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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G8ALC8.CMF@lugnet.com... (...) Well put Lar. Pat - since you are experienced in technical writing, how would you like to help the site in the area of Reference and Get Started? We (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Excellent Discussion, Well Met
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(...) I have no official standing to delegate anything but if someone doesn't jump up and latch on to you I will be very surprised, as there are a number of areas within the site and elsewhere, where either word smithing, or worse, out and out (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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When I wrote the original reply to the proposal last Friday, I knew what I was letting myself in for and braced very hard this morning for the onslaught of Pandora's Box. However, after reading every followup in the thread, I must say that I am (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | 6984 galactic mediator alternate model [DAT]
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here's an addition to the space police ii lineup. the front half of the ship is a breakaway pod that can disconnect from the rear "wing" craft. 0 Boromir and Longsword - 6984 Galactic Mediator Alternate 0 Name: BOROMIR.DAT 0 Author: Joseph Gonzalez (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LGEO, future and other
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(...) Hi, Lutz! Nice to have you back around. :) Steve (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Question on transparent printed parts
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(...) Yah, that'd be the way to go. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Y'all aren't helping me any. "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades". A name change is a name change is a name change. There are some 35 slope bricks with the wrong angle encoded into their names. And no one noticed it (or at least (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi all, I have been working on the Battle Droid for the Droid Developers Kit and have uploaded the following image of how it currently looks. This is my first attempt at using MLCad, l3p & POV. Great applications when used together - or (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Shouldn't this be: 1x2x3 | 17:5 73.610460° Anyways, I've checked out most of the these calculations and measurements and they seem correct to me. - Mladen (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) d'Oh! -- Yes, you're absolutely right -- thank you for the correction! (And I had this funny feeling when I posted that I was doing something wrong in the measurement. The vertical base part is 1/6 brick height, not 1/2 of 1/16.) --Todd (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I agree with the first column (measuring from the bottom of vertical portion of the slope to the top of the slope), but not the second. In LDraw parts, the little vertical portion of the slope is 4 LDU, not 2, so the ratios are Brick | (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) They're not too far off... Brick | Multi-Brick Multi-Brick | Single-Brick Single-Brick Size | Slope Angle | Slope Angle ---...---+---...---+---...--- 6x8x1 | 6:35 9.727579° | 11:70 8.930590° 2x4x1 | 6:15 21.801409° | 11:30 20.136303° 1x3x1 | (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Now *my* head is hurting. You mean all these elements (URL) are mis-named? Oooo, someone get me some aspirin... Steve (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) But the aspect ratio of a brick is 6:5 (height:width), not 1:1. Plus, there's the vertical base. So if you're measuring a single brick, you'll get one angle for the face itself, and if your're measuring a bunch of bricks, you'll get another (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | solved: was Re: help, where are the technic beams located
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found the "scan parts" menu item in mlcad. That found my installed parts library and i found all the beams i was looking for. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | help, where are the technic beams located
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I just downloaded and installed ldraw, ledit, and mlcad per the web site instructions. I also installed the updated parts package. What i can't find are any of the 1xN technic beams. I found 1 part (a 1 x 14 beam), but where are all the others. In (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: New Part: x784.dat - Exhaust Pipe
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(...) Oh My GOD!!! chris yer the shiznit!! i was in KB toys yesterday lookin at a set with the new exaust pipe and thought of this part. just remember theres a left and right version! good job (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 9V Trains, Wagon MOC - Blue Circle Cement Wagon [DAT]
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If anyone in the UK had a Hornby train set, it's more than likely that you had one of these. The Blue Circle Cement wagon was fairly standard in most of their mixed freight starter sets. I've based my version on what I remember of the Hornby model (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Has this piece been made yet?
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(...) tricky. (...) This part has now been completed and posted as (URL) Chris (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New Part: x784.dat - Exhaust Pipe [DAT]
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Here's another new part, recently requested. Please LMKWYT - Chris 0 Exhaust Pipe 0 Name: x784.dat 0 Author: Chris Dee (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com) 0 Unofficial Element 0 1st manifold port 1 16 -6 -12 -10 0 1 0 0 0 5 -5 0 0 4-4disc.dat 1 16 -6 -12 -10 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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