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(...) Then they shall be the first elements I create myself -- if I can figure out how to do it... -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You've also got stud3 and stud4 placements to go by (sometimes). stud3 is the skinny stud used under 1x bricks and plates. stud4 is the tube. (...) I don't remember anything about that. ;) Did he mention the minifig legs to bicycle connection? (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Tough question. No, not fully able to detect that. What the program does know is the brick rests on top of another bounding box. For bricks, that's usually a connection. Bounding boxes ignore studs, actually any DAT file named stud*.dat is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) The clicking isn't a bad idea. It wouldn't be hard to provide an option to turn it off. The real problem is knowing *when* to make the sound. Erik's done some cool stuff (last time I saw a demo of BrickDraw3D[1]), but I don't know if he's able (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Maiden Hat file?
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(...) Hi Richard, Welcome to the virtual side! The lightsabre handle is part 577, found under "Minifig Tool Light Sabre Hilt"; the headwear is not done, I don't believe. Cheers, Heather -- Heather Patey Pirate Wench / Brick Detective LUGNET Member (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | I need some mock-up parts
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I need mock-ups of the folowing parts: printed raised baseplate from 6983 ice station odyssey printed "radar" piece from same set ice planet helmet visor 2 x 3 ice planet logo slope 2 x 2 ice planet logo tile the ice planet printed windscreen piece (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Maiden Hat file?
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Hey Y'all: Yup. I have have set up Ldraw and Mlcad on my home system at last. Newbie twit that I am, I immediately seek stuff not actually in the available programs (or worse, I missed them in their buried explorer-style locations in the interface). (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Link to MLCAD Homepage on MLCAD Group Page
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(...) Thanks for making us aware. I've updated the link. -Suz (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Link to MLCAD Homepage on MLCAD Group Page
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Todd, The link to the MLCad Home Page on the MLCad NewsGroup Page is no longer correct... (although it IS still pointing people to the new page, for now ) The new link is (URL) Lynch (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Resizing in MLCAD Ver2 R3
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Yes, I have experienced this problem before. The easiest way that I have found to adjust the size of the MLCad window when it gets like this is to make sure that the window is NOT maximized, then click and drag the window (using the top title bar) (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Resizing in MLCAD Ver2 R3
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Is anyone else experienceing this problem. I can not resize MLCAD. When I open it it opens up to full screen, when I rize to resize I can only minimize and maximun. The button (top right hand) is aviable for re-sizing but when I click on it the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Next parts update?
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(...) We're working on it. Really. As you read this, linux gnomes are working with perl dwarves, creating a finely honed and highly polished automated parts release system. Or something like that. Seriously, there is a light at the end of the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Part looked weird. . .
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(...) Yikes! That's a bad mistake. Thanks for supplying the fix. You should be sure to forward this to parts@ldraw.org. (...) You can safely assume that any uncredited part was created by James Jessiman. Steve Christopher! have you backed up your (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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(...) Looking at part 979.DAT, Minifig (Complete Figure Shortcut), it appears the hands are turned at a 45-degree angle. Steve Christopher! have you backed up your data? (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: site update
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(...) Hmm, ok. That's two or three topics: Primitives Subparts Existing Tools as applied to part authoring (...) :) (...) I'd be happy with a web page. Steve Christopher! have you backed up your data? (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Wow, Lars, that was a lot of code to support r = (r1+r2)/2. The obvious hypothesis would say that the eye performs spatial integration on the pixels, so therefore values are averaged. I guess I can try it on my eyes with L3Lab then. I looked in (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Wow. LUGNET rocks. Actually, people like you, Garrett, make it rock. Can you also tell me the Perl package that implements pathname concatenate in a platform-independent way? (I'm a Perl Pounder too, by day.) I'm going to write the code to detect (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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(...) On the 'typical' aircraft: Pitch is the angle (from horizontal) along the of the centerline of the aircraft. Roll is the rotation around the centerline axis Yaw is the rotation of the centerline around the 'altitude' axis So your 'Rotate' (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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(...) Couldn't you just specify "rotate X axis" "rotate Y axis" rotate Z axis"? Something a'la most 3D apps, with an XYZ key visible in the model window would help with this (could be toggled on/off). Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 851 Technic Farm Tractor
