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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H7JwBt.7t1@lugnet.com... (...) Perhaps L3P could collect all the edge lines during part generation, but defer the output until the complete model has been generated, and then write (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Parts authoring status update (patterns, PATTERNS!)
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(...) Take your time, don't hurry because of me, I can wait... I just noticed some differences between the old logo (open O) 2x2 brick and the newer logo (closed O) 2x2 brick. If I look at the topside of the brick having the 'Lego' text on the studs (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This is really cool. Quicktime VR has always been a nice thing to see and look around in, and now Lego models can be seen within it! Great job, I hope others will take notice and attempt to create more Quicktime VR files of neat MOCs. (By the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) First, I don't think that it is related to the "smooth triangle" algorithm, because this is independent of the scale of the triangles, it only deals with their surface normals. The basic problem is, that there is no such thing as a line in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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A short note to say that Ldraw Viewer 0.4 is now at my .Mac site, homepage.mac.com/aal...GLite.html Enhancements include, ability to change part visibility, direct editing of parts and a 256 level undo. Also several reported bugs have been quashed (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Christopher, (...) Amazing! - Did you have "Back Face Culling" turned on on the Carbonversion? (...) I have included 47 for clear and the other number for transparent red, however according to www.ldraw.org, clear colour numbers are obtained by (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: *** Start celebrating .... NOW
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Hi Michael, The hose generator is a superb contribution to your already excellent program. I dont't remember that I ever thanked you for your continuing effort, while I have been a user since 1.something, so... A big thanks and keep up the good (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) In August 2001 I did a render of Datsville with QUAL=0 (URL) be able to render the huge POV file (11 MB) generated by L3P in finite time on my old PC (450 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB RAM) the QUAL flag in the POV file was set to 0 initially using (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, I plan adding -co for orthographic camera with automatic camera positioning. But the orthographic camera has changed in PovRay 3.5, and it is playing games with me. Perhaps I'll use the command "version 3.0" to overcome my trouble... (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Is there a doc anywhere describing how to use the MLCAD hose generator? I've been trying understand how all the points contribute to the curve but must be missing something obvious. Jennifer (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Excellent suggestion!! I've been wrestling with MegaPOV lately, having frustration with different size submodels and the find_edges settings. I want to keep the line thickness relative to the _parts_ and not to the render resolution, but since the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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| | Size of electric plugs (4.5 / 12 V)
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I decided to finish the lightbricks (2x2) I have started a while ago. When comparing the socketholes with those used by the 4.5 Volt technic motor 6216m.dat and the plug 766c01.dat I noticed that the size of the metal plugs in part 766c01 are too (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm running out of 3DN's. Thanx to a dull and rainy day I have three parts finished, while I have only two numbers left ;-) The storage box and the handle are finished now. And another part I have finished is the old and rare 1958 showroom window. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Multiple parts was Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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(...) Sorry, I didn't know that. (...) Does BrickDraw3D Carbon support adding bricks? One observation about BrickDraw3D Carbon vs Classic is that the Classic application is able to rotate a brick more smoothly. It is stange that the application (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Outlined part edges in L3P?
