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  is this piece made yet in ldraw?
 
I'm looking for the car wash holder to finnish this set 6394 the piece I'm talking about is like this other one 2578 Brush Holder Street Sweeper holder. (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
 
(...) I agree totally. A very important point. I'm ambivalent about the resolution. My *first* reaction is that we should leave existing parts mostly alone, unless it is very clear that they should be moved. My second reaction is that I'll go along (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Can LDGLite print the current orientation matrix? (feature request)
 
(...) But I seem to remember that L3Lab does not work on Alpha machines (running Linux). Jacob (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Can LDGLite print the current orientation matrix? (feature request)
 
(...) I should be able to work out a part of the command line arguments from that, but I am so lazy, that I actually would like LDGLite to print it as: Arguments: -a0.821417,-0.129189...4,0.710583 -q -j or whatever the status - including projection, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDGLite colour bug
 
(...) Yes. It is - as I wrote - the cylinders inside the bricks that have the colour of the preceding part. The following is the picture I get, when I render the example with the command `ldglite -q -ms -l3 -s4 -a1,0,1,-0.5,-1,0.5,1,0,-1 (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Can LDGLite print the current orientation matrix? (feature request)
 
(...) I think it spews the information needed for A if you turn on debugging with the -g switch. eg. Transform current: Translation: 0 0 0 Matrix: 0.821417 -0.129189 0.555497 0.417763 0.799364 -0.431845 -0.388257 0.586794 0.710583 Actually, I think (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDGLite colour bug
 
(...) Are you sure it's using the fixed part on the Alpha? Perhaps there is a copy of the old bad part on the search path before the fixed copy. You could check this by using the ledit mode to step through the part to make sure it loaded the correct (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDraw.org 2001-03 Parts Update Now Available
 
(...) Yep, that's me, slaving away to make everyone's LDraw experience a little better. ;) Heh. Actually, I'm six hours behind the LDraw.org server, so I finished everything up (including announcements and firing the Parts Tracker back up) by 6:30pm (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Ldraw and Ledit in windows xp?
 
(...) What happens when you try to run these programs? Steve (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Can LDGLite print the current orientation matrix? (feature request)
 
(...) L3Lab can do this (in the statistics menu), and I would certainly like to see this feature in LDGLite as well! Fredrik (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Can LDGLite print the current orientation matrix? (feature request)
 
I have been playing a bit around with the interactive rotation mode in LDGLite to find a good angle on my cargo aircraft. I think I have found it now, but how can I get LDGLite to print the parameters as a: a) complete set of command line arguments (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
 
(...) Good point. I support that change. (...) Jacob (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: LDGLite colour bug
 
(...) Same example, but a different problem. :-) (...) :-) No. It was Steve's publishing of a fresh parts release that got me started looking through my old bug reports. For some reason I hit "q" while looking at the example from my old bug report, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Ldraw and Ledit in windows xp?
 
I made a quick test of Leocad under XP, works (almost) fine. The only quirk I got was with part preview window that was half black. But this problem is solved by slightly resizing it. Are you sure you tested latest version, previous one didn't work (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
 
(...) This is a good and important point. If the category "round" is to take the same functionality as, say, the "slope" category, it would be more correct to rename existing parts into Round Plate 2 x 2 Round Brick 2 x 2 and so on. After all, slope (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Ldraw and Ledit in windows xp?
 
