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(...) That's interesting... My Win95 MS Paint program won't make jpegs, at least not in color...(IIRC) But my Win98 will... (But MLCad's not installed on the 98 'puter. --Electro-- (23 years ago, 22-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | New part from Sopwith Camel. . . [DAT]
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Hello, Decided to think a little more, gonna pay for that later. Anyway, this is 30503.dat 4 x 4 Plate without Corner, but not notched. It's from 3451 - Sopwith Camel. I modified it from the original 2450.dat 3 x 3 Plate without Corner. I really (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: #30388 Hinge Brick 1 x 6 Locking with Fingers On Each End
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(...) Posted some time ago: (URL) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: # 894 (?) Roadsign Clip-on 2 x 2 Square
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(...) I made these files several months ago. :-( Franklin (URL) (Roadsign Clip-on 2 x 2 Square) (URL) (Roadsign Clip-on 2 x 2 Square with Black Arrow pattern) (URL) (Roadsign Clip-on 2 x 2 Round) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 1 x 9 Techcnic Liftarm [DAT]
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I got one of the new Bionicle sets and it has a 1 x 9 lift arm. So, here it is. Of course, I don't know the part number. It is not on the part that I can see. 0 Technic Liftarm 1 x 9 Straight 0 Name: liftarm9.dat 0 Unoficial Element 0 Author: Ronald (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Another new liftarm. . . [DAT]
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This is another new part from my new Bionicle set. It is based on 6632.dat. Again, I do not have a part number for it. I wish there were a way to get the part numbers for new parts. Oh well. 0 Technic Liftarm 1 x 4 0 Name: liftarm4.dat 0 Author: (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Another question from a CAD Newbie
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Mark: (...) Yes. The "multi-part DAT" (MPD) format. There is a tool for collecting DAT files into a MPD file. Have a look at: (URL) it is just a matter of inserting "0 FILE <filename>" as the first line of each of the DAT files and then collecting (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Animation script (again...) [DAT]
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So, once again I plan to make an LDraw animation script. I am moving extremely slow, so please don't shower me with suggestions. However, I have two questions, or requests: First, I want to know if I'm re-inventing the wheel. There are quite a few (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Hi-Res primitives : was - [Idea] New kind of tore for large diameter
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On the subject of Hi-Res primitives, I have been developing several lately. Should we have a "new" posting group so that they do not get mistakenly downloaded as "16's". So far the "48's" primitves I have made are, 1-4con1.dat thru 1-4con10.dat (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | RE: Question about posting DAT files here
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(...) JPEG is a lossy compression format. This means that in order to compress the file size, the JPEG compression algorithm averages boxes of pixels, losing some data along the way. The higher the compression, the boxier (the more artifacts) it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Question about posting DAT files here
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Well, after figuring out how to use L3P & POVRAY, made a 'review' picture of the Castle style MiniFigs I (re)created so far in my quest of recreating the Castleland sets in MLCad. These have the vests/torsos/shields that have been 'skinned' using (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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In a word - awesome! Took me a couple tries to get it going, but oh man that is SOOO much easier than the clunky way I was doing it... Thanks for pointing me in a better direction! Mark (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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Brice Williams (...) it's (...) What I do is go into Settings>General>Change, click the Document tab and change the angles the model will be displayed at, click OK. If you are in the view mode, click the button that puts you in edit mode, and then (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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"Mark Chittenden" <mdublade@aol.com> wrote in message news:GGrw44.HEI@lugnet.com... (...) POVRAY (...) I'm a point-and-click person myself - download L3PAO and L3P, install POV-RAY, and voila! great POV renderings at the click of a few buttons. Get (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Another question from a CAD Newbie
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I'm working on 'recreating' the Castleland sets in LDRAW/MLCAD (for me, lots cheaper than trying to hunt down the real sets [wife's objection #1] AND takes up less space [wife's objection # 2]). As I progress, I am getting more into making (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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The 'manual' method I follow to create pictures of my MLCad models are: 1. After saving the completed model, quit MLCad. 2. Restart MLCad. The completed model now shows up in the Models list. 3. Select the model as if using it like a part. 4. Rotate (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question about posting DAT files here
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Ahh, that's gives me a direction to try out this weekend. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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You can always hit the print screen key on your keyboard, then open a graffics program(like MS Paint), paste in the screenshot, crop out the extra stuff, and then save the file as a .jpg. There may be a way to do this with MLCAD, but I forget. But (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Help with saving pictures
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I just created a model of mine in mlcad. And i want to take pics of it in the program, such as save pictures as in the file menu. The only view it's letting me save as is the 3D view. Is there any way i can save pics as a different view? Thanks a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Anybody working on 6909? (Was: 6002, similar to 6909?) [DAT]
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Mark: (...) Ok. I made a rough sketch of it. There are (practically no horizontal lines), the end surfaces are missing, so is the single stud on the top and it is offset 10 LDraw units from its proper origin, but it is enough for me at the moment. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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