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I seem to recall this being discussed here before, but I can't find it. My question is, if I have a surface covered with a large number of triangles (eg output from txt2dat), is it better to leave it as triangles, or attempt to consolidate as many (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) I was trying to knock something up in VB, but came across the problem of getting the file from the font. I couldn't find anything suitable in the registry either. (19 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Wow! Thanks Anders, I will add a link from my page next time I update it! (...) I see what you mean. I never realised it would be so hard to get that information, good ol' windoze. I think your way is the easiest workaround. (...) Works great (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Quick hack: (URL) (Exe + Delphi 5 source, 270 kB) (...) I googled for it (going from font name to font file) and could only find the advice to enumerate all font files and read the info in them. Sounds like loads of work :-( I did it the other (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Actually, looking at the brick 1x1s with letters in LDraw, it should be possible to generate glyphs straight from the DAT files. Then it's just a matter of packaging them up nicely in a font file, saves having to convert it to a bitmap & back. (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) That's not too hard to find. (URL) like a wrapper for autotrace and some other stuff. (...) Yeah, you got me there. I think I've got a couple a numbers from the harry potter house sets, and that's about it. Yer more likely to get the whole (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) All we need to generate the cheesy LEGO font file is an output-truetype module for autotrace, and a ready supply of lettered tiles ;) ROSCO (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Set 8652 Render
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(...) when you get it prepared can you send it to tburger34@adelphia.net? (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Err... yeah, lsynth. That's why I couldn't find it. So now that I found it it looks a bit more than 10 lines. Oops. Anyhow, substitute txt2dat for lsynth, make a few little additions and ya get a cheesy GUI for txt2dat that sorta works. Enjoy, (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) <snip> (...) ahhh..... ummm.... LSynth? LPub has its own built in cheezy little GUI! (...) K (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Reloading MPD into Minifig generator
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(...) Thanks! I'll look into the Blender thing and also grouping parts in MLCAD. I meet with this class every Thursday, so I have a week! (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Yeah, I was gonna suggest you convert the "font" from the ldraw lettered tiles into a cheesy builtin internal font, which would be used by default. Then add a -f before the font if you can find a better one somewhere. That way you could make (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Reloading MPD into Minifig generator
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(...) (snip) for the arms and hands try the following (after creating the minifig): 1. group the arms with their hands. 2. next rotate this group (along the x-axis) head and accessories (hair,hats etc.) need to be grouped as well. rotating the legs (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Nuthin like a good ol' command line utility ;) though I wouldn't be adverse to someone creating a nice graphical interface - working out which font file to use is a bit of a pain sometimes... ROSCO (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Version 0.1.4 now available at the same page. Changes in v0.1.4 are: Use “LDraw inverse colour” for lines. Fixed non-ansi definition of add_char() and add_string(). Implemented better algorithm for choosing the number of segments in splines. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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I would suggest using Blender and import the mpd into if (LDraw Importer) and then alk him through that. It's really much less difficult then it seems. (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Folks, I've got a 10 year old student who wants to create an animated minifig. He wants to create an animated gif by posing the minifig into a walking motion. Moving the arms and legs are easier while in the minifig generator. Unfortuantely, as (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Any examples?
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(...) The base patternless version would be 65432 and the pattern would be 65423pXX where XX is a number-letter code for the pattern. Even if the part has never existed without a pattern, a non-patterned version is always created and given the base (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi all: Suppose there were a part such as a 3x9 brick with "Dave is Supercool" printed on the side, and let's call it part 65432. If that part did not exist in non-printed form, how would this be entered into the LDraw inventory? That is, would the (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part 41770 certified but missing sub-file??
