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(...) Yes, and if you are complete you have both. 981.dat and 982.dat are the newer ones in the book, they appear when loading a recent file and when using MLCad v3.0 minifig generator. 975.dat and 976.dat are the obsolete ones that appear when (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) My vote is for MD3. Heres why: Discreet (makers of 3ds max) released a special version called Gmax. Gmax is designed as a way to make new graphics for games and can only save to its own special format (*.gmax) and can only export via special (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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Probably : ( I used the RPM and I'm still kind of a Linux Newbie : ) (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yeah that's why I included it, but IMHO human readable isn't a big deal if we take advantage of the existing tools. Milkshape with "extra" features like LCD (Lego Connection Database) Tags could be quite workable though.... (...) Cool and (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Im not sure about md2, obj or md3, but at least milkshape is human readable. unfortunately, It doesn't support include files like ldraw .dat files do. I like the idea of extending the ldraw format to include the features you outlined. -Chuck (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm working my way through the LEGO Software Power Tools book (I'm new to MLCAD) and I notice the minifig arms illustrated in the book are different than the ones I have available. The ones in the book are tapered nicely, while mine aren't, and they (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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It's been a rainy day here, so did a lot of LDrawing ;-) Today I found out how to use cyls and cyls2 primitives :-) I created, updated and finished a few parts. Making my parts BFC compliant I noticed that several primitives of the same class have (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Jusr read the Wine documentation, it appears having people use the ./tools/wineinstall script in the wine source directory is the recommended way to install Wine, instead of my description. (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Niels Karsdorp <nkp.nkp@hetnet.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HDy23o.vqI@lugnet.com... (...) I have a correct 3867.dat in my library. If others have else a correct one then it must be an error in your part. CU Bernd (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK quick rundown. Required: - Working Linux system with X11+windowmanager installed (I use KDE only, but any windowmanager should work) Also check (URL) for other requirements wine itself has (gcc etc etc) I chose to work with the Wine source (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Perhaps Wine wasn't set up properly? I downloaded the 20030408 CVS release, did a generic ./configure | make | sudo make install , while logged in as regular user. (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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When I started to create a model using the baseplates 3867, I noticed a stud missing. Digging into the file I found the cause: Line 244 said: 1 16 150 0 -13071 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat And this needs to be 1 16 150 0 -130 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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I wasn't sure if it'd work that way, but appearently it does : ) (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I've been kicking this idea around in my head for a while and I'd like to throw it out for discussion. I think the ldraw specification needs to evolve in order to take the great work that James started and make it into the "toy" that everyone really (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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I want to preface my answer with a few thoughts. I've seen what amazing potential these tools have in all aspects of the LEGO hobby. People from all over the world have written me talking about how they have applied LDraw to what they do. Whether (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, I gave it the largest file I had (1526 parts) and it froze up on me. I stepped back a bit and gave it a file with 398 parts. This rendered fine but I did notice some rotation errors. -Orion (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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No, I'm not getting married. ;-) All of this LDraw standards and organization talk has gotten me thinking...about LDraw.org and it's mission, if you will. So I'd like to throw out a question: What do you think LDraw.org's role is in the LDraw/LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) why use winzip? most linux installs come with zip/unzip! so on my redhat 7.2, all I did was - download mlcad. - download the dats - unzip dats - unzip mlcad - run "wine MLCAD.EXE" (...) huh - I was running it as a non-root user. Odd. Dan (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Pretty much, just install wine, then use it to install winzip. use wine to unpack the ldraw parts. run winzip under wine to unzip mlcad run mlcad under wine : ) There are some functions that don't work even with the latest version of Wine, but (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Thanks for the feedback. If you have the time give it a file with a couple of hundred parts. I don't know what it will do. Should just work but slowly. If you do please let me know what happens. Good or bad its all useful. Thanks again --Dan. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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