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(...) That's ok. We were all new once. (...) That's not uncommon. There are a lot of parts that are not made yet. (...) For right now, you can make a request here. Sooner or later, we'll have a part-request system on the ldraw.org website, as a (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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(...) I may still be confused slightly. From that article I gather that no printer (professional printing device) cares about anything above 200 LPI. The article further claims that one would generally want to print from an image 2 times the desired (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | 3010p20c.dat Brick 1 x 4 with Town Car Chrome Grille [DAT]
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I've always wanted this part with chrome printing. Now that most Lego CAD programs support chrome (color 383) I thought I'd fix one up. BTW, can anyone point me to the parts tracker so I can submit this? Will Bricksburg Fire Department: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Fluorescent Lights
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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has ever successfully created what looks like fluorescent lights. I have tried inserting area lights, but the shadows created were too harsh; it just looked like incandescent lighting. I also tried the looks_like (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Selling MOC Instructions? Your Thoughts?
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(...) Got it. I'm in the middle of a FAQ rewrite, among my many current projects. -Tim (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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Steve, I can explain better using black and white printers; for color, just add four times the explanation. For a monochrome printer, there is a tradeoff between lpi and grayscales. If you have a 600 dpi printer, and you chose a 600 lpi screen, you (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Selling MOC Instructions? Your Thoughts?
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(...) Steve (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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I have been pondering this point for years, but don't know much about the half toning for CMYK ink mixing algorithms. Is this something you know about? Can you share some more info and or links to pages that explain the difference between printer (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P user primitive substitution
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(...) [snip] (...) [snap] (...) Nod, right. INCLUDE has been mentioned before, in other contexts, and I'm generally in favor of it. But I'd rather discuss that in a separate thread - IF[N]DEF/ELSE/ENDIF wouldn't depend on INCLUDE. (although, for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw on Windows 2000?
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(...) MLCad and LeoCAD both work on Win2k without any problem. So does LDView, LDLite, L3Lab, and a few others (not going to take time to list them all). If you want to use LEdit with Win2k, go to Start>Run. Type 'command' and the DOS prompt comes (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 3069pxx.dat Tile 1 x 2 with Dials Pattern
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(...) Hmm. Would 'Tile 1 x 2 with Dashboard Pattern' work? Or 'Tile 1 x 2 with Dials and Arrows Pattern'? (...) I don't think this pattern has appeared on another part, and there isn't really anything analogous. Steve (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: model builder on lego.com...
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(...) That's pretty cool, but they have a very long way to go before they can compare with MLCAD! TJ (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw on Windows 2000?
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Well, I can't say if the original LDraw works on 2000, but I use MLCad on 2000 and it works great! :-) -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Eric Voltin" <jevoltin@austin.rr.com> (...) was (...) is made (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Newbie Question
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I'm having trouble following this discussion, could someone explain the steps required to get leg.dat (example filenames) to show up as it's parts in walker.dat? Thanks QBF "Thomas Main" <thomasmain@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | LDraw on Windows 2000?
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Does anyone know if LDraw will function properly on Windows 2000? I was going to install it on a system running Windows 2000, but no mention is made of LDraw working with newer Operating Systems. -- John Eric Voltin (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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What kind of extraordinary printer do you have ??? Even with good inkjet photo printers (with so called 1440 dpi resolution, which is actually dot placement resolution), you can't see improvements above 200 dpi... To be conservative, your image (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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(...) The typography, Man! It is the typography that compels me! -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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(...) :-) (...) If you intend it for others to print, why not just provide the POV file and a link to the instrucitons I gave you for rendering it big? Let them render it and print it, save yourself the time transferring that 70MB file and the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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(...) Many thanks, Tim -- this is exactly the help I needed. So easy too! Now I just need a place online to house a 65-70 MB 600 ppi file of my "Joined" hands -- now suitable for printing! -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | MLCad Bug(s)
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Michael - When you go into the new parts dialog (key shortcut I) and select 'custom part,' the open file dialog doesn't support .LDR. It only allows MPD and DAT, so you have to key in *.ldr manually to view LDR files. Also, I have another problem, a (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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