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(...) snip Awesome Nathanael! As you have proven time and again with your creations, there is no one more deserving to be a master builder than you. Hopefully now we can get some (official) instructions for your alternate models. ;) Best of luck. (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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Nate, Cpongrats and Best of luck to you at Billund! Hope they give you a LEGO e-mail account! Scott Lyttle (20 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) Nate, it's been a real pleasure getting to know you online. I'm very happy to see you take off and am honored by your mentioning me. And I'm really happy that you are going to do what you wanted - congratulations! And yes, I will be buying (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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Hi, This will probably be my last post for a while, because in a week I'll be moving to LEGO Denmark to help developing things for next year. I hope to design a great model in return for all your supporting and helping comments for the past few (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX) !!
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(...) <snip> (...) LPub renders the part images, and then walks through the image finding its bounding rectangle. All placement is based on packing rectangles. To better pack the long parts, I would need to find the bounding parallelogram, and pack (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I haven't seen it noted anywhere before, but there seem to be 3 different molds used to make functionally different versions of this part, the 2x2x2 round robot body (R2-D2 body): (URL) The difference is in how the center hole at the bottom of the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | Mock-up: 45301.dat - Wedge 4x16 Curved Triple [DAT]
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(...) I don't have the part in question, but here's a crude, hollow, non-curved mock-up I rushed together based on the two pics at peeron. Hope it's the correct height at least. 0 Wedge 4 x 16 Curved Triple (CRUDE Mock-up) 0 Name 45301.dat 0 (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Anders, Thanks very much. I'll see what I can do. Kevin (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This is exactly what happens when you read string numbers into a float (or Pascal single) and then convert it to a double (or extended). Floating point numbers are never exact in computers, and storing them with limited precision (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Andy, I'm very impressed with this post on LPub. You are very thorough, and it is clear you've done your homework before asking questions. It is some of the best LPub feedback I've ever gotten. (...) Yes. Hopefully I won't make the same (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I got this fabulous email from Andrew Maier: Kevin, as discussed, here are some comments on LPub. I wanted to post this on the lugnet cad forum, but I signed up there only recently, and it seems to take a while. So I'm writing to you, but feel free (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Just wondering since I don't have the skills, nor the time to make it myself, but am going to need it soon. (URL) -NB PS: I'll be away from my computer for the rest of the easter, so I'll only be able to read for a while (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) For reference, the above pictures were generated using the following command line for LDView 3 Beta 1: "C:\Program Files\LDView\ldview" -cg30,45,120000 c:\users\cobbs\ldraw...208c01.dat -SaveSnapshot=snap.png -SaveWidth=320 -SaveHeight=240 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) The links were also not evenly spaced. (...) Here are two pictures with the same scale (new one on the right): (2 URLs) --Travis (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Hi Mitchell, Yes. It is possible to turn a 24th gear using MLCad. When you click on the gear (placed in the X/Y plane), you should see a small black square with a plus in it. This is MLCad's rotation point. If the rotation point is in the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Good catch Purple Dave! Thanks for the update Steve. I'll have to adjust some of my LSynth information based on the new part sizes I guess. Kevin (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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Hi Steve, (...) Your eyeballs are quite precise! I measured a link at 8 x 4.6 x 1.2mm, translating to 20 x 11.5 x 3 LDU... Philo (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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In MLCad, is there a way to rotate the gear teeth of the 24 tooth gear by employing the "Z" element toolbar commands? The "Z" rotation command rotates the teeth for 8, 16, and 40 tooth gears, but only the internal bar and four holes rotate inside (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I just posted an update to the minifig chain (part 208c01.dat) to the Parts Tracker. The official file three problems: it was too long overall, there were too many links, and each link was too small. (URL) Compare: [LDrawPart 208c01:7] Current (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw's Autostep does not work in Lpub? [DAT]
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(...) Autostep is not part of the LDraw file format, but specific to MLCad. Here is a specification of the official LDraw file format: (URL) is not the default in MLCad. At least not on my generic installation of MLCad. (...) Autostep is not a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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