| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Keywords... ;-) When looking for a part, and you don't know what it's called, but you *do* know a set it's used in and/or what purpose it serves, hop over to the PartsRef ("(URL) use the Keyword search. I have used this numerous times to find parts (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Out of morbid curiosity and the never ending pursuit of opening myself up for attacks, I would like to pose/offer a question or idea. I will state up front that my only experience with finding parts is via the MLCAD interface. So anything I saw can (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about MLCAD colors
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(...) The edge colours are also posted in the LDraw FAQ, I think. I'm pretty sure the list has been posted once or twice to lugnet.cad.dev, where the poster has a copy of the LDraw source code. Steve (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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(...) The LDraw FAQ is the definitive list. (...) Way cool. We can never have too many Lego CAD programs. (...) (oops-the RGB for #5 is in the list) I'd look to Suzanne's excellent chart at (URL) for RGB values that aren't listed in the LDraw FAQ. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Castle
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(...) Fair 'nuff. Anything I can do to help with that? (...) Agreed. (...) I can't afford to do that, I don't have the hair to spare. ;-) (...) OK. Franklin (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Castle
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Franklin, Thanks for looking into this, but I want to put off making major changes in the library organization until *after* we've got a good tracking system implemented on the server. These kind of changes are important. I spend a lot of time (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Torus primitive discussion. was( Updated Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus)
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(...) Because I was thinking that each section covered 90-degrees of the major circle. Otherwise, they'd be named 16t*0301.dat, since each is 1/16 of a complete torus. (I suppose they could be described as 1/8 of an inner (or outer) torus, but I (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | New Reference Material on LDraw.org - Free-Form Camera Positioning... by Brad Hamilton
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Just uploaded Brad's reference article - Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray to the LDraw.org server. Check it out at: (URL) you like what you see and have a skill you can share, write for the reference section at LDraw.org! (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question about MLCAD colors
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"Joseph Cardana" wrote... (...) The reason is to be LDraw compatible... I got the edge colors from a creating a model with 16 bricks in 16 colors, saving a bitmap in LDraw, and looking at the RGB values. You can see those edge colors in (URL) guess (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question about MLCAD colors
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Good question - currently MLCad does not support changing the edge color - but it should do ... I've got the color definitions from the LDLite source code. I must admit, that I never asked about the edge colors. I have no idea from where they are (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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