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(...) Well yes, that link works. What I was trying to say is that if you follow that link, you see what looks like the Ldraw & Ledit tutorial, but you can't use it because all the links inside that point to the goodies are not converted to php. I (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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(...) Hi Michael, The avi files can be played with Windows Media player, but you might need to have the Xdiv (or any other Mpeg 4) codec as well. I've used this codec because it has an amazing compression ratio/quality The official site is (URL) but (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Three Jake McKee posters
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Hi all, You maybe know about the book Jake wrote. There are 3 posters of models featured in the book; a UP diesel locomotive, a container well car and a reefer. The posters are in the style of the book. Please go to www.digitalbricks.nl and have a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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Which application do I use to view the movies? (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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Hi all, It turns out that what I thought was an "ugly hack" had more life in it than I thought. I've continued working on the minifig animation include file for POVray that I posted here last week. I've now added several functions to it, and have (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) Ray, From the sounds of it you haven't installed the parts files. You need to either go to www.ldraw.org to get these files or downlad the version 2.0 with these files (it's the one that ends in .dmg). Rather than going through the whole (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Must everything be php?
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(...) The linke works. (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Error trying to render a slope
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(...) Carsten, Thanks for your quick reply. That certainly fixed it! I appreciate your help. Best regards, Allan B. (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 8466 ANIMATED
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(...) -TJ (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: x468s01 - for Minifig Book
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(...) I would use the box3u2p primitve for the inside. (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Error trying to render a slope
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Hello! This is a bug in L3P. Add a second part and it will work. Just comment it out later in the POV file. Play well Carsten "Allan Bedford" <ExpertBuilder-DELET...otome.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HtH2qL.ArA@lugnet.com... (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Error trying to render a slope
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I'm hoping someone can help. In trying to render a file containing only a single slope I am getting the following error in POV-Ray: No matching in object, object found instead. It *seems* to be getting caught on this part of the .pov file: object (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: 33009, Minifig Book
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(...) Heh... Guess which file I forgot to copy from home! ;) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 33009, Minifig Book [DAT]
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Please LMK WYT.... 0 Minifig Book 0 Name: 33009.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 0 CATEGORY Minifig Accessory 0 KEYWORDS Belville, Castle, Harry Potter, container, hollow book 0 KEYWORDS library, bookcase, bookshelf, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x468 - for Minifig Book [DAT]
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Last of the three "open usage" files....... 0 ~Minifig Book (Rear or "Female" Half) 0 Name: x468.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\x468s01.dat 0 0 decorated surface 0 4 16 -34 -27 -1 0 (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x467 - for Minifig Book [DAT]
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one of three "open usage" files...... 0 ~Minifig Book (Front or "Male" Half) 0 Name: x467.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\x467s01.dat 0 0 decorated surface 0 4 16 34 -27 -1 0 -27 -1 0 (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x466 - for Minifig Book [DAT]
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one of three "open usage" files........ 0 ~Minifig Book (Spine) 0 Name: x466.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 s\x466s01.dat 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 s\x466s01.dat 1 16 0 0 0 -1 0 0 (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x468s01 - for Minifig Book [DAT]
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Last of the three subfiles... 0 ~Minifig Book Book (Rear/"Female" Half) -- Minus Surface 0 Name: s\x468s01.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 -17 0 -1 17 0 0 0 0 27 0 3 0 box5.dat 0 1 16 -17 0 2 16 0 0 0 0 26 0 6 0 (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x467s01 - for Minifig Book [DAT]
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One of three subfiles... 0 ~Minifig Book (Front/"Male" Half) -- Minus Surface 0 Name: s\x467s01.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 17 0 -1 17 0 0 0 0 27 0 3 0 box5.dat 0 4 16 33 -26 2 33 26 2 33 26 4 33 -26 4 4 16 (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x466s01 - for Minifig Book [DAT]
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One of three subfiles... 0 ~Minifig Book (Spine) -- Minus Surfaces (x1/4) 0 Name: s\x466s01.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 4 16 -5 -27 -1 -5 0 -1 -5 0 0 -5 -27 0 4 16 -2 -27 -2 0 -27 -2 0 -27 -1 -5 -27 -1 4 16 -5 (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | I can't load my new files...
