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I've created a small web page showing you the basics of lsynth, some example pictures, and a zip with example LDR files that specify syhnthesis, as well as the program lsynth. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello Bernd, very nice done so far. Keep up the good work! Play well Carsten "Bernd Broich" <bernd.broich@online.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:H2xqo8.E5t@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hi all, here is the next one. I know there is the unofficial name "crocodile/dragon tail", but I think that this isn't as good as a name with only one of the two animals. Still to do the triangles at the peg and optional lines. 0 Animal Dragon Tail (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Wow, sounds pretty exciting! Thanks for the update, I can hardly wait! (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Here is an update on formalizing synthesis. For now, I'v decided to make the synhtesizer a stand alone program that runs at a command prompt like L3P. The program is called lsynth. It takes two command parameters: source LDR name amd destination LDR (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have posted a dat file to the PT for the new slotted and notched technic connector peg - as used on the fairing part from the Jedi speeder in Bounty Hunter Pursuit ((URL) This new primitive is available for all to use. (URL) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H2r5CJ.25A@lugnet.com... (...) - Make sure you don't have any lights on (you've probably already done this) - Play with the 'assumed_gamma' value (higher value, darker (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) To teach myself this system, I read the LDraw FAQ, as well as the comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ. I found those resources very useful. Fredrik (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello to everyone, I'm nearly done, well not 100% but nearly done as it can be use this new program "edraw" for making ldraw models "DAT LDR" well specially LDR as it is not planned to be for part authors "for now" but is for user that want to make (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Torso diagonal Edge [DAT]
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(...) y (...) 2.000000 Torso edge top pt (...) 29.000000 Torso edge bot bt (...) 27.000000 Differences (...) 0.17240740740740700000 (obviously excel ran out of precision there!) (...) 7.400000 (...) 12.800000 (...) 18.200000 (...) 23.600000 (...) (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Road repair set 0 Road repair set 0 Name: m6606.ldr 0 Author: C.Daelman <cdaelma@pi.be> 0 Official Repository Model 0 WRITE Step 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 3020.DAT 0 STEP 0 WRITE Step 2 1 0 -10 -8 -30 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4085A.DAT 1 0 10 -8 -30 1 (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: "Part Unknown!" warning, what does it mean
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(...) You should download and use the revised part: (URL) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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The pattern I am working on has a lot of fine detail that is pretty close to the edge. The large diagonal edge on each side is giving me some trouble... Just using one trapezoid from the top edge corner to the bottom (taking up the whole diagonal) (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Oh. You're right. I saw it as a brick rather than a slope. :o) /Tore (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) No, it should (and does) have the same orientation as other sloped parts: the primary slope faces the Z- axis. Steve (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: (number needed) - Slope Rounded Inverted 1 x 6
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Hehe, Mega-oops! Here's the correct header: 0 Slope Rounded Inverted 1 x 6 0 Name: ???.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Based on x464.dat by Franklin W. Cain (fwcain@yahoo.com) 0 Unofficial Element 0 BFC NOCERTIFY (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: How accurate need bricks to be?
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(...) Yes, this is the "rule" we try to apply - if the detail is functional, then it should be included, if decorative or an artifact of the moulding process then it may be ignored. So in your two examples, I would expect to see the small lugs on (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Where we stil have access to the sticker sheet I believe there was agreement to use the sticker sheet number with a one-letter suffix for each unique sticker on the sheet. Hence 168135a et seq submitted to the PT by Imre Papp. A brief review (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: #902 / Old parts
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(...) Alright, a crude mockup is posted at lugnet.cad.dat.parts. It should be quite useful, since when built in a model, the simplifications will be hard to discover. (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New Part Mockup: 3404b.dat - Turntable 4 x 4 Top, Old [DAT]
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0 Turntable 4 x 4 Top, Old (mockup) 0 Name: 3404b.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 14 -10 0 30 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 14 10 0 30 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 14 -30 0 10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 14 -10 0 10 1 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part Mockup: 3403b.dat - Turntable 4 x 4 Base, Old [DAT]
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0 Turntable 4 x 4 Base, Old (mockup) 0 Name: 3403b.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 14 0 12 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4-4edge.dat 1 14 0 24 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4-4edge.dat 1 14 0 12 0 4 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 4 4-4cyli.dat 1 14 0 12 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | LDraw.org will be unavailable the next hour or so
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Our electrician is going to work on the power systems for the LDraw.org server (and "a few" other servers), so the LDraw.org web site will be unavailable for the next hour or so. Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering...
