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I'd like to propose an official license for the LDraw parts, I think this is something that has been mentioned before but we didn't get very far in the past. This is important now that there are plans to create am LDraw CD-ROM and I need this (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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(...) you mean something like ---...--- |00|\ /|00| |00| \ / |OO| |-- |--| .... 00 00 is a 2x2 tubed section... Agree with you about needing interlocking. - Actaully perhaps 16X16X3 might be better. Then you could use it other purposes. But I think (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Ignore previous message - See inside
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(...) I'm happy to hear that you got it working. If you have any problems, you are of course welcome to ask me. You can use mail or news. Fredrik (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Pictures of my MLCad MOCs
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Well, why don´t you raytrace the models? Use POV-Ray or try Lightwave for it. For use Lightwave, you need a converter to convert from *.DAT to *.LWO. You can find it at www.joern-thiemann.de/tools; some Demo-Pics too. Greetings... ...Joern Thiemann (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Ignore previous message - See inside
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I found the answer to my questions in the help file. Ldraw-mode works pretty well. Thanks. Travis Dickinson (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A cool element would be a 16x16x4 part which is intended to support a baseplate. 4 of them of course would be used to support a 32x32 baseplate. The part would have a flat top (but it could be lacy to reduce weight, it just needs to be strong (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Tubing
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Probably off-topic, but I just wanted to tell that there is an LDS command called PIPE. You can build a static tubing by entering a series of "discs", or rather 4-4edges. LDS then fills the space between them a thus makes a pipe. Just a nonsense (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Tubing
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I had downloaded Emacs and ldraw-mode about two weeks ago. I was at a loss as to what to do next until I found the article you wrote on Lugnet. Now that I have ldraw-mode working, I'm curious about the number that needs to be inputted for the tube (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Monorail Track [DAT]
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Here is a try at the short straight piece of monorail track...what do you think? Please reply to dejah99@gte.net. Joseph 0 Monorail Track Straight Short 0 Name: 2670.dat 0 Author: J.A. "O'Donnell," P.E. 0 Unofficial Part 0 WRITE End lines interior (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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(...) My idea was to have baseplates with a flatened portion to be the canal rather like the roads have a road portion- Problem. - Cant have actual floating boats. However there are a number of other ways 2 nd soloution - Have a trench to float the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) discussion, (...) See my other post for my sugestion, even if it is a totally non-pure solution. (...) Yep. Ontario has Trent-Severn, and Rideau. Also, the seaway, with the major locks being at Port Welland (near Niagara Falls...hence the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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Okay, so if we do build canals, what are yours gonna be like?? I've been wanting to build one since the working lego ones i saw at legoland, but who has the grey bricks to do the side walls?? Or, would you guys mae it like a trench in a lego layuout (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | 1-8sphc.dat "1/8 Sphere Cut Off" (i.e., "rounded corner") [DAT]
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Here's the new version of this unofficial primitive. (I've added the type-"5" lines.) Thanks, Franklin 0 1/8 Sphere Cut Off 0 0 COMMENT This figure is the intersection of 0 COMMENT a) one octant (1/8th) of a sphere 0 COMMENT whose radius is "the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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(...) It took me a while, but I finally realized why I'm so hesitant to re-orient this file... It's (part of) a sphere, and _all_ of the sphere (and disc/non-disc/edge) files are oriented such that the "centerpoint" (i.e., focus) of the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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(...) Ie (...) That said some ideas for new X-trem team sets could have a waterfall? (...) Perhaps we could have a lock plate at the upper end of 'canal' built using the theme? The problem is then how you suppourt the uuper plates? or produce a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: parrot colors
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I used MLCAD to create that image. Franklin (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Jonathan, thanks for the bug aleart. I have corrected the problem and I will resubmit both files to Steve. Dennis (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) The Intercoastal is at sea levlel all the way, isn't it? It connects to the sea at multiple places IIRC. (...) Just trying to imagine the St Lawrence Seaway in Lego... to scale :-) Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air Market: (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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| | Pictures of my MLCad MOCs