I just got a new computer for christmas. Unfortuantely it has windows xp on it and won't run many of my old programs, including Ldraw, Ledit, and LeoCad. Has anyone found a way to get these programs to run in xp? (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
 
(...) Excellent idea. (...) Not bad. What do we do about <part:4032> (Plate 2 x 2 Round)? Is "plate" or "round" most important? I presume that we should stick to the current name and add "round" as an extra category. A similar question concerns (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Connecting 2 .dat models  [DAT]
 
(...) One solution is to compose a new model file which reads from the two you want to combine. For example, compose a file called "model.dat", with contents like this: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 file1.dat 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 file2.dat (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: LDraw.org 2001-03 Parts Update Now Available
 
(...) Thanks a lot Steve for this New Years present ;-) BTW : A happy New Year to all Lugnet users. Regards, Ludo (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
 
(...) Yes. I'm guessing (based on past experience) that it won't be the next parts update (2002-01), but maybe the one after that (2001-02). But who knows? If we get three part reviewers who decide to work together to change the part names and post (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
 
Steve Bliss wrote: 8< [snip] (...) I think it is a "well-rounded" idea. It would make the lists easier to search (esp. for newbies). Similarly, Franklin Cain had suggested a year ago reworking the Castle and Space categories. Will that be happening (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: LDRAW crash
 
(...) Yep, acording to the help file, 216 is marked as "general protection error" (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Connecting 2 .dat models
 
"Rene Virsik" <virsik@sco.svf.stuba.sk> wrote in message news:GpC5FE.Jr7@lugnet.com... (...) parts (...) You could always hack em together by hand in a text editor... ;-) -Tim (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Connecting 2 .dat models
 
Heya, I apologize if it was discused before but how can I get (or connect) two different .dat models into one .dat file ? I don't mean importing of multipart files. I need connecting of two .dat files 'cause I need all parts from both sets. Thanks! (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: lgeo substitiution newbie question
 
Chris Daniel wrote... (...) The 32009 problem was reported in July 2001 by Rob Stehlik (URL) mentioned directly in posting) The 6536 problem was reported in February 2001 by Sproaticus and discussed in (URL) LGEO parts have not been fixed, but I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: (Strange) error in POV-ray
 
Lars C. Hassing wrote... (...) Well, Jeroen, from the M4564a.pov you sent me today, I have found a bug in LGEO part lg_3195.inc line 13. It currently reads: #declare LENGTH = but it should have read: #declare LENGTH = 5 Just add the '5' in your own (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LDRAW crash
 
"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> skrev i meddelandet news:3C33000C.485A91...@nbi.dk... (...) Both Delphi 2 and 5 (Borland Pascal) reports 216 as 'Access violation'. Probably the old Borland Pascal for DOS that James used for LDRAW uses the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDraw.org 2001-03 Parts Update Now Available
 
(...) Wow...someone had a crummy New Years Eve. You're a true hero to the community. :-) --Dave (jot and jab) xxx...xxx (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: LDRAW.ORG access?
 
(...) It *could* be (I don't know, maybe Jacob would) that some people under your domain are slurping the site excessively? I know of other sites that have to block access to entire domains, because they don't have any other way to stop (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: BricksWest 2002 Registration Re-Opens
 
(...) I'm glad I wasn't the only one - although it looks like I finished 5.5 hours earlier than you. Steve (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
 
Hi y'all! Yes, this is Steve, once again geeking on the parts library organization. :) We've currently got a group of parts labeled 'Cylinder'. See (URL) for a list of the parts. But there's a problem: not all of these parts are actually cylinders. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: LDRAW.ORG access?
 
(...) ...and Wanadoo is the 1st in France... a lot of people too ! Glad it worked, Philo (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Castle wall 4444p03 with inverted pattern ??
 
(...) My first guess would be a printing error. Maybe the print-image was run upside down? Steve (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: LDGLite colour bug
 
(...) Hey, someone besides myself is using "-q" antialiased lines. Cool. I did a bit of testing over the holidays to try and improve the "quality" of the antialiased edge lines. Do you think you could try something out for me? I noticed that if I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDRAW.ORG access?
 
Thanks. That worked perfectly. I don't know why my ISP would be blocked. Sympatico is probably the 2nd largest ISP in Canada. That's a lot of people being blocked. Very weird. Anyways, thanks again for the help. Play well. Tim Strutt 8^) (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: LDGLite colour bug
 
(...) If I remember correctly, we went over the exact same thing about this time last year. I'm curious, is this part of some holiday model that you traditionally bring out around this time every year? (URL) I guess the updated part was never made (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDRAW.ORG access?
 