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Hello Chris "Chris Daelman" <cdaelma@pi.be> schreef in bericht news:GFsFoy.I9M@lugnet.com... (...) Well, I hate to say but in this one there is also a mistake... (...) As a mater of fact, it was my first Technic model to. Back then on my 10th (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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What verbs are better for describing rotation about the standard axes? Rotate is usually understood as spinning about the vertical axis. There are aeronautical terms for the other two, pitch and yaw, and I can't remember which is which, so I'm using (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Having never been able to use the DOS/Windows editors, do any of them do this? Whould it be a 'horrible' idea, to get confirmation of sorts via audible feedback? It might be a unique option at that. Just thinking out loud though... (...) Got (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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I should have said, I know of several bugs in 0.2: On the Edit menu: Group has weird side effects. Ungroup does nothing. The rotate commands got all screwed up. Line colors are still absent in several places. Also new: click-drag always moves a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Oh! Oh! Oh! I am SOOOOOO excited! This looks great Erik...you are definately on the right track. No bugs or crashes yet...every open feature seems to be working great. BTW, is this the same build you e-mailed me on the 30th? Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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I went ahead and released a version. Piece dragging in 3D is more developed. There is a parts list window. All sorts of functions are here like cut, paste, color, rotate, background color. It has baseplates. Loading parts and models is faster. It is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: there is a problem with the classic space landing pad baseplates
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(...) Sometime back I discussed this with Steve Bliss (in the context of authoring the two other varients of the landing pad baseplate) and offered to fix this probelm at the same time. I'll try and push it up the priority list. Chris Dee (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | there is an error in the 9v train motor
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Some of the type 2 lines incorctly use color #241 instead of color 24, resulting in a small amount of blue lines in the part (in ledit) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | there is a problem with the classic space landing pad baseplates [DAT]
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basicly, the problem is that the yellow lines on the t-junction landing pad plate dont match properly with the yellow lines on the circle landing pad plate. these 2 lines of ldraw dat file show a circle next to a t-junction. 1 7 -320 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | m6392 airport [DAT]
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Here is the file for this set. 0 m6392airport 0 Name: 6392airport.dat 0 Author: C.Daelman <cdaelma@pi.be> 0 Official Repository Model 0 airport building 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3857.DAT 1 14 130 -24 130 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3005.DAT 1 14 230 -24 (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: 851 Technic Farm Tractor [DAT]
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You are right. It's my mistake! Here is the new dat file. (...) 0 Technic Farm Tractor 0 Name: 851.dat 0 Author: C.Daelman <cdaelma@pi.be> 0 Official Repository Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Erik Olson wrote... (...) I use the average of the two colors' RGB. Try it out in L3Lab by toggling the "Dither or blend colord 256-511" button in the toolbar. Here is the code I use for color decoding: /* Return -1 on invalid LDraw color. rgb may (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Part looked weird. . . [DAT]
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I was looking for the parts that came on the Sopwith Camel. Well, while looking at 6205 the Tile 6 x 16 with Studs on Edges, I noticed all the stud4.dat subparts were too low. I fixed that, but I don't know if my observations were correct. Anyway, (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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Upon seeing the differences in the minifig arms (975.dat & 976.dat) and comparing the old files with their updates, it is obvious that changes have been made. However, for those of us who are more technical than their own good, please give us a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Winner of the MOTM for July 2001
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Hi all, The winner this month, by a wide margin, is "The Beast" by Anthony J. Sava III. Deservedly so, I might add. Outstanding job of modelling, Anthony. See it at: (URL) remember, next month the voting will for both Model and Scene categories. See (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Hi, I'm wondering how to treat dithered colors (LDRAW 0x0100 to 0x01ff, see FAQ). Short of implementing a dithered texture--which would preserve that old-timey look--I'm seeking a conversion function. My first guess is that the perceptual equivalent (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New MOC: Y-Wing (IRL)
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Hello everybody, I finally got around to build my Y-Wing in real life. I had built it in MLCad from a rainbow warrior I made back in february or so, but the real thing is up now. I'll be finishing the instructions for you all pretty soon, but I'm (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Possible bug in V2.00R3?
