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Gary Williams wrote... (...) You may have a look in this L3Lab generated table: (URL) has colors 0..63 for LDraw, LDLite+MLCad and L3P. I'm working on adding more colors and more color schemes. LDraw draws transparent colors (32 + 0..15) by (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about MLCAD colors
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I agree with Lars Hassing about keeping it LDraw compatible, I was just thinking it would look better if the lines were displayed as black (unless a piece is black, then use dark grey) at all times. I tend to do screen shots at times and the bright (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Also, esp. for those times when you don't have a fast/cheap connection to the internet, use Anders' LDList program. It provides the same search function as Partsref, but it's all on your harddrive. Steve (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Part: 3001_d.dat - Duplo Brick 2 x 4 [DAT]
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(...) Often the number remains the same across relatively minor variations. Sometimes even across major variations. (...) Sort of, but there's another potential primitive lurking about, that is even more useful, to provide good modeling. This is a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x476.dat, "Bar 12L with Hollow Studs, Towball, and Slit (aka Sailboard Mast)" [DAT]
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This piece is used for the Cutter in 6277, "Imperial Trading Post", as well as in other sets. This was the most accurate descriptive name I could think of. :-/ Please LMKWYT. Thanks, Franklin 0 Bar 12L with Hollow Studs, Towball, and Slit (aka (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 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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| | Torus primitive discussion. was( Updated Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus)
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(...) Hello, Torus comments are welcome from anyone who it may affect. I'm sure there are others out there that will use these when they become familiar with them. (...) Ok, give it a throw... :-) (...) Yes, I am afraid so. (...) I can agree to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Part Correction: #3069p17; Tile 1 x 2 w/ Stingray Control Panel Pattern [DAT]
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Okay, after some discussion as to the origin, This part is being renamed, and NOT renumbered. Old: Tile 1 x 2 w/ SW Control Panel Pattern New: Tile 1 x 2 w/ Stingray Control Panel Pattern 0 Tile 1 x 2 w/ StingRay Control Panel Pattern (Needs work) 0 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: 3069p17; Tile 1 x 2 w/ SW Control Panel (Needs work)
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(...) WOW! I had no idea this stuff was so, so... I dunno. Anyway, thank you for your guidance. Joe (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: 3069p17; Tile 1 x 2 w/ SW Control Panel (Needs work)
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OK, now that someone else has confirmed that this part was introduced with the Sting Rays ("(URL) of the Aquazone theme, I'd suggest that you rename the description as follows: "Tile 1 x 2 - StingRay Control Panel (needs work)" As far as the pattern (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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Hello, Over a year ago, I mentioned on this list that I was considering making a new Lego CAD program for Windows and Linux, but until now I've been really pressed for time. This weekend I finally resumed the project and got the rendering engine (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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