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You can specify the color in MLCad (silver: #383), but it takes on the characteristics of silver only when it's rendered in POV-ray. --Ryan (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Does anybody know how to make the color silver available/work in MLCad? Or is that a POV-Ray thing? Rob McMurray spaceghost0@dellmail.com (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Alternatively, I recommend that, if you're going to start with L3P, as I did, your best bet is simply to render the model straight off the page: l3p model.dat and then play around with the POV file within POV-Ray. I'm not especially conversant (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I would suggest skipping the learning curve of L3P and download the L3PAddOn program. It is a very nice windows interface that writes out the L3P commands. You can download it at www.Ldraw.org. Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi This weekend I have been reading the instructions for L3P, both the ones on the site and the ones that come zipped with the program. I can't work it out Could someone give me a brief, clear guide as to how to use it? Thanks, Tim (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Daniel Crichton wrote: [snip] (...) [more snip] I think Ryan just forgot the step 'save each section to its own .DAT file'. At least, I hope he didn't mean to just concatenate everything together in a single file. That'd be (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) One more part-finding suggestion: if you're online, use Partsref or Peeron.com. (URL) gives you a list of all the Partsref categories, and a search function. (URL) gives you a search box that will hit all recorded parts and sets. Once you know (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Has anyone made or has made plans to make this part? [DAT]
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(...) Here's a very crude mockup. If anyone else wants to make a good version of this part, don't let this poor attempt stop you. Steve 0 Hinge Arm Mockup 0 Name: hingarm.dat 0 Author: Steve Bliss 0 Unofficial Part 0 Barrel 1 16 10 0 0 0 -20 0 8 0 0 (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Heh heh. This topic deserves a FAQ all to itself, I think. Anyway, if you see a four or five digit number embossed on the part, that should be the number. Usually the number is embossed on the inside of the part, often in the smallest nook or (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks to Heather for posting the fix to this. Once upon a time, I considered distributing the .PIF files along with LDAO, but I think I ran into problems with the path (Windows likes to put the complete path into PIF/shortcut files). On my (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:004301c0f280$9a...erv.net... (...) I new there was something that already did this, but I couldn't remember what it was. Guess I'll have to look at using LDAO again to make this easier. One (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) program (...) The Inline function in LDAO (by Steve Bliss) takes all the referenced subfiles in a DAT file and merges them into one file by transforming the parts. However, with the popularity of MPD, fewer people are inlining than they used (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You are right. That is absolutely what it did. I went through my sub models one by one to: - Create a comment line telling me where each submodel started - Opened both the master file and the submodel file in Notepad - Copied the submodel (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I asked for the same part as well in (URL) have given it a try myself, but it is too difficult for me to make. Greetingz... Sjaacko Anthony Sava <savatheaggie@yahoo.com> schreef in berichtnieuws GEoCvw.11t@lugnet.com... (...) sets (...) brick (...) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:000b01c0f0e1$03...dly.com... (...) with (...) If you do this then you end up with referenced parts in the dat that don't exist as they were part of the mpd format, and you get all the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) know (...) Here's a good pic of what I'm after: (URL) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) G'day folks, I threw together a render of Dave's model, and he said it was okay to post it. You can find it here: (URL) credits go to L3P, LGEO (libraries), and POV-Ray. Enjoy! KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) only (...) this? (...) Excellent--I was hoping it was something simple like that. Thanks, I'll get v1.3 and give it a shot. Dave! (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Dave Schuler wrote... (...) Are you using L3P ? v1.1 had a problem with cones. Go get v1.3. /Lars (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Thanks for the help the minifigs guys. As for part numbers, here the story: A while back I was looking for a part to go in a technic model I was building. After looking up the number at Technica, I serched lugnet.cad.parts to find the particular (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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