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"Terry K" <legoverse@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FzvL6F.Lop@lugnet.com... (...) if (...) ROFL :) BTW - so you can rest at night, no bricks which weren't mine were removed from the model shop yesterday. I brought some of mine in, and all of mine (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The Artemis Project
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Bravo Karim! An outstanding, well-considered and -presented treatise on the future of user- supported Lego CAD. This paper clearly defines a rational approach to future development and I hope that the community can come together and make it happen. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Tim visits the Model Shop (was: Re: The Artemis Project)
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(...) worms) - (...) interfacing (...) have (...) I seriously doubt that TLC would ever adopt our naming conventions - even if Tim Courtney asked them to. :-) (inside joke there) And I agree with Steve that it is highly unlikely, given past (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: [part] Updated S\973S01.DAT
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(...) Please tell me that this includes moving all of those accessories out of town,castle,space etc and into minifig where they belong... (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Tim visits the Model Shop (was: Re: The Artemis Project)
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(...) was (...) I can absolutely confirm that Legos Danish-to-English part name translations dont usually come out very well from my work on the Technic parts registry. It used to be that I tried very hard to get "official" Lego names for all of the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some TLC folks use LDraw, MLCad (Was: The Artemis Project)
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(...) I believe their use of the software is cumbersome and limited, because even though they have state of the art CAD systems, they still print out LARGE sheets of brick graph paper (~6' wide plotter) with images on them and trace the studs. Plus, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Some TLC folks use LDraw, MLCad (Was: The Artemis Project)
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(...) Well, Entirely possible, but not necessarily... I know of many Industrial Designers & Architects who use very state-of-the-art CAD/CAID software at work, but use very cheap & limited software at home for their personal creativity... Why? (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: September MOTM voting is ready
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(...) Yup. VERY tough voting, I'll have to think about where to cast my vote for a long time. Great models this month! And a big thanks goes out to Terry who is filling in for me while I can't update the site for a few days. -Tim (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) All great stuff! That Petrol Station that Jonathan Wilson made is a gem!!! --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thanks! :-, But I had trouble positioning the light_source; it wouldn't be rotated and translated like an object. Did you have to figure out the coordinates all over again? BTW, any chance of seeing the .POV for your scene? (...) Is that rgbf (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi all, The September LDraw.org Model Of The Month voting is up and ready at: (URL) entries to choose from this time. And just a reminder, entries should be submitted WITH a short text about the model and/or scene. And can the entrants for this (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Some TLC folks use LDraw, MLCad (Was: The Artemis Project)
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(...) Well, its clear that the LCAD advancements are the BEST we've seen of any 3D Lego design program, with the exception of the illusive TLC instructions program (which, from what I've seen, I wouldn't be surprised if it was VERY limited). So, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Tim visits the Model Shop (was: Re: The Artemis Project)
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(...) Actually they are aware of a lot of things, I know someone from TLC who tried LeoCAD. It's not a big surprise, if they know Lugnet then it's almost impossible not to know the CAD newsgroups too. (...) We could come up with a simple standard (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer [DAT]
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(...) Also: - Fixed my goofy 4/5 lines. - Shoved the handle into the body, adjusting the handle's length to compensate, so that there are no gaps between the handle and the ribbing. - Added header stuff. 2 questions remain: - Is this good enough? (I (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 2nd. Idea for a new feature to help rotation of parts in Ldraw Cad software
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(...) Looks good so far! (...) Cool, thanks! :-, (...) Looks good. I suggest that the <mf> can be set from inside MLCad, like a file's read-only bit in a file manager. (...) Sounds like you'd want just one per model. How would you handle more than (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2nd. Idea for a new feature to help rotation of parts in Ldraw Cad software
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 15:38:40 GMT, Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote: <SNIP> (...) I see one usage for the flag. The flag could mean that any axis of any sub-model can be changed by the user. But the axis of the standard parts should been (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Some TLC folks use LDraw, MLCad (Was: The Artemis Project)
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(...) Wow. Somebody pinch me. This is about as close to unofficial endorsement as you can get! Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: 2nd. Idea for a new feature to help rotation of parts in Ldraw Cad software
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(...) I would place the "Name" at the end, because it allows you to be consistent with .dat usual format, and it may have other possibilities, like aliases, several names. (...) Sorry, I can't see any benefit from this flag, if it can't be changed (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Pov-Ray Question
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Hello, everyone. I have seen many raytraces of awsome looking spaceships, and some of them, I noticed, have backgrounds behind them. I was wondering how you set the raytrace background *picture*, as I know how to set the color. Help would be (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Tim visits the Model Shop (was: Re: The Artemis Project)
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(...) Because of the nature of his job, I think that he does it cause he enjoys it. He didn't comment much on the software, I dunno if that's because TLC is skittish about releasing opinions or not (I recall a couple years ago either I talked to or (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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