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(...) Hi Willy, Don and I are working on lsynth now. You are right, hoses are restricted to LS00.dat and it is not always the logical choice. I've made both hose and band synthesis descriptions tabular, and also have band constraints as tabular. I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New LSynth features (Att. many pics!!!)
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(...) hi kevin, I'd like to see these in lsynth (knowing that these would be very tough once) the fire fighter hose with 194.dat - Minifig Tool Hose Nozzle with Handle as one of the end pieces like in: (URL) the armes made of 3612.dat - Arm Piece (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LSynth synthesis and needed sub-parts
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(...) hi kevin, it's because I'm allergic to manuals and I’m usually in trail’n’error mode ;-)) but seriously, the problem I had with the flexible axle (and some others who contacted me because of the MLCad/Lsynth tutorial) is the fact that the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Michael, I've been working on lsynthcp.exe lately, giving it the rewrite it has always needed, compacting code, making it more robust and decreasing synthesized file size dramatically. I was very pleased that you added support for lsynthcp.exe in (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LSynth synthesis and needed sub-parts
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(...) Hi Willy, Hah! RTFM! *The book* "LEGO Software Power Tools" makes it clear that LS00.DAT is the only constraint associated with hoses. Sorry, just in a good mood, because I just finished up rewriting the band synthesis code and made it much (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Slope parts with patterns...
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Would making the pattern face of a slope (or wedge) a subpart to be used with the main piece (without face) subpart be ok? I'm thinking, that for slopes (and wedges), it would be easier to make the pattern a flat subpart, then rotate the subpart to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Contributer Agreement Status
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(...) On this point, the ONLY way for me to reach the widest amount of people possible is for people who read this message to spread to word. I made a conscious (and correct) decision not to massively cross post this thread to increase exposure. I (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Contributer Agreement Status
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(...) You are! Sproat agreed very promptly once Orion was able to reach him. (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Contributer Agreement Status
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(...) Hi Jeremy! Yours was one of the names that I figured just wasn't getting through due to something silly like this. I also figured that you'd come through and approve the new agreement so that the parts you created could continue to be (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Status of BFC
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(...) It looks like 1058 files are BFC-compliant, out of 2945 official part files. (...) It doesn't look like you'll be able to make that assumption. Steve (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Gimme-five, actually 10
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hi folks, I've just added 10 new "helpers" to my website. (URL) place these numbers directly in your LDraw scene to number your steps without the usage of photo editing or desktop publishing progs and benefit from having total control over size, (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy (well, easier)
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(...) Well I'm now official embarassed. I knew that; really; honest. It's always fun when your users can tell you why your program is behaving in the way it is. Thanks, Orion, for pointing out what I of all people should have seen as obvious. (Just (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy (well, easier)
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(...) In order for smoothing to work on parts outside the PARTS and P directories, you need to add the following to the header: 0 Unofficial Part This "turns on" smoothing in LDView. (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm puzzled, too. Should I follow some convention regarding the order of primitives in the file? My optional lines *are* correct, I have verified that, but even a simple smooth cylinder converted with my program shows up faceted in LDView. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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My converter has undergone a considerable update during the weekend. It is now called "max2dat", because it now handles the 3DS file format as well, and supports the two main export formats from 3dsmax. (The previous "max2dat" utility written in (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Longitudinal-latitudinal coordinates calulator?
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(...) hi don(e), thx for the tool. It'll do the job 'til you bake this code into a solid nice .exe ;-))) w. (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth synthesis and needed sub-parts
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(...) hi kevin, IMHO the main problem is that there is some confusion about the LS00.dat constrain an the rest like the flex-axle-end. my understanding now is that the ONLY constrain for all tubes is LS00.dat while the rest is used in the synthesis (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDrawed Mercedes-Benz Actros 4150K in 1:13 scale
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Since many people asked me if there were instructions available for my Actros (the real truck is green, but LDraw's green doesn't look that nice :) ): (2 URLs) (Click on the picture to download the zipped ldraw files.) After more than a year I have (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.inst, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Animation Precision
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(...) I think 2 is sufficient, but 3 "feels" safer. Once there was an extreme case where 3 wasn't enough. I had to rotate train tracks and a train from a radius of... I think it was 750, 800, and 850 LDU. Using 3 decimals on the sin and cos values (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LEGOLAND Models
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Hello all, I'm pleased to announce I've finished the first two themes set in LDraw. You can find the .mpd-files and a picture of each model on my homepage at (URL) you find any mistakes anywhere, please let me know! I'll be updating the files (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad)
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