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I have finally posted pictures of my MOCs on my website for all to see. I have posted the DAT files on LUGNET for almost all of them (I haven't posted the house DAT file) so if you want one of them, just do a little searching or e-mail me. I took (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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(...) Ooo, ick. I'll look into that. There's plenty of code in LDAO that does substitutions like tabs to blanks and CRs to CRLFs, but I don't remember doing anything with commas. And I usually pass code around in text buffers, not using the inherent (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org
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(...) Or "traceroute" if you're running unix. (Including the new Mac OS X).... (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | 30473 (Baseplate 32 x 32 Canyon Plate Without Island) [DAT]
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Here's 30473, a variant of 6024, found in <set:4291>. I modified 6024 to remove the island, re-stud the road, and remove studs at raised corners. This is my first part, so if I've messed something up please tell me! I don't think I'm quite up to (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Yet another Part name and number wanted ;-)
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(...) I'm not married to the term 'bamboo'. If anything, I'd rather have a descriptive term for the leaves, like "thin" or "spiky". But I don't think those are necessary, either. How about: Plant Brick 1 x 1 Round with Three Side Leaves (I wanted to (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: parrot colors
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(...) downloading the file again, to make sure the your copy of the file isn't damaged. Steve (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:22:11 -0600, Rui Martins wrote (in message <Pine.GSU.4.10.10009...0@is-sv>): (...) to try to get an idea of where your packet has to go to get to ldraw.org, try typing this from your command prompt (my apologies to those (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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(...) Ie (...) "Mississippi." (...) Don't get me started with British-scale industry. They made the clearance rate for their railroads too small to handle more sizely loads. They will never see a double-stack (DTTX) container well car, unless it's (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: parrot colors
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I like it. But there is a small problem with this file and the unpatterned bird. There are 2 lines that have a space between one number and the next (search for 3- to find them). This causes ldlite to give a syntax error and it causes ledit to give (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | guide to the common ledit runtime errors
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ledit can sometimes generate runtime errors. the 2 that are most relevent are: runtime error 216 (out of memory I think). This error means that the model or part file that you are trying to load is too large. the other one you will encounter is (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The intercoastal is actually quite large, it extends at least up to Virginia. It definitely has sections which would look like a canal (because in fact, they are canals in the sense of being man made), but don't have any locks that I know of. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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Instead of developing a lock plate with a fixed width, why not create a 'bluff' plate--the equivalent of one of the proposed lock plates, but cut in half lengthwise. A builder could stick any number of flat baseplates between two halves and create (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: parrot colors
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(...) 2546p01.dat would match existing conventions. IRL the yellow on the beak is a little less extensive than you have modelled, but it is still a very good representation. I don't see the "gap" in L3Lab. Chris (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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(...) Inland navigable water systems have to have some method of changing level, which usually means locks (there are other methods, but they are less common). Water going downhill tends to get a bit too exciting for reliable passenger or freight (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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Sorry to repsond to own posting. My main reason for posting was in case anyone else was working on Canal type parts themesleves. Is anyone? Alex (...) some (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: parrot colors