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...Because someone took my part numbers. Well over a year ago (closer to two years ago, if memory serves), I was given the range of x460 through x489 for any LDraw file I wrote whose part number I didn't know. (These are called "temporary part (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 8818 Povray Animations
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Hi! The following two animations are my first steps on the field of Lego/POV-Ray Animation. I used only POV-Ray and MLCaD, all the animations were calculated by the clock. The rendering of the second animation took 10 hours, cause I used radiosity (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) Hi, I just installed MBC 2.1b1 on an iMac G3/600Mhz running 10.2.6. While viewing the forklift sample file, one thing caught my eye: ltGray bushings floating in mid-air. The Instructions file shows a similar picture (M850 Forklift.dat) which (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | 8466 ANIMATED
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I have finished creating the 8466 4X4. Drawn for animation. The doors work, steering works, Suspension works, Sorry did not get to transmision yet, but engine turns. Working on a cool animation. Here is just a preview. Note the steering wheel. (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Must everything be php?
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:HtEJ2H.Ktq@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) (...) [ ... snipped ... ] It isn't so much a function of PHP but rather the CMS implementation (PostNuke) which is responsible for it. PostNuke (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automated minifig walking animation include file for Povray (Was: 8002 destroyer)
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Sneak preview of m_walk's new functionality: (URL) include file coming soon! (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Must everything be php?
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(...) I'd love to but I can't (...) This is annoying but a limitation that I have to deal with. (...) I can but it would require a specific redirect. I'd rather just place a link to the article on the tutorials main page. (...) You can't. I made (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Must everything be php?
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(...) I realize that. But why do you even want to convert it? It seems like the php content management system you're using must be unbearably tedious. Can't you just put it somewhere and submit an article that points to it? Meanwhile why highlight (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Must everything be php?
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(...) Don, I'm still working on the posting of this tutorial. This mean that none of the links internal to the tutorial will work until I'm done. As for the long urls, there is a simple shortcut. Note the "sid=262" postion of the url. Take that (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Must everything be php?
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Why does everything on ldraw.org have to be converted to php links? This is insane. For instance, I noticed the "recent article box" on the top right of the main page says Bram Lambrecht's LDraw & Ledit tutorial was posted on the Feb. 10th. I'd (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Virtual Beethoven (largest MLCad-project ever ??)
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Hi all, I promised a new MOC in February, here it is. (URL) Read all about it>. (2 URLs) Watch it grow> (0.9 Mb). Let me know what you think. Maarten (My next project is a mosaic -studs on top, I already designed a mosaic-framework where glue is no (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.be, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) in reference to shift selecting multiple bricks (...) I just checked Mac Lego Modeler (MBC v0.1), MBC 0.2d1, MBC 0.5d2, and MBC 2.0b1. None of those older versions of MBC shift select for me. I simply assumed that shift selecting hadn't been (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) Yes, I can use the text drawer to shift multiselect. (...) Nope, option clicking doesn't do that special rotation. (...) Nope, the command key doesn't reactivate model rotation. Chris (PB G3... I'm all for that mapping "delete" key to clear (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) Yes, that works. (...) No. Rotates the model as if there was no option key pressed. (...) Parts move when clicking and dragging, but holding down the apple key does not rotate the model. (...) At one time. I don't know when exactly. I threw (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Ryan's overhauled site
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(...) Whoa, good timing! Just a few hours ago I was poking around your site to see your LDraw-compatible K'Nex and Lincoln Log stuff, and I noticed the slick new design. Very sharp! One comment, though. The K'Nex and Lincoln Log links from this (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| | Ryan's overhauled site
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I'm happy to announce after half a year in the making, my entirely re-designed web site has been launched! Visit (URL) to see it. With its new look, Virtual Construction has a better face for the world, and you can even see a separate experimental (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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Very curious??? A question, can you select multiple parts in the text editor using the shift key? This routine is handled by the NSDrawer manager not MBC, so it may at least see if it's my keyboard mapping. Additionally, do these other keys work? 1. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Newbie L3PAO/POV-RAY Question
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(...) I forgot to mention. If you are going to use POV 3.5, please read the following article: (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
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(...) OK, I see the problem. (...) This is a good idea. So I would agree with that. CU Bernd (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) How about mapping the Backspace or Delete keys (beware of Powerbook owners) to the "Clear"-command in the "Edit"-menu for deleting selected pieces...? :-) Greetz, Anton (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Newbie L3PAO/POV-RAY Question
