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(...) Another suggestion is using the dash '-' and have an additional letter give some more information. a = adjacent p = parallel ... (more?) Niels (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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(...) *drool* I'm running it under Win2k, but with only 256mb RAM. Need to upgrade... not too familiar with prices though, and it's a laptop, so bound to be pricey. I'd love to upgrade the HD too...20 GB just ain't enough for my MP3 usage ;-) I've (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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You can get MLCAD's response time on refreshes to be much snappier by reducing the size of the 3D window. The isometrics don't take much processing power, even with large numbers of pieces. Also try running it under Win2k with lots'a ram. Win 98 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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Well, I am useless when it comes to prgraming, but I can pretend that I am performing a valuable service by reporting my findings for beta software. I started up LDraw Viewer 0.3.1 on a PowerBook G3 (FireWire), ATI(AGP) 128 bit Rage Mobility with 8 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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(...) I meant basically what you just said. Ldglite doesn't create a new copy of the part each time it is used; LDView does. I do this for various reasons, but I believe that when I go back and revisit those reasons now with the advantage of (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New primitive: chord.dat (not the final name)
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(...) Indeed. I was planning to do something similar myself. Hope it get's made official. (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts authoring status update (patterns, PATTERNS!)
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(...) I'm not done yet and probably won't be until January some time, because family obligations override parts authoring. But the logo is going to be a subpart so that it will be easy to include on any part. I plan on doing one version with just (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Parts authoring status update (patterns, PATTERNS!)
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(...) Wow, looks great! If you're done, you could create the 2x2 version as well, uses the same logo. I have recently uploaded the 2x2 version based on the old 1x2 version. Is it possible to make a six stud wide version? That would look great on the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not sure what you mean by this. Ldglite only creates one structure in memory per part file. It's quite frugal with the memory when you use the L3 Parser. Thanks, Lars. I think I've displayed datsville in ldglite on a PC with as little as (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | m7824 [DAT]
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Railway station 0 Railway Station 0 Name: m7824.ldr 0 Author: Chris Daelman <c.daelman@belgacom.net> 0 Official Repository Model 0 WRITE Step1 1 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3857.dat 1 7 640 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3857.dat 1 0 -150 -24 100 0 0 1 0 1 0 (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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(...) One of the first things I will probably try to do with LDView after I finally get 2.0 out the door is to work on its memory consumption. But first I have to figure out where all the memory is getting used. Doing some quick calculations based (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Guess what this is....
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(...) Right, now we know what it is, I can show you some progress on my next project: the storage box! A picture can be found on the address mentioned above. Niels (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) It would have been a nice character, but = is not allowed under MS-DOS The range of special characters possible with MS-DOS are: ! @ # $ % ^ & ( ) - _ { } : ' Which of these are HTLM friendly also ? With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It will take a long time to load and if you attempt to scroll the model in the windows it will take long to do that to. (...) Nobody knows as no one has every put MLCAD thru that test. Either in FILE SIZE or insize of parts in the model. I'm (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've got 512MB of RAM and when I run MLCad with some of my big files I make sure that NOTHING else (including background apps) are running. -AHui (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Bad links to homepage.mac.com
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FYI: there is a 10.2.3 update. OpenGL is updated to 1.4 in this release. Has anyone else updated and tried LdGLite? I haven't installed it and don't plan to until next week (by then www.macfixit.com should have a good list of problems associated (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) Yes - I think the original intent of # was 'in two parallel groups'. How about '='? That will work in a URL. It is almost like two '-'s. Chris (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New Part: 3622p03.dat - Brick 1 x 3 with Radio Pattern [DAT]
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I will not attempt to officialize this part, since I don't even own it. Dat file is made from a picture on Peeron.com. /Tore 0 Brick 1 x 3 with Radio Pattern 0 Name: 3622p03.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 10 4 0 1 (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) You R-ed C, Chris. Althought is't more correct to say that the missing edges are not *all* adjacent. But I'm a bit afraid that the dash and underscore charcters are to similar and could easely lead to confusion. Are there any other acceptable (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) Manfred Moolhuysen developed this naming convention and posted (probably to the old lcad list) in May 1998, but I cannot locate a copy right now. IIRC the # was intended to indicate that the missing edges were not adjacent (which is what the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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