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(...) Welcome to the club! You'd be surprised how many CAD users model LEGO using other systems and then later find out about LDraw. There's no constraints or assembly mates in LDraw though - at least not yet - so you probably won't be leaving SW (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hello Gregory, I agree, the shape of automobiles is hard to selectively compress in scale and still be "recognizable" as their full scale counterparts. I get the feeling it would almost be easier to model in microfig because you could get away (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Dan (& Todd?) - I wonder if it would be possible to add an option (similar to skip filter settings) which would allow the web interface user the choice of displaying dots on the message page for threads over 100 or not. The default could be (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) just go here: (URL) you should see a "start this page" button. Then with a little bit of FTX (_really_ easy), you should be all set. FTX Guide: (URL) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Dan, I think that would be cool. Just let me know what to do. Kevin (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) sure you can :) (URL) Here is the first draft of a list of meta-commands. It is pretty rough (...) wow, very cool. I think this would go great in an FTX page - we could have it linked from the CAD sidebar, and have it easily updated... what do (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, Well, this topic has exceeded the 100 post mark! The bummer is that we can no longer see the tree view of the posts :^( Here is the first draft of a list of meta-commands. It is pretty rough format-wise, but at least it is a list. I'm still (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A call to membership!
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(...) Paul, As the author of LDLite, I'd say you are well qualified to be on the SC. I'm very glad you are interested. When I started to write LPub, I had to reverse engineer ROTSTEP so I could support it in LPub. At the same time I asked Michael (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This is the approach that Michael Lachman on MLCAD. In an email, where he gave us permission to include his meta-command descriptions in our LDraw specification (yay!) he indicated that he has started to use MLCAD as his module name for all (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | DAT Curves Plugin For LDDesignPad Version 2.5.1
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(...) Ok. The rotation now centers on the Bounding Box center. Get it at: (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) *cut* (...) Yeah, accurate cars are hard to model at minifig scale, but i tried. Actually i only gave actual names to the first batch, then just gave them names like racetruck- generic names are much more fitting. Now i moved to tuning (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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i completed my page at (...) by all means yes! and prototyping my parts? lol am i dreaming? yes go ahead. if it works make the side parts and spioler to (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I wouldn't mind joining the work of formalising the LDraw file format. Play well, Jacob (who has been off-line for a few days) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes: <snip> (...) Actually I'm using a library I picked up trolling sourceforge for goodies. It's called GLScene and it does all the back end processing for me, all I have to do is declare and manipulate objects. I (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm working on that. I'm still learning the ropes with this GLScene library I'm using. (...) It's a debug button I forgot to remove. -Orion (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If the ToR for this committee will include Part Naming standards, as well as LDraw language standards, then I believe either Steve Bliss or I needs to be included. Geography may play a part here, depending on how real-time you intend the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC problem with 970s01.dat?
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(...) IIRC, my claim of making this BFC compliant was found to be incorrect when reviewed in the PT. So to expedite its release, I suspect Steve did an admin edit of the 0 BFC CERTIFY line (since we only insist on BFC compliance for primitives) to (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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One approach to namespace management is to have format the commands like so: 0 MODULENAME COMMAND blah Authors would ask for a unique MODULENAME string to use, and prefix that in front of any "experimental" commands. For example, say I want to (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It worked fine for me. As mentioned in Philippe's reply (with different wording), it would be a lot easier of the rotation center were the center of the bounding box of the generated curved object. I did find the zoom, though. Is all your (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Several of the LDLite commands were documented in detail in the file WOOD4.DAT, so make sure you look there. (URL) formal definition of the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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