[ XFUT lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw ] (...) I can connect to your mail service from "ldraw.org" without problems. If you use some kind of Microsoft operating system, then that might explain your problem. There is (afaik) an error in the standard network (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: LDRAW crash
 
(...) Definitely not without information about what you did. Error 216 is likely to be an error in LDraw, and not in a model file. Play well, Jacob (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  LDGLite colour bug
 
I think I have found a bug in the colour selection in LDGLite. When I render a file consisting of these two lines: (...) using the command: (...) (the important part is "-q") parts of the cylinders inside the bricks are coloured in a shade of the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDRAW.ORG access?
 
Maybe you experience the same problem as me: the provider you use is blocked by Ldraw server. Try to use an anonymizer as described here : (URL) I have the same quirk on parts/sets inventory at www.peeron.com/inv, solution is the same. Tell us if (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Train Watch Tower  [DAT]
 
Based on the design in the Jan 02 Lego Shop @ Home I created a train watch tower. Check out my .drr file. I've added a bunch of steps in case anyone is interested in building it. 0 Name: Train Watch Tower.ldr 0 Unofficial Model 0 Author: Ahui (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
 
  Re: LDRAW.ORG access?
 
Hi Tim, I just tried www.ldraw.org and I can access it ok. Also try: (URL) the download page for windows. Or try: (URL) get the MLCad software directly, but you still need the ldraw parts files I believe, and you miss all the help info on the ldraw (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  LDRAW.ORG access?
 
I've been trying for weeks to access ldraw.org, but have never been able to connect online. Any ideas what might be my problem? I'm using Netscape 4.76. Is there a mirror site that I could get the LDRAW software from? Thanks. Play well. Tim Strutt (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Blacktron Contest Entry: One Man Shuttle
 
(...) Haha, that's cool. I was about to submit a base plate with a 1x4 on it as a Category 6, but then someone went and built a base, so that saved me the trouble of rendering one. ~ Tom (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)
 
  ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM Winners for December 2001
 
Happy New Year! Hard to believe it's 2002 already.... The December winners in LDraw.org's Model & Scene Of The Month are: Anthony Sava - "Imagination Takes Flight" for the MOTM. Carsten Schmitz - "Diver's Treasure" for the SOTM. Great work by both. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !! 
 
  Ideas for press announcements for BricksWest 2002
 
Hello CAD folks, Does anyone have any ideas on publications (magazines, trade publications, web sites, etc.) where I can send press releases about the LDraw.org events at BricksWest 2002? Tim Courtney and I figure CADWire and Slashdot are good bets, (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
 
  LDraw.org 2001-03 Parts Update Now Available
 
[FUT lugnet.cad] Coming in just under the wire (it's currently 11:55pm), the final parts update for 2001 is now available. There are some 45 files in this release, including 25 new parts. Get it at (URL). Full details are available there. As usual, (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) ! 
 
  lgeo substitiution newbie question
 
hello I was surprised at how good the quality is but I have a problem 32009.dat has an extra hole and 6536 is 180degrees off I have uploaded some pics to better demonstrate my problem (URL) input would be appreciated (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: New posters on LegoTrainPoster-page
 
(...) Thanks for the suggestion! It's there now. (...) Did you look here: (URL) ? Oh, and it is in the "you need these" file ( (URL) ) and is called 2865.dat (...) Looking forward to your picture ;-) Pray for peace in 2002, Jeroen (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
 
  Re: New posters on LegoTrainPoster-page
 
(...) Outstanding poster. And thanks for the train set files as well. I do have a couple of questions. Do you have all of the dat files in a single zip file? Also, where did you get the dat file for the 9V train track? I can't seem to find that (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets, lugnet.loc.nl)
 
  Re: Castle wall 4444p03 with inverted pattern ??
 
