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(...) I have a minimal install package that came with Borland C++ Builder, and I barely know how to use it. Any education would be greatly appreciated. (...) Fair enough. (...) Max camera distance only calculates max camera distance for building (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Kevin, here are some comments on the LPub 2.2.0.9 beta. Some may also be valid for the 2.2.0.2 version but I observed all of them in the 2.2.0.9 beta version .... 1. The install program does not recognize where an earlier version was installed to. (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Try here: (URL) I was also wondering if there is any way to make them in a CAD program and (...) Yes, Stefan Gustavson recently released a good converter: (URL) are various other converters listed here: (URL) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I was and am particularly appreciative of the fact that you were very thorough in reading documentation. You also dug deeply and gave explanations that let me answer questions without having to ask questions. (...) I need to move the PLI small (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some comments on LPub - rotations
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(...) <snip> (...) Correct. (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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First I'd like to say sorry for asking the question you guys probably get asked more often then you like. I searched and found a thread on it but the link to the FAQ at ldraw.org was bad. So my question is, does any one have a good link to an FAQ (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I have to correct myself. It does not seem to work, but then as I re-read your answer, it seems that the fixed version is still in the pipe and not yet in 2.2.0.9 beta, true ? Thanks Andy (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) One way to adress this is to keep the setting in memory also as a string, and never convert on the way of loading a config file into memory and saving it to a file again. Only when the setting is used to do calculations, it is converted from (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Some comments on LPub [DAT]
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(...) :-) Thanks for the flowers ... (...) correctly. (...) I believe this is sufficient, since the window is scrollable. I did not yet see a case where the top of the contents had fallen off the scrollable contents. In addition, it would be nice if (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I am pleased to announce the new version of MPDCenter program. Now it is possible to import MPD files into an MPD. I hope you will enjoy this version. Any comments and wishes are welcome. Michael Heidemann (mikeheide) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Good bye for now and special thanks
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(...) Hi Joe, We'll have to wait how things will work out, but if it's possible I'll try to drop a line sometimes. We still have our little plan, which hopefully will surprise and stimulate people. ;) I'm honored and excited that you've chosen me (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Scott, I'll do my best to make both TLC and AFOLs happy. If they give me an e-mail account, I'll probably let you know (if that's allowed) Nate (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) Thank you so much Paul for your kind words! I'll do my best for all of you. I'm not sure what exactly they want me to build at TLC, so we'll have to wait if I am allowed to build both main models and alternates.. My first goal is convincing (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) -snip- Nathanael, Congratulations!!! And, I think we should be congratulating TLC, too. You're a terrific builder and I'm sure you'll contribute great things to the LEGO line. It's been wonderful sharing in my LEGO fun with you and I'm glad to (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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Yay! Hoooooooorrrrrray! Hooo...ooorrrrrrrray! Hoooorrrrrrraaaay! I'm so happy for you! From the First Little Bot to this wonderful achievment! Go Nate Go! e (20 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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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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| | Good bye for now and special thanks
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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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| | Re: Some comments on LPub
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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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| | 3 versions of 30361 2x2x2 Robot Body
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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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| | Re: Some comments on LPub
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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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| | Some comments on LPub
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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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| | Anybody working on the 45301 wedge 4x16 curved triple?
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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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| | Re: Minifig Chain Updated
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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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| | Re: Rotating Gear Teeth
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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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| | Re: Minifig Chain Updated
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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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| | Rotating Gear Teeth
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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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| | Minifig Chain Updated
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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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| | Re: LDraw's Autostep does not work in Lpub?
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(...) Hi Mitchell, LPub has no support for autostep. I didn't even know about it until you mentioned it. LPub supports STEP and ROTSTEP meta commands, but not autostep. If you read the LPub help file you wil find no mention of AUTOSTEP. Having made (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LDraw's Autostep does not work in Lpub?
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If I understand correctly, LDraw's Autostep is set as the default and requires no other changes (if you will accept a new step after adding each new part). However, I cannot get LPub to render anything but the complete assembly from a model designed (...) (20 years ago, 20-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Version 512 of the Library is available now.