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Ryan, that is what it should do ... I've verified that myself now, and it works as it should, if you haven't saved your project before scanning for models or parts, MLCad asks if you wan't to save your work. If you save it before it won't ask you. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: site update
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(...) Some of us are still mystified by all those primitives. What their intents are, when to use 'em and when to propose a subpart. I suppose that studying official parts would clarify that. Some of us don't know what the tools do already (L3Lab) (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Jake McKee Another way to get that Plate/Tile with 1 stud in the Tile category is to have a search string for the Tile group like this: <Tile | ( <Plate & Stud> ) which will find all parts starting with Tile and also any part starting with Plate and (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Possible bug in V2.00R3?
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(...) I was not asked to save the file. I saved it myself before executing the command, just in case there might be any problems. --Ryan (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "Archer", "Dritver" and, "White Rabbit" .DAT files
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Thanks Jaco! I still make the .DAT files because I think my photograpy is bad. ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: "Archer", "Dritver" and, "White Rabbit" .DAT files
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Me like! These are great models and your photography is very good! Greetingz... Sjaacko (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Next parts update?
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When will the next parts update be ready? It's been over half a year and as a person who has authored a few parts I am anxious to know if they were acceptable or not. I don't know what the current policy regarding new parts is, but it seams that any (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Possible bug in V2.00R3?
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Naa, that's not a bug, the scanning function destroy and rebuild all internal file caches. This also resets the internal project buffer - that's wy you model is lost and you get the initial comment lines. Just what's important in this case is that (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: site update
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(snipped .castle from the ng list) (...) I'm not even sure what 'lessons' would be like. Measure, plot, approximate, crib, standardize, clean up, publish. What else is there? It's an interesting thought, though... Seriously, if there's interest, we (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: camera angles
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James Stacey wrote... (...) You can easily change the view by using the -cg option. l3p inn1 -cg30,-135 will give you a view from behind (your front!) The default is -cg30,45 which is the default 3D view you see in all DAT programs. Read more at (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Possible bug in V2.00R3?
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Michael, While I was working on building a model, I saved it and selected File>Scan Models. Then all the parts in the open model disappeared, but not the first four comments, nor the parts listings on the left of the screen. I would assume this is a (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Dichotomous Key
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One of the grouping features I'd thought of for BrickDraw3D is to group by stud count. (I haven't made up any palette trees yet, it's just one big palette so far.) This is part of a plan to implement a dichotomous key of Lego parts. A dichotomous (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Jake McKee wrote: [snip] (...) parts (...) Even (...) do (...) playing (...) Probably the only thing that would come close to what you want now would be the favorites category... And similar to what "Ducky Dave" suggested, though less risky, you can (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | "Archer", "Dritver" and, "White Rabbit" .DAT files
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I've finally completed the .DAT files for three of my latest models. "Archer" ASM-88 (Artillery Support Mecha): (URL) ASM-214 (Artillery Support Mecha): (URL) "White Rabbit" Reconnaissance Mecha: (URL) can finally sleep in peace now... ;-) Mladen (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: site update
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Yippeee!!!! someone is actualy useing one of my models!!! Gary *Grin* Erik Olson <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:GFLqtz.7v0@lugnet.com... (...) anywhere (...) wishing (...) combinations (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Legal ramifications of posting? (Was: Re: A campaign for sun and planet gears)
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(...) That was definitely a long-term back-of-mind thought when I posted originally. I'm always aware that TLC read Lugnet and look at the Guarded Inn situation, it seems to work! (...) I certainly would, and I'd not be so crass as to take TLC to (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | **** BugFix Release of MLCad V2.00R3 ready for download ****
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Hy, I've just uploaded the third release of MLCad V2.00R3. Again some fault correction, of bugs reported till now, and some I found myself. For those of you who have downloaded any V2.00x release: Just download the update and extract the files into (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Updated: More Lego wallpaper, please!
