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Sorry this is so long. If you don't want to read the whole, at least scan to the end, and read the final paragraph! (...) Nothing. Following prior standards has to do with using 'towball socket'. Saving 3 characters seems less important to me than (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | POV-Ray user-friendly use
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Heya all, I just created USS-Constellation in MLCad and I want it render in POV-Ray. But it's not very userfriendly soft. ;) I wanna ask if there is some utility or upgrade for POV-Ray so I don't need everytime to add new coordinates for position, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGLite orientation matrix (l3p enhancement requests?)
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Jacob recently asked for an ldglite enhancement to dump ldglite command line args and POV camera settings which reproduce the current view. I assume he means l3p compatible camera settings. I think I have it working (except for my question about the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | DAT files to Bryce 5???
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Is their a way to convert DAT files into Bryce 5 for rendering??? RIck (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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(...) Now THAT is a good question. My first instinct is a resounding yes. But it turns out that it's never (that I can find) come in a TECHNIC set! :-) (The 2x2 brick with (side) peg has) -- joshua (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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(...) I'd like them to be categorized as the part is used, for the most part, rather than with a hyper-technical over-engineered approach. The steering rod is (to me, personally), a steering rod before it's a technic axle with ball sockets. When I (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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(...) What does associating the two parts have to do with using the term "ball socket" over the longer "towball socket"? There's the additional issue here of the two "standards" of ball-socket, the original style (see the steam shovel bucket), and (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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(...) But 'towball socket' is the LDraw-ish term for that connection. One of the problems with associating these two parts is their end-connection holes are different, and it's hard to tell that from the pictures. (...) That's the problem. And the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | looking for Michel Brachmond
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Hi, Can someone ask Michel Brachmond (from Germany?) to contact me direct? He posted some very nice models on Brickshelf and I want to ask him something. Oh, and please don't follow up this mail! Thanks, Jeroen (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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(...) I have no reason to believe that this is not more correct than my understanding, so let's go with "Technic Tie-Rod". That is probably the best solution. (...) It's a hard question! Bricks that are "modified" in some way are normally called (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Admittedly, it's a bit early in the morning over here, but I can't understand wether you mean that you want the parts to be categorized after the the type of part, or in what kind of set it appears the first time! *boggle* What about the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | My first MOC in 3D
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Well, I decided to test the waters in the LDRAW and related software community finally. I've created a 3D model of my latest MOC Train Car as an initial test. I'll try to find a picture to scan of the actual model. I don't have a digital camera yet, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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[Apologies for replying to my own post...] (...) A quick check of peeron reveals that set 4215, from 1998, did contain the camel head and the subject element (albeit in blue), and that was the same year as the release of 8462 (also having it in (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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(...) I like it too, though I think "Towball socket" is a too-long way to say "ball socket". (...) How to determine if it's TRULY a Technic item though? Personally (and I'm apparently in the minority here), I want my part names to work for me (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Horse parts in the parts tracker
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Sorry to reply to myself, I forgot a couple of things (or 1 thing, repeated a few times). For all of the decorated parts (listed below), you might add a new line to the header (between the 'unofficial element' line and the first command line) like: (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Horse parts in the parts tracker
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(...) Thanks for doing this. I apologize for not posting the files when you sent them to me. :( This is an amazing undertaking. 27 files, 12 different parts, and 382Kb of data! I don't remember who worked on which parts. Tore started the horse (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Horse parts in the parts tracker
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"Damien Guichard" <damien.guichard@wanadoo.fr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Gpn5J2.Bu7@lugnet.com... (...) I resized the 48/1-4ring.dat to fit the lo-res one. Therefore I also refit the s/4492s.dat. (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | BricksWest 2002 Schedule Updated - Mecha, MindStorms and Microfig...OH MY!
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Hi folks! I wanted to let you all know that, thanks to the much appreciated dedication some of your fellow AFOL, BricksWest has been able to add several new sessions to our event schedule. Remember, BricksWest is a completely fan run event, so it is (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build) !!
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| | Re: I have a new idea and a new animation - 2nd release VCD Edition town
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Yes sorry your right about it (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I have a new idea and a new animation - 2nd release VCD Edition town
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(...) The first file should have the.rar extension, shouldn't it? (URL) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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