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(...) Thank you Ross, apparently I forgot that not everybody knows where I "live" on the Internet... :-) Greetz, Anton (20 years ago, 20-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Version 512 of the Library is available now.
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(...) (URL) for the noobs ;) ROSCO (20 years ago, 20-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Version 512 of the Library is available now.
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Version 512 of the Library can be found on my website now, 12 new pieces have been added, among them the much requested revolver! I have also changed the appearances of all the tech_plugs and a new color was added. As always you can find all of the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Missing parts in Ldraw, what do I do now?
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(...) Yeah, I admit that I've been less active on the PT as of late. Right now we're still in a holding pattern on the next update due to several key authors that have not yet responeded to the CA. All my PT effort have been towards this effort. (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: If I were a Minifig....... (Kitchen, dining, rec & gym)
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(...) These are awesome. Have you considered LDraw.org's MOTM/SOTM contest? -Orion (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX)
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| | Re: Missing parts in Ldraw, what do I do now?
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(...) Thank for your advice Orion. It has been on the parts tracker for a while. (URL) guess I wanted to finish something for once by appealling to an audience which may include LDRAW parts reviewers. Ian (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Legoland LDraw model repository
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(...) I have to forgotten to mention that Javascript needs to be enabled. Please try to type 0686-73 and then click the button. This should work. Also I found that not all MPD-files yet uploaded. I will check this and give a new comment if finished. (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | If I were a Minifig....... (Kitchen, dining, rec & gym)
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If I were a Minifig this would be the rest of my pad. (4 URLs) Once again there all a little to big for system minifigs but I guess thats the cost of a little detail. I'm really happy with the rec room. (Anyone want a drink) I think the pool table (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Legoland LDraw model repository
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(...) All spoked wheels LEGO released had smooth hubs and ten spokes. When LEGO switched from studded wheels to spoked wheels LEGO made prototypes with ribbed hubs and twelve spokes. These prototype wheels were used in lots of photographs for set (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Part images through LPub coming out white
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(...) Geoff, The reason that your part images came out white is because you overdrove the ambient and diffuse controls in the lighting section. It is my understanding that ambient+diffuse should be <= 1. You are driving things at 1 + 0.6. This only (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Part images through LPub coming out white
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(...) Well, Here is the real link: (URL) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Legoland LDraw model repository
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(...) Great work! I couldn't get the download to work, though, even though I typed in some of the OMR numbers you listed. I also have a comment on the sets 123, 124 and 125. Are those the correct wheels? My own 120 and 125 sets, bought in 1970, had (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Comments wanted: Plans for easier parts authoring
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(...) Thank you, very good and useful links! They were good examples to start me out in Python and LDR import/export for Blender, and the latest script was a very well working import. Export needs some more work to make a working parts authoring (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGO in CG classes was: easier parts authoring
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(...) (Sorry for the late reply, I forgot to check up on the thread.) You may share the movie freely, just keep the credits in there. The other Lego-related student animations I would have liked to share were computer-animated Lego minifig remakes (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee Election Results
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The winners of the 2005 LDraw Steering Committee Election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Steve Bliss Kevin L. Clague Tim Courtney Chris Dee Orion Pobursky Congratulations to the new LDraw Steering Committee members! -The 2004 LDraw.org (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Re: Legoland LDraw model repository
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(...) OOps, I have changed this and updated the page and pictures. Mikeheide (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Missing parts in Ldraw, what do I do now?
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(...) Submit it to the Parts Tracker. The PT is the offical process by which all parts are approved for the Offical Library. (URL) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Hiker Vignette
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(2 URLs) A little dabble into Vignettes and MLCAD. Render still needs work. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX) !
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| | Re: Missing parts in Ldraw, what do I do now?