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One more update, a minor quickie one really, but I'll be out for a couple weeks. Maybe eventually I'll even get a real webpage up with this info! ;-) And if I missed yours and you want to add it to this list, then please let me know. Hey LDRAW.ORG (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | MLCad in french - MLCad en français
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I have translated the menus and the dialog of the new version 2.00 of MLCad You can download the language dll here (URL) change the language, go in the menu Settings/General/Change and choose the French language The help have not been translated. In (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCad in french - MLCad en français
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I have translated the menus and the dialog of the new version 2.00 of MLCad You can download the language dll here (URL) change the language, go in the menu Settings/General/Change and choose the French language The help have not been translated. In (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.fr)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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The original Pantone pallette I used had CMYK values, I translated them via Photoshop for your convience. I assumed in web development (like the colors use on the BricWorx color selector) and most non-print graphic design are done in RGB. SteveB (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) HSL and HSV are both valid models, IIRC I think they are close but not the same. I forget the difference. I think Luminance (and the entire RGB model too) is more useful or applicable for things that do color by giving off light, like monitors (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) CMYK is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (subtractive color model vs RGB additive color model). CMY gives you a muddled gray/brown so K is added for pure black. Go to (URL) then option 2b, Color Theory for a nice presentation on the topic. I (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) I'm assuming "CMYK" translates to something along the lines of Blue,Red,Yellow,Black? Or more appropriately "Cyan","Magenta","Yellow",K? (what the heck would K be?) If you had the CMYK values, could these be mathematically translated into (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) ought to do that sampling on their own?? I was at an ink manufacturer recently and they can take colors in either RGB or CMYK but prefer the latter. (they also have spectrophotometers that you can just put things under and get ink recipes from (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: site update
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Erik: (...) [...] (...) Sounds like it is time for me to "improve" it a bit. ;-) It really ought to have seats around one end and starting gates at the other end. Jacob (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: site update
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(...) I'm more familiar with Jonathan Wilson's version of m6067.dat (found here) than the actual set. And there's no sign in there. (Also no minifigs.) Since I use m6067.dat as a great test case for BrickDraw3D I've been wishing it could be (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: site update
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(...) Good Job James! I'm glad you enjoyed yourself! (...) as far as I know... not yet, I hope someday we'll get more castle parts done. I just don't have the time to badger the part creators :( I was just happy to get the bush that Tore did! I (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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| | has anyone made the light & sound sound brick?
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Has anyone made the light & sound sound brick? (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: site update
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"Mookie" <Mookie1@telocity.com> wrote in message news:3B349164.4F11BE...ity.com... 8<snip (...) 8<snip OK as requested I have created a .dat file for the inn and posted it on the site My first ldraw creation. BTW does anyone know if the Guarded Inn (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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| | Bug report in V2.00R2
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hi michael, when I doubleklick on the mlcad.exe file or a *.dat file to start the program I get the following message: FATAL ERROR: MLCAD.dll was not found! although the MLCAD.dll is in the same folder as the MLDAC.exe-file. System: Pentium 75 32 Mb (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Jake McKee <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GFKM25.Esy@lugnet.com... (...) file (...) parts (...) Even (...) do (...) Thats where it gets tricky, and you have to resort to the measures I took to seperate unofficial/custom parts etc - (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | *** WARNING - BAD BUG IN MLCad V2.00xxx ***
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I'm sorry but there is a bad bug in MLCad Version 2.00 and 2.00 R2! Thanks to Ryan Farrington for reporting it! When you change the program settings it might / will happen that the program clears the screen and does not display anything. From time (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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(...) Interesting! I will have to dig into that. It still only partially addresses my desire, as I see it, however. On a lower level than this, I would like to be able to classify individual parts on a per part basis to a category. A good example of (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Eek, linewrap made a right mess of that. Lets try again ;( Duckie Dave <Duck@clowes-till-cr...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:GFKJH9.A0M@lugnet.com... (...) I'd like to add that the settings from this are stored in an MLCad.grp file in your ldraw (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Michael Lachmann <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> wrote in message news:GFIxCA.J1I@lugnet.com... (...) groups (...) I'd like to add that the settings from this are stored in a file MLCad.grp in your ldraw directory. The contents of my group file are (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | James Jessiman Memorial Award to be presented at Brickfest 2001
