 | | Re: Solution concerning MLCAD colors (was Re: Question about MLCAD colors)
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(...) Tim, Color 24 in MLCAD was purposely made to be different that Dark Gray (8), the same way Color 16 is to be different from Light Gray (7). The problem is that it tends to make it them darker than both colors [7 & 8], leaving the Edge Color at (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Reiterate: How to make a squish matrix?
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A quick keyword search turns up this page which states that it is NOT possible (in one of the first few paragraphs). (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Reiterate: How to make a squish matrix?
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(...) Whoops! Thank you Rui for helping me straighten this out -- I'm not doing this in LDraw. I'm just looking for a way to do this with a 4x4 matrix. My target app is POVRay, but I figured this question would be generic enough for people in the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Baureihe 52 [DAT]
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Inspired by Shaun Sullivan's fantastic BR52 model I have managed to build a model of the same locomotive myself. Compared to Shaun's model mine is not intended to run over curved tracks. It is only a model for display but the pistons are working (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Solution concerning MLCAD colors (was Re: Question about MLCAD colors)
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In addition to this I personally feel that the grey edge colour for black elements is too dark, it works for one black element but when you have a black model the joins become nearly invisible. Is it posible to create user defined custom colours (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | How to make a squish matrix?
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Hey all, Is there a way I can make a matrix that will "squish" an object? For example, I have a cylinder I want to squish into a truntcated cone. I could have sworn this was possible (I thought this was how perspective was rendered, by squishing the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Where can I get a part number for a patterned piece?
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I've almost finished the Minifig Head with Darth Maul pattern but I don't have a part number yet. I remember seeing a post a while ago with the URL to the page that keeps track of patterned part numbers but I can't find it - can anyone let me know? (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Alternative to LDraw
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(...) Try LeoCAD. It has the same parts library with visual browsable parts catalog. Selçuk (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Parts Update?
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"Orion" <pobursky@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GC9L4n.Dz1@lugnet.com... (...) That's ok. Maybe for you "what gives" is a part of everyday language, but when I hear it the phrase is usually associated with complaining, so that's how I took it. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Update?
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No insult or complaint was implied by my message. 'What gives?' is just my way of being curious. I've been gone for the the last few month due to the fact I'm in the U.S. Navy and was just wondering why. If you find "what gives" disheartening I (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Update?
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(...) This has come up enough times, after a long enough time, that perhaps some mention of this should go onto the ldraw.org front page (just after the "Contribute" blurb), or on the parts update page, or both. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Update?
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"Orion" <pobursky@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GC97Iy.5L2@lugnet.com... (...) Well, perhaps the fact that what you've already downloaded has been free (to you -- making it available has cost volunteers time and money) could quench some of that (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Parts Update?
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Am I the only one disappointed by the fact that we haven't had a new infusion of parts in over 6 month? Maybe I missed some earlier discussion, but what gives? Orion (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Alternative to LDraw
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(...) You should be able to run the MKLIST.EXE program without firing up LDraw or LEdit. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Questions re: parts
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(...) No, it doesn't. Daniel's suggestion is right on. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Questions re: parts
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(...) Thanks, Dan. BTW, I found the sword & axe, listed under Castle, instead of Minifig, like most other minifig accessories. I think I'm going to go in and manually edit the .dat files & rebuild the list to put 'em all together, probably under a (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Questions re: parts
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"Larry Theden" <cegorach@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:q350etodqfkvkk6...4ax.com... (...) I don't think it does - a while ago I couldn't find some primitives and found that they were in those 2 early updates. I'd suggest that you download them (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Alternative to LDraw
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"karl Martinson" <raymart@jam21.net> wrote in message news:GC7zLu.Ls7@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) the (...) If you have a virus checker running, you might try turning that off before trying to apply the patch. For a while (and maybe still does) my (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Solution concerning MLCAD colors (was Re: Question about MLCAD colors)
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Good Evening. I am writing to give my own suggestion about colors in MLCAD, based on pre-existing colors in LDraw. While some of the colors [when converting LDraw usage to MLCAD usage] turned out pretty well, others appeared so shockingly different, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Alternative to LDraw