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photoshop? autolevels... autocolors? -tk "Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H2r5CJ.25A@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Need help on delphi?
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Well I fix it myself but I how but is fixed Thanks all soon I'll show you all the cool editor powered by ldglite. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotation of Systems
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[X-posted to .mlcad] (...) While I can't help because of what Orion revealed here (I'm no programmer!), perhaps Michael Lachmann can help. I have discovered that a simple way to (as a user) rotate around one object's origin is to select the origin (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Lets try it with vectors. Calculate the vector V from the arm origin to the hand origin. Rotate this vector about the arm origin (by angle A) to generate vector W. Subtract V from W to generate displacement vector X. Add the displacement (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Here's a clarification of my question: I'm creating a minifig generator plugin for LDDesignPad (possibly a stand alone version as well). I'm having trouble rotating the arm,hand,tool assembly about the origin of the arm. Using an inline procedure (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I thought I'd throw my contribution into the frey: (URL) (Warning to modem users, 259K) Took about 45 minutes to render on my machine. One thing though, the colors seem to be "washed out". Is there anyway to fix this? -Orion (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Need help on delphi?
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Hello to all, Thanks to all for helping me before still need help I made this thing to sum position and add pluss -20 LDU but I can make it work 100% something is wrong can someone check it and tell me how to fix it? XXXXXX DELPHI CODE XXXXXX begin (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: #902 / Old parts
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yup! that's exactly the piece i was missing. oh dear now that i looked around a little there's still all those old large vehicles i wanted to finish (3xx) hm and the old long train carriages. well if someone does piece 902 theres alot of files (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Rotation of Systems
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To make rotation work like you want, you have to move the group to the origin of the MLCAD space, rotate the group, then relocate the group to where it started. Kevin (...) figuring (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D bleeda
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In this build, dragging is in full color (not blue.) A new feature is another color palette window: choose the color for a part by dragging it through a color swatch. Duplicate (Cmd-D) is implemented but not great. Still can't drag *out* of a model (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering... (need new l3p)
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(...) Yes, I really appreciate that Lars C Hassing contacted the POV-Ray forum for new ideas to improve the renderings. By the way, has anybody tried to combine the "new style" rendering with the edge detection concept in MEGA-POV? Perhaps that (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Rotation of Systems
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(...) How about this? s.origin = singlepart.origin For (each part) diff.origin = part.origin - s.origin part.origin += diff.origin rotate part about part.origin part.origin -= diff.origin Scribble the movement on paper and see if it works. I think (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering... (need new l3p)
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(...) Gotta love the radiosity pics! So the big question now is how close is the next release of l3p? You know, the one that supports all this on the command line with -ib -ie -il and -ci as mentioned in this thread. (URL) can't wait. Don (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Rotation of Systems
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(...) Actually, I am wanting to know how to do this programmatically (i.e. with rotation matricies) -Orion (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: #580 / Old parts
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(...) You must mean these ones, don't you? (URL) started out on modelling it, but for some reason I put it aside. I even broke one of my old dear ones in order to make the inside correctly! :-o /Tore (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: How accurate need bricks and patterns to be?
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(...) I agree with your orientation and part numbering and also with the de- scription. This should be an impulse to make a convention for naming and orientation of Stickers. Another problem is, how I can find out the part number when I have used (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Rotation of Systems
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(...) Put the system of parts in a sub-model, with the origin at the point of rotation, then include the sub-model and rotate that. HTH ROSCO (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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<snip> (...) </snip> hi the old turntable was one of the first parts i missed as can be seen in this old version of the number 4 blueprint www.tu-bs.de/~y00076...uepr04.gif (the poor guy cant move his arms) and i made set 604 when i noticed the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: How accurate need bricks and patterns to be?