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Franklin, this "gap", is it on the actual parrot and I need to put it in or is it in my file and I need to remove it? I used MLcad and L3Lab to view my file and I do not see it in my file. What did you use to produce the images? Dennis. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | RE: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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(...) Oh sure, we could envision something along the Intercoastal Waterway in Florida. We could have a marina for boats and waterplanes, maybe a hurricane harbour. Hey wait! That's the idea behind Sail'n Fly Marina and Hurricane Harbour! Geez, I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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There are indeed locks on the Mississippi. I have seen them in Saint Louis. (...) some (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | 2148 Imagination Celebration Truck [DAT]
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This is my first attempt to post a model to the public. If something seems out of the ordinary or non-standard among those in the LEGO community please let me know. Ryan 0 FILE 2148.dat 0 Imagination Celebration Truck 0 Name: 2148.dat 0 Author: (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: parrot colors
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Dennis, There appears to be a "gap" in the yellow part of the wing, as can be seen in this image: "(URL) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Well no lock because I was thinking more along the lines of the systems in Europe (and possibly Norfolk?) which as far as I am away don't have locks. Ie canal as in Ship Canal? (...) Not at all. Like I said above. Think navigable waterway (as (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: parrot colors
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(...) Minor nitpick. This specific DAT file should be named "2546p1.dat" (note the "p1" at the end). It's the _un_colorized version that should be named "2546.dat". *Excellent* work, by the way! Bravo! :-) Franklin (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | parrot colors [DAT]
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Hi all. I have completed the color patterns for the parrot. Since I do not have a parrot, I am working from photos scanned from a lego catalog. Let me know of changes that I need to make. If you have a photo to back it up, that would be a help. Even (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Yet another Part name and number wanted ;-)
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(...) I understand your desire to put this part in the Plant category. How about this on of these: Plant Brick 1 x 1 Round with Three Leaves on Side Plant Brick 1 x 1 Round with Three Leaves on Side Bamboo Plant Brick 1 x 1 Round with Three Bamboo (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Tubing
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(...) Oops, I meant 8LDU, not 12LDU. Fredrik (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm a "people", and it'd confuse the blazes outta me. ;-) (...) Ditto. ;-) (...) Megaditto. ;-) (...) ^^^...^^^ (...) ^^^...^^^ (...) Sorry, Steve, but I wholeheartedly agree with Fredrik on this. The only "compromise" I can think of is: (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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(...) Yes, thanks to your message with explanatory image. :-) Please consider giving that to whomever is in charge of maintaining the L-CAD FAQ at ldraw.org. (...) Using Steve's sugggestion as well, I'll call it "1-8sphc.dat". I've also inserted (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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(...) Canals are a real nice idea Alex. The obvious set missing from your list is a lock! Another possible would be a waterside inn. Separate boats as well. One thing to bear in mind is that canal systems vary widely from country to country and are (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Yet another Part name and number wanted ;-)
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(...) With a name like that, I would probably never find the part! ;-) But then again, I'm not a botanist, and didn't know that they were actually bamboo. I would also be very confused by the "3x3" part. I'm, sure the "footprint" of the part is 3x3, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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With the current offical selection going toward Jr, I am asking if anybody here would want to consider working out thier own theme using L-Draw/ML-CAD to work out the new parts and sets. Already I am (in tandem with the magazine project) working (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Good suggestion. Except without the second dash, please. Could you make the title be: 1/8 Sphere Cut Off And add some comment lines, something like: 0 This figure is a sphere (radius 2^.5) intersected with a 0 standard-sized LDraw box (see (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner" [DAT]
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(...) To be more specific: could this file be re-oriented, so that figures like (URL) can be constructed as: 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1-4disc.dat 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1-4disc.dat 1 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1-4disc.dat 1 14 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Yah, that would be the thing to do: send it to partsref@home.com. (...) I'm planning on using it in the skeleton leg, and maybe retro-fitting it into the minifig torso.[1] (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts available?