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Have you tried MLCAD? It's a Windows equivalent and uses the same parts list. You can find it at (URL) Dickinson (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Alternative to LDraw
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For some reason, whenever I try to launch LDraw or the Runtime 200 patch, it crashes my computer. I was wondering if there was some other way to get the part.lst without having to use LDraw. And if this isn't possible, is there some other L CAD (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: I need a voluntary to render a pov-ray animation
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(...) It's just a processor that fast is of no use if you don't have the RAM to support it. A better choice would have been a slower processor with more RAM. (...) Did it? I've had no problem with running 15 hour renders on a Pentium 1 166Mhz with (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: I need a voluntary to render a pov-ray animation
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(...) Well my last one was 32MB of ram no 3d card, AMD K6 233mhz (...) What about if windows stops working eh? (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Darth Maul Head part phase 3 at BrickShelf
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(...) like (...) You only need optional lines where the faces of the 16-sided prism (which we call a cylinder) meet. So to make it perfect, along these intersections you should code a contiguous series of type 5 lines in the inverse LDraw colour to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | RE: I need a voluntary to render a pov-ray animation
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(...) A P3 with 64 MB of RAM? Did you downgrade it? Anyway, can't you just let it run over night? --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Darth Maul Head part phase 3 at BrickShelf [DAT]
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(...) Fixed it, and turned it into a dat rather than mpd, and also fixed the missing triangle on the right side of the face. New dat attached. (...) OK, thanks. Any tips on what to do about optional lines with a pattern like this? 0 Minifig Head (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | I need a voluntary to render a pov-ray animation
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My PC is good but it takes 45 minutes and is only did 65 of 450 images at q1 so if anyone has a PC with more that 64MB of RAM and more CPU than p3 867 then e-mail me please as soon as posible eduardo.harte@terra.es (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Darth Maul Head part phase 3 at BrickShelf
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(...) Good work Dan. However the left eye seems to be at the wrong angle - looks like a translation of the right eye, rather than a reflection about x. When you put the black in it is worth remembering that you will get better renditions in some (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Darth Maul Head part phase 3 at BrickShelf [DAT]
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Just uploaded my latest adjustment to my attempt at the Darth Maul minifig head part to (URL) , mpd attached. I've added eyes, all that is left to do is convert the mpd to a dat (I've used an mpd for speed to get the eyes on so I could see how they (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Desert Tank Animation
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Nick I've checked my server and it's all okay. I was able to download it so try it again. If it still does not work I'll email it to you. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Desert Tank Animation
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(...) Hey Ahui, your animation looks pretty cool, but for some reason my browser only thinks it's about 250 kilobytes, not 1.16 megs. Could you check to see if it uploaded correctly? Thanks, what I saw of it looked good... -Nick (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Desert Tank Animation
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I have just finished my first animation! Visit my site to download the animated gif file. (URL) file is 1.16 MB so be patience it's well worth it. Ahui (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Height field
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How do i get height_field to work? I check POVRAYs docuimentation and it only gave me more ?s... Rick (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: "maxi-fig" hands
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(...) I don't think it's official yet, but when I asked the same question some time back, Franklin Cain was kind enough to create one: (URL) Thanks again, Franklin! Dave! (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | "maxi-fig" hands
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Is there an "official" LDRAW part for the old "maxi-fig" hands? The ones I'm talking about are a 1x1 round plate with an open stud and an attached tow-ball. If not, please let me know and I'll whip up a temporary one and post it. Thanks, Matt (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Help using Pixelego java app
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I wanted to try my hand at using Pixelego, Eric Harshbarger's Java application that makes mosaics. But, after downloading it and the java runtime environment, I can't get it to play nice together. Just get error messages when I try to run the JRE. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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| | Questions re: parts
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Hi, all. Does the "complete.exe" archive available on ldraw.org now contain the lp97-13 & -14 updates referenced below? "The original LDraw archive (ldraw.exe - approx. 1mb), and the two original updates (lp97-13.exe/lp97-14.exe) *must* be installed (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Availability of LDAO
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I seem to be unable to download the LDAO program from Steve Bliss' homepage. Is there somewhere else it can be obtained? (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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Oooo...oooh.... Angel of Dest.. *gets back on track* Nice! I klike some of the other Microfig onres you got, espiccaly the constuction ones. Rick (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw meeting at Brickfest 2001 - Interest?
