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(...) [snipped description and part-file] Yep, this is how I usually build curved stuff - use primitives to get the correct points, inline them and move the points around as necessary. In this particular case (a full circular ring), a way to avoid (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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(...) I've done a similar thing myself a few times to generate a cone (and similar things), and I've been thinking about making a function in LDraw-mode to make the process easier. But I failed to see how to formalize the procedure, so I suspended (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE?
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(...) Basically it checks if a stud primitive is close to a "inverted stud" (the cylinders under a plate for example) or to some predefined points added by me and remove them. The original idea was to make the bricks really connect when they get (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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Perhaps that'll teach me to take a better look at the numbers... Regards John (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) Uhm well, I got myself too, on closer inspection the number was 3475, which I now see was allready made:) Well perhaps my report on it will cause Fredrik to make a few improvements on ldraw-mode, that way it hasn't been all in vain:) Regards (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Using STL2Dat, from Marc Klein
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Hi everybody Well, i'm working on complex parts like tires and wheels. I tried to use Solidworks and convert models with STL2Dat converter, made by Marc Klein. It works fine, but generaly, it produce quite large files. When i use L3Lab, it seem that (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | A discovery? and part 3475 [DAT]
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I just threw this together, and while doing it I came up with a quite easy way to create discs with holes, and cones. Consider two edge.dat's same orientation, same position but with different diameters. If one where to fill out the space between (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 6641.dat Technic Changeover Catch
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(...) In my opinion, mock-ups and unofficial parts as just that: unofficial. People using them should know that the orientation and origin may change when (if) the parts become official. So I think it is safe to change the orientation of your part (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) You got me. What's a 3425? Steve (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Cataloging Program
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(...) Well, it's not *that* big'o'deal: GIF is restricted to 256 colors. If you convert down to 256 colors, will PNG give compression on par with GIF? If it doesn't, you can always look into BMP/RLE. FYI, here are some links into the MS (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new part - 71014 - castle greatsword - revised
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Franklin W. Cain <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20000328190244....ail.com... (...) Nice work on the quillions (I'm sure that was fun:), and the handle is much improved, too. Just a few nits to point out: Where you extended the cylinder on (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Problem with 1-4con1.dat [DAT]
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The type 5 lines in 1-4con1.dat are coded color 16, rather than color 24 as they should be. (Unless I missed an update of this primitive.) 0 1/4 Cone Section 1:2 Radius 0 Name: 1-4con1.dat 0 Author: Karim Nassar 0 Official LCad update 99-05 -> 5 16 (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 6641.dat Technic Changeover Catch
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(...) I agree with you Fredrik, but to modelise this part, I used the same orientation as in the mockup made by Jonathan Wilson. Changing this orientation will change the models using this part. So could we change the orientation of a part if the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Throwbot foot
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(...) Fredrik you are right, the axle is too thin. Steve, the reason is because I modelise the parts with a CAD CAM program then I convert the part to dat with my program STL2AT. For the moment, this program recognize only cylindric primitives. I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) Apparantly. I cannot find the part number in any parts reference, so what i it? /Tore (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | looking for 3425
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Can it really be true that the 3425 hasn't been done? Regards John (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | new part - 71014 - castle greatsword - revised [DAT]
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I updated this DAT file, incorporating all the suggestions that I received. Please LMKWYT. Thanks, Franklin 0 Castle Greatsword 0 Filename: 71014.DAT 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain (fwcain@yahoo.com) 0 Unofficial Element 0 0 CATEGORY Minifig Accessory 0 (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New part : Minifig Torso with Patch Pocket Pattern
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Chris Dee <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fs56r5.1Gu@lugnet.com... (...) The (...) that (...) than (...) I would say keep using the technique. Minifigs are most often viewed in models at a distance where they look better with the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Parts Cataloging Program
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(...) This problem is why I chose PNG. It compresses flat shaded images quite well and still retains the true color pixels. My comprehensive testing of one sample image (the one on the LdGLite web page) put the PNG file at about half the size of the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New part : Minifig Torso with Patch Pocket Pattern
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(...) I noticed that too, but dismissed it as a rendering artifact, which I suppose it is. Do you think this means we should stop using this technique? The town torsos I have done without the hidden lines look bad in L3Lab at low mag - so I was (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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