(...) This part may be hand-painted or custom-painted. Damien (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Castle wall 4444p03 with inverted pattern ??
 
(...) The wall part included in set 6074 does not have the black lines pattern inverted. I have no idea where this auction part comes from. Damien (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Castle wall 4444p03 with inverted pattern ??
 
The yellow castle wall part in this auction (not mine) (URL) to have the black lines pattern inverted. Is this known or just a printing error? Chris (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
Don Heyse wrote in message ... (...) OK, that worked (putting it in the same directopry as the file I was working with). Not quite as convenient as it could be, but still better than adding lines to the dat file between MLCad and LDLite. Thanks for (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
(...) Right now it only looks in the current directory. Depending on how you launch ldlite this may be the directory with the main model file. Since this isn't as useful as it could be, I'm sure it'll be changed in a future release. There was some (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The Blacktron Arrow
 
Hi John, (...) Yes, the hoses are pretty cool I thought. I used a spreadsheet that I got from this webpage: (URL) not exactly sure whose web page it is, but the spreadsheet on it works well. Basically it uses a bezier curve function to calculate (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)
 
  Blacktron Contest Entry: One Man Shuttle
 
Hi, Here is my second entry for the Blacktron I space contest: (URL) is a small one man shuttle with 2 transport holds. It just fits into category I with either 49 or 50 pieces, depending on whether you count the minifig head/torso combo as one (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: LDRAW crash
 
Hello Ludo, (...) Sorry.. dont know that one. (...) runs (...) MLCAD ? Yes. It's a must. :( Play well Carsten (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: x191 & x192 part in the Parts tracker
 
Hello Ludo, (...) There (...) I am/Was the reviewer. It is a very nice part. IMHO the wire should be removed and made a subpart of it. This subpart should be very very short so that you can use a tool like the Emacs Bendable thingie Creater to model (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  x191 & x192 part in the Parts tracker
 
Hi, I looked to the parts tracker review for my posted parts x191 & x192. There seems to be an overlay error, and the reviewer * Deckard * thinks that i should remove the electric wire. I can do this verry easily, so this means also that both pieces (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  LDRAW crash
 
Hi, Two questions: 1) Can someone tell me why i get an ERROR 216 when starting LDRAW? The file gives no problem when i run it with L3LAB. The problem started when i copied part of my file to a new file, rotated the whole thing and copied back to the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
Don Heyse wrote in message ... (...) Yes, MLCad complains when you have a line like this in the file. It does still load the file but it chucks out the line when you save the file in MLCad. So if you're going to use this with MLCad you'll need to (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
Don Heyse wrote in message ... (...) This is great info Don! Is there a specific directory ldliterc.dat needs to go into? I've tried it in the ldraw and ldlite directories and ldlite doesn't seem to pay any attention to it, although putting the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Rick made a bus  [DAT]
 
Here is a bus I made. Tour style. It has been built in real life, viewable here... (URL) but my camera really stinks. =). I made it look better, by adding some more windows that i don't have =) It is completely buildable. I dont know about the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
 
  Re: The Blacktron Arrow
 
(...) S'Cool. Having done my entry in MLCAD/POVRay as well, I gotta ask: "How'd you do the hoses?" I was gonna add some (it doesn't seem completely BT1 w/o yellow hoses), but trying to build the things segment by segment caused much blurriness of (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
Tim Courtney wrote: [snip] (...) Please do! I've been wondering about how to do some of those things! ;-) --Ryan (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
(...) To get you started, here's a small piece of the puzzle for printing images (culled from several recent threads. This still needs work, perhaps some sample command lines containing the -w edge width values and -s scale values used by the pros (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Monorail Track
 
(...) I think you got the Y positioning right. Steve (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: LDraw Names for Monorail Parts
 
