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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FzMpLH.K8A@lugnet.com... (...) Jacob, there is a problem with your tracert - if you compare it to Frank's tracert and my own you'll see that the packets take different paths (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:G0GMuJ.JFL@lugnet.com... (...) No, definitely no proxy. I'm the admin for our firewall and internet connections and we don't have a proxy. Our firewall uses NAT and does not (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: minor bug
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Agreed .. solved already ... next release coming soon. Michael Peter A. Vogel <pavogel@pacbell.net> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: G0H95K.3ru@lugnet.com... (...) name (...) be (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | "Needs Work"- Needs Work
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We need to set some kind of time limit for parts that 'Need Work'. I was looking through the parts list and found one that was in a 97 update. And it still needs work. The flower parts are another example. When will these 'Needs Work' parts be (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gappy Spheroids?
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The version of L3Lab I have (1.2, which appears to be the current version) has a seams option in the View menu, as well as a toolbar button. My LDView program has a "Seam Width" option, inspired by L3P/L3Lab. Setting this width to 0 in LDView turns (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gappy Spheroids?
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(...) You're right of course, but I didn't have another example available to me here at work. You mentioned something I hadn't considered, though; does L3Lab have a "seams" function, other than "show color 24 as black"? I hadn't even considered the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gappy Spheroids?
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I forgot to mention. If you are examining a piece, it is usually much easier to determine surface characteristics (or flaws) if it is opaque. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gappy Spheroids?
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:G0HFCH.Dz9@lugnet.com... (...) L3Lab, (...) an (...) occuring (...) it's (...) the (...) of a (...) You're right; it's hard to see. In fact, I can't see it at all, but I'll take your word for (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New part: 2046 Staircase 6 x 6 x 7 1/3 Enclosed Curved [DAT]
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Here, at last, is the curved staircase. This is probably the most difficult part I have attempted, as there are so many tricky curved intersections. The file posted here still contains my development comments which will be removed before submission, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 6216.dat (mock-up) - "brick 2x4x2 rounded triple"???
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(...) D'OH!!! But I *checked* -- uhh, waitaminit... I checked for "30237", the *other* mock-up I did, I *forgot* to check for "6216". :-P Tore, I'm sorry. :-( "Mea culpa." Thanks, Franklin (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 6216.dat (mock-up) - "brick 2x4x2 rounded triple"???
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(...) When Tore submitted this part for release, he called it "Brick 2 x 4 x 2 Curved". Steve (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I suppose I could have been more specific in my explanation. The gaps aren't occuring between my approximate curve and a primitive; they're occuring at the joints between facets of the approximate curve. An example of the faceting can be seen (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad)
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(...) This is what I meant by nested textres.- sub-textures. (...) You are right, I was wrong. However a more complex texture could be built up from simpler ones.(I.E No top level texture The sub texture being made up from simpler 'bitmaps') - This (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Color problem with 4522 (Minifig Tool Mallet) [DAT]
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Part 4522 (Minifig Tool Mallet) has two 1-4cyls2 primitives which are set to be color 1(blue) instead of color 16, like so: 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0 -2 0 4 0 0 1-4cyls2.DAT 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 -2 0 4 0 0 1-4cyls2.DAT This isn't part of the current parts (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gappy Spheroids?
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:G0H8D0.n04@lugnet.com... (...) methods (...) "facets" of (...) even (...) curve; (...) I'm not sure I understand what you are saying completely, but I'll give an explanation based on what I (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:4gvcrs8kb1v5s0n...4ax.com... (...) cope (...) I can't think of any reason to "nest" textures. The only reasons I know of to draw multiple textures over one another are to produce different (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | minor bug
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When creating a multi-part model, if there is a space in the .dat file name specified when a new model is created, MLCad will happily accept it, and will even open it successfully when it is selected as the active model. However, other models in the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Gappy Spheroids?
