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Hi Ahui, If you are still having problems, just email an example that does not work, or post it here. I will figure it out and get back to you. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Silver and Gold Metalic Colors in POV-Ray
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(...) Silver Crome is color 383 Gold Crome is color 334 Just whip up a DAT file of your object and color it one of the above colors. or use this for silver chrome: #ifndef (Color383) #declare Color383 = #if (version >= 3.1) material { #end texture { (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Hi Dave, Right now the installer is too simple. It needs to know where the LDraw directory is, so it can add some parts to your parts directory. It does a simple search for this: LDRAW\MKLIST.EXE on your hard disks. It cannot find it. I'd guess one (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Communtiy CAD'ing Idea
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If you use LDraw tools (like MLCad, LeoCad), would you be interested in signing up for a (maybe fun) experiment in group building? I propose this: * The list would consist of any number of people (more people = bigger model) * The first person would (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 10030a - Mini RBR from 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer
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PS: I used colour 260 for dark red - not sure if that's correct, but it's the closest colour match in my copy of MLcad 8?) ROSCO (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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Enjoy! 0 FILE C:\Lego\LDRAW\MODELS...10030a.ldr 0 10030a - mini RBR 0 Name: 10030a.ldr 0 Author: Ross Crawford 0 Official Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 1 15 -70 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4733.DAT 1 15 -50 0 0 0 0 -1 0 1 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: I need a list of parts...
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(...) I'll measure the logo (when I don't forget to do that ;-) (...) The difference in the logo on the storage box is that it has an aditional border line around the logo, if I remember well. I wrote about making a scan to show you how the logo (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Bill, My initial thought is.... what are the chances that someone will find a commercial use for this program? But in thinking about it more, I have no idea how far other contributing authors will take this program, so out of respect for their (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Sand Green and POV
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(...) Try using L3P and POV-Ray without LPub, because I'd be surprised if it was an LPub issue. If it works without LPub please let me know. Could it be that L3P doesn't know how to map the Sand Green color to RGB? (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Sand Green and POV
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All, I have built a model in MLCad in Sand Green. Using LPub, I rendered out the main image and rather than Sand Green, the color came out light gray. How can I make sure that it renders in Sand Green? Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Proposed solution for Building Instruction scale issue
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(...) You are welcome. Is there going to be an end? I've done enough applications in my life to know that my own philosphic perspectives on what makes a great tool are not as strong as the group philosphy. As the implementor of the tool, I only use (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Silver and Gold Metalic Colors in POV-Ray
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I have the following object in POV-Ray (the great sword) object { _59_dot_dat matrix <1-SW/8,0,0,0,1-SW/1...3.11111,0> matrix <0,1,0,-0.707107,0,-...,25,94,55> #if (version >= 3.1) material #else texture #end { Color7 } } and I want to use a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Moonbase Project
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In lugnet.space, Andreas Hellwig writes: These ideas are great! I will work on them. and I think your English is great! Thanks, Patty (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw Moonbase Project
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hiho, well sounds good the idea of moonbase =). I just worked a little bit, with the idea =). well I some little suggestions: - let the people download needed things like the modulesupport submodel and the modulesconsmall submodel so that they do (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New MPD: Lotus Esprit S4
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(...) Can't expect it to be too close if you change the way it looks on the outside :) Looks like you used the Charger seats too. I'm glad you liked the car enough to build it yourself! --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: New MPD: Lotus Esprit S4
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(...) Both of us posted MPD files, which have to be split up before they can be viewed in LDraw. There are much faster and more versatile programs available these days: (URL) is the most popular viewer/editor. LDLite is an LDraw-like viewer with (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Proposed solution for Building Instruction scale issue
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Kevin, Overall, I think the more well thought out and defined controls there are the better the tool. And I wanted to take this oppertunity to thank you for having this open dialog, it is very reasuring and likely to produce a more robust tool in (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) GPL is the best in terms or preserving the author's rights. Public Domain is a bad idea - it means you surrender any rights to the software, and people can then basically use it to build their own commercial programs and wouldn't owe you (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Lego Logo Variants
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(...) Hey, that rocks! Those pics are nice and big. I will not be doing the old-style logo. That is a totally different font and I'm not going to rework the whole thing. Not at the present, anyway. And I didn't realize that the yellow border was (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: List of LEGO Logo Parts
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(...) Cool- I'll do that one too. Either that or someone else can once I release the logo parts. (...) Thanks for the info. I'll need a better pic, but I'm sure someone else has one. I'll look into the curved flag too. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I need a list of parts...