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(...) The all-in-one installer will install BOTH POV-Ray 3.1g and 3.5 if you select custom install and choose to install MEGAPOV (it will also install POV-Ray 3.1g.) Likewsie you can find POV-Ray 3.1g here: <ftp://ftp.povray.or...Versions/> (...) (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) Echoing Chris and Jamess, I tried the all 4 shift keys (built-in and USB external keyboards) and both the trackpad and USB mouse buttons to no avail. (...) Sounds good. (...) I'd appreciate that, thanks! Tom (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Newbie L3PAO/POV-RAY Question
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(...) Don't woory about this error. I've tried to fix this problem myself to no avail. POV-Ray and L3PAO don't seem to get along. Anyway, L3PAO works just fine as you said and all you need to do is open the file L3P creates is to double click the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Newbie L3PAO/POV-RAY Question
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Okie dokie, my question this time: When I launch L3PAO I get the following message: "POV-Ray could not be verified as installed on this system. L3PAO will run, but auto-rendering of .L3P-generated files will not be available." Other than this, it (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Newbie LSynth Question
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(...) OK, bad form to reply to yourself but I'm going to in this case just to document the solution I found to this problem in case others run into it. To solve this I downloaded LSynth from Kevin Clague's site and installed it. It now works like a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) Doesn't work on my G5 desktop with a 2 button mouse, not matter which buttons (r/l) or which shift/control/option...right/left keys I press. Just seems to be gone. James (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
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(...) I'm inclined to agree, as I have been struggling with this conceptual problem, since borrowing a selection of Modulex with the intention of authoring some parts for LDraw. Are there any Modulex parts that _do_ actually bind with regular LEGO? (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
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(...) Have you really considered the consequenses when modelling? It will be almost impossible to calculate the positions of the parts. Or at least very, very time consuming. /Tore (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) I bet that I will think it is super cool. snip (...) Very weird. I just checked again, and I even rechecked mouse behavoir. Neither the mouse nor the track pad will do multiple selections by shift clicking. I have noticed in the past (in a (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
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(...) I think the scale of Modulex parts should hardcoded (62.5% of normal size in dat-code). No separation. So it has the same norm as the "normal" Lego parts (1 mm = 2.5 LDU). CU Bernd (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
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(...) I think the scale of Modulex parts should hardcoded (62.5% of normal size in dat-code). No separation. So it has the same norm as the "normal" Lego parts (1 mm = 2.5 LDU). CU Bernd (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
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(...) Sorry, wrong ng... :) FOT: lugnet.cad.dat.parts (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20 [DAT]
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I don't know... It feel like it's easier to model with even LDU's. If you wish to mix real LEGO with Modulex, build a separate Modulex model file and scale down the intire with 0.625. I think it's better to do it this way. What do you think? If you (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Adding part updates (and clone parts)
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(...) Fortunately, I had already made some small steps in that direction prior to Matthew's debut! (And my clone-collaborator wasn't involved in the birth at all, so his efforts have proceeded unabated.) (...) Oh, that... The well-designed site (as (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: L3P and Animation (Was: Automated minifig walking animation...)
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(...) ---...--- Yes, that is quite a good solution. It misses frame #000, but that is easily done by hand. Or, anybody familiar with JavaScript or VBS could make your suggested Search&Replace combined with Search: "// Frame 000" Replaceby: "#if (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Adding part updates (and clone parts)
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(...) Since it's been about a month now, I figure it's time to check up on this again. Anything happening here, or is it now a hopelessly lost cause. Given the recent happy announcement, I'm assuming it's been indefinitely put off. By the way, where (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New LDraw Animation: Rotation Animation
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(...) Great stuff. Thanks, Steven. I actually was planning to do something similar. I'll probably end up writing an include file similar to the walking minfig include, only it will automatically rotate the wheels on any car model. Anyway, I wanted (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) This is strange as shift-clicking to select multiple parts works fine for me, I verified this last night on version 2.1b1. However a thought came to me later during the night that I haven't yet been able to verify: while I haven't deliberately (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: New website: www.holly-wood.it
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(...) it has been rendered with bryce using 5 meshes and a texture. w. (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Re: [request] filter for PT queue
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(...) I sometimes forget to process the verification email for posting via NNTP. Steve (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: [request] filter for PT queue
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(...) Heh. It might not be complete - when new scripts are added, I have to manually add them to the script that builds the download file. The alternative is to pull in scripts based on location or name, and that might get scripts that are not ready (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) [snip] (...) This could be addressed by prepending each value/line with 1=, 2=, 3=, etc. Steve (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P and Animation (Was: Automated minifig walking animation...)