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(...) Or failing that, one of those boxes that splits a monitor signal to two monitors. Another way is using a laptop with mirroring to an external monitor. A raytracing demo would be a good thing! I see two goals for an LCAD presence: 1. Help as (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | New Confederation Ships
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The Confed/ALiens has an update of ships, and some are neat. The first is the Crucible-Class Cargo Ship (Colony Placement) (URL) . This ship is equipped with 4 standard cargo modules and a large supply module on front, this was the ship that (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Excalibur (Nano) from Babylon 5: Crusade [DAT]
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This is the prototype vessel EAS Excalibur from the show Babylon 5: Crusade (Viewable M-Th at 8pm on Sci-Fi). 0 Untitled 0 Name: NanoExcal.dat 0 Author: Rick Hallman 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 1 1 7 0 0 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Where's L3P Add On ?
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Its on Jeff Boens site (URL) column from the left, 2nd item down. or this (URL) E. Blessing ludo soete <ludo.soete@village.uunet.be> wrote in message news:GC0608.29z@lugnet.com... (...) witch (...) POV-Ray. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: LDraw meeting at Brickfest 2001 - Interest?
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(...) I could give a hand. If there are any special demo requests (a simple POV-RAY rendering, perhaps), I could maybe prepare something. If we're doing demos, it might be a good idea to see if we can get access to a projector or an overhead (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: LDraw meeting at Brickfest 2001 - Interest?
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Hey, how about a more vigorous show of hands for who's interested in talking about LCAD at BrickFest July 13-15? (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | 9V Track power connector BOTTOM part (2913) [DAT]
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Hi, This a the BOTTOM part of the train track power connector and has its Lego part number on the innerside of the piece. The file name is called x2913.dat, so i can find it easely back at the end of my parts library. Regards, Ludo 0 9v track power (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 9V Track power connector TOP part (2912) [DAT]
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Hi, This a the TOP part of the train track power connector and has its Lego part number on the innerside of the piece. The file name is called x2912.dat, so i can find it easely back at the end of my parts library. Regards, Ludo 0 Name: x2912.DAT 0 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Where's L3P Add On ?
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Hi, I think that i've seen a long time ago (perhaps on the LDRAW.ORG site) an downloadeble program that makes an windows add-on to the L3P program, witch is a DOS program. Does anyone know where i can find it? I don't find it at the download page (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: "33" Slope Shocker... Possible name change?
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(...) And it's a problem no matter which notation you use - the step is usually around 1/2 a plate high, so do you take that off the rise value? I also noticed for the first time recently that this step is a different height for different slope (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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(...) Shh! Don't tell everyone my secret motive! (...) I prefer the motto, *ahem* "microfig: it's not the size that matters, it's how many ways you can use one piece". ;-) Thanks all, for your compliments! :-, Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker
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(...) Did you already find a successor? If not, I'd volunteer to do it. And since I'm a lazy git, I think I would quite quickly create an automated tracker ;-) (...) *me* ;-) Regards, Hakan (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New ldraw updat?
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(...) Hey hey hey, take it easy or take it into .debate. There's no need to blow up over this, especially here. This is a volunteer effort, no one's being reimbursed for their time, and in fact there's an overhaul of the distribution process going (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: "33" Slope Shocker... Possible name change?
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(...) Hmmm, interesting thought. I'll have to think it through some more. This would give us figures like: Angle Rise:Run 10 1:6 18 1:3 33/27 1:2 45 1:1 45 2:2 53 3&1/3:3 55 6:4 (not yet released) 65 2:1 75 3:1 Hmmm. Off the cuff, there are two (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New ldraw updat?
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Hello Burkhard, Your mail sounds very arrogant.... Do you even know there are around 250!!! new or updated parts waiting in the row to get released?????? Hey... and if you think there are too few parts why don't you do it by yourself???? Everyone (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2x3 trapezoid
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(...) Thank you both very much, I must be cracking up as I was sure I had checked 'wedge', sorry to bother you. Psi (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: 2x3 trapezoid
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"Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:GBxKIw.4zu@lugnet.com... (...) is (...) Try 6565 and 6564 - Wedge 3 x 2 left and right. Dan (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: 2x3 trapezoid
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Simon, It's called a "Wedge 3 x 2 Left" or a "Wedge 3 x 2 Right". In MLCad, look under "Other Parts" and "W". -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> To: <lugnet.cad.mlcad@lugnet.com> Sent: (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | 2x3 trapezoid
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Hello I have just got myself set up with MLCAD and I am drawing up all the MOCs that I have been unable to break down due to not wishing to forget how to build them but I have run into a problem which I hope this is the right place to come for an (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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Geez, Sproat. Give a guy a break, will ya? Fantastic designs. I'm *way* envious. MORE!!! 8) Ben (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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Jeremy, Those rock so hard that you just might bring heavy metal back!!! You keep raising the bar for microfig stuff...I can hear the motto now "mircofig, it ain't just for mock-ups anymore". That is just so much eye candy. My envy meter is going (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Finally...