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(...) Doh! I thought I had already installed the latest parts update. My goof. (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Minor enhancement to PT UI
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(...) -Orion (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) Thanks Larry, I'll see what I can do with them. Tim (19 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) Good idea with a twist primitive (twist.dat ?). Perhaps it would be simpler if it were only in one octant: 2 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 24 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 24 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 24 0 1 0 0 0 0 POV code would be: //x - yz = 0 quadric { <0,0,0>, <0,0,-1>, (...) (19 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IFK7Js.p6p@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) part, (...) farther (...) Not really relevant to this discussion but Cary Clark's TrackDraw application does this! Mike (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Minor enhancement to PT UI
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I made a small change to the user interface for the Parts Tracker. Previously, the "Lookup" box (at the right end of the navbar) would only accept filenames for searching. If you didn't enter the name of a file currently in the unofficial library, (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) (URL) a 4 sided one) (URL) the 6 sided one I now use) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 6 sided string "primitive" with emphasis on primitive! [DAT]
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Since there was some discussion about this... I posted the 4 sided one here (URL) of these are very "good" as in high fidelity, they totally do not model that the string is 3 twisted cylindrical/toroidal shapes, but for black string they work pretty (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) I'm not too familiar with Lego string either but my proposal would be most useful for situations where you have any number of colours, twisting slowly around the string length (like a candy cane for example). I certainly don't recall seeing (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) I'll work on it. (...) I'll work on this too. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) For POV-Ray, it seems like the best results would be obtained through some kind of mapping. Use a plain cylinder object with 'string texture' mapped onto it. Steve (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That sounds like the best idea, if someone wants to make this file. If no one has the time or inclination, then let's not hold this process up. (...) That would be a good idea, too. Steve (hmm, I wonder why lugnet won't accept this post?) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) Those are definitely advantages toward Larry's file. We should probably integrate Larry's code into my subfile, one way or the other. One way to integrate the part files would be to submit Larry's file as a a subfile, in parts\s\, and have the (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) I know I've seen black and red LEGO string, but I've not seen multi-colored string (I'm not very worldy that way sticking to robotics and technic). Larry produced a string segment that looks a little like one of those tiny stands they get (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) LEGO string is a tri-twist. LSynth knows about twisting things (e.g. minifig-chain). LSynth's twist amount/fixed segment is configurable. We could decide what the sortest segment we would ever need and then maybe use 3, 6, or 9 cylinders to (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) Should the black be changed to "main color" but the grey left as is? My quick cheat was that by using grey with the black I was sort of, at low rez, mimicking the highlighting that you get from the string's surface (most string fibers are (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) I like Larry's string part better for several reasons. His braid is implemented as twisted surfaces rather than edge lines so it'll show up in both LDRAW and POV. It also uses many less poly's so it'll draw significantly faster. And finally, (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) Those certainly are advantages. I just crashed MLCad trying to use it in a model so I could play with the color so it took me a while to look at it. Honestly, I don't think it does any better at modeling twisting than I did. I at least have (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) <snip> (...) I'll check it out tonight. Maybe we can let Larry off the hook :P (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) Is this one any better? (URL) does have the advantage of actually being submitted to the Parts Tracker, and now it's certified for the next release. Steve (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I can think of a way to deal with different coloured strands. You rotate each element (with the multiple-colours defined on it) around the gradient of the position of each element, increasing the angle as you go along. I can send details on (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) er... ya. Didn't they actually DO green string already or am I misremembering? (...) That's pathetic. (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) Will it be a problem if LEGO ever do green string? ;) At this time, using the best available string element seems like the way to go. AFAIK, Larry's string is the best. Steve (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) Hey, thanks testing it out. You're right about the conditionals zig-zagging a bit. I still have the feeling that if the surface were pinned down to the concave green line those zig-zags would go away. But I couldn't decide whether to divvy it (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LSynth and string
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(...) Umm... you REALLY should use a better string element than mine! It is really not very accurate as it doesn't model the three strands at all. It was just a quick hack, and it has fixed colors, if LEGO ever do red or white string it won't work. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LSynth and string
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LSynth implement's Larry's string cross section (no use ducking Larry) to create string using the hose synthesis class (this means splined strings with nice smooth curves). I think that a string type that uses pulleys as constraints is important (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) The following are the appropriate conditionals for Don's surface. Playing with it you can have angles where the conditionals seem to go too far, but it's certainly much better than the current ones. (Note that the last 4 conditionals are only (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) Nice, I like the idea of the quadric primitive, but we want to add some curvature to the LDRAW version, right? I fiddled a bit with the part a few days ago, starting with the two triangles outlined by your primitive. I didn't exactly finish, (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) Looks good. Should we create a new primitive with the next dimensions:? 2 24 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 24 1 0 -1 0 1 -1 2 24 0 0 1 1 0 -1 2 24 0 1 1 0 1 -1 and a POV-quadric version in the coming L3PPARTS. As the outer twisted surface of the parts with (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part 41770 certified but missing sub-file??