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(...) Yep, I've encountered this before and "solved" it the same way. LPUB will render this correctly, however. Place a CLEAR statement at the beginning of each step, then load the master file in LPUB and ask it to generate instruction steps without (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Newbie LSynth Question
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Next question: I'm trying to use LSynth. I have followed the directions in the book (Virtual Lego) but when I launch LSynth it says "Unable to find lsynth install directory". So am I missing another environment variable? LSynth was installed by the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New LDraw Animation: Rotation Animation
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Thanks to Steven Krass we have a new LDraw tutorial on the very hot topic right now... ANIMATION!!!! Steven will show you how to make this simple animation: (URL) So where do you get it? (URL) Please let us know what you think? Perhaps we can get (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: Help Request: LDList & LDLite Problems
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(...) It should be set by the automatic installer at ldraw.org, but it neither sets the variable nor creates LDraw.ini (with its BaseDirectory key). /Tore (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | L3P and Animation (Was: Automated minifig walking animation...)
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(...) Oh, almost there... This is what L3P produces: #declare _40_MyAn_dot_dat = union { // "MyAn" - (MyAn) // Name: @MyAn.dat // Author: Tore Eriksson // LDraw Animation Master File // Frame 000 object { _40_myan000_dot_dat matrix (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Help Request: LDList & LDLite Problems
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(...) Actually, it is in the book. It comes on the CD, is installed by the automagic installer, and its use is covered in Chapter 4, page 37. But clearly, I was missing this environment variable. Anyway, thanks for the help on this. I appreciate it! (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Help Request: LDList & LDLite Problems
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(...) It's not in the book. The programs covered in the book set this environmental varible automatically so I assume it wasn't worth mentioning. LDList, however, is not covered in the book and doesn't automatically set this varible. -Orion (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Help Request: LDList & LDLite Problems
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(...) Orion, Thanks! That fixed my LDList problem right away. I as assuming it was some simple newbie kind-of problem. So was this in the book and I just missed it? I went back through that section (Chapter 2) and didn't see anything about setting (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Help Request: LDList & LDLite Problems
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(...) Hi Kim, I have some answers for you: LDList needs to know where you installed LDraw. Here's how you tell LDList the correct information by setting the LDRAWDIR environment varible: - Click on the start menu - Right click on My Computer and (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Automated minifig walking animation include file for Povray (Was: 8002 destroyer)
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(...) I think I have the same idea as you have. The function (method?) "<Minifig01>.MFWalk = 40" is unfortunately hard-coded inside the exe file. I don't want it that way. I want it to be an external, easy-to-make module from a library, and the next (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Help Request: LDList & LDLite Problems
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At Brickfest PDX this last weekend I obtained a copy of Tim, Steve & Ahui's "Virtual Lego" book. I'm really quite enjoying it! I've been a peripheral user of the LDraw parts library for years now but I stopped upgrading once the parts reference was (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDA2001 Quickstart (Was: Automated minifig walking...)