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Lutz Uhlmann wrote... (...) Good to hear you're back in business... I hope you are planning to update the format of L2P_ELMT.TAB, see (URL) current format is inadequate for a conversion table between DAT filenames and LGEO filenames: It only uses an (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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should there not be some sort of legal limit put on the amount of ass sproat can kick? (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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DANG!!! Jeremy... <dramatic pause>... YOU RULE!!! MAN! Those new models are so <bleep> COOL! Especially the "Silverback"; when I saw it I uttered the most profane words of disbelief imaginable!!! ;-) And then I saw the A33 Urban Battle Tank, and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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Wait! What I meant was, um.. Oh yea! Holy geeze! Are you sure you can really do that at micro fig scale? All the little details! And all the inovative ways of mounting stuff! :-P Geeze. Very cool. I like. Build on! (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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No comment. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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Wow. Lots of great new models... Can't wait to see the scenes you must be planning for them. :-) -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> Subject: New wallpaper, new models <snip> (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New wallpaper, new models
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Hey, I'm feeling very envious at the moment. Great models. Travis Dickinson (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | New wallpaper, new models
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Hey folks, I've uploaded another new wallpaper to my website, plus about 247,000 metric tonnes of previously unpublished mecha and such. (1) Check out my new wallpaper, "Angel of Destruction", and its POV-Ray source code, here: (URL) peruse a bunch (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Quiet here?
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Hello, Maybe its only me but I think it got quiet here the last weeks... I think now it is a very bad situation for people who normally like to author new parts but there is hardly a status or date know when finally the parts are released or voted (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 727 in 2001 version
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Thanx for the tip! I replaced the .dat-files and they look much better now! Jeroen (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego Cad?
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Tom, LEGO CAD is a program designed to go with LEGO's Dacta educational line. It is many years old at this point. It now ships on CD-ROM, but the program is unchanged. It fits onto floppies because, like LDraw, it's files are simply lines of text (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Lego Cad?
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Does anyone have any experience with Lego Cad? (URL) is made by (or in conjunction with) Autodesk, so I'm hoping it is similar to AutoCAD, but I'm guessing it's not quite that good if it will fit on a few floppies. I think Virtual legos would be (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New ldraw updat?
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(...) I hope that parts are still posted to lugned.cad.dat.parts as well for review. I think the process of having the lugnet readers review the parts is very valuable for the parts library. That way, various aspects of the parts can be commented, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New ldraw updat?
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(...) Agreed - I don't consider myself a designer - just an interpretor of real life parts into LDraw syntax. (...) True - I for one have not stopped authoring, but the time I can give to this varies, depending on other priorities. In addition to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New ldraw updat?
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(...) I don't think "part designer" is the correct term. There is nothing special about the people who develop parts -- anybody can do it. It just takes a lot of time and effort; time and effort spent without getting any real compensation for it. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New ldraw updat?
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(...) Not so soon I think. I'm not looking forward to it anyway, since many of our beloved parts-designers are mostly sitting on their hands doing nothing, or doing something else, especially for the last 6 months :( Primus BuS ComStar LEGO (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New ldraw updat?
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Does anyone now when will come out the next update of the dat parts? (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: "33" Slope Shocker... Possible name change?