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(...) I believe that is because s/41770s01.dat was certified and released in previous parts update (in this case 2004-04), and the parts tracker only displays dependencies that are currently on the tracker. This is not a problem, if the subpart has (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part 41770 certified but missing sub-file??
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I recently downloaded the latest batch of parts from the LDraw Parts Tracker, and found three parts that were missing sub-files. Part 41769.dat & 41770.dat (Wing 2 x 4 Left/Right) both require sub-part s/41770s01.dat, but the sub-file isnt listed on (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Set 8652 Render
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(...) How did this post slip under my radar? Sorry for the delay in replying. Anyway, yes I will share the MPD. Give me a week (I promise). -Orion (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) I have made a 43720.inc for the test of the coming L3PPARTS. The mathematical description of the surface is: 80x + 40y + yz = 0 and I have used the POV primitive quadric: quadric { <0,0,0>, <0,0,1>, <80,40,0>, 0 clipped_by { box { <-20,0,-40>, (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
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Hi all, I've been making good progress with LPub development. I've been putting it through its paces for testing purposes, and finally finished the LDraw file for my small pneumatic walker Pedmatic (due to a typo of mine, it is also sometimes (...) (19 years ago, 24-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Thanks for MLCad
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Michael, I've been working on a new draft of LPub with lots of new features. In trying to increase the quality and reliability of LPub, I've been pushing a lot of models through LPub. I've really used the Arrow generator a lot. It is great! Thanks (...) (19 years ago, 24-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) Looks like that might be the best way to go. I haven't looked at autotrace yet, how does it handle colour? Even if bricksaic converts it to the ldconfig colour pallette, I imagine the colours output by autotrace will still need to be converted (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) Yeah, it sounds quite similar. Rosco's tx2dat program also uses the Shewchuk triangle library. Do ya think maybe it's about time to finish "publishing" your ldeco utility? I did a quick search and apparently you first promised to make it (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) This sounds similar to a past effort of mine called ldeco meant to help create decorated elements. It triangularized contours with colored seed points - see (URL) for a brief description (the page is very incomplete, I never got any further (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) Yeah, I was actually thinking the best thing would be to paste your ldraw triangle generator code right into the output code of autotrace. (URL) About a year ago> I hacked a cheesy ldr output into autotrace, but it only does edge lines. I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) OK so a quick search reveals that (URL) autotrace> exports (URL) several different file formats>, none of which I know very much about. Does anyone else have any info? Note: txt2dat relies on the vector data being a series of closed contours. (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) Happy to investigate autotrace input, if someone can point me to a spec, or even better some code to parse it ;) Some test data would be useful too... ROSCO (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) Hey. You know the bricksaic interface is also a really nice fit for a program to reproduce patterned bricks in ldraw. I gave it a whirl posterizing the only pattern I had a scan of and it did a fairly nice job. (URL) You could use a few paint (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Tablet usage
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Hi all, I am (still) working on an animation tool (LD4Dmodeler 2, www.rolandmelkert.nl...4DModeler) Thinking about the large amount of controls (for controlling hinges, position and rotation etc), it might be interesting to support a tablet. The (...) (19 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: white outlines on black bricks
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(...) Thanks Steve. ROSCO (19 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Latest BFC Spec?