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(...) My program was written a couple of years ago. The primary idea was not the program itself, but to create a syntax that could cover all needs for animation. There are many programmers at Lugnet much more skilled than me, so I thought that if (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) I see them now. I missed that the image was a live link. Excellent quality images there. Was the moonscape background done in the render program or is it post processed? I'm getting bored of plain backgrounds. Allister (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale)
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(...) Do you watch movies on it? I could easily see a 22" display serving as a TV replacement :) (...) Me too. Shift clicking and command clicking do not select multiple parts in MBC 2.1. Shift or command dragging doesn't select anything at all. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Automated minifig walking animation include file for Povray (Was: 8002 destroyer)
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Hi Tore, I gave your program a spin. I'd say we are not that far away in conceptual terms. "My aim is to let the program I'm currently working on take on the grunt work." Is pretty much what I'm thinking. And the whole "march.exe" idea is right on (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HtAD4n.BCJ@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) <SNIP> (...) FILE:// style is fully machine dependend as well, so there is no need to put file in front, but I'm open to additionaly (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Kevin, This aproach works fine on my PC too. Perhaps i did something wrong the first time, but i stay at my idea of TAB delimeter files for the fact that it would be easier to get every thing in nice columns. As you take a close look, (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Allister McLaren" <Allister.McLaren@Alcan.com> wrote in message news:Ht9M0I.p58@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) lego pile (...) would look (...) A colored chassis is a good idea - maybe we'll switch it out. We did go with a chrome (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad)
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(...) ME and the NT variants store the environment in the registry so this would only make things worse for 95 and 98. That said, I'd still prefer to keep things short for the environment version of this. One variable, with as many shortcuts as (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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Andrew, thanks for the reply. (...) Ok. (...) Not a big deal from a practical standpoint. (...) Lucky duckie! I like the idea of using the drawer effect to associate the model text with the viewing window in principle (and it works fine on smaller (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) many thx for the compliments! (...) I do not quite right understand your question. images are provided along with the dats. clicking the thumbnail or the title.gif or the numbers after "pages:" will lead to a new page containing a javascript (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale)
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Tom, (...) This is a known bug that todate has evaded me, the only solution I currently have is leave the window open during modelling. (...) I've got a feeling this isn't available. (...) I'll have to check out the parts (...) I suppose this could (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Thanks for doing the research. As a result, I think "Chin Guard" is preferable. Chris (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) That's really cool. I'm glad this model passed the kid test. It is fun driving it over the lego pile and seeing the suspension working. I thought after I built it that it would look good in black, maybe with a red or yellow car base - good (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad)
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(...) In DOS/Windows the problem with environment space is (I believe) more a problem of limited total environment space. I don't think there's additional limitations on individual variables. So using multiple environment variables might conceivably (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | The Green Dragon returns in under 36 hours
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I've finally gone and Ldrawn my Green Dragon, Vildegraas. This is the last of the four dragons to be digitally built. Click on the image for a larger picture. (URL) And I did it in under 36 hours (that's from start to finish, not total work hours). (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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<all the stuff I agree with snipped, leaving only the trivial> (...) I agree with the idea, but is "Chin-Guard" a standard word? It's not in either dictionary.com or m-w.com (I really need to get my books out of storage. . .) and a Google search on (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Excellent looking site with lots of useful stuff in there. Bookmarked! Have you considered generating instruction images rather than leaving the instructions merely as CAD files? It's not a big step but it makes them much more accessable. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale)
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Kevin Wilson wrote in message ... (...) That would be, it IMPORTED perfectly. <sigh> Kevin ---...--- Farmhouse kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I can go along with that! ;) (Good catch, by the way! ;) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Numbers Report - 17 Feb. 2004
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Stats for Unofficial Files 257 certified files. 240 files need admin review. 485 files need more votes. 486 have uncertified subfiles. 131 held files. Total Files: 1,599 Comparison with Prev. Report: 2004-02-17: 257 / 240 / 485 / 486 / 131 (1,599) (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) Right. In case the variable gets too long we can resort to multiple variables: [LDraw] BaseDirectory=C:\LDraw LgeoDirectory=C:\L2P LdrawSearch01=<HIDE>...MyPrims\In Work LdrawSearch02=C:\LDr...MyParts\In Work LdrawSearch03=<MODELDIR> (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree and prefer Chin-guard too. (...) Doh - no, of course not. I meant 193a : Minifig Helmet Classic with Thin Chin-guard 193b : Minifig Helmet Classic with Thick Chin-guard (...) Chris (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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ludo soete wrote in message ... (...) 'Color, (...) VBA (...) When I try to open (not import) a MLCAD part list text file in my (old) version of Excel, it can tell that the file is Fixed Width and comes up with that wizard, which lets me set the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) So, by your own logic, the classic helmets should be: (...) (I personally think the above makes more sense, incidentally. None of the helmets have chin straps, because that would have to go under the chin.) On a side note, are those supposed (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) I'm partial to Chin-Guard. A chinstrap is a miniature belt that braces itself against your chin to hold your helmet onto your head. A chin-*GUARD* on the other hand protects your chin. (...) I like the inclusion of Castle. But we should (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Something similar (but probably not identical to) the above would have my vote (I'll explain below). I would clarify that if ldraw.ini can't be found in the user's home directory (aka the user profile directory), then the Windows directory (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What'd Datsville look like?
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(...) Holy Cow! You updated it. (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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