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(...) hiya! (...) I'm not sure if you mean you want to create the LEGO sets in MLCAD, or you're using pieces from those sets for your own creations. If it's the former, there's already a version of the 8448 posted to lugnet.cad.dat.models. Steve (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Yet another Part name and number wanted ;-)
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(...) Maybe that's what *you* see. I see a plant piece. I wonder what most people notice? (...) They really should be in a "Wings and Fins" area. ;) Sure, this leaf-piece can be accurately described as a "Brick 1 x 1 Round with 3 Leaves". As you (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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(...) There's a primitives group who decides if the primitive should be accepted or not (it's been a while since we last discussed anything so I don't know if it's still active). I don't have the list of members in this computer so I think the best (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Again about my programs EMF9X and ELL9X
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(...) I tried the minifig builder, but didn't test it very thoroughly. The Help buttons do not display the help files. It is a basic starting point. I agree with the need for dropdownboxes for colors and dat-files which are populated dynamically (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Tubing
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(...) This one is somewhat tricky. Not only is the tube curved -- it is also somewhat "fatter" in the ends, because it is put onto some thin cylindrical elements. If you overlook the "fat" ends, you can use a tool I've made to model a curved hose in (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Again about my programs EMF9X and ELL9X
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I have installed it in a different dir. Now I cannot use it. Pressing buttons gives errors. It could work out, this program, if you fix the bugs and create a more usefull userinterface. For instance dropdownboxes for colors and dat-file models. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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(...) You mean you've managed to add the type 5 lines ? [snip] (...) To me, it's a special kind of sphere, so what fo you all think of 1-8sph-c.dat (standing for 1/8 of a sphere, cut of to fit in a corner) Greatings, M. Moolhuysen. (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Test version of LDraw Add-On Installation
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I've finally put together an installation package for LDAO that should be safe. But it needs some more testing, before I publish it generally. Would someone be willing to try this out, and verify that it works? The test copy is at: (URL) Just (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Tubing
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Can anyone tell me how to generate in LEdit or POV-Ray the tubing found in the Hydronauts set #6150? Travis Dickinson (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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1) Open your POV-RAY file. 2) Look in the Upper-Left corner/section. 3) It says [160x120, NoAA] or some other resolution. 4) Click on that. 5) Pick the resolution from the drop-down list/menu. Hope this helps. ;-) (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Resizing - MLCAD/Ledit
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I have just done my first Pov-Ray rendering using LP3. It has turned out nicely except for the fact that it is very small. Can I increase the size of the model in MLCAD/Ledit? Can I increase the size of the model in POV-RAY? Thanks Carl Watson (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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(...) Yup. (...) Go for it. :-) Also, if needed, please feel free to copy the image(s) for illustrating what this primitive is for. Franklin (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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I forgot to mention that I have another image (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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Ooo, cool. That means each of the colored faces in your image is a 1-4disc.dat, right? That'll work very nicely. I'll forward this to the primitives committee. Do you mind if I use it in the skeleton leg file? Steve (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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(...) UPDATE! It _is_ part of a sphere, I just realized, a sphere having a radius of "the square root of 2"! This primitive is one octant of that sphere with three faces "planed/smoothed off" so that the resulting object will fit inside a cube (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Announcing new set database
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LUGNET is pleased to announce a new and improved LEGO set database: (URL) over the previous database include: New Display Options Chose compact lists, thumbnails, or fully-detailed pages to browse through. Smarter Searches Display any range of set (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce) !!
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It is not part of a sphere. It can be thought of as a virtual cube which has had one corner sliced away in a curved fashion. Or to put it another way, it is the grey area in this image: "(URL) radii are "1", and its angles are 90 degrees (i.e., 1/4 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: part number for "Animal Cattlehorn" and "Minifig Accessory Islander Crest"
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ACK!! Brain cramp, brain cramp! :-P I meant to say "6029a.dat" and "6029b.dat", respectively. That's "6", not "8". Really.... Thanks, Franklin (...) ===== Franklin Cain (and please do *not* call me "Frank" ;-) fwcain@yahoo.com | (URL) OR (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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[snipped Franklin's post] Some comments/questions: What is the definition of this part? Is it a section of a sphere? What are the angles and radii of the curved edges? Could you reverse the shape, so it is convex? This would make it easier to fit (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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OK, I've finished this primitive, but before I re-submit it, I need to know a couple of things... Just what do I call the DAT file? On my PC's hard drive, I'm calling it "RND-CRNR.DAT". Is that food enough? Also, what extra steps (if any) do I need (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts available?