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Hi Lars, I was wondering if you had ever considered adding a feature to L3P to provide the lines at edges of bricks, so that we don't have to use MEGAPOV to do so? The advantages are that we would not have to play with MEGAPOV settings to get them (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.3 released
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I just got another email discussing the use of orthographic camera and building instructions. The two do not work well together, and won't for the forseeable future. LPub leaves it to L3P to determine the camera settings. For a given LDraw file, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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While beta testing LDraw Viewer, I created this model. It took only a few hours (spread out over a few days). (I created the model for real years ago.) I am also learning how to use L3P, so I created an QTVR of the model rendered with POV-Ray. (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | mac.ldraw.org updated completely
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I think I have gotten mac.ldraw.org completely updated. Anyone who would like to double check stuff please do. I changed the name to "LDraw Macintosh Community" (with a new graphic too) and got rid of "members" and "join" pages. James (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Multiple parts was Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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(...) This has always been in BrickDraw3D. Shift-click to select. Dragging doesn't use more than just one though yet. The difficulty is in deciding how operations affect multiple parts. In BrickDraw3D 0.6 you can edit the part# or color for the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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(...) Mmmm.... mushrooms. (...) Oh yeah, OS X 10.2.2. (...) I put up screen shots of my caboose rendered by LDraw Viewer (Carbon) and (Classic) and LDGLite. (URL) When Ldraw Viewer encounters a colour it doesn't recognise it (...) I am using 47 as (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Scala Jewlery Bracelet plugin for LDDPad
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(...) I could make that. First I want to create some new parts, like the storage box I am working on. And I just managed to get the rare showroomwindow as used in box 0307 (from 1958!). And I want to finish some parts I started a while ago. If (...) (22 years ago, 21-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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(...) : is not ok for MS-DOS! (It is used to after the drive name, like C: (...) Sound good to me Niels (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Niels Karsdorp" <nkp.nkp@hetnet.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:H7AE4K.DFx@lugnet.com... (...) this is fun! my little niece thinks so too, but keeps asking wich button has to be pressed so she can slip the bracelett on to her arm. besides mosaics (...) (22 years ago, 22-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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(...) There already is a 'p' suffix meaning parallel - the primitive is actually named box3#8p.dat. I found the original text from Manfred (dated 16Oct1998) copied here with minor spelling corrections - note that Manfred uses the word 'rib' for (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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Christopher, Excellent feedback, keep it comming. This way I can improve the software more easily. Otherwise I develop using mushroom theory (working in the dark). (...) Which OS are you using? (...) Both versions use the same code to display the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to 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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(...) 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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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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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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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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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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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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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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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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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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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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(...) Why is it that MLCad isn't appropriate for large models? Does it take a long time, or will MLCad actually crash? And what is the size limitation? I'm working on a fairly large model - well, it has a large number of parts, though its overall (...) (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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(...) I'll think about box3-8 or something (box with 3 sides, missing 8 lines) I need a similar primitive with all edges along the three sides. That could be named box3-2 (box with 3 sides, missing 2 lines) Niels (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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(...) Tore Eriksson has it. A quick search on keyword 'Datsville' revealed his post: (URL) in it he gives the download location: (URL) (319k) With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Dumb question... but where is Datsville hosted right now, and who maintains it? There should be a link on LDraw.org, but there isn't to my knowledge. I'll fix that on a long overdue wave of updates sometime in the relative near future. Thanks! (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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(...) Datsville is IMHO a HUGE model, with its 2Mb+ and several sub-models used multiple times. MLCAD is out of the question, but L3Lab is acceptable: 6.3-13 seconds, depending on zoom factor and other preferences. No problem with L3P, but I haven't (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Cool. Not trying to load a file, just want a tidbit of information ;-) -Tim (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) As with most large files, the limitation is generally not the program but the amount of memory on your system and the size limit on your virtual memory. -Orion (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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(...) What are you trying to view the file with? MLCAD has a hard time when the files get too big even if it is a file with multiple-sub models. Forget about LDView it will hog up memory like crazy trying to turn the model. -Ahui (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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Has anyone had experience with HUGE LDraw files or MPD files (thousands of parts)? What are the effects? Do they crash some programs, or make them unusably slow? Just curious. Thanks! -Tim (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Updated Flexible Objects LDDesignPad Plugin
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(...) Off screen rendering means rendering in the background without opening up a window. This can be handy for things like web servers (such as the one running the parts tracker at ldraw.org). I'm not sure if LDView has an offscreen rendering (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Parts authoring status update (patterns, PATTERNS!)
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Here's something I'm working on, the first part in which I'm using the chord.dat primitive that I posted here the other day. (URL) obviously not done yet, but I'm getting there. And I've been redoing a number of old parts lately, mainly fixing parts (...) (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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(...) Hm, it's possible that the search I used suffered from a similar problem to that of the URL. I stand corrected- thanks! -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 19-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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We should consider renaming this to get around this limitation. More programs and applets may start tring to access the files through URLS in the future. Who knows. -Kyle (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives
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(...) Can we (Steve or I) have them for the Parts Tracker and ultimate release into the official library? Chris (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Guess what this is....
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(...) Warning! answer below V V V V V V V V V V V The handle of a #791, #793 or #794 Storage box! With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 19-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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(...) Not sure how you were searching, but this primitive is used by plenty of parts 2400.dat 2554.dat 2865.dat 2871.dat ..... The file is in the ldraw.org official library, but if you're trying to use the URL like (URL) then you will fail due to (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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I did a text search on all the dat files in my parts and subparts folder, and found that the "box3#8.dat" primitive isn't actually referenced by anything else. And if I try to download it from ldraw.org's official files link, I get nothing. Has this (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Updated Flexible Objects LDDesignPad Plugin
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(...) What about LDView? You can associate viewers/editors with the LDR/DAT file extensions, and call it by opening the file. So, it could save a file and launch it in that program. I haven't used the curve generator (yet) but I just downloaded it. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Star Wars LDraw Models by Nth Dimension Website
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Get the nth Dimension Star Wars CAD model again. I had posted these models to brickshelf after the nth-Dimension website went down. After the brickshelf moderating went up, my folder has been blocked. So I have made a webpage so you can stil get the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad) !