(...) Someone, at some time, was working on the 9V track. Looking at Tore's Temporary Parts Tracker page (URL), I see it's Ludo Sueto. :) Steve (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Changing the Edge Color
 
(...) memory!!!! Geesh. "Ldraw.ini does NOT control edge line color!!!" "Ldraw.ini does NOT control edge line color!!!" "Ldraw.ini does NOT control edge line color!!!" "Ldraw.ini does NOT control edge line color!!!" "Ldraw.ini does NOT control edge (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Changing the Edge Color
 
(...) For LDLite you can put the 0 COLOR lines in an ldliterc.dat file to use them with all your models. (But that won't help in MLCAD) Here's a recent thread on the subject. (URL)Sun (or anyone interested): (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Changing the Edge Color
 
(...) Well never mind. It was a false memory. Gyug told me about how to change edge colors in LDLite but I forgot. Sun (or anyone interested): try putting this in your .dat file 0 COLOR 4 0x4000000 0xcc 0x00 0x00 0xff 0xcc 0x00 0x00 0xff When LDLite (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Changing the Edge Color
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gp1x0A.Hnr@lugnet.com... (...) ldraw.ini (...) ldraw.ini is not documented to my knowledge, if it is, its documented in LDAO. To my understanding, LDAO installs ldraw.ini and other (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  New posters on LegoTrainPoster-page
 
Hi all, You can find a new photo in the gallery (of a 5 feet tall poster!) and 3 new posters (3 new in the new year) at (URL) very happy and peaceful 2002 for you all! Jeroen (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets, lugnet.loc.nl)
 
  Re: Changing the Edge Color
 
(...) Edge color is, I believe, specifiable in your ldraw.ini file. Once you have done that, some programs honor it and some do not. LDLite 2.x does, for example. I am not sure which other ones do or don't. MLCad does not use LDraw for rendering, it (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  marble rail mpd
 
I've uploaded a mpd of my creation I plan on makeing a animation in the future (URL) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Monorail Track (3rd Subpart)  [DAT]
 
0 ~Monorail Track Rack 4 Teeth Subpart 0 Name: MRT-Rck4.DAT 0 Author: Bernd Broich 2 24 -2.20122 -7 7.5 -1.70122 -7 7.5 2 24 -2.20122 0 7.5 -2.20122 -7 7.5 2 24 -2.20122 0 7.5 -1.70122 0 7.5 2 24 -3.65244 -7 4.5 -2.20122 -7 7.5 2 24 -3.65244 0 4.5 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: Monorail Track (2nd Subpart)  [DAT]
 
0 ~Monorail Track Rack 1 Tooth Subpart 0 Name: MRT-Rck1.DAT 0 Author: Bernd Broich 2 24 -0.25 -7 7.5 0.25 -7 7.5 2 24 -0.25 0 7.5 -0.25 -7 7.5 2 24 -0.25 0 7.5 0.25 0 7.5 2 24 -1.70122 -7 4.5 -0.25 -7 7.5 2 24 -1.70122 0 4.5 -0.25 0 7.5 2 24 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: Monorail Track (1st Subpart)  [DAT]
 
0 ~Monorail Track End Subpart 0 Name: MRT-End.dat 0 Author: Bernd Broich 1 16 10 10 -32 -1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 stud2.dat 1 16 10 10 32 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 -1 0 stud2.dat 1 16 16 25 -2.5 -4 0 0 0 -9.5 0 0 0 -4 1-4cyli.dat 1 16 16 25 -2.5 -4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -4 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Monorail Track  [DAT]
 
Here is the first Track, but there is a question about the Y orientation. Should it be on the top of the part (top of the rack), at the bottom or so like I done? (the bottom is at y: 25 LDU and the rack top at -7 LDU) Please give me some reply. 0 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Changing the Edge Color
 