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(...) I have authored Tyre 56x30R Baloon (part 32180)...now if I could just find someone nice enough to review it for me. Regards Ian (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Part images through LPub coming out white
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(...) Love to, but the link doesn't work. Is there an alternate location? (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Part images through LPub coming out white
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(...) Geoff, Would you be willing to try (URL) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Part images through LPub coming out white
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I have a few models I am rendering complete with steps and instructions. I have LPub set to use Print resolution and have turned off the B/W feature so the images come out in full color. The instruction steps look great, but the part lists and BOM (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: rendering different scenes at same scale
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(...) David, LPub does this to make scale stay the same across building instruction steps. If you were to concatenate all your scenes together and separate them with a STEP and then CLEAR meta commands, then LPub would render each step as an image, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) Since LPub is not a renderer, it in fact does deal with models. Buffer exchange in LPub saves/restores the model up to the buffer exchange, not the images from steps. (...) This gets tricky...... I don't know how you can create a new group (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: rendering different scenes at same scale
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(...) Surely just using the same coordinates will do this (may be tricky with globe coordinates getting the distance right) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi, Is there a way with L3P or directly in POV-ray to render different scenes (w/ models of different size) at the same scale (ie 1 LU always equals the same number of pixels ; the camera being of course isometric) ? Thanks, David (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: If I were a minifig...... ( bed & bath )
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(...) wow, those are beautifull. and exquisitly rendered too, especially the shiny mirrors. I love the bathroom. Beedrooms not my stile though, wheres the computer! -mark (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) Hi Michael, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I use buffer exchange *alot*, and it works well for some cases, but not others. In the 8455 model, you start putting a hose in step 8, but you don't have enough of the model to hook up the other end of (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) Yeah, in his first post Kevin said you could use Buffer Exchange and Ghost to acheive the effect, but it's not easy. This might be because those commands work on a series of images, but he's more comfortable thinking in terms of manipulating (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ID5A6J.190M@lugnet.com... (...) they can (...) very hard (...) previous (...) For that I've introduced the BUFFER EXCHANGE command, see developer specification on my web-page (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: The Minifig Macro - walk that minifig
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(...) Anton's Library is similar to LDraw, but made for POV-Ray only. The main differences: - Anton's parts are objects with "insides" rather than polygons (LDraw is exclusively polygons--and because of broke BFC winding, "inside" is wrong on about (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's January Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Sorry, I didn't have time to make/update the applicable pages but I thought it would be best if I least started the poll since it was so late in the month. I should have this rectified by the weekend. -Orion (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's January Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Yeah, I noticed that too. I wanted to go back and examine the pics for the small model. Can't remember what it was now, but there was something odd about the way the studs rendered. There was either a lot of z-bleeding, or else it just ripped (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's January Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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So, I went and voted for next month, and then wanted to look at some again, so I went to the Contests page here: (URL) Unfortunately, it appears that that page is out of date. The archive of past winners doesn't have any 2005 entries, and the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) If this could be realised, were really there! I'd love to see this feature. Jaco (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) Michael, Is this something you would be interested in adding to MLCad? I could add it as an LPUB meta-command, but it would be best if it were an MLCAD meta-command that LPub supports. Kevin (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | LDraw.org's January Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the January Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, Martian Surface Rover, Tom Beattie> (URL) SOTM, Showroom, Allister McLaren> The voting for the March Model of the Month and Scene of the Month contests is (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: If I were a minifig...... ( bed & bath )
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Very very nice models. (...) Not hard. I wrote these instructions a few years ago. They are really bad instructions (I know alot more about POV-Ray now...) (URL) you *really* want to do it, I could help. Some of my QTVR's (very old) (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) Yes. I realized after I wrote the above that MLCad GROUPS are a good way of naming, since they already exist. Even simply being able to remove all parts in a group from the model would be sufficient. Then you could add a new part or parts to (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) I suppose you could use the mlcad GROUP meta-command to name your parts. Then perhaps you could invent a SUBSTITUTE meta-command to substitute one group for another? I don't know, it could work. Enjoy, Don (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: If I were a minifig...... ( bed & bath )
