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(...) You can do this with existing tools, here are a couple of ways. They're manual, but not as bad as doing it by hand.... 1. Open the file in Excel (or some other spreadsheet). Use formula cells to calculate the new component values. Replace the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2618.dat Auqanaut Bubble Base (Updated)
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Orion, Can you rotate the part 90 degrees around the X axis? The current orientation is ... unprecedented. :) Steve (...) [snip] (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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(...) Make a one line file for each of them that scales by 0.64, and then use the inliner to pass the scale through to the part. eg. Make this: 1 16 0 0 0 0.64 0 0 0 0.64 0 0 0 0.64 knexpart.ldr Then run an inliner and save the results. (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: P and Parts directory WHY?
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(...) I felt sure that this info should be in the FAQ somewhere, but I couldn't find it easily. The main reason is historical - it is the way that James organised the files for the original LDraw/LEdit programs. But it does serve to segregate DAT (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 3ds export to 3D STUDIO MAX.
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(...) Each piece will be a separate mesh. Leonardo (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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[trimmed .cad.mlcad from newsgroup list] (...) Those DAT files are kind of a mess. Besides all going into one directory, they aren't marked as to what files are usable parts, and which are subfiles. Even worse, they're buggy. :( In a different (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: P and Parts directory WHY?
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(...) \parts\ is for files which represent actual lego elements. \p\ is for objects (called "primitives", even though they are really macros) which are broadly useful in constructing parts. (...) \p\48\ is for primitives with greater (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | P and Parts directory WHY?
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Why does Ldraw have a P and Parts directory? Furthermore why does the P have a 48 sub-directory and the Parts have a S sub-directory? I'm just curious as to the need for all these directories and sub-directories? What happens find I just lump all (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Part - Brick 2 x 2 Round with Buttons Pattern
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(...) That looks very good to me - well done. Another part I can remove from my box of "I'll get around to authoring that sometime" parts. Chris (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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(...) I have a little Tim Courtney voodoo doll on my desk happily surrounded by MegaBloks and TYCO Superblocks--eventually, the spell will take hold... In the meantime, the clone.dats unzip to the appropriate sub-directories, following the example (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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(...) Thanks for your interest! Keep your eye on O.T.Clones for another update around the end of the month. And if you want to make some parts, please do! Dave! FUT OT.Clones only (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Optimising piece use (Was: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM voting for March is open)
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(...) I spent some time thinking about this yesterday. If we look at the problem of substituting the 1×1 plates with larger pieces as an optimisation problem, then we have to define a good "energy function" to describe the quality of various piece (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Lining Up parts in mlcad.
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Lining Up parts in mlcad How???? Like wheels and axles and stuff liek that. (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | New Part: x744.dat - Technic Gear 42 Tooth [DAT]
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0 Technic Gear 42 Tooth 0 Name: x744.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Element 0 CATEGORY Technic 0 KEYWORDS gear, pre-technic, Samsonite 0 CMDLINE -c4 0 Samsonite is registered trademark of Samsonite, Inc 1 16 9 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part - Brick 2 x 2 Round with Buttons Pattern [DAT]
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I found it in Set No 6394 - Service Station CU Bernd 0 Brick 2 x 2 Round with Buttons Pattern 0 Name: 3941p01.dat 0 Author: Bernd Broich 0 Unofficial part 0 Original Part 1 16 -10 0 -10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 16 -10 0 10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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This single directory zip file doesn't seem to be a problem for MLCAD at least. I just made a new sub-directories under /PARTS and called them KNex & Sploids. I didn't want them to show up in the parts listing so this works well for me. I can't (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Error in Technic axle extender?
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(...) That's the beauty of the Ldraw parts library (and open-source in general) - when it matters enough, it'll get done 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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Carsten and other Delphi programmers, I wish I could make some calculations in my K'nex part files to bring them all down to standard LDraw scale (right now they are much larger compared to the Lego parts). I would like to multiply all the points in (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Error in Technic axle extender?
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(...) What was the resolution on this? Any hope of getting a version that matches the "new" one? Usually you can just fudge it by rotating 45 degrees anyway, but once in a while it matters. (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 2618.dat Auqanaut Bubble Base (Updated) [DAT]
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Thanks to Carston for his helpful post. For some reason LDDesignPad didn't list any errors. I had to run L3P in DOS mode. Anyway, here's the updated DAT, L3P error free. -Orion 0 Aquanaut Bubble Base 0 Name: 2618.ldr 0 Author: Orion Pobursky 0 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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