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(...) Excellent- and could you please measure the size of the logo in LDU? And give me some info to help position it? Either that, or you can do the part yourself after I release the logo subparts. (...) Don't worry about the scan- I'm not (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Seeking input on reused user parts in building instructions
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Hi Will, As I was writing the original post, I realized that I had a question for myself, does the X4 go on the image itself, or does it go in the web pages generated by LPub. If I make it go into the web pages, then I think it leaves more (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Seeking input on reused user parts in building instructions
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(...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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While it is a great idea to supress the multiple rendering of the same steps, I'm not sure there is really any added value to displaying the "x4" on the last step. I find that I always take a pass through the final rendered instruction images, in my (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: New MPD: Lotus Esprit S4
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My Ldraw 0.27 has a problem showing it. It shows 37 (visible) steps, then stops. It looks half-finished. Am I doing sth wrong? I pasted Mr Blessing's dat into a file esprit.dat and showed it with LDraw. I then had to press Enter about 50 times to (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Proposed solution for Building Instruction scale issue
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(...) Rather have a single solution path unless there is a *really* compelling reason to do otherwise. LPub is quite quick with its part of the job, but there is overhead in running L3P so many times. (...) Scale changing within a given sequence of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Proposed solution for Building Instruction scale issue
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-sc... I figured there was something technically stopping you, I wonder if a quick prescan of the sub model that reveals no rot steps could lead to a differnt render path etc... but that's a different topic. Back to the scaling. BTW I am thinking of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Moonbase Project
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Looks good, Patty! I can see this being added to LDraw.org sometime after BricksWest with my assistance, or sooner with someone like Jacob's. I think a good place for it would be /community/moonbase/ (and if the Datsville folks want, DV could (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Proposed solution for Building Instruction scale issue
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Steve, On the stepclock topic. L3P<->POV-Ray stepclock mechanism does not take rotation steps into account, so I cannot use it. I assume you are proposing that I use the same scale across the entire set of building instructions, right? I chose to (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Proposed solution for Building Instruction scale issue
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I just ran into this problem a couple nights ago when I was rendering steps for a train set. Why not jump right in and determine the LDU per pixel ratio for the largest camera radius and apply that number to scale all the images. Each image size (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: A&M LEGO Place LEGO Poem Update
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(...) Thanks to my wife for the idea of the image I just completed another poem in the vero series. Poem entitled: Vero #5 - TBWY See it at: (URL) one more to go in this series! -AHui (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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| | Proposed solution for Building Instruction scale issue
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As LPub is creating building instructions for your LDraw files, it makes sure that there is consistant scale for the building steps in a given user-defined DAT file. The scale is determined by running each step's DAT (subset of original DAT with (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Seeking input on reused user parts in building instructions
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Hi, I've decided to tackle an issue that has been on my mind for a while. LPub's handling of building instructions, where sub-model user-defined parts are used multiple times in the overall design. It all started when I was editing a DSDK model (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Technic Figures?
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I've always wondered if the female figure at right in this page is a rendering or a photo. Technic she is. (URL) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.4 released *
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(...) I was just thinking that when reading Orion's request. Thanx Tore. But if Carsten wants to implement this into LDDPad, feel free to do so. Niels (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New MPD: Lotus Esprit S4 [DAT]
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Ahhh.... boy did I miss, well here's my version, I did this about a week ago. I re-designed the back wing and the sloped area a little. Gary (...) 0 FILE car.ldr 0 Untitled 0 Name: car.ldr 0 Author: Tigre (blessing@icefog.net) 0 Unofficial Model 0 (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: I need a list of parts...
