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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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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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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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| | Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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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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| | Re: parrot colors
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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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