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Very nice! But I dunno - you might need longer ceiling fan blades to circulate the air in that large of a room. :-) I'd love to be able to see this kind of thing in a Quicktime VR file. Wonder how hard that is... James Wilson Dallas, TX (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX)
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| | Re: If I were a minifig...... ( bed & bath )
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(...) ... (...) Wow, that's....cool. I love those. Don't be surprised if they show up in some house I build or something. ;-) (Nah, I'd never rip off someone else's work. I might borrow with permission, but I'd never rip off. That's just not nice.) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX)
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Whenver I build a LEGO model, I always pay attention to things that they can do that we cannot, or we cannot do easily. One of the things that is very hard to do is, change the shape, orientation or location of a part added in previous steps. In (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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If I were a minifig I'd have a walk in shower, a jet tub and oh yes ladies a 10 wide bed. (2 URLs) I'm thinkin' I might be a technic minifig Chris. (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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(...) could post some of the other things your class has created? One question: The credits list MLCAD and LDraw as applications used in the creation of the video - can you elaborate on this? Did they use LDraw measurements (or actual parts) in the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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(...) Some work has already been done in LDraw Blender import and export. I've used this and it works well for import: (URL) the related Lugnet thread: (URL) was an earlier work: (URL) the related lugnet thread: (URL) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have now given Blender a good test, and I am hooked. The user interface is a bit weird at first, but it grows on you, and I expect it to be quite easy to use once I get the hang of it. The software features are perfect for this: GNU Free software (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) So nice to hear that, and I actually care quite a lot! I have used Lego quite a lot myself to teach computer graphics. Not CAD as such, but 3D modeling, animation and programming. Swedish M Sc students have often grown up with a large pile of (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | RE: PT Browser: A client-side browser for the Parts List
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Many thanks. If you need any help with it, just ask, and I'll try and reply with concise instructions. One of the biggest problems I find in writing instructions is what to include - too little, and you can't get started, too much and you drown in (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Dear William, I am surprised that none other has replied to this piece of work! Perhaps it is too difficult to understand how to even get it installed. However, I have succesfully got it to work quite easily. I am giving it a thorough look now and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Stefan, While I think my opinion on this is well known, I'll answer your call for responses here.. I agree that AFOL don't "need" high-end tools for parts-authoring.. Any way to incorporate a graphical interface into the process would be a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I just read this about the latest Blender release: "completely rewritten and upgraded mesh modeling" That looks promising. I'll definitely try it out! Stefan (replying to his own posts...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Indeed, thanks for reading! :) Blender is a good modeling and animation tool, but last time I checked I found the vertex and triangle tools unwieldy, so it was not very useful for detailed low-poly editing. I should check back on it, though, (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've tried and abonned it. I prefer LDraw :-) After a new installation of my PC I could not get to work. The parts display like this now: (URL) Nussbaum" <en@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> schreef in bericht news:ICtpq6.1xx7@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A while back i played around with blender, it's gone opensource in the meantime. (URL) don't know the current version but with the old blender i managed to get plaint text exports whom where very usable for post processing. I was playing (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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As some of you might have seen, I have been doing some programming lately to convert various 3D file formats to DAT format. This resulted in the MAX2DAT converter, which is useful but does not handle primitives, and is limited to the file formats (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Legoland LDraw model repository
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(...) Great, but set 153 should have a 6x24 plate instead of the 6x16 you used. Niels (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I am pleased to announce that I have finished modelling all official sets that, according to Peeron, are Legoland sets (about 200 sets). You can find them all at (URL) (Sorry for this grafic intensive pages). mikeheide (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Ah-hah! Got it fixed now. s\2541s02.dat's image looks better now. Stupid greedy regexp's. Steve (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) It's hidden on the same page where you donwload the setup.exe. Further down in the text "If the installation doesn't work for you, you can also try downloading the full package (one-file installer) and installing it from your hard drive." the (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: No mention of scale in file format doc
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(...) Well, far be it from me to argue with Science. ;) Steve (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, yeah. I guess so. I feel like they're *way* pushing the "brick with modification" envelope. OTOH, your suggestions are definitely better than leaving those two parts as the only "Castle" parts. Steve (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi, I've seen there is a software called digital designer on the LEGO webpage. Did anyone try this program? Unfortunately the setup.exe needs to have internet connection. Does anybody know how to download the software so that it can be installed on (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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