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(pulls out inventory of set) the "horn" piece is available as "plant tree palm body" the 4 pronged rotor piece doesnt exist at all the piece with the towballs exist but its only a mock-up the flexible axles do exist the ribbed tubing does exist the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org
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one of my friends has been having that trouble lately. he connects with at&t. perhaps something is wrong with their servers, it works fine for me and I live next door to him. -Phil "Carl Watson" <cbccwats@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) hehe...all the parts to build the sets... from the 8444, the odd parts that stand out in my mind are these - there's an odd shaped round one that is around the rotor, it is round like a wheel with two small spheres sticking out of it and an (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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all of the parts are available for the 8448 except for the wheels, I dont know about the other 2 sets, I think that all of the parts for the 8445 are available but I think there are some missing for the 8444. What parts in particular do you want? (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Posting notices about ldraw.org (and other website) inaccessability
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It seems to me that every so often someone posts about not being able to get to www.ldraw.org. I'm concerned with some problems that users of the site may have getting to it - its definitely frustrating every time a site goes down. One thing I'd (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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hello i was thinking about doing my technic set up in mlcad...but i dont want to put that kind of effort into it if all the parts arent available so, my question is this do you know if all the parts are available for ldraw and mlcad for the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | part number for "Animal Cattlehorn" and "Minifig Accessory Islander Crest"
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According to this post "(URL) part number for the sprue containing the cattlehorns and Islander crest is 8029. Therefore, I want to rename the DAT file for the cattlehorn piece to "8029a.dat", and the name I'll be using for the Islander crest will (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Here my first design with mlcad and my first post in this newsgroup I hope you all like it, comments are always welcome My next project is a 8 stud wide scania truck for minifigs but that takes more time then i thought Eric 0 FILE ferrari.dat 0 (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Again about my programs EMF9X and ELL9X
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I need to know want does everyone think about my programs before I continue my programs. at (URL) e-mail at eduardov@activanet.es (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) To be sure that you can eventually connect to it try: ping -i 255 www.ldraw.org That is to use the maximum TTL. I tryed it and Got: Reply from 130.226.51.217: bytes=32 time=240ms TTL=227 Which is very near the limit. (...) In Fact the packet (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I agree more with Fredrik on this. In my case, even though I "file" these pieces with my other "vegetation" pieces, I _call_ the thing "a 1x1 round brick with 3 leaves". When you first look at it, that's what you see, an otherwise regular 1x1 (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: "Needs Work"- Needs Work
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(...) Basically, the idea is that each new partfile would be carefully reviewed by a small number of people (between 1 and 3 reviewers per file, I think). Once the reviewers and the author agreed on the part, it would be released. As soon as I can, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd rather go with Plant Leaves 3 x 3 Bamboo This will make it easier for people to find the part. And Hakan wrote: (...) I have no idea what the number is. Generally, the procedure is that you use whatever name you want for the file. When you (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Good point. But I wouldn't accept the wording in a catalog as 'official'. (...) Maybe. But that implies there are "beams with studs". And there aren't. The traditional "technic brick with holes" is a different animule than the new beams. Steve (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) we've seen this problem before... it seems that the ldraw.org site lives in the far depths of the internet. A lot of people seem to need more than 30 "hops" to get to it, and apparently, there's software out there that is just not patient (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I got this: "Reply from 193.10.252.210: TTL expired it transit." "Approximate round trip time in mili-seconds - 0ms" I think this means that it didn't work. Could you please tell me what this means Thankyou Carl (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) if you are using Ienternet Explore, you must inculde the protocol like in: (URL) this still doesn't solve your problem try (if you are running windows) on the command line ("command.com" on Win9X, or cmd.com on WinNT) ping www.ldraw.org If you (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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I tried again. It still isn't working. Why? Why? Why? Carl (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) I had no problems a minute ago. Try again well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me out? I can't get into www.ldraw.org I get a 'cannot find server' message. Is this the same for everyone else. Thanks Carl Watson <I don't have a catchy signature yet> (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) Excellent, thanks. Any guess on the part number? What are the procedures if the isn't any embedded number on the piece? Regards, Hakan (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) How about something like Brick 1 x 1 Round with Three Leaves on Side Fredrik (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Yet another Part name and number wanted ;-)
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Hi, I'm trying to make a mockup for the small three-leafed plant piece like the one you can find in 7128 Speeder Bikes or 6045 Ninja Surprise. I can't find a part number on the piece itself, and naming it "three-leafed plant thingamajik" wouldn't (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Could someone help me with this?
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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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