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Hi everyone - More LDraw at Brickfest news - the Jessiman family is sponsoring an award in James' memory for an individual contribution to the LDraw community and to his memory. Read for more info: (URL) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Another good point. I will add a provision about signing your work for sure. Many people do that and there is no problem with doing so. Thanks Anders for bringing that up, -- Terry K -- (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Terry K" <legoverse@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GFItLI.9zy@lugnet.com... (...) I think labels should be allowed - it can make it harder for someone else to use the picture in other circumstances, and you might want to sign your work. -- (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Michael, If I change the rotation angle to anything with a decimal, the dat-line window and the views go blank. --Ryan (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hmm, as far as I can tell, the executable in the r2u zip file is the same as the one in the r2 zip file. Same size, date, time, and CRC. Also the About box claims its 2.00. Did the old executable somehow make into the r2u zip file? (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Fantastic Thanks :) James "Rick Cuijpers" <cuijpers@mail.com> wrote in message news:GFJ74z.A8w@lugnet.com... (...) converted (...) a (...) to (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You should download L3PAO (I dont know the url) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Menu "Extras/Reports/Pieces..." .... Greetings, Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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OK I'm a newbie to this and I've created my first .dat model. Ive converted it to a .pov using L3p and rendered it using POVRay. Question... How do I change the camera angle POVRay renders to something a bit more dramatic than the back of the model (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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one possible feature addation: show listing of all parts ( and how many of them ) used in a model. useful for ordering parts to make a real model! -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Michael Lachmann" (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) MLCad V2.00 checks for customer created language DLL's during startup. In the next days I provide more information about that on the mlcad pages. There will be a description what and how to do new language dlls for MLCad. Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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How to customise the parts tree: ===...=== From "Settings/Groups/Group configuration..." you can create your own groups or just add new ones. For every group you define rules which define what comes into this groups. Example: Add a group let say (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'll post an article showing how to do it ... Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Make sure you've downloaded the latest release V2.00R2 - this has a fix for that. V2.00 behaved like that descriped above. V2.00R2 works fine. Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) It's not just that. It was more of a fairness issue. Some people have sites with pictures up. Some don't. Some may not even have multiple images of what they entered to put on a site. So I thought it fairer if the voting was based just on the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Terry, Regarding the new rules, I like them, except for the part about not specifying a web address and not providing multiple views. All of my renderings would fit into the "model" category except for this. I like to provide a web link to multiple (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi Shiri, If there is any thought of voting for mine, then vote for one of the others. I've already won twice. I just wanted to enter this to show off some more models. I don't really care about winning. There are plenty of really strong entries (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.castle)
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(...) That's normal behaviour. Since the edge primitives are only lines, they draw in color 24. Generally, in part files, you pass color 16 to them, and they draw the 'main' edge color. So if you have some code like: 1 16 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) To easily pick out the temp (hidden?) files, click the column headings in Explorer to resort the list. In newer versions of Windows, you should have the option to display file attributes, making it very easy to sort the hidden files out from (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) building models. For instance, if I wanted to create my own organization scheme for all the parts in the parts.lst. I actually use (and LOVE!) DATSort, but for sorting after the construction is complete. Make sense? Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) One questions for you, in the ReleaseNotes.txt file, you mention that one of the updates is the ability for user defined language DLLs with usability checks. What is that? Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) to (...) the (...) That's what Jeff Boen (Onyx) created DATSort for. (URL) can sort the pieces by position or color, in between steps or not, and you can even get it to sort mpd files. I use all the time and love it! --Ryan (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Clicking on it works, but on the command line from Windows 2000 you now have to very specific and include a path and the .exe extension. For example, this works: c:\mlcaddir\mlcad.exe myfile.dat But this gives the MLCAD.DLL error even if (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Michael, Looks great! I like the new changes! I haven't played with all the new stuff yet, but so far I love everything I see!! If I might offer a suggestion/request: I would *love* to see the ability to re-arrange the parts list so that the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Such big decisions! Silly castle people, can't you take turns? The vote'll be split among you all! Who do I vote for? I'm torn, Brad's cathedral is cool but Tamy and Elin and the dragon... ugh!! -Shiri (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.castle)
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Hey all, Time to vote. (URL) luck to the entrants. And notice that there is a link to an additional rules page. I've decided to try a split format. A model-only contest and a scene contest. The rules are spelled out on how and what to enter. (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Short answer: Yes A parts "unofficial" status should not be a hindrance to its use. Similar to the use of a "mock-up" part to fill in where no official piece yet exists. If it does the job in place of a part that is not yet available, use it. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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