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Playing around with part-authoring, I've been trying a few different methods of generating pseudo-curved surfaces. I've noticed that different "facets" of such an approximate curve render with gaps between them in L3P and L3Lab, even when two (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad) [DAT]
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(...) I orgot the Texture filename, so: 0 TEXTURE <texture_filename> <vector1> <vector2> <vector3> [<vector4>] So, Resuming again: 0 SET TEXTURE_WRAP on 0 MATRIX TEXTURE 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 Load 0 TEXTURE my_texture1.png 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 16 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 6216.dat (mock-up) - "brick 2x4x2 rounded triple"??? [DAT]
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Since I am asking anbout the name of this part, I have set the "follow-up" to ".dev"... Anyway, just what should we name this part? It's a brick, 2x4x2, with a triple rounded top. If someone can suggest a better name, please let me know. Thanks, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad)
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(...) :) I know what you mean. (...) Hmm. There shouldn't be any need for 'nested' textures. Or is 'nested texturing' an area of texture-mapping that I don't know about? Steve (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You are right. My approach assumed to much and restricted too much. (...) Good point. (...) OK. (...) Right. But if START is required, then it might as well be omitted. My purpose in having an optional START was to allow TEXTUREs without the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad) [DAT]
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(...) I second this ideia, and I would also like to add that extra directories never hurt backwards compatibility. I also have to say that you I would like to remember that we should try to follow the path of the more experienced, like the creators (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now...
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(...) I'm glad it was helpful and timely. :) Steve (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now... (how to use 1-4cyls2.dat)
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(...) I kind of figured you had, but I totally didn't remember that you had. (...) Hmm. I wonder if the current 2447.dat was inlined at some point, because 1-4cyls2.dat hadn't been made official yet... (...) Yep. Or, you can copy the primitives to a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) OK. I've temporarily ZIPped it to (URL). I'll leave it there for a few days, so you can grab it. Steve (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are fixes automatically included?
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(...) Oops. My bad. The bottom of the visor is a slanted half-ring, with a 15inner/17outer radius. I constructed this by overlapping the 1-4rin10 p-files, and skewing the Y value to slant the rings downward toward the front. But I used the same (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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(...) Using "www.anonymiser.com", I was able to get to the LDraw site to vote on the parts update. However, I was *not* able to download the file, *nor* was I able to see all of the images (exceeded the limits for "free" use of the anonymiser, and (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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(...) True, this case isn't an example of coplanar, overlapping polygons. Good catch. But it is an example of what can happen when you take shortcuts that have no visible effect at the time. No offense meant to James--the number of parts he wrote (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Named rotation inheritance (Was: 2nd. Idea for a new feature to help rotation of parts in Ldraw
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(...) the (...) those (...) OK, I understand you and agree. This would work with a user interface program. But what if I wanted to externally script an animation? (I say externally because if I created an animation with a powerful tool, the tool (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad)
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(...) Sorry, Computing course at college showing through. (We were told try and specify EVERYTHING. Unfotunatly there is no concrete defintion of what EVREYTHING is.) (...) Agreed, but with the following questions? (Assuming simple rectangular (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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Daniel: (...) If your machine is behind a firewall, it is very likely that you are using a proxy without knowing it. It is not uncommon to put a "transparent proxy", which intercepts HTTP requests, in a firewall. Franklin: Did you get through to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Making parts
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(...) Welcome - new part authors are always welcome. This is a frequently asked question, the following items on lugnet.cad.dev may help (and there are certainly other threads in this group with useful info) (URL) this helps. Is you have questions, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) No. Chris (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FzMpLH.K8A@lugnet.com... (...) I have run a tracert from my machine here and there are 32 hops to www.ldraw.org, but I can pull the pages up fine. I don't have my browser using (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: an unusual request...
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(...) pieces (...) the (...) on (...) Yes 6029 - Chris (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Are fixes automatically included?