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(...) I have the Learjet 455 (455_1 on Lugnet guide) with the Lego Logo in a red square printed (not stickers) on the tail. I'll have to look at home what version the logo is. The storage box also has a lego logo on it. Only black printed (no other (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New Part: 41858.dat - Pullback Motor Mini Top [DAT]
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0 Pullback Motor Mini Top 0 Name: 41858.dat 0 Keywords Racers 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 2 24 -20 0 -20 -20 0 60 2 24 20 0 -20 20 0 60 2 24 -20 16 -20 -20 16 60 2 24 -20 16 -60 -20 16 60 2 24 20 16 -60 20 16 60 4 16 (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Technic Figures?
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(...) I've made a start, but I am not far enough to provide anything usable. Chris (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Subpart: s\x691s01.dat - Door 1 x 6 x 2 Left without Stud
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(...) That's how we've done so far, but the problem with that method is that with l3p -q3, the LEGO logo on top of the stud will get mirrored. /Tore (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: clock model anyone
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(...) Well its not in Ldraw but its a nice clock face, there's a link to more close-up pics. (URL) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Subpart: s\x691s01.dat - Door 1 x 6 x 2 Left without Stud [DAT]
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Personaly I'd just stick this whole thing in the x691.dat file and use the line: 1 16 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 x691.dat for the x692.dat file. (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | clock model anyone
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I'm looking for a clock model. Does anyone have one? Doesn't need to be anything complicated or even a working model just the face-plate of a clock in LDraw is all I really need for a special project. Credit to the modeler will be given in the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | PT: 3008p04.dat
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I suggest a 'hold' vote for this part; The fonts are too different from each other for just changing the the text colour. (URL) Niels. :) /Tore (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.4 released *
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(...) Why not use Niels Karsdorp's Plugin Rewind? (URL) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New Part: x692.dat - Fabuland Door 1 x 6 x 2 Right [DAT]
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Could this part be BFC Certified, with its "rotation" matrix? 0 Fabuland Door 1 x 6 x 2 Right 0 Name: x692.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Part 0 BCF NOCERTIFY 1 16 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\x691s01.dat 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 0 (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part: x691.dat - Fabuland Door 1 x 6 x 2 Left [DAT]
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0 Fabuland Door 1 x 6 x 2 Left 0 Name: x691.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Part 0 BCF CERTIFY CCW 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\x691s01.dat 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 stud.dat 0 (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Subpart: s\x691s01.dat - Door 1 x 6 x 2 Left without Stud [DAT]
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0 Fabuland Door 1 x 6 x 2 Left without Stud 0 Name: s\x691s01.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Subpart 0 Also subpart to x692.dat 0 BCF CERTIFY CCW 1 16 0 48 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 4-4edge.dat 1 16 0 48 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 4-4edge.dat 1 16 0 (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Technic Figures?
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Hey everyone. I was wondering if the Technic figures have been made for LDraw yet. Ya know, the ones that came with the Artic sets and the Tractor puller. Thanks! (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Lego Logo Variants
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Tony, I've collected several images of Lego printed parts, including Logo parts. Flags are listed on my Visual Flag Helper page: (URL) old open O logo on red square and red oval, and the new yellow border logo. The logo flags are at the bottom of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.4 released *
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(...) Awesome, I've been meaning to request this. I do have one request: a swap polygon winding button -Orion (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New MPD: Lotus Esprit S4
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As promised... (but a tiny bit different from the original model in internal structure) (URL) Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.town)
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| | * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.4 released *
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Hello! New version is out now. Get it at (URL) ! + = New feature * = Bugfix - = Removed feature Changes since version 1.3 v1.4 01/16/2002 * Fixed some L3P problems with long filenames or -paths * Fixed list of recently used files * Fixed a problem (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: 3rd Party Applications and Parts Generation
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That would be fantastic. I've downloaded the rhino evaluation version so I can take a look at your original model file. Please send to karl@blackdown.com. Thanks! Karl (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 3rd Party Applications and Parts Generation
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(...) I use Rhino for some of the more compicalted parts and then convert with STL2DAT. I'll send you the file for one of my parts if your program of choice can import 3dm or stl files. -Orion (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New MPD: Harley-Davidson Hovercycle
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(...) might want to try using LGEO parts to avoid, for one, the gaps in the radar dishes. Good luck! --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New MPD: Harley-Davidson Hovercycle
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(...) Well, now I have to sort them... (...) Enjoy! (...) Yes, the Esprit is probably next in line. Should be pretty easy too. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | List of LEGO Logo Parts
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(...) (URL) I have this part in front of me. It has a red sqaure W=32, H=30, including the ~0.5 LDU black frame. The logo begins at 8 LDU from beginnig of pattern area and appears on both sides. Unlike the many national flags, this flag has the logo (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | I need a list of parts...