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(...) Hi Dave, That's me who wrote the quoted statements when I started to model some stickers. Then I have made some sample pictures ((URL) L3p and Pov-Ray and I detected the same seam [:-)]problem you have mentioned. Now my stickers are .25 LDU (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Rotation of Systems
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I've been puzzling with this for days and I give up. Here's my problem: I can rotate a single part about it's origin but I'm having trouble figuring out how to rotate a system of parts about the origin of a given part in the system. Can someone (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering...
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Ooohh let's see! (...) I thought I was a big man w/ a 1.0 GHz PC! (...) hhhhmmmm don't know what that means but I look forward to it! (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | New Part: (number needed) - Slope Rounded Inverted 1 x 6 [DAT]
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0 Slope Rounded Inverted 1 x 6 0 Name: x464inv.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain (fwcain@yahoo.com) 0 Unofficial File 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 -50 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 16 -30 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 16 -10 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering...
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Here's some renders I've done as a result of this thread: (URL) render times ranged from 1.5 to 3.5 hours on a 1.7 GHz PC. I'm slowly working on an include file for color definitions. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Stickered parts again (Was: How accurate...)
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I don't know of there is any "status" of this old discussion; if any consensus ever has been reached in any point. Anyway, here's my idea. A sticker should be a separate part file. You may want to stick it in a creative or humanized* way. A shortcut (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: How accurate need bricks and patterns to be?
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(...) Here's something I've been batting around in my head, but I don't know if it's consistent with the sensibilities of the LDraw community, nor if it is really compatible with the existing software. Using your idea #1 from above, might we create (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego Designer Software
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I bought it tried it, did't like it, sent it back, and after a hefty restocking fee exchanged it for some spare parts. The reason I didn't like it was no import or export functions I also found it doubtful that lego will ever release any new part (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: How accurate need bricks and patterns to be?
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(...) I'll defer to Steve for final ruling but here are my thoughts: Ask yourself the following question: Does the portion I'm leaving out detract from functionality of the part? This question applies especially to the "fins" that you show concern (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego Designer Software
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(...) Lego Designer 1.0 works amazingly well for a first version. It's Help can get you started. It has a few problems and could use some more tips. Let me know if you want my long list of problems and suggestions sent to Pitsco several months ago. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta)
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| | How accurate need bricks and patterns to be?
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Hello, I have a couple of questions about the accuracy of bricks for LDraw. I have put my questions along with images to make clear what I mean on my website: (URL) an overvieuw of the bricks I am working on: (URL) there anyone that can answer my (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering...
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Just to add that I made my pictures with L3P parts. Started a picture with LGEO parts over an hour ago, and it's still only on line 129 of 480. No traces of any black spots yet, though. I don't want to think about doing this rendering with (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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"Eduardo Vazquez Harte" <eduvazhar@terra.es> skrev i meddelandet news:H2nHw2.GBC@lugnet.com... (...) edits. (...) const CtrlAndSpace = [#0..#32]; var s: string; p, q: integer; begin s := ListBox1.Items[ListB...temIndex]; p := 1; while (p < (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MOC: Another Escher Picture - Ascending and Descending [DAT]
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(...) I love these Escher sculptures! Make more please. I suspect the secret to this one is all in the upper right corner. A quick attempt to approximate it with LDRAW ends up like this. 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4186.DAT 1 7 470 0 420 0 0 1 0 1 0 (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Orientation of part x464.dat
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I strongly suggest that it should be the same orientation as 3009.dat /Tore (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: "Part Unknown!" warning, what does it mean
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(...) Thanks, Damien! It looked like they were rendering OK, but I just wasn't sure. James (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LPub - LEGO Publication made easy!
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(...) I am having a problem. The first time I used it, I just opened a .dat file, generated instruction images, and although it took a while, everything worked just fine. After that I created both times of webpages. Then, I thought, hey, I should (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering...
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Hello, this is my first time posting in this group. I just wanted to say that I have been looking around at some of these images and all of them are just fantastic. So real looking! Really really impressive. I would like to make a point of keeping (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Rendering of a Bryce Rollins model
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Maybe I'm not an impartial viewer but that looks really nice. I like how you've given the part borders a nice thick line. For some reason that gives it an appealing look - sort of like a polygonal CGI model with cel shaded textures. Also, kudos for (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Thunderbots! Success at Robocup!