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| | Re: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives
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(...) Hi, I made all the remaining primitives BFC compliant with the help of one program that I created: (URL) I need to find some time to fix some bugs and release it to the community. Zanette. (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives
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(...) All primitives really should be BFC'ed first... Strictly speaking you cannot certify a part unless all references are certified, but see (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Bad links to homepage.mac.com
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We seem to be getting off the original topic a bit, but since the thread is going this way, I will add my 2 cents worth. (...) My early versions of Ldraw Viewer used GLUT which I have now since dropped. However as an experiment I did attempt a (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) The primitives are slowly being made BFC compliant (and given meaningful headers) but if you have the time and inclination to do any of those that are not already done (or waiting on the Parts Tracker) please do so. Please email the fixed (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BFC parts with BFC-less primitives
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Hello, I have just found out all about BFC and how to make parts BFC compliant (yes, I know, I should have found that out earlier ;-). Most of the parts I submitted to the parts tracker are not reviewed, yet (not complainig about that), so I thought (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Bad links to homepage.mac.com
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(...) That Apple OpenGL engineer comment indicates Apple will eventually fix it. 10.2.3? 10.3? If you can't wait, basically it sounded like the ldglite project has to be build with Project builder in such a way that it is a double clickable (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Bad links to homepage.mac.com
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(...) Here is what I noticed in LEdit mode. I am running 10.2.2 on a PB G3 (FireWire). The AppleGLUT provides the popup menus, but the following error is reported in the terminal 2002-12-18 21:38:32.082 ldgledit[4698] GLUT Warning: (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Guess what this is....
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Howdy, I have been working on a part and now I am wondering if anyone recognizes what it is. I know what it is, I'm just curious if anyone knows what it is, too. (URL) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Something unusual(?)
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Dear all, Here is some light entertainment: (URL) aware that the video file linked by the image is a 6 mb Divx 4 AVI) I'll post some notes on how I made it soon - for now enjoy the movie! (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I would like to work on part 3648
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"Chris Dee" <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H7Busx.Hu1@lugnet.com... (...) like (...) (one (...) the (...) to (...) me (...) LDraw (...) certainly (...) I'd (...) or (...) want (...) official (...) depending on (...) rework the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New primitive: chord.dat (not the final name)
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(...) I can see this having some use. I'd name it 1-4segm.dat. Chris (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I would like to work on part 3648
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(...) Actually, Lance, there is an updated version of 3648 already on the Parts Tracker (the system we use to review and certify unofficial parts) at (URL) I'm not sure this addresses the problems you identify and it is certainly not BFC compliant. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Bad links to homepage.mac.com
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Don, I have updated a few things on mac.ldraw.org. I know the ldglite and technical page still needs major updating as well as some other things like the translation links. I'll get to it.... someday... I just plain deleted a few links to broke (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: HELP: transformation of primitive causes BFC to stop working
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H7Bq38.4Lx@lugnet.com... (...) instead (...) of (...) Hey, I'm all for a good cheat if it makes things easier. Now why didn't I think of that? I guess I keep thinking MLCad is (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: HELP: transformation of primitive causes BFC to stop working
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(...) Actually, I cheated. I hate doing the math and still don't understand the matrix tranforms well enough to look at a matrix and know what it's doing, so I use MLCad to rotate things for me. -Orion (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Yep, that did the trick. Now that you gave me the coordinates, I can see that I wanted the original y vector (0,1,0) to go to -z (0, 0, -1), instead of staying y like I had it. This rotating and scaling stuff can be kind of tricky to visualize, (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: HELP: transformation of primitive causes BFC to stop working [DAT]
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(...) I think this line is what you want: 1 16 10 10 2 0 0 8 -8 0 0 0 -1 0 2-4ndis.dat Let me know if I'm right. -Orion (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | HELP: transformation of primitive causes BFC to stop working [DAT]
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In playing with making a part (3648) BFC certified I have ran into a problem. The following line is in the original file: 1 16 10 10 2 0 0 8 8 0 0 0 1 0 2-4ndis.dat This line transforms the primitive such that the front face is inside the part (I'm (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Bug in LDDesignPad?