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(...) Steve, I'm thinking it would be of more use to name the parts using a "Rise/Run" method, like in architecture. When using the LEGO pieces the important thing is not the actual angle on the sloped face, anymore than it is the actual height, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(URL) are just some renderings of my large mecha models (which all exceed 1000 pieces). I hope you all like them. BTW I do have something new in the works, which is very large, and will take several days (or probably 1 or 2 more weeks) to finish. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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For those of you who want more accuracy in your renditions, I have created the three different versions of this part. The existing 4085.dat is closest to the current version, but I think I have improved this as 4085c.dat. Here is the third (current) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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For those of you who want more accuracy in your classic renditions, I have created the three different versions of this part. The existing 4085.dat is closest to the current version, but I think I have improved this as 4085c.dat. Here is the second (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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For those of you who want more accuracy in your classic renditions, I have created the three different versions of this part. The existing 4085.dat is closest to the current version, but I think I have improved this as 4085c.dat. Here is the oldest (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 727 in 2001 version
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(...) Cool. Evocative of the original and nicely updated! One nit on the rendering. the shutters don't have 3D louvers. This is a limitation of the LDraw part. There is an unofficial part for the larger (fits the 1x4x3 town window frame) shutter (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) this sounds wild, i'll be looking forward to some pics (...) time spent with lego has been drastically reduced these days but i'm keeping boxes of star wars stuff opened and around for whenever i need to "get away from it all". take care! (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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I need this (www.peeron.com/pics...s/x85.jpg) dat file, can you help me? Zhengrong (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Train Track dat
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I got 9v Switch Point dat after I asked, although it is very mockup, I want to know how to make Straight ad Curve track from Switch Point dat, does anyone help me? Zhengrong (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: My VB DAT viewer and matrix handling
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"Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message news:GBMxoG.M8M@lugnet.com... (...) University (...) Wow, thanks to Steve's code snippet and a bit of API messing using CreatePolygonRgn and PtInRegion I've managed to implement a simple, but (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Printable parts catalog
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Patrick Sayre-Little <sayrew@pr.erau.edu> wrote in message news:3AD3AB0D.46312C...rau.edu... (...) That was me. My preference to put all new part in their own categories sorted appropriately. I can see no advantage in putting the new parts at the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Macintosh LEGO CAD/LEGO Designer
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If you're up to it, I've been looking for a volunter to compile the current version of ldglite for the Mac ever since Erik gave it up to work on BrickDraw3D. The Mac version has been stuck at revision 0.5 for some time now... I've fixed a lot of (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Thanks for the info Fredrik! (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Printable parts catalog
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(...) A reference chapter at the end sounds...genious. I never would have thought of that. Which is why I asked. :) p.s. For those interested, Clark Stephens has re-written the HTML code in that version, making the whole thing work properly. I've (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'll be sure to check it out then! (...) own (...) Well aside from the MAP ((URL) I made in December, and the MSP ((URL) I made in January, not much is new at my site... However, I'm currently working on this huge, make that really huge, mecha (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) I think the chances of obtaining the source code are pretty small. In stead, you could try to go for some of the clones. As far as I know, the source code is available for ldglite, LDLITE and LEOCad. (Sorry, I don't know the proper (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi all, I just received an e-mail from Pitsco telling me that development has been delayed on the LEGO Designer product, and they want to send me the many years old LEGO CAD on floppy disks (useless since I'm on a new G4 Cube and have no need/desire (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.dacta)
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Oops...I've poured over so many LEGO CAD related things in the last couple of days that I must have confused on thing with another. I believed LDraw WAS open source. Do you think there is a chance of giving us a crack at it? (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My VB DAT viewer and matrix handling
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:kdo8dtsd7oe3ltm...4ax.com... (...) load (...) I've got that sorted now, next on the cards is to implement hidden surface removal - maybe I should give in and implement som OpenGL or DirectX (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Matthew: (...) The source code for LDraw is not available, so you will have to make do with one of the "clones". Play well, Jacob -- (URL) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.dacta)
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| | Re: "33" Slope Shocker... Possible name change?
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(...) :) Or a comment line in the base-part file, noting the proper orientation for decorations on the slope-face. Steve (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: My VB DAT viewer and matrix handling
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(...) [snip] (...) BTW, you can rewrite the whole problem as a matrix multiply: |a d g 1| |A D G 0| |b e h 1| x |B E H 0| |c f i 1| |C F I 0| |x y z 1| |X Y Z 1| Which doesn't seem very interesting, except that the left-hand matrix doesn't have to (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) My preference would be "where they're supposed to", and a reference section in a "new file". If two files would be too much work, I'd love the reference chapter "at the end". Regards, Hakan (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)
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