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Hi all, Recently, Thunderbots won the Robocup Junior Event. Could anyone do up a cad picture and send it over? There are pictures in the photo gallery! Click here (URL) Au (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LD4DModeler 1.0 Beta 3
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Oops, I just discoverd I forgot to upgrade the sample projects to Beta 3, this causes some minor loading problems. I will upgrade them later today and repack and upload the install as soon as posible. Roland (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Rendering of a Bryce Rollins model
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Just finished some renders of Bryce Rollins' SH-60. Coloration may be off from his z-renders but it's pretty close. All of Bryce's models are great, but I thought he really captured the feeling and flair of the SH-60 Seahawk. Anyway have a look: (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: "Part Unknown!" warning, what does it mean
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(...) Hi James, Don't worry. "Part Unknown" in MLCad only means the part is not in the ldraw/parts directory. So even official draw primitives are "Part Unknown" because they are in ldraw/p directory. Otherwise primitives display correctly and no (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | LD4DModeler 1.0 Beta 3
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It took me, again serveral, months to get to a stable new Beta version of LD4DModeler. But I think it's worth the wait. LD4DModeler 1.0 Beta 3 is now available on my website at: (URL) of most important new features: Visibility control over models (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) If you don't want to use the ExtractStrings function then do this: StringList := TStringList.Create; i := 1; String1 := ''; String2 := ListBox.Items[ListBo...temIndex]; while i <= Length(String2) do begin if String2[i] <> ' ' then begin (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) Hi Eduardo, Have you considered asking the nice folks on the delphi newsgroup? (URL) might have better luck with this sort of question if you ask them. I suspect only a small percentage of the readers of the lugnet.cad.dev group know a whole (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Vector-graphic Octan logos (text and yin-yang)
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(...) I'm sorry but English isn't my first language and trying to explain this in words isn't as good as seeing it. So, please surf to (URL) click anatomy and then measurements. hopefully this is more clear... Jeroen (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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I need to know how can I pass a selected Listbox item to a lets say 4 edits. Example user clicks on a item an then delphi passes the 4 words in the current item to 4 edits a word in each edit. Can someone help me plase. I hope is not with (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering...
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"Coby Bassett" <coby@tubafrog.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H2LqHH.Hzo@lugnet.com... (...) test (...) pieces. (...) Hmm, I've made some tests too, but not seen anything like what you describe. Veeerrryyy slow to render with radiosity, though, and a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | "Part Unknown!" warning, what does it mean
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I have not delved much into the inner workings of parts, but I'm using Thomas Burger's x814 6x6 "bubble" windscreen in a model. I took his file and included it in my MPD as another part. When I view the part (or open the x814.dat file by itself), (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Vector-graphic Octan logos (text and yin-yang)
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(...) ZZZZZOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!! That's the sound of most of what you wrote zipping over my head! But, if I understand you correctly, I'll go back to the original "Octan" text I have (found at the US Trademark/Patent office by searching for Lego, BTW) (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Vector-graphic Octan logos (text and yin-yang)
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(...) {snip] Looks good! I'm an expierenced Illustrator user and I know how difficult it is to draw smooth curves like that. Hats off! If I may you give some tips on typography: round letters (O,S,G, and the round parts of a,b,c etc) are a bit under (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Vector-graphic Octan logos (text and yin-yang)
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(...) Thanks, Horst! That "c" gave me lots of trouble. Most of the other characters are based on a "standard" typeface, with some modification, but the "c" is completely free-lance. It's apparantly not based on ellipses, and that made it difficult. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Maersk parts & national flag
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Yes, this Maersk logo is also very nice. We have to add it to some parts. Rene (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering...