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:gi1arsoj23ml4du...4ax.com... (...) new (...) using (...) renderings (...) better (...) This is true. I just finished getting LDView's primitive substitution working for the quarter sloped (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now...
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Whoops, forgot the original point of my message: Thanks, Steve! --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now...
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Boy, talk about timing. I'm currently in the process of adding primitive substitution to LDView, and the ?-4cyls* primitives were next on my list. However, while I could definitely tell they were different (one slope appears concave; the other (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | new part - 30237.dat - brick 1x2 w/ clip vertical [DAT]
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This is one of those new pieces that came out just last year, IIRC. I needed it for a model I'm doing. Thanks, Franklin 0 Brick 1 x 2 with clip vertical 0 Unofficial Part 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 1 16 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 1 stud3.dat 1 16 0 24 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:oekarsonpfetb7s...4ax.com... (...) I tend to agree about putting it all in 2 separate commands. However, I don't think a position vector and orientation matrix are appropriate. A texture is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Making parts
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Is there any nice person out there willing to teach me the Jedi ways of making LDraw parts? That would be muchly appreciated! Email responses to: taxihamster@hotmail.com (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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(...) Axel Poqué has already submited an update for this particular part. I've been giving it a "second opinion" adding a fix for the ghost lines mentioned above. In my opinion this part isn't an example of overlapping faces. What happened in the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: an unusual request...
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Yes. Just had a look through my sprue bag. Neither the 'plume' sprue nor the 'dragon' sprue have a number, though, as previously observed. On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Steve Bliss (<n4karsgppt6mu2o2dn...j87esd@4ax .com>) wrote at 20:01:33 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad
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(...) [snip] Urg. Why so wordy? Just do: 0 TEXTURE <position vector> <orientation matrix> <filename.type> [START <standard ldraw commands go here> 0 TEXTURE END] The <position vector> and <orientation matrix> parameters are identical to the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad
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(...) No, that would be bad. If we're going to break compatibility with all existing programs, let's go a bit farther than just drawing bitmaps. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Cool! We needed the number for the cattlehorns piece, in the current vote. :) Can anyone else confirm this 6029 number on the horns'n'headdress sprue? Steve (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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(...) Yes, please. Fixes and improvements are always accepted! (...) Great! One more comment (to everyone, not Dave) about overlapping rectangles, and why not to use them. When this approach is used simply as a shortcut so the author doesn't have to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:G0ALp7.7D9@lugnet.com... (...) tag. (...) polygons. That sounds good to me, at least in this case. Since the overlapping polygons are the same color, they shouldn't cause any rendering (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now... (how to use 1-4cyls2.dat)
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(...) Thanks for explaining this again Steve - I am sure I tried to explain this when I created this primitive in Oct 1998. But it is really hard to get ones head around - it took me some time playing with the *cyls.dat files before I realised I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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(...) The problem with this kind of mark is that it's easily lost if the the image is resized or even jpeg encoded. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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(...) I think this solution loses more than is gained. Open file formats are a good thing and it'd be a shame to lose that -- especially when it'd be easy to "fix" any image with a graphics program anyway. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Named rotation inheritance (Was: 2nd. Idea for a new feature to help rotation of parts in Ldraw
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(...) Not really. A subpart would need to "know" and "advertise" its own rotational axes to the tool; the tool would then offer these axes, and any others the user enters manually. The simplest approach for this is for the subpart to have special (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | And now my second program EMF9X a minifig maker
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EMF9X is a minifig maker for anyone that hates making a minifig on a lego cad editor. Go to download it at (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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(...) tag. Happily, the "bad vertex sequences" were easier to fix than I anticipated, and the part now seems to pass the L3P check-test. I'll resend it to you, if you'd like. Other than the correction, the part is more-or-less identical to the one (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | It's all clear now... [DAT]
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This is one is for parts authors, I suppose... I never understood the relation between the original sloped cylinder primitives--1-4cyls.dat, 2-4cyls.dat--and the newer 1-4cyls2.dat. Both sets of files are the result of intersecting a cylinder with (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Chris: Are you able to access this area yet? Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mark's Shiva .DAT file and rendering
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"Mladen Pejic" <milovan@netcom.ca> wrote in message news:G06F4J.At@lugnet.com... (...) a) I (...) with his (...) Wow. That Naboo cockpit sure looks much better in POV now that L3P recognizes all the cone primitives! -John Van (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Are fixes automatically included?
