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  Use all your Windows PC’s as one, to render POV-Ray at once and real easy (SMPOV)
 
Hello, Over the past few months I have been working on making a mini-supercomputer with several servers running Linux and PVM (parallel virtual machine) with MOSIX. All for Rendering in POV-Ray. After weeks of learning Linux and trying to figure out (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)  
 
  Do you remember what LDraw.org looked like back in 1999?
 
Doing a mindless internet surf today and bumped into a website that is archiving the internet! So I decided to give it a try and typed in www.ldraw.org and look what I got. (URL) Enjoy... BTW the website is called: WayBack Machine (URL) -AHui A&M (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
 
  Re: New colours in Ldraw?
 
(...) That doesn't mean dithered colours cannot be used in a part, just that any area that requires such should be devolved into a subpart. There are plenty of examples of this technique in the official library - e.g. 973p39.dat Chris (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
 
  RE: New colours in Ldraw?
 
(...) Ah, but according to the Colour Chart ((URL) "LDraw can render mixes of the basic 16 colors. This is commonly called 'dithering'. You can use dithered colors for any part reference, but part authors cannot use them to color polygons or lines. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: New colours in Ldraw?
 
(...) I understand your point, but I think that it's a bad idea to release an official part that's guaranteed to look wrong in all current renderers. All that's going to do is confuse the novice users, and I think that's a really bad idea. I'm not (...) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
 
(...) BlockCAD (see sig.) has snapping. In fact it's impossible to put parts inside each other there. OTOH, BlockCAD has many other limitations (studs up only, 90 degrees turning only, limited part library) so it's usability depends on what you are (...) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Strange part/file conversion problem
 
I've been working on model 8872, the forklift transport and I've again found some parts that do not convert the right way from Ldraw to LGEO: part: 6536.dat / Technic Axle Joiner Perpendicular is rotated 90 degrees part: 2905.dat / Technic Triangle (...) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
 
(...) Wonderful. Glad to see someone already thought about this and is implementing it into a working program. Thanks for the information, Travis. :) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
 
  Re: New colours in Ldraw?
 
(...) Good Idea. That's also my opinion. There should be a break with the backward compatibility. That would solve many Problems with the old DOS-Program. And it would be easier to generate new standards. CU Bernd (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: I want to become a reviewer
 
(...) While I don't stick religiously to any formula, I do usually try to group "logical" sections together, sometimes even with comments! But I think generally I've found it easier to do the polygons first. ROSCO (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
 
  Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
 
This has been talked about in the past. There's even a lugnet group devoted entirely to one of the proposals: (URL). I believe that the author of the Glide app is the only person to announce an intention of producing an LCD-based implementation. I (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
 
  Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
 
I was thinking about how difficult it is to build things in MLCad. It's not technically difficult to build them, but it is difficult to position things properly. Even when you think you have a piece positioned properly, it ends up coming out wrong (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
 
  Re: New colours in Ldraw?
 
"William Howard" <william@howard-fami...rld.co.uk> wrote in news:I59Dy4.1q5u@lugnet.com: (...) What I would personally like, is an LDraw colour chart that includes every official colour from (URL). For my own personal use I've made include files for (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
 
  RE: help with ldraw
 
right click in each window and select "show scroll bar" from the menu -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of vineethonkan Sent: 08 October 2004 16:12 To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  help with ldraw
 
Hey y'all- I was just working on my LDraw when I experienced a problem. On the four small dimension windows, the up-down, left-right scrolls have vanished. Is there a way I can retrieve them? (I don't know what I did). (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Working on 6032.dat Brick 2 x 3 x 1 & 2/3 Octagonal offset
 
(...) This is in my "delvolopment" queue for LDraw.org features. Unless Steve adds this to the PT, I think I can whip up a website module. -Orion (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
 
  Re: Working on 6032.dat Brick 2 x 3 x 1 & 2/3 Octagonal offset
 
(...) Yes, that's true. I do drop a mail to this list when I'd like to announce a part (in those rare cases when I have time to do some part authoring). The problem is that you get only feedback if the other part author working on the same part (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: Starting with LDraw - or something like that.
 
(...) That works, thanks! The same was in the other posting, which linked to a FAQ Sonnich (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
 
  RE: Working on 6032.dat Brick 2 x 3 x 1 & 2/3 Octagonal offset
 
(...) "Working on" (...) duplicate (...) I thought that was one of the purposes of lugnet.cad.dat.parts ?!?!?!? (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: Working on 6032.dat Brick 2 x 3 x 1 & 2/3 Octagonal offset
 
(...) I join to Niel's opinion, it would be useful to have a so called "Working on" list to announce if an author is working on a certain part, to avoid duplicate efforts. The precursor of present day Part Tracker (I don't remember its proper name) (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)


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