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(...) My first glance opinion -- it rocks, Baby! -- Hop-Frog (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks... I am having trouble with these instructions, maybe I'm not running the right versions of things? I have LDAO 2.1.8 and L3Lab 1.2. I'm not sure what the autofresh option is... when I launch LDAO editor on my part, I set the viewer to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New part, need pattern #: Shield Ovoid with Bull's Head Pattern [DAT]
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The colors for this look pretty good for LDView and L3P/POV, but not too good with MLCad. Andy 0 FILE 770bull.dat 0 Minifig Shield Ovoid with Bull Head Pattern 0 Name: 770bull.dat 0 Author: Andrew Westrate 0 Unofficial Element 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 1 (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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A couple of notes about this piece: I don't know if "Kettle Helm" is even close to being correct, so name suggestions are welcome. I left out the notch at the back of the neck, because it was easier to do with primitives and didn't seem too (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Rotating and Aligning Elements in MLCad
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Hey Y'all: I know this is answered elsewhere, but it's a hassle to look for. As great as MLCad is (for me it is "THEE" CAD tool for LDraw action), the documentation is just not there in some ways. Recently I had cause to mess with an angled element (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D bleeda
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(...) I bit the bullet and created a 'string' object for every line recently. (...) yeah, just to parse a line of DAT takes multiple inheritance now. AND there is a weird "result" class you must supply with methods MakeComment, MakeLine, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D bleeda
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(...) Hopefully this is a more sensible challange than some of the causes I've adopted. DOS versions? What was I thinking? Every now and then I still have to fight the urge to waste more time on that one. (...) Gotta love those trusty old C string (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Preview of a new ldraw editor "sort of"
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(...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Preview of a new ldraw editor "sort of"
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I decided to release a preview on what I'm making so far is called edraw is a new editor for making LDR files with a new system powered by ldglite it uses ldglite's off-screen system so is not real time but I belive it will allow PC's with litle (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite sourcing STDIN not working under Windows 2000?
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(...) I suppose that's as good a reason as any. Actually It's kinda neat to finally find a compelling reason for the single pass, render as you go, ldlite parser. Pipes are just too cool! On the other hand, the user won't be able to spin the model (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite sourcing STDIN not working under Windows 2000?
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(...) Hmm. Supplying '--' does make a difference, but only in the error messages I get. :) (...) I was going to poke around with making a utility that would give the user a file polygon-by-polygon, and have them respond with whether the winding was (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D bleeda
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(...) I take that as a challenge! actually dragging a group is frightening but I think I can just do it (graphically) right now I've got no color support whatsoever - everything is blue. (...) I see strlen() and strtok() are still with us. I must (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Well I suppose I could say the problem is on the side of the keyboard where your chair is, but that wouldn't be completely true. According to the readme.txt file you need to give ldglite the -- command line option to use stdin. However I'm (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D bleeda
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(...) What's a "bleeda"? Bleeding edge? If you really want to keep up with the bleeding edge, you're gonna have ta support dragging in a nicely colored set of parts from a peeron inventory page. Heh, heh! Take a peek at the latest main.c and (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Has anyone gotten the Windows version of ldglite to read from standard input? When I do something like: type \ldraw\parts\3001.dat | ldglite I expect ldglite to render a 2x4 brick. Instead, ldglite reports that it can't find file " ". Anyone have (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.7 Released ***
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(...) My LDraw code used "P/" and "PARTS/" when looking for parts and primitives, so those had to be upper case in order to work. I think everything else generally needed to be lower case. The new test version I posted a link to in the other message (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Detemining Bad Vertex Sequence
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(...) Right. There are definitely situations in ldraw parts that won't fit the nice all-polygons-in-a-mesh model. That's why I said that auto-rewind should be an 'option'. Meaning, the user can turn it off. Although for a part to be BFC compliant, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Detemining Bad Vertex Sequence
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(...) Well, my program does exactly this when it finds the correct winding of one polygon. (...) Well, I remember this thread, where Leonardo said that it created such a program: (URL) It's a long and old thread, so, search for the word "green" two (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.7 Released ***
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(...) I have put a test version of the LDView Linux executable in the following location: (URL) executable supports arbitrary case in filenames on case-sensitive file systems. It does seem to load files much faster if the LDraw directories are made (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not so sure this is completely true because we allow overlapping and intersecting polygons. In fact, there is nothing which prevents a single polygon face from being partly on the outside and partly on the inside. You can't automagically (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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