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(...) Currently, fixed parts are "automatically included", once the parts admin (ie: me) checks over the changes. And the fixed 2447 (the minifig visor) should look better with any color/treatment. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Maybe it's the noise electronic components make when they emit smoke. Especially vacuum tubes, or anything located in a Mad Scientist's Laboratory. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad
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(...) Not quite. I've got an install/package which looks good, but I need to test it a bit more, before I ask for remote guinea pigs. Sorry for taking so long with this, but (a) I've been tied up with other stuff and (b) after releasing software (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Error Messages
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"Michael Lachmann" <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:G0EBD1.Lwu@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks a ton!! :) -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: 23951114 AIM: TimCourtne (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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One of the beauties of the 5x5 pixel idea is that there is no cost. It would simply be a small selection of pixels that would be put into the image by the author into a field of like colored pixels. this allows for about 32 million different (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Troubles with MLCAD
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There are some problems in connection with MPD, which I corrected in the next release - so stay tuned. Michael Jamie Obrien <jamien@interworx.com.au> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: G0CCt4.M0B@lugnet.com... (...) problem (...) model (...) as (...) want (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: A couple of bug/feature notes
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There is a CTRL + 'M' for modify - still wana 'M' plain - no problem. CTRL + 'Z' is reserved for 'UNDO' - still not in but .... MLCad currently supports - Select one ore more parts - press and hold SHIFT + CTRL - press the left mouse button in one (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: A couple of bug/feature notes
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Both things will be corrected in the next version. Michael Jeff Boen <onyx@flash.net> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: G0Aqsz.Mxr@lugnet.com... (...) via the (...) you hit (...) "Enter (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Error Messages
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The next version will not report any errors which happen in the preview window. Errors which happen during loading/saving of a Model will be reported once only if the warnings option is on. In any other case MLCad will suppress messages. Forgive me (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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"Bram Lambrecht" <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) never (...) Yeah. But if Artemis ever does become a reality - the new file format could be encoded and a 'parts author status' could be granted and (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Error Messages
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I forget if I've mentioned this before here - One of the things that annoys me is when MLCad comes up with the warnings 'error xxxx.dat not found, continue loading?' - and it usually comes up many times at once, causing you to have to click ok on (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Sv: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps (GIF License issue)
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As I remember. Another person had the same probleme with the GIF license. But he desided to let his program be freeware, and then it was not a probleme. So I think you could use the GIF format, as long as MLcad is freware. -- Djelle alias Mogens (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: request on part(s)
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In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson writes: i already did one so far, its a 2 x 2 brick with the "yin yang" pattern. i figured if one letter at a time in cad/ldd the lettering can work (...) well (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad
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(...) (Hence the suggestionf making it a line type.) OK,Revised Suggestion. (Still needs Further Disscussion) 0 TEXTURE <fname> fname is name of the PNG/JPEG/BMP etc to be used instead of the *.DAT version. The extension of the file shall determine (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I remember I used to disassemble all my cannons and replace the white tube with a spring from one of my old technic shock absorbers ;) But now with the new single piece cannons you can't do that anymore :( (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Alright, I'll make the Octan pattern tonight. -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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hello cad community. I am searching for a few good men... er i mean a few good parts.. dang typos! ok anyways.. there was the door that goes with the window part 6160 , as well as any octan decorated part. thanks in advance PS, here is a gallery for (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.pirates, Jonathan