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Hy, the Lego community is becomming more and more present in the actual magazines now. Finaly there is a german computer magazine called CT which comes with a Shareware/Freeware CD this month. Included on this CD are BlockCAD and MLCad. Just wanted (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Category Statement
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I thought about making use of the category statement in MLCad. This would have allowed to group the parts by category rather than by name or something else .... ... but I did a quick check on the parts and found out that only arround 5% of the parts (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Speaking of colors...
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(...) I think it makes sense to use a special code for rubber, and 256 sounds like a good choice. (...) Let's see. In LDraw, if dithered color K is constructed out of solid colors I and J as 256 + I * 16 + J, I believe the edge-color of K will be (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw parts creation tutorial?
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(...) Hmm. Read the LDraw FAQ, at (URL). Especially question #24, apparently (I'm looking at a posting of mine from January). See message (URL). See message (URL). Also see (URL). Not that I'm releasing that URL for anything other than *development* (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: curved train track
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BTW, in case anyone hasn't guessed this, I've jumped into this thread in order to make sure I understand exactly which variations of the rails have which part numbers. I need to know so that we can get the parts released with the proper numbers. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw parts creation tutorial?
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Once again, I have had the pleasure of recieving a mail from an LDraw newbie who wishes to learn the noble art of creating new LDraw parts. I know that some answers can be found in the LDraw FAQ, but I think there has been a discussion about making (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: curved train track
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(...) the (...) The blue track doesn't have a part number on it. It does have numbers on them but those seem not related to the part itself (for example I have a blue straight piece with the numbers 10-09 and another with 13-06). -Frank (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Speaking of colors...
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Color 256 for Black Rubber was suggested by John VanZwieten one year ago, see eg. (URL) haven't received any suggestions for the POV setting for rubber, so I just turned off reflection. I announced the special treatment of color 256 three weeks ago: (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Speaking of colors...
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I noticed that the m6596a.dat file which comes with the new version of L3Lab uses color 256 (black + black) for the tires. These apparently display in L3Lab with a black edge color. In addition, Lars' renderings of this model on his L3P page appear (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Parts Category: Cockpit
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parts which I think should go into cockpit: 30299 6058 2337 2483 2620 30372 30384 4474 6084 6085 2507 and mabie 30037 551 2418 2443 2598 basicly I see the cockpit catogory as a place for those parts that are used as cockpits/canopies/etc (because I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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