottle(?) - Help Needed!  [DAT]
 
(...) How does it hate you? (...) See below. (...) Not me. (...) No, because Thermos™ is a trademark (I admit, I didn't go do a search. But I'm 99.99% sure). Steve 0 @Minifig Thermos Bottle 0 Name: 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Un-Official Part 0 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: 32191.dat and request photo of Technic Panel #3 and #4 (32188)
 
(...) This not the best way to proceed. It is better to use 3-8cyli.dat instead, and then hard-code the last polygon (or two), based on the polygons from 1-4cyli.dat. But the approach you describe has been used on some parts. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)


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