Gevaryahu writes all manner of interesting stuff on cannon assembly. Cool, thanks. Now I need wonder no more. I was never game to disassemble one for fear of ending up with one less cannon ;-) Richard Still baldly (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Travis Cobbs wrote... (...) I have also had second thoughts about the autocorrecting in L3Lab, when it is used for part inspection[1]. L3P and L3Lab share the input routines, which does several corrections. Some corrections are imperative to have (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Howdy! I was encoding my modification of the B-wing fighter when I discovered that this part hadn't been encoded yet, so I did a quick-and-dirty mock-up of it. If anyone out there who is realtively new to Lego CAD wants to try their hand at encoding (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hi, I am a relatively new user of MLCAD, and have run into some very annoying problems. I started building my model, and went merrily on my way until I came to a shaft with several gears and bushings on it. I decided to group these items, because I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I dissassembled one of the old-style cannons (the kind with the black plunger which, on earlier models, could be pulled back) by pressing in the two small clips on the sides of tthe barrel. the contents are such: 1 base piece (with the mold number, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hi Franklin, I looked on both a blue feather sprue and a red one and could not find any numbers on either. HTH! Maggie C. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Ack phooey The number on the white headdress sprue is 6029, *NOT* 8029. Trying to read these tiny numbers first thing in the morning is painful. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> To: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for this comment. My computer is currently on the fritz¹², so I'll have to make these corrections at a later time and send them to Steve afterwards. Sorry about that. Fredrik __ ¹ Whereever does that idiom come from? ² See (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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All: I just installed LeoCad 0.71.2 under Red Hat 6.2 (Linux 2.2.12-20) with Mesa 3.2.1. I'm running on some fairly old hardware -- a 90MHz Pentium and an unaccelerated #9 GPX64-Pro w/2MB of video RAM. Mouse based operations are a little on the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: [updated] new lcad part - small feather/plume (castle/pirates)
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(...) <snip> Looks pretty good to me - well done. Similar parts on sprues (like the 5 tools 6246.dat) have been numbered using a single letter suffix 9999a.dat, 9999b.dat etc. I guess I should now put some effort into finishing the forestmen cap, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) With there no visible number on the sprue, I'd say just go with numbering them P1, P2, P3, or some such thing, if you can put letters into the number. At least until you can find an official number. --Anthony (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Mike! When you input orientation/location info using the dialog box (accessed via the icon on the edit toolbar), the text boxes accept decimal data, but when you hit "Okay" the data is rounded back into integers. Also, when you double click on a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Um I can't seem to find a # on the sprue anywhere. anyone else have any luck? maybe it is real small. Now where did I put the microscope. John (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmmm....after thoroughly examining a feather wheel for about 5 minutes or so, I can find no such number...strange, there's one on almost every other lego item.... -Chris (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have a number of plume-sprues of different sizes (I assume from different years), but none of them seem to be stamped with part numbers. - Mike. (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) While the setup of this part is not the best style, there are many parts already in the library with similar designs. It's kind of a middling quality thing. I'd like to see this fixed, but I don't think this deserves a "needs work" tag. Also, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [updated] new lcad part - small feather/plume (castle/pirates) [DAT]
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(...) Well, I'm finished with it now. ;-) Here's the finished version. (...) Steve, Tim, Tore, whenever y'all get a chance, I'll need an answer to this. Thanks. Everyone else, I'd appreciate comments and critiques. Thanks, Franklin 0 Minifig Plume (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad
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"Michael Lachmann" <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:G09Btz.8vC@lugnet.com... (...) That would work great for me, although it would make life easier if the TEXTURE START line included the points making up the four corners of the texture. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Wait. Its the 3rd plume of the 3, the one I dont need. :( (24 years ago, 2-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Cool! Just the part I need! Now I only need 3 more parts to finish my model: the large feather plume the horse and the old knights helment with the fixed face grill. (24 years ago, 2-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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