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss wrote: [snippity-do-dah] Sorry, I found an old post still waiting to be authorized. I hit "Post" instead of "Delete". Steve (19 years ago, 20-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Latest BFC Spec?
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(...) I thought it was dead 2 (or 3?) years ago. ;) (...) That's a pretty big 'once' you've got there. One problem I've had, revisiting old part files and applying BFC -- once you look at a file, you're also tempted to fix any/all errors you find in (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) I think the key difference is the twisted nature of this surface. I think the twist makes it impossible to partition the surface into polygons without having a mix of convex and concave seams. I'd like to be proven wrong. I don't have one of (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) Oh, I don't know about that 1 pixel business. The problem with the surface as it's currently written, is that it flip-flops between convex and concave every at every triangle. But if you ignore the triangles and spin the surface around a bit, (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) I'm pretty sure that's going to be the problem with *any* partition of this surface into polygons. Having a mathematical description of the surface would be good, because then we could potentially create a primitive for the surface, and (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Help needed for steering wheel...
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(...) 3829 is both bits together, 3829a is the base, and 3829b is the wheel (URL) Dean Earley, Dee (dean@earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: (URL) +44 (0)780 8369596 (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Help needed for steering wheel...
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Hi, does this part exist as LDraw file? (URL) I need this: (URL) ONLY the wheel, without the base. Does it exist separately? Thanks in advance, Gianluca ___...___ Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto più divertente: Audibles, Avatar, Webcam, Giochi, (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) OK, I tried it and realise now that it doesn't solve the problem at all, just moves the outside curves to a different spot. I think Don is right, a more complex torus-like curve is necessary to represent it properly. ROSCO (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) Well, I thought about this, and what I would try is changing the polygons thus: If the top points are A1-5 and the bottom points are B1-5, keep the A2-B1, A3-B2 as currently, but instead of A2-B2 etc, use A3-B1, A4-B2, etc. I think that would (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) I'm not sure about that. The surface as it's written is extremely lumpy, and the conditional lines work as expected given the lumps in the surface. You also get an ugly shading effect with flat shading because of those lumps. (URL) There's (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: white outlines on black bricks
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(...) A little farther down in the document, it says this (in regards to dithered colors): "Finally, the edge-color of Color 1 is used as the edge color of the dithered color." These documents define two sets of values: (URL) LDraw Config File> (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Wow, that's cool! LDRAW stuff sent to stdout. I finally get to try ldglite with a pipe from a real program, and it all seems to work. txt2dat -s hello -c 4 -p 72 c:\windows\fonts\ariel.ttf | ldglite -i1 -MFhello.png -- Thanks. That was fun, (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: white outlines on black bricks
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(...) I would appreciate it if the blocking was turned off. Alternately, if ML-CAD allows colors to be set via ldconfig.ldr, that would be good for me. Truthfully, I haven't even checked for this support; I don't have time right now. Steve (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) I don't think it's the control points. I took a quick look at the file, actually just one of the lines, the first in the file. The control points used are the two unattached vertices from the triangles adjacent to the conditional edge. That (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: white outlines on black bricks
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(...) This doc (URL) the "inverse" colours for colour 0-15, are other colours documented somewhere? ROSCO (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Thanks Dave! Any feedback is much appreciated. I've just uploaded a new version, so you might wanna grab that. ROSCO (19 years ago, 17-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) I've uploaded version 0.1.3, with a couple of bug fixes, and source code. Enjoy! ROSCO (19 years ago, 17-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Set 8652 Render
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(...) Any chance you can share the DAT files? (20 years ago, 17-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Okay, I admit it: at first I thought "text to LDraw? Big deal--I write all my LDraw partsfiles as text files." But then I clicked on the link and figured it out. Wow, this utility is a great idea! I just downloaded it and will give feedback as (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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Wedge part 45407 (Wedge 4 x 4 with 1 x 4 Side Plates) has similar sloped sides as wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [LDrawPart 43721]. When I examined these parts in LDView, I noticed that the control points for the conditional lines on the sloped surface (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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Hi all, I've just uploaded the first beta version of txt2dat, a command-line program to create LDraw files from text. It has been developed using cygwin and mingw on Windows XP, and has not been fully tested in any other environments. You can (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: L3P Options?