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Here's a little followup about my experimentation (along with a new test image-> (URL) ). My festivities have hit a big snag when I tried using transparent pieces. I guess these pieces send the radiosity rays ascattering, creating a tremendous load (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Vector-graphic Octan logos (text and yin-yang)
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Hello James, Thanks for publishing these! (...) Seems the C is slightly too large. Other than that, close to perfect, I would say. Greetings Horst (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Handling of file name case in LDView (Was: *** LDView Version 1.9.7 Released ***)
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(...) Then that link should be from a directory under the user's home directory. On my systems it is "root" who owns the LDraw parts library files, and the other users can only read them. (...) That depends on the file system, but it is generally a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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Not sure where to post this... I have recently completed vector graphic versions of the Octan logos, both the text and the “yin-yang.” Until they are moderated, here are some GIF versions of the files: Smaller (25kB) (URL) (62kB) (URL) the files are (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
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Thanks for this pointer. I contacted Koen and he has gaciously donated his code to the synthesis effort. The results on his website are stunning. Going straight to triangles provides a much more finished looking result. This will work very well for (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just from the central shield. Only enough detail to see the white dots on top of the 5 blue besants (?). I think the present pic shall suffice for the instant, thanks for the offer. (...) ! (...) I'm not that old either, eh!? :-P Pedro (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.loc.pt)
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(...) I hope to see all the three flags as official parts soon on LDraw parts update ! ;) Thanx again ! Rene (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: A few question about editing in MLCad
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Øyvind Steinnes writes: I perceive Question 2 as a general LDRAW format issue not limited to MLCAD. I'm adding support for this and related issues to LPub (my automatic building instruction generator). The format looks like (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks! (...) You want a bigger rendering? (...) If you go here: (URL) you can download the dat-file. It is a cool 350kb. It is made in BMP2DAT and uses a 5 pixels = 1 ldraw unit ratio. On the same page you can see the flag of Liechtenstein (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts [DAT]
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(...) Steve, Thanks for the high level guidance. It is welcomed and appreciated. (...) Yes. Of course. I've set a few of my own goals also. An example of what I'm thinking about now is: 0 SYNTH BEGIN ELECTRIC_CABLE 1 0 -348 -114 70 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It is one of the best renderings of a portuguese flag I've seen (BTW, can you send me the original pic? PLUG is tring to depict the shield in its logo, but so far our efforts have been in vain :-/ ) There is one *official* portuguese flag in (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Look here... (URL) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | LDraw Torso Generator
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I'm not quite sure where to post this. I'm working on a program that opens an image file and generates an LDraw torso based on it. It's not ready for release yet, but there's some pictures that demonstrate the results on my page. Right now the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Printable Partsref
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Sorry about the late reply, but thanks! Peace and Long Life, Tony Alexander (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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I'm going to mostly stay out of this discussion for now. I will throw out a few suggestions/requirements, though: 1. The final definition should be renderable by ldraw.exe. 2. It might be a good idea to put each 'synthesizable part' in its own file (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D bleeda
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Version 0.3 has been revised again. Parts in parts list drag to model in color (useful). They drag out as full lines of DAT (not much use). No dragging from model view. Betta than the last build (not all are.) (URL) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: keep it up
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(...) Yeah, but do you want to hear about them? Chris :) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) Here's a better way (I think, I haven't tested it yet); Use ExtractStrings as stated above and change the string you want to change. Then set the Delimter Property to ' ' set the QuoteChar Property to '' use the DelimitedText property to (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.7 Released ***
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H2JHFL.J55@lugnet.com... (...) So use the possibilities of the unix file system to your advantage - the first time you find a file the hard way, create a _link_ to it, with your (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) Sorry I do understand is only that I don't like the ansewr. But I'll see what I can do. (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I suspect your problem was that you were confused by the technical jargon of "Bend Thingie." 8^) Dave! (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes! That's the one! Good to know my memory hasn't *completely* gone soft in my old age... <grin> JohnG, GMLTC (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
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(...) This? (URL) Dave! (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you didn't understand what he wrote, then you would probably find it a lot less frustrating to spend some more time learning how to use Delphi, and programming techniques in general. I've never (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Iterative solving requires a model and a way to compute how far it is from a desired state and a way to compute how to take a tiny step toward the desired state. You loop over tiny steps, updating the model, until either X steps are taken, the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.7 Released ***
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(...) That's a good idea, but since LDView caches files after reading them, it will only ever check for any particular file once. So I don't think this will help. It might help, though, since I would essentiall scan the entire LDraw parts directory (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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