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(...) It looks very nice! Very good job, especially as it's your first time doing a printed part. (...) One minor thing, the description of which is kinda longwinded, sorry. It's generally better to lay out complex surfaces so the quads and (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) The problem there is that the inventories at (URL) are pretty much static/dead data at this point. It's an area that's unlikely to get updated. I believe some of the inventories have been converted (with permission obtained from the list (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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I could make a tool to display a part (wireframe view) from any angle. Clicking on a polygon command in the DAT source (displayed below the view pane) would cause the edges of that polygon to appear as arrows, showing the order they were defined in. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Part: 3437peye.dat: Duplo Brick 2 x 2 with Eyes Pattern on Two Sides
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(...) Looks OK to me. If we decide later to change the dimensions it will be simple to do. (...) I'd like to work on some patterned pieces, too. I'll post the ones I'm working on to Tore's part tracker (probably the large lion or panda head first) (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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Thanks everyone for your helpful information. I believe that I can now properly model curves manually (as opposed to just using cylinder primitives). I'll be trying it out on the "coarse" version of the Duplo bottom stud. As for BFC statements, I (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Joseph Cardana" <jcardanas@home.com> wrote in message news:G6xJvM.JIv@lugnet.com... (...) allow (...) have (...) to (...) the (...) Conditional lines are used to show the outer boundary of a curved _surface_. Consider a cylinder. Between each quad (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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(...) See (URL), question 20, linetype 5. Basically, if you're modeling a curved surface, and as part of the model, you've got two adjacent triangles, ABC and ABD: A /|\ C | D \|/ B The common edge, AB, needs to be modeled as a conditional line. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) Will Do. (...) I meant being able to get visual apperance of peices in the Lugnet Inventories which do not currently include Ldraw/TLG Part Numbers on inventory entries AFAIK. But I will check again.. Thanks!! Alex (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Due to a rebuilding of the power systems at Risø National Laboratory, www.ldraw.org (and hugin.ldraw.org) will be off-line January 23rd 2001 from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC. Play well, Jacob -- "The current state of knowledge can be summarised thus: In the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It's a fake. (If I had a copy of Visio I'd have used that.) I'd previously fooled around with the idea of making something real like this for my own collection but the back-and-forth crossreferencing of parts and sets threw me for a loop. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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I've been releasing new versions of BrickDraw3D in the past few days. Tonight's build has a lot more than the last advertised version. First, the location has moved. New home page with more pretty pictures: (URL) It's still just a viewer. But now it (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Franklin W. Cain writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Franklin, Your quite a humorus man. What the hell did you just say! Please allow me to explain why I'm laughing. I didn't graduate high school, I don't have a GED but even (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Franklin W. Cain" <fwcain@yahoo.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dat.part...gnet.com>; <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Question about generating curves (...) Back faces are (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(Note: Please follow-up to ".cad.dev".) (...) OK, first you need to bear in mind that LDraw does _NOT_ draw true curves, it draws _angles_. If you have enough angles in a line, from a sufficient distance, this angled line will _appear_ to be a true (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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What is an optional line? These seem to be used for modeling curves, but I don't have a clue how to use them. While I'm asking, what is a BFC statement? Um... and why does MLCAD use a German-localized cancel button for the BFC statement dialog? -- (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part: 3437peye.dat: Duplo Brick 2 x 2 with Eyes Pattern on Two Sides [DAT]
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Here is a Duplo 2x2 with eyes on both sides. It's a fairly common piece, and I thought it would be a great first printed piece for me to do from scratch. I don't know why I thought this was a good piece to start with. This was a major pain, what (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: 3001_d.dat - Duplo Brick 2 x 4
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(...) True. But the internal supports are also a very visible feature if you look underneath- much more so than the flattened edges in my opinion. And we seem to be agreeing that these aren't important. These and the top depression also add a (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) going on. (...) Is that a real database, or did you just make that to show how all these projects are related? I've been kicking around an idea for the past few month or so (I'll post details later this week, I hope) that requires some way to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Soccer Ball - plain DAT code
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(...) Do you mean like a mesh? Not really. (...) You make the decoration by drawing all the hex's. In this case especially. Steve (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Soccer Ball - plain DAT code
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(...) Thanks, Steve. I'll play around with it and see what happens. Also, just wondering, but is there any way to model a net in MLCad? One last thing: I have not looked at your file yet, but what i did was i put the Primitve 4-8SPHE.DAT into my (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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