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I am trying to model a train depot near where I work, and would like to use dark red, but I couldn't figure out what color to choose in MLCad. I did a quick search of the cad group, but didn't see anything that seemed to answer my question. I did (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New to MLCad - some questions
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(...) There's 2 other ways: - Hold down ctrl-shift and then left click the window you want to zoom. Now let go of the keyboard buttons and as long as you hold down the left mouse button you can move the mouse up and down to zoom in or out. - Use the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Anyone know Brick Builder?
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Hi All, Sorry if this has been discussed before (I tried a search, but all it came up with were posts by Bert Giesen!). At the LDraw presentation at SIGGRAPH 04, someone in the audience asked whether LDraw could take a 3D model created in another (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Do you remember what LDraw.org looked like back in 1999?
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(...) Yeah its a pretty cool tool. Its also useful for finding individual's Lego sites from back in 97-2000 when every man and his dog was creating them. I spent some time a while back reading through early Lugnet posts and many of the site links (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | RE: New to MLCad - some questions
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click the part (in any view but the 3d view), press F5, drag the mouse up and down to change the zoom (or right click and select the zoom factor) then press F3 to revert to edit mode. -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: New to MLCad - some questions
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(...) be that (...) a way I (...) angles. I (...) a weird (...) Oh yeah, its fun turning the 3D view. I use the following process 1) right click the 3d window and select zoom to fit 2) click and hold on the very bottom point of the model 3) move (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New to MLCad - some questions
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One more thing: in the views, can I zoom in and just see the part where I am working? Sure can, just how? (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New to MLCad - some questions
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(...) This takes a lot of getting used to. The problem is that when you rotate the plate 90 degrees, the arrow keys continue to work as though it was stud up - left moves it 1/2 stud left, up moves 1/2 stud back etc, instead of 1 plate or whatever (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New to MLCad - some questions
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1: The grid: When placing components as normal, I dont have any problems. But when I tried to use the light holder and adding a light to it (just as the example car, with 1x1 plate on the 1x1 brick sideways), I am lost. I cannot get it to snap, nor (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
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(...) Sounds good.. But i would like to see some technic compatability as well.. Technic pieces are the hardest to position. Thank you, though. :) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Use all your Windows PC’s as one, to render POV-Ray at once and real easy (SMPOV)
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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)
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| | Do you remember what LDraw.org looked like back in 1999?
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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)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) 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)
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| | RE: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Strange part/file conversion problem
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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)
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| | Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: I want to become a reviewer
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(...) 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)
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