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(...) People use a variety of programs. I use mostly LDAO's text editor, with some Notepad and Excel thrown in. Other people use MLCAD. Some people model in "real" 3D environments, and convert the results to DAT. Steve (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Dat to AutoCAD??
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This brings up a question I had, but I hadn't got around to asking. What program do you guys use to model the pieces? And can this program except input from other programs? (like Pro/E?) Thanks, -Jason (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Don: (...) Great. I have updated the version number in the installation instructions for Linux - and tested them. Play well, Jacob -- (URL) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Silver Champion Parts
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Hey all, I just got my 8458 Silver Champion the other day and am building it up in MLCad. I am gonna need a few parts that I can't find and was wondering if anyone has seen them or was working on them. The first two are the new suspension parts. One (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Micah Mabelitini
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OOOOhhhh!!! Could you please do one of my robots... Pleeeezzzze... www.brickshelf.com/c...cgi?f=3798 (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Dat to AutoCAD??
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Hello, I was wondering if there is a dat to autoCAD converter? I'm not useing autoCAD,its InteliCAD, but the file format is the same. Thanks Gary Blessing (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | part 30183 and 30283
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I was just looking at part 30283 (a real one). Apparently there is a dat file, but it has not yet propagated to partsref. This message (URL) gives a name for 30283 of 'Slope Brick 45 6 x 4 Double Inverted' partsref lists the name for <part:30183> as (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: May I find micro-scout's dat file? [DAT]
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Zhengrong Zang, The one I have is not completed yet, but here ya go. 0 Technic Micro-Scout (very simplified) 0 Name: m_scout.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Un-Official Part 0 rem following line is simplified 2 24 40 0 110 40 0 -110 2 24 -40 0 110 -40 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Dice
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Nice construction! I didn't believe it was possible to build this in lego but it is !!! Unfortunatly we don't posses enough of these 2x2 round tiles to build it in real life, but I'm replacing them with square tiles, and that works too!!! thank you (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: VB programming
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(...) I can send you some VB code showing use of the API calls for Polygons to render wireframes and filled polygons, and I also have code to read triangles/quads from a DAT file to render, but only in one plane (I wrote it to run checks on vertex (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2x4 Brick Renders
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(...) Yeah, I left out the rounded edges, the very shallow 90 degree cut-out on bottom of the inside wall, some horizontal raised ridges on the inside wall, and the four convex bulges on the inside walls of the tubes. The latter three were merely (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 2x4 Brick Renders
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(...) Wow! Very cool. :) One detail you did leave out, although I haven't measure its size, is the rounded edges of the bricks (studs should be even more rounded than the rest of the brick). It's a pain to add, but it would add a lot to the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 2x4 Brick Renders
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Thanks for all the great comments (in both discussion and private email). I had not anticipated such a positive response. I've set up a thumbnail index for the scenes, which I will upload via ftp after I finish rendering my latest scene, a single (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Automatic Part Selection Query (Part 2)
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It's not a matter of knowing the program. I was just trying to find a solution within the standard DAT/MPD format. :) Steve (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) It's a 400MHz Pentium II with Matrox G200 video card. At the time, I was running Linux 2.2 and X Windows 3.x. I don't think this combo did any hardware acceleration. When using anti aliasing, I didn't notice any performance drop at all. It was (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | VB programming
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Does anyone have any program examples of reading a .DAT file and displaying it on the screen using Visual Basic? Royce (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2x4 Brick Renders
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(...) I think that what you have done is just plain jaw-dropping *cool*, Micah! You folks who render LEGO in CAD are doing the neatest things! I am so not computer-savvy and am greatly impressed with the images which can be generated. Although (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general)
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(...) What platform have you used the antialiasing on? My linux test box only has a 256 color unaccelerated video card. The performance goes from poor to unacceptable when I try to antialias on it. Meanwhile the software only opengl driver for (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Ah, I actually thought that ldglite had different features in Windows, which I found to be a bit odd. (...) I agree that this feature is very nice in LDLITE, and I have used it a lot to compose large images. The goal of this was mainly to do (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ... Whoops! That should say "LDLite 2.0 in Windows". (I've been typing that g so much that it just slipped out without me knowing about it) I think the -U option of LDLite is a terrific feature and just wanted to make at least a portion of it (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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