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Thanks, Do you have an example, url?, of this?. Because it's way better then the backup plan I was having, Namely: Tempary replacing the main ini file of povray where it holds the menu driven queue of pov files. Still better than restarting, focus (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Why Type 5 Lines?
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(...) The obvious case where it's useful is studs - without these lines, viewing any brick from the standard "oblique" position above & to the side, you would see a circle at the top & bottom of each stud, but no sides, which IMHO would not look (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was having the same problem you are Ross, but when I tried this suggestion: (URL) is fine! By the way, I never saw this register file types alert until I switched to XP. On Win98, this was asked once when I first installed the program and (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Note that it sets the path OK in the registry, it just checking the registry entry on startup that fails. ROSCO (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) After a tip-off from Jamie O'brien, I've confirmed that the problem is that I have spaces in the path to MLCAD (I have it installed in c:\program files\mlcad on both PCs). When I put it in a path without spaces, it works fine. ROSCO (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Why Type 5 Lines?
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(...) Well, I believe that there is something called a 'Z offset' that can be used not to actually move the geometry, but to make sure the lines appear 'on top' of the faces. Before I go more into this I need to back up a bit. I currently use the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Why Type 5 Lines?
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(...) I'm curious to. Everything I know about how OpenGL works says that drawing the strip as a wireframe after drawing it solidly would either produce Z Buffer noise, no wireframe at all, or wireframe all over. However, it may be that there is some (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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See: (URL) I've posted a minor update to LDAO. I fixed the Inliner, so it will work for everyone, regardless of their regional settings. And there are some more display items in the Editor window. There certainly aren't as many changes as there (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why Type 5 Lines?
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(...) Tell more about this. I just tweaked a version of ldview to display type 5 lines, but only for surfaces that haven't been replaced by quad strips. It looks good with primitive substitution turned off, but with this automagic wireframing of (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Auto changing of the Name block in a .DAT/.LDR file
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On the implementation list for the next version :-> Michael (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Alert box request
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On the implementation list for the next version :-> Michael (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Registering file types
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Ok I'll check that ... Michael (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Some pov-ray questions
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(...) On second thoughts, you can do this in POV-Ray, without the use of a .BAT file. What you need to do is simply to make a dummy .POV file in which you put an indexed table of your 1500 .POV files. Then you put som code into this dummy file which (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) So, what do you think we should do? Several subparts for every new pattern? CU Bernd (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Why Type 5 Lines?
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(...) I believe that there are other ways to put these lines in, as long as you are *only* planning on using them to show the 'visible' edge of a curved surface. This is actually a question I've been meaning to ask around here, Have type5 lines been (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: question on a model
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(...) Sorry - no can do the ldraw option. However, if you email me your mailing address (my hotmail address is fine to use), I will mail you a copy of the instructions I used to build it. - Bob (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) First, make a plain version of the part, and call it 6092.dat. For LDraw, we always include a plain version of parts, even if LEGO never released the part without a pattern. (...) Once you've got a plain 6092.dat, copy the file to 6092p01.dat. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Female Ldraw Parts
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(...) In general, save the files to C:\ldraw\parts\, with the extension .DAT. In MLCAD, use File | Scan Parts to make sure MLCAD knows about the file(s) you downloaded. For other programs, run the utility c:\ldraw\mklist.exe to rebuild the parts (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) bob you may be my only hope! can you make instructions in ldraw? (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) guido, chech your mail (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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