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(...) I tried stuff with Virtual PC, and it stunk. The CAD tools aren't worth it in my opinion. Even with the latest VPC 7 and the fastest G5, the equivelent PC is a 533 MHz (people are saying). Considering that my G5 2.0 whips through the imperial (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org's September Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the September Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, US Sherman M4A3 Tank, Jorgen Andersson> (URL) SOTM, I am a train driver..., Ben Beneke> The voting for the October Model of the Month and Scene of the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO CAD with Mac OS X & Virtual PC?
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(...) I'm not a Mac user but there are Mac LDraw programs. Please reference the Mac getting started page on Ldraw.org: (URL) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi, everyone... I have a question for the Mac folks... I'm interested in exploring LEGO CAD, but I don't want to have to buy a PC. I thought that I might be able to go buy a copy of "Virtual PC" for my Mac and try the various Windows CAD tools, like (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: DAT2DXF problems
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NFI, just FYI: Just a follow up to 3DWin; V5 is now available for download, and the full version translator is much better. Earlier versions missed some faces on round parts due to vertex flipping - that problem is now solved. Works beautifully for (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) Yes, basically. LDraw color codes are bit-mapped. Bit 8 -> 0=normal, 1=dithered Bit 5 -> 0=opaque, 1=transparent (when bit 8 is 0) Bit 0-3 -> Color index (when bit 8 is 0) When LDraw goes to draw an opaque color, it does (color && 0xF) to mask (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) So, just so that I understand, are you saying that ldraw subtracts 64 from colors between 64 and 128, and uses that new value as the color? I wasn't aware of this behavior. (I understand it might not do exactly that; I just want to know if (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) Thanks for bringing this up, Travis. It's a very good point. The answer is: yes and no. The LDraw codes for new Stone Gray, Dark Stone Gray, and Reddish Brown were selected so that the original LDraw will treate them as Gray (color 7), Dark (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) I don't want to come off the wrong way here, but is it really a good idea to be using a new color in a part so soon after it has been made official? You can pretty much guarantee it will look wrong in every current program if you do so. Also, (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) I updated the list of colors, adding the new colors and changing most of the color values to match the information in ldconfig.ldr. Steve (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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