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(...) I guess I should note that I'm using POVRay v3.1, L3P v1.2 20000616, and Anton's library v415. I'm mainly having trouble wrapping my head around the texture changes from POVRay 3.0 to 3.1 (needs a major version number change, IMO), and how I (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: More newbie questions
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(...) Some issues here: 1. The automatic way of getting MLCad (or any DAT/MPD viewer) to launch when you download a DAT or MPD file is to register the correct mime type with MLCad. (1) LUGNET serves DAT content as mime type "application/x-ldraw", so (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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I have a Mac...am I screwed if I want to get in on this L-Draw gig? (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Snapshots in MLCad
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(...) Isn't there a way to copy what you see on the screen into the clipboard, and paste it into a paint program? I think it's like: Alt+PrintScreen or Shift+PrintScreen or something, then open your paint program and hit Paste. Right? Am I wrong (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Snapshots in MLCad
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(...) Since MLCad now implements the ability to rotate the oblique view to whatever viewing angle you want, how about a command that just takes the current oblique view and gives you an absolute rotation step to that rotation and origin value, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: More newbie questions
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(...) MLCad isn't the only thing that one could associate with .cgi, unfortunately. That's why. (.Dat either..., like I said before, we can't change it but it was a bad choice....) I don't know if this is a change in LUGNET, or a change because I (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: [part] Updated S\973S01.DAT
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(...) For the sake of keeping the basic part free of marks, how about putting the neck mark in a bitmap subfile, like how the torso patterns are done? Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) If you by "subfile" mean an MPD subfile, I think the scope is public, see the thread (URL) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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This is either a request for info on MLCad, or a feature request, I'm not sure. I would like to be able to load a model, go into edit view and move down a bunch of parts, orient the oblique view so the parts are all visible, then print a picture of (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: More newbie questions
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"Steve Bliss" <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:6jqnpsg4q0shhd0...4ax.com... (...) Why not? AFAIK, that's the only way to do it, if you want it to be automatic. Otherwise you have to select 'open with' each time. At least that's my (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) The original definition for MPD states that data before the first 0 FILE statement will be ignored. This is because it was assumed that MPD streams would appear mostly in e-mail messages with included DAT content. Something like: ===...=== Hi! (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) But an include function is different from a subfile function. Basically, anything in a subfile is scoped to that subfile, and doesn't exist outside of the subfile. Yet another reason for a 0 INCLUDE (or 0 MACRO) meta-statement. Steve (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: [part] Updated S\973S01.DAT [DAT]
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(...) Since you included the update-comment: (...) I'd be inclined to not change the author line. Earlier version: (...) Jeremy's change: (...) If you're going to remove the neck-mark, you might just as well do: 1 16 0 -4 0 6 0 0 0 -8 0 0 0 6 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: UPDATED Part - 30200 Windscreen 6 x 6 Octagonal Canopy Base
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(...) Nice job! Do you mind if we put this part in the Cockpit category? It fits better there. Steve (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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(...) Well, until the voting page is up, I won't say absolutely not. But I've got a bit of a backlog now (after moving/kids to camp/week at the lake/etc.), and I am seriously trying to get to a point where I can post the voting page. So if I get a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More newbie questions
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(...) I don't think the file extension will effect the actual functionality of the file. Well, maybe if you called a DAT an MPD, things would act a little weird. So, if you don't know the exact file type, try DAT. (...) The file-type isn't (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: questions about parts
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(...) There are a few links on the www.ldraw.org site to unofficial parts (but I'm not sure how up-to-date these links are). Probably the best place to find files is at (URL). (...) Sure. You can either put them in your ldraw/models/ directory or in (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Downloading DAT files
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It's relatively simple: Just right-click and choose "save target as" and use the pull-down menu on the screen to select "All file types" and name your model anyway you like and make the extension ".dat" If you have now idea what to do with what I (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Downloading DAT files
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This post is in follow up to some others that have been sent recently. It has to do with the DAT files that people post here. Why is it that they only appear as ldraw.cgi? I would like to know how I can get these parts with a .dat extension as (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: partial archive of colored parts online
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(...) Cool. Might be nice to run with shading turned on.. or maybe not. It does add a lot in many cases but subtracts in some. ++Lar (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.cad)
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