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hi niels, (...) I reported this to carsten a couple of days ago, although I hadn't done such a deep testing like you've done. all I've noticed then was, that among the last-files-list showed files I'had worked on immediately after installing LDDP, (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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I have been playing around with LDraw, and I have decided that I would like to make an attempt to fix the Technic Gear 24 Tooth part. I noticed that there are several polygons near the axle hole that are "out-of-bounds" (one vertex from several (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually I think I found what I was looking for here: (URL) since this page: (URL) longer exists (except in a google cache) I think I may have to mirror it if it's still useful. So does the patched GLUT still work? Does it work on 10.2? Does (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Bug in LDDesignPad?
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Hi, I use LD Design Pad 1.3.0.0 and I feel I have found a bug. I discovered that the last files I have opened don't show up in the list of last used files. After I have erased the list with last used files from the registry, any file I opened showed (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have a copy of an updated GLUT that I got from a mac.com site, but I don't know if it the one to which you are referring. I haven't been using LDGLite because LDGLite will not recognize any keys. I recall you (someone) mentioning that this (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hi Erik, Thanks for your comments When I designed the stairs, I had a few problems since I really needed that the slops on the side will flow with it. The main idea was to try making it as accurate as I could to the originals, though those (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.cad)
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| | Scala Jewlery Bracelet plugin for LDDPad
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After having created the scala jewlery bracelet part (I still need a better title than 'Scala Jewlery Bracelet Chain Piece' before I am going to upload the part to the Parts Tracker, does anybody have any suggestions?????), I have created a plugin (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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I thought of this when a large quantity of Modulex came in the mail last night and my wife said "I bet minifigs could play with this." (It's half-size Lego.) Tore got me thinking whether it's a good idea to have scaling parts as a standard command. (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | BrickDraw3D request for comments: using LEDIT keys
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BrickDraw3D users and LEDIT authorities: please comment on these keyboard assignments for the 0.6 release. In particular do I have the X,Y,Z keys right? Any other keys wanted? The '*' mark indicates an LEDIT key A* Rotate Right 90 Z Rotate Left 90 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Apple is charging for homepage.mac.com webpages now, so a great deal of links to that domain are now broke since many people have elected to look elsewhere for free webpages. LDMC included. ;-) (...) I wasn't aware that there were that many (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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I spent a few minutes testing my external ldglite links to and found quite a few bad ones that used to go to homepage.mac.com. It looks like LDMC has partially moved to mac.ldraw.org, but the pages there now have many bad links. Is anyone planning (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: *** Start celebrating .... NOW
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(...) Like 256 = Rubber black And some more of these accepted high numbered colors. Now it says the color is 'unused'. Niels (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: *** Start celebrating .... NOW
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"Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> wrote in message news:H77CDp.4sB@lugnet.com... (...) Greate - thanks! The language template should be ready by the end of the weekend. Michael (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Decorated DATs
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(...) See lugnet.cad.dev for more information on this. There are a lot of mechanisms for creating patterned parts. I myself have used Quad2Dat successfully. Assuming you have a good quality high resolution scan of the part and it's a flat surface (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New primitive: chord.dat (not the final name) [DAT]
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Here's something I whipped up that I find extremely useful for patterned parts in particular. When trying to put something inside a circle (or anywhere near a curved section), this lets you avoid 2 problems: 1: having to calculate the awkward (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What minifigs do when we look away...
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(...) LOL! That's great! If you haven't yet, I think you should submit that to Scene of the Month on Ldraw.org. Cheers, --Ryan (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ISCC II Moc: MAYA Land
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Hey Yaron, thanks, this is the first Ancient Americas MOC I recall in awhile. Somehow studs look good on Mayan pyramids, maybe because I'm prepared to see them somewhat "greebly". The few smooth slopes you use make a nice counterpoint. The greenery (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.cad)
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| | New part on PT: 3003p50.dat
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Hi, I have just converted part 3004p50.dat (Brick 1 x 2 with Lego-Logo Old) to 3003p50.dat (Brick 2 x 2 with Lego-Logo Old). I have three copies of a real brick 2 x 2 with Lego-Logo Old, two in yellow one in blue, but I did not find such a part in (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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