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(...) I recently went over some old primitives and brought them up to BFC certification. I found it very handy to have the flexibility of doing it whichever way had more "correct" surfaces. It wouldn't be so bad if Notepad had the ability to reverse (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Part: 3001p59.dat - Brick 2 x 4 with Shell text
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(...) Hm, I've got at least 2 other versions of the white 2x3 with "police" printing in different fonts, plus a "police" 1x6 (or is it a 1x8?) And both varieties of 1x6 shell bricks I have use a different font from those as well. Looks like it's (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: 3001p59.dat - Brick 2 x 4 with Shell text
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(...) Shell icon pattern ID (60). When I originally looked, 59 seemed like a good ID number. I don't remember my logic for picking it, though (perhaps because it *was* being used elsewhere). Perhaps the icon/text combination needs a distinct number (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] More BFC Primitives
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Hi Travis, (...) Well I don't know that I thought it would be 'minimal' effort. I'll bet it would be a lot of work for parts that are already done. I did think that it wouldn't be that bad for new parts, because I figured the author knows best what (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] More BFC Primitives
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(...) Despite being the author of a rendering program, I agree with this whole-heartedly. Each rendering program only has to get it right once, during the initial coding. If we make it easier for the program, but harder for part authors, the part (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Enhancement request - File dialogs
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Good hint - thank you I was just about to forget about that ... just have to read the docs how to do it, but you are definitly right. Michael "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GuE3I7.Fy4@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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(...) Cool! If you can clearly show where you make the changes, I might be able to port this back into the other versions. I've never been all that happy with the rendering speed myself. You can see in the code where I tinkered a bit with display (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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(...) "marking up" would be better done by machine algorithm, and would encompass the Connection Point proposal at the same time. It would indeed yield a separate definition of the parts. A lot of high-end CAD programs read polygons (like we have) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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(...) Maybe I'm missing a technical distinction, but it seems he used bounding boxes *for* collision detection, as opposed to using exact volumes. (...) True. My point was, marking up the LDraw part files for volume decomposition would either: a) Be (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Enhancement request - File dialogs
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(...) Before you write one from scratch, try using the file save dialog to do directory selection. It's a common trick. The file save dialog has more features, including a pastein path bar, and you just check what's returned to make sure it's a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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