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(...) Please do post them ASAP as I have been looking for a .dat of the 8880 for ages. If I had the shift pieces I would ldraw them for you but I dont have them. Seeing this makes me want to do the 8480 space shuttle :) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) In order to have all the angles right and to move parts around (view with wheels turned or hatch up) there is about 90 files that are used for that model. Maybe somebody can teach me how to use the multiple part option of the software. These (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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"Eric Lanteigne" <elanteigne@home.com> wrote in message news:G4nKC2.H56@lugnet.com... (...) Did you forget to attach the dat? (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Doesn't this complicate things a lot? It is possible easily draw a hundred beziercurves that make up 1 curve, but how do you make 1 equation that passes through a hundred points? (...) mean (...) segment (...) it (...) with (...) segment in (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tore Eriksson wrote... (...) L3Lab supports 4 kinds of polling (quiet poll is option -PollSilent) see under "Revision history" in (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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I thought my computer was powerful until this. 131369 Frame level objects I put my computer down to its knees Prepare to drool (URL) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) I've thought about using bezier curves but I decided to choose another type of curve because it doesn't allow you to make the curve pass by a specific point (except the first and last points). (...) I'm using a different solution: I start with (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't use the export function so I can't comment. But if you want to raytrace, get POVray, install it, then get L3Lab (or L3P) and install it. What I do to trace is save my MPD with the design I want traced. Then I launch L3Lab, navigate to (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) With 420 Mb hard disk and 16 Mb RAM, it's no upgrade at all. (RAM not even upgradeable). I prefer a fast 486 with Win 3.1 before a slow one with Win95. I have no hope of finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1. I want to know what (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm fairly new to MLCad, and after I recently got ready to delve into the depths of raytracing my designs, I found that the export command was a little odd... I can't click the post processor configurations tab; it doesn't act as if it's a tab at (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Did anyone think on making desktop themes about this Lego cad thing? (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Can the MLCAD rendering engine be put in a DLL?
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Michael, is there a possibility you could put the rendering engine from MLCAD into a DLL? That would make it very easy to create other add-ons for the community. One example is my LDList, which can be used to search for a part - my Delphi port of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Shutter, real ridges or simulated? [DAT]
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Here's my version of 3582: 0 Window 1 x 2 x 2 Shutter 0 WRITE Modified by Tim Romine 11/26/2000 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 1 1 1 16 0 44 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2-4edge.dat 1 16 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2-4edge.dat 2 24 2 48 -4 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Good luck finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1! In occasional moments of insanity I've considered building a version of ldglite for DOS with the djgpp compiler and Scitech MGL, but then I come to my senses and remember that LDRAW and (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) DOH! I had already made these shutters before I checked LUGNET, so here they are: 3856 in this post, 3582 in the next. As always, LMKWYT. Tim Romine AFOL for Life enimor@earthlink.net P.S. Toilet bowl, huh? Wow! I never would have thought of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) nope. could make more in realation to next question (...) That could be a tuffy, but I will try...may need some pov-ray help there with camera angles. Rick (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.cad)
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(...) an inverted U than a rotated C. But I'm just judging by appearance. Note that the part itself does not use triangular shaped ridges.. I thought it did but on examination, see that it does not. That makes a certain sense as it preserves (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I'm using a simplified form of bezier curves, like you see in most drawing software like coreldraw etc.. this is also x = f(t), y = g(t) and z = h(t) with f, g and h being a*t^3 + b*t^2 +c*t + d . a, b , c and d can than simply be calculated (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G4LGt1.Kou@lugnet.com... (...) Adam Howard has already done both of these. I have them in my "(Un-Official)" bin in my VEC. I think instead of actual louvers, he used half cylinders. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New part 30094
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No problem. Its used a lot in Town Diver stuff. Its a 2 x 2 plate with a square rod frame. Similar to 30033 but square rather than octagonal. I've rendered it at (URL) add some keywords when I work out what they should say. Its was used in set (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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