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(...) Right. As I understand, this brick appeared with several different colors of printing, but always on the same color brick. This approach (hard-coding the brick color, but allowing the pattern color to 'float') has been done in a few other (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That would be very cool, but MPD is not part of the LDraw standard definition, so (official) parts can't be written this way. Steve (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I hacked around with this a bit. The necessity of having path-names really limits the usefulness of this kind of utility, unfortunately. Hmm, maybe I could build a Wise Install wizard, which 1. Allows the user to pick which file-types they (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's not my point - I was just saying you can put whatever (text) files you want into an MPD. That's very similar to a file directory, because there is not implied relation between the files in a directory (except that they're all in the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Stages, woo-hoo! (Was: The Artemis Project)
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(...) The single greatest contribution (IMO) that the Artemis Project has to offer is the concept of Stages, its OO approach to model and submodel storage. Essentially, a model can be associated with a Stage or a set of attributes -- origin offset, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | cannot connect to site / lack of support from MediaOne.net - DAY THREE (KMM78820C0KM) [lego]
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This is the *third* day I have been trying to access "www.ldraw.org" without success. I have *yet* to receive a response from a human being at Media One. No phone calls, no email (other than the original email from some anonymous techie at Media One (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | The Artemis Project
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As some of you may know, I am a student of Industrial Design, specializing in product and interface design. I will be graduating in December, and hopefully putting some of that to work ;) I have really appreciated all the work that everyone in the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) This is by design then? (...) No preference here; I just think that (for consistency) the origin should be between two studs (if possible), and visible when the model is viewed from the front or back or the sides (if possible). This one is (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: pictures of parrot
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes: [snip] (...) [snip] (...) [snip] O.K, that's fair enough. Greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Question on parts
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Hello, I was wondering if someone around here could let me know if some parts are being worked on and/or can be found someplace on the web. I don't know the parts numbers so I'll just try to describe them enough for people to understand what I'm (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: A bug?
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(...) It's probably easier to provide a "flush cache" option in the editors. By "Easier", I mean easier for both developers and users. Steve (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) I considered posting the L3P -check output as a link on the voting page. (...) How about a parrot w/o decorative printing? ;) (...) It would be very nice if L3Lab had a menu command for L3P-check'ing the current file. A little dialog to set (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Note to everyone (repeating myself from just a few minutes ago): the one thing that practically *can't* be changed after a part is released is the orientation and positioning! So it may seem picayune to argue about these things, but it is very (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was hoping I could keep the subfile inside the original dat file, similar to a mpd file. (...) I bow to your superior experience and leave the file alone. Thanks Steve, Dennis. (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Oh, right. Good point. (...) Right. The parts in question *are* useful, and do have some mirrors and beads on them (so to speak). (...) I feel just the opposite. "Decorated" is a common description for parts with printed patterns on them. I've (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually, this is the reverse of inlining. It doesn't really have a name. Outlining? Subfiling? (...) Yes, it will work. All you do is copy half the DAT code to another file (like s\2546s01.dat). Then replace all the you are subfiling with the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Can you import Text into ldraw as BMPs?
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(...) LDAO includes a BMP2DAT function. I think it's even working, in the current version (it had been broken for several versions). Steve (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If/when another bird-file is made, we can address this issue. Part names are pretty easy to change.[1] If a DUPLO-scale part was ever made, there's a very good chance that it would be named something like "DUPLO Animal Bird". (...) Yep, same (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: More newbie questions
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(...) Yes, but how do you do to draw only one of those models of the bunch in the MPD ? I think you can't unless, you edit the first file (index) of the MPD. With this in mind, an MPD does NOT work as a virtual directory, but it can act as a place (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org unreachable
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(...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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