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...that have the Lego logo. I'm working on a set of ldraw files for the new Lego logo, and I need some help to get these all right. There are a number of parts out there that have "LEGO" printed on them. As far as I know, the only ones being printed (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Tim and Michael, I'd love to see this feature as well, although it is easy to say from the outside. We have no idea how MLCAD is orgranized, so this may be pretty hard to do, especially getting nice preview images of synthesized parts. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | 3rd Party Applications and Parts Generation
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How many of you out there are using third party applications such as 3d studio max or lightwave to generate ldraw parts and then converting them back to dat files? If so, are there examples of your work prior to conversion? Thanks, Karl (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) an (...) the (...) so (...) Right. Keep up the good work! I am looking forward to the next version. Jaco (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) Great! They are 73590A and B btw... :-) Jaco (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) Not really. I tend to waver somewhere between the GPL and Public Domain, depending on how long it's been since I've had trouble with piece of closed software. Of the few licences here (URL) I've read, the zlib license is the shortest, and I do (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Hi Ahui, You do not need to use an editor to add these coments. Lsynth compensates for MLCAD's WRITE statements, by ignoring the WRITE keywoard. Two things to examine: 1. LSynth is case sensitive, so SYNTH is not the same as synth. 2. If you are (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Has anyone besides Kevin been able to get LSynth to work? I can get it to run the examples.mpd file but when ever I get my own file it does nothing? I have added the comments in a text editor (since MLCAD adds the WRITE statements to commets) and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Hi Don, I have no idea what license to choose. Do you have a recommendation? Kevin (...) <snip> (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) Sure, send it along. I think the only sticky point that should be resolved before creating the project is the source code license. (I say "sticky" because we seem to have gotten stuck there with the parts library and a recent attempt to get (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) I STRONGLY suggest to Michael he work on a plugin architecture for MLCAD and publish the specs. Then anyone can write MLCAD plugins without Michael having to do all of the work to integrate the 3rd party generators. It should free up some time (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Hi Dave, I'll have to look when I'm home to figure out what to do here. I think it looks in C:\LDRAW, and/or looks for an LDRAW environment variable to be set. I think it depends on the same environment variable L3P depends on, but I'm not sure. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: New MPD: Harley-Davidson Hovercycle
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(...) I made a render of this file to test out some POV ideas and thought I'd share it with everyone. (URL) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) installed" error when I try to install LSynth 2.0. This is especially baffling to me, since I used LEdit not two minutes prior to trying to install LSynth. Do I need to install it in a particular directory? Dave! (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) A simple fix to reduce the file size some what is to limit the amount of digits in the synthisized part. For example, I noticed that lsynth writes 10.000000 instead of just 10. Also I think 3 or 4 decimal places is accurate enough (although (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) Me too. I'd also like it to be integratable into development environments. This is why the actual synthesizer is a simple ASNI C program that can be accessed via command prompt methods, whether that be unix or windows, and all the actual (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) This is basically what I wanted to suggest. Fredrik's (and therefore my) method is probably what should be used. I really want all bendible part synthesis to be united under one program. -Orion (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Hi Don, I'd love it if you would set up the project on sourceforge. I know nothing about sourceforge specifically, although I've use source code control systems for many years. As we can see, there are plenty of wasy to improve lsynth, and I think (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Orion, Right now there is a dependency between the lsynth GUI program and the lsynthcp program in that lsynth needs to know where lsynthcp is located to be able to run it. Currently the windows based installer uses the registry to identify (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Jennifer, You are using and old verion of LSynth where the length is provided. Version 2.0 has it removed, because it was not used. Orion, I agree completely on wanting a length control. I also want lsynth to somehow understand hose rigidity (I (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Yes. That is one of the bugs in the program (I'm sure there are more lurking out there.) I've got constraints too close together. Again, I hope to fix this using an iterative length technique, or to have the synthesizer assume know that the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I'm