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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 6:15:28 -0600, Jay Cal wrote (in message <G0rwps.Iun@lugnet.com>): (...) If you use L3PAO, you can specify more light sources. Using Light.dat (as far as I know) specifies a point source. I haven't really messed with this, but I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: "Needs Work"- Needs Work
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:G0sn7p.M08@lugnet.com... (...) This sounds like an interesting idea. I'd like to hear more. Adam (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | new part - minifig skeleton arm (6265.dat) [DAT]
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Hi! I just finished up this version of the Minifig Skeleton Arm. I say "this version" 'cuz I had to inline some not-yet-official primitives into it (see "(URL) for more info), and I will want to update this part once [read "if"] the not-yet-official (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner" [DAT]
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Hi, While encoding the Arm piece for the Minifig Skeleton, I encountered something for which I needed a primitive (and I couldn't find anything like it among the existing primitives). At the "wrist" of the Skeleton Arm, there are four (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Intersection of 2 3D lines?
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Travis Cobbs skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I have C-code at work to solve this, even if the lines are not co-planar. It calculates one point on each line (the 'nearest points'), and if they are the same, the lines are co-planar. Mail me at ai@cej.se (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts names wanted
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(...) So does LegoCo. (E.g., "Small Beams and Plates", set # 5228, on pg. 58 of the newest catalog I've received, "Explore New Worlds" title.) In my mind, that makes it "official". (But then again, I could be wrong.) (...) "Technic Beam (No Studs)" (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Parts names wanted
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(...) I bet Eelco didn't expect this depth of response. I've noted your comments. I don't know if these changes will be included in the 2000-02 update or not. (...) Maybe "Smooth Beam". I dunno. (...) I haven't heard of "Softline", but I wonder if (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Intersection of 2 3D lines?
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Thanks to both of you. Given that this newsgroup covers both part development and cad program development (with part development getting more posts for obvious reasons), I probably should have specified that I needed to do this programatically. (On (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts names wanted
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I'm glad to see some good part name thinking has come up. (...) Your term "Open Center" and the reversed order is much better than my suggestion was. I agree with this name. (...) Of course, can't do without the size. Agree. (...) [snip] (...) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Off-topic: website building
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"Ryan J Farrington" <ryanjf2@juno.com> wrote in message news:20000913.090209...uno.com... (...) Though you did certainly hit an appropriate group to gain the attention of web authors/designers, I think the question was a tad too off-topic. Why not (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Intersection of 2 3D lines?
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(...) Well, thanks Steve. But you could easilly make it 3D couldn't you ?! 8) See ya (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Intersection of 2 3D lines?
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(...) You can use the "Line Intersect" tab on my rotate.xls spreadsheet (get it from (URL)). It's only 2D, but you can do XY first, then XZ. The resulting XYZ values will be your intersection. Not as elegant as Rui's solution, but it works for me... (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Skeleton Arm - part number?...
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(...) It's 6265. Steve (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2736 (Technic Axle Towball) [DAT]
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(...) Actually, if you want to submit the fix to the parts library, you need to send it to partsref@home.com. (...) Doh! Thanks for pointing this out. And posting a correction. (...) Nice. I'd disagree with: 0 You cannot 0 draw an edge between a (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Parts names wanted
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(...) Hmm, maybe. If this part is ever modeled for LDraw, I'd have to think about it more. (...) Hmm. Looking through the part library, I see the following elements with similar large holes in their middles: <part:30250 Bracket 4 x 7 x 3> <part:4211 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Off-topic: website building
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To all who have made their own websites: I am going to be building a website of my own, and I was curious which tools all of you have used to make yours. And does anyone write directly in HTML or JavaScript? Please respond to my personal e-mail (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Intersection of 2 3D lines?
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(...) you just have to define the lines equation! as you now: Y = mX +b Z = nX +c defining a line as a function of X coord. Now, these lines probably are edges os something, or at least you have to points which belong to them, usint them, you can (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Intersection of 2 3D lines?
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If I have two co-planar lines in 3-space, does anyone know how I can determine their intersection? If it makes the equations easier, the plane that they are in is: Z = 1 - X - Y otherwise written X + Y + Z = 1 Anyone? --Travis Cobbs (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 2736 (Technic Axle Towball) [DAT]
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I'm not sure if this is the proper procedure, but I noticed a problem in part 2736 (Technic Axle Towball) which appears to have been caused by the part being authored without rotating the viewpoint away from the standard one. The cylinder which was (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Minifig Skeleton Arm - part number?...
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(...) Well, I can't find one on it using my v1.0 Eyeball and Beaker ("Eeep!") accidentally installed MS Windows Y2K on the home-built electron microscope (powered by the surplus Soviet "Fusion Buddy" mini-reactor) so I obviously can't use THAT to (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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