I'll apologize in advance if this has already been discussed before . . . I'd like the change the edge color on my models in MLCad. Is this possible? I did a search though this newsgroup and the tenative answer I came to was that it was not possible (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
(...) I'd be willing to help out or write this up as soon as I figure out the logistics myself. I've been using Ldraw and MLCad for a little over a week now so there is still a lot of learning to be done, especially with the rendering programs. sun (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  The Blacktron Arrow
 
Hi all, Here is my entry for the blacktron I space contest: (URL) haven't posted much in .space before, and I don't own any blacktron I sets. For our local Parlugment meeting we had to build some sort of space MOC - so I decided to modify it (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
(...) Right on spot! ;-) Fredrik (raving mad) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
"blessing" <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:Gp05x8.Jx4@lugnet.com... (...) how (...) Yep. We don't want to start from the very beginning in each tutorial. They should build off of each other. This would be a step up from 'how to make my (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
"blessing" <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:Gp05FI.J6z@lugnet.com... (...) explain. (...) LOL :-) I haven't taken the time to read the animation/clock tutorials yet for POV...all I've done in it so far is mess with camera positioning and (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:GovBt3.LJv@lugnet.com... (...) point to POV's tutorials for more advanced topics) (...) I'll take that if I can assume that the person reading it already knows how to create the model. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:Gouuys.FA5@lugnet.com... (...) creating the file with l3p and then adding POVs clock function,by hand. if you don't know what the clock function is,its too hard for me to explain. :-) Gary (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: (Strange) error in POV-ray
 
Jeroen de Haan wrote... (...) Seems like POV thinks M4564a___dot_dat has already been defined as float...?!? Please post the M4564a_.dat or e-mail it to me, and I'll look into it. /Lars (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
(...) I'd like to (co)-write this one. Jeroen (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Tutorial Subject List (was: Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it)
 
"blessing" <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:Gous88.A17@lugnet.com... (...) write (...) Ok, here's a list of topics I think are needed for tutorials. If anyone can think of more, please post them here. - How to make images of your models (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
(...) I think Tim is right on this. LDAO's file management functionality is very handy for use with LDraw and LEdit, but it's not really a tool of choice for most Windows-people. *I* still use it that way (well, I use both LDAO and Windows (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
(...) Me too. But between Peeron, the improvements in MLCad's organizational scheme and just generally knowing the parts better I don't use it as much as I used to. But the VEC is a good thing for novices. (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GouxnK.Kyp@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) ways (...) My process is very similar to Larry's although I have a couple of Unix shell scripts thrown in the mix to do some (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
Tim, I'm no whiz with Ldraw, MLCad, POV-ray, or any of the other tools. I'm just a mid-30's guy who likes to mess around with this stuff. But, I do a fair amount of technical writing (user guides, SOP's, etc.) as part of my job. I'll volunteer my (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
(...) I don't know about everyone else but I do not. I work in MLCad (using an .mpd to keep it all together and organized but outputting .dat files as needed) until things are captured, then I use a variety of home made .bat files and command line (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
"blessing" <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:Gous88.A17@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) write (...) I probably know less than you do about POV animations. Anyways...I'll try to get that list out later today. Right now I have to run a few (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
*Scroll down please. Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:Gotzu5.D9G@lugnet.com... (...) Merry Christmas to you too!! <BIG! snip> (...) Well I'm still trying to learn all of this stuff too, but I'd love to write something for you. (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  (Strange) error in POV-ray
 
Hi, I'm trying to render a model using the following commandline in L3P: C:\L3P\L3P.EXE F:\trainpos\M4564a_.dat F:\M4564a_2.pov -cg0,90,0 -b1.000,1.000,1.000 -q3 -lgeo -o And with only this model (I rendered more with the same parameters) I get the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
 
"Eduardo Vazquez Harte" <eduvazhar@terra.es> wrote in message news:GouJ5F.J19@lugnet.com... Hi Eduardo - (...) stuff. (...) Sounds good. Let me know when you're ready via email. A note on how to best format them for me (for you and for everyone): (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)


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