pretty excited about that one myself. Currently it really only handles rubber bands as belts. I also need to add (because I need it in a model) the ability to have non-planar belts, and non-belts (constrained by bricks, liftarms and such). (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Jaco, I started out on the wrong approach to synthesized hoses and rubber bands, where I used LDraw parts to create the bands and tubes. In most cases I don't need new parts, I just need to use a cylinder (or square) primitive and scale it as (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message (...) to (...) synthesized (...) need. (...) or (...) Yup, I realised that. The lsynth header allows you to specify the hose length (even though it currently isn't used) so I'm (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) For non fixed length parts such as hoses the constraint part work beautifully. What I'm talking about is the fixed length flexble axles and ribbed hoses. The shape of the curve structure betwwen two point is dependent on the length of the part (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8qqq5.Bu9@lugnet.com... (...) Horses for courses I suppose, I found the constraint method (when applied to pneumatic hoses) totally brilliant, in fact I can't imagine a simpler (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Isn't it nice to get parts back? I've Been at a loss for something to build lately, now I can play around with three of your models. BTW, any chance you might do the Esprit? I did it a few days ago from the pics and I'm curious how close I got. Gary (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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This is the correct one. Forget the first! "Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> schreef in bericht news:H8r0vD.9rr@lugnet.com... (...) example (...) straight (...) great! (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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This is the wrong version of my post :-) "Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> schreef in bericht news:H8r08B.8ov@lugnet.com... (...) example (...) small (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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OK! I downloaded it again and it works! It is a great program. I especially like the option to create chains. What I do not understand though is why the fiber optic cable in the example has to be almost 2 Mb? All files are rather large. Like the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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OK! I downloaded it again and it works! What I do not understand though is why the fiber optic cable in the example has to be almost 2 Mb? And all files seem rather large. Like the rubber band that spans 2 wheels (lsynth_band2 in the example file). (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) *sigh* Like I said in another post in this thread: That's from a manufacturer's point of view, it has absolutely no practical use at all for the builder. On the contrary, it just makes unnecessarly complicated and confusing. But thanks for the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Me too, that's why I suggested it. :o) (...) That's perfectly ok with me. /Tore (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Some comment about L-Synth: -I Really like the rubber bands\treads\chain feature. This is insanely useful. -I'm not so wild about the flex axle/ribbed hose implementation. Is there any way to specify the amount of ribs or the length of the axle and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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If you have more than one MKLIST.EXE file on your machine you will get an error with the installer. I get the following error. ERROR Can not create the following directory: D:\Development\LDraw Installation\MKLIST....ment\LDraw (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek wrote: [ snipping to the point ;) ] (...) Yeah, we'll probably do that. Sooner or later. Steve (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I like the use of the moved-to file to reposition the part. :) But there are a number of codes used for Red Cross patterns already. Instead of pt1 and pt2, how about p24 and p25? (...) Yep, like that. Steve (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Sorry for the delay in responding to your question. Steve (...) [snip] (...) I agree with this. (...) No, it would be 39ac01.dat (...) OK. (...) Again, 29ac01.dat (...) OK. (...) 27ac01.dat (...) OK. (...) 31ac01.dat (...) As long as they're all (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Well I don't have the parts to build one like you guys do, but mine is ten times the size of yours in my own mind, and five hundred times better. Jon, do you serve space monster burgers and space monster steaks in your tower? I do in mine. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually I said this: (...) Thought it was clear enough that I had uploaded again to fix the problem. Kevin (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:H8qA00.688@lugnet.com... (...) Dear Bram Lambrect would you please now make a ldraw file of your spaceplane and that big tower thing so that I may then buy the real models for $10 ok maybe $20 [ (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Nope, just guessing... because your first post just said "I redownloaded it and it worked" without the addtional info this post had, that it wasn't working for you and that you reuploaded and redownloaded... Hope that helps. (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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