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(...) I'd be willing to look at a beta version. I'm even happy to look at code (assuming its in something I know) if you like. Tim (20 years ago, 14-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) That all sounds perfect. I really like the idea of L3Begin.inc and L3End.inc as well. I think that is a brilliant solution. As for the inline/not-inline option, for L3Begin, L3End and L3Colours I think it should default to inline but be (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Options?
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(...) I would think if any "system-wide" or "shared" files are included they should by default be inlined, as any changes would affect (maybe deterimentally) previous renders. Any project-specific files I create always get saved locally, so I see no (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Options?
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(...) I'd be willing to try and give it a go. I'm still working on a new front end to it (allows automation and a few other things specified in the draw file itself) The current build is at: (URL) Dean Earley, Dee (dean@earlsoft.co.uk) irc: (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Options?
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(...) Sure, I already had you and a few others in mind, exactly because I'm aware of your "dissection" and others heavy color redefinition. But if anyone else is ready to spend some time with a beta, and give some feedback, please send me a mail. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Options?
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(...) There will be the following include file options: -ib<file> include file at beginning of POV file -ic[<file>] no camera, optional include file -il[<file>] no lights, optional include file -ie<file> include file at end of POV file But are you (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Options?
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Lars C. Hassing wrote: <snip> (...) Hi Lars, Before you release, would it be possible for me to have an advanced copy of L3P, so I can adjust LPub to handle the new format? LPub does post processing of the L3P generated POV file (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Options?
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(...) That is excellent news! I missed the first post (ref'd above) but that is exactly what I meant. Would it be possible to include a file in the directory with a name like L3Colours.inc or something that declares any modified colours one wishes (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Options?
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(...) You'll be happy to know that the coming L3P (yes, I know I've said that too often) has #ifndef's around everything, e.g.: //// Primitive stud.dat #ifndef (stud_dot_dat) #macro stud_dot_dat(L3ArgTe...,L3ArgMat) L3MacroBegin("stud_dot_dat") #if (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Raytracing a primarily black model
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OK, you did that on purpose! Given the title of the folder, I've gotta ask - What Magazine? (great renders, btw) James Wilson Dallas, TX (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) You got it. 0 L3P IFPOV meta-statements are probably the way to accomplish what you want. Hmm, thinking more about it (I could just go try it), you'll probably still need l3p's -p parameter, or l3p probably won't even look at the primitive (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Sorry! I guess I didn't make my question clear enough. I'd like to substitute the primitives still, but with those of my own creation, rather than those that L3P creates. For example I think a stud looks better with a slightly rounded top (a (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Yep. -p Don't substitute any primitives in the P directory with POV equivalents ---...--- In order to have a nicer looking image some parts (primitives) in the P directory are by default substituted with POV equivalents. E.g. 4-4cyli.dat is (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Dear Lars (and anyone who can answer my questions) I was wondering if there was a way to use L3P so that it does NOT include its primitives in the final .pov file? The reason for this question is that I'd like to be able to adjust some of the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Searching for LDraw file for part #30395 (hook with towball)
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Hi, For a BI I'm working on, I'm searching for a LDraw file of part #30395 (hook with towball). (2 URLs) I did not find it among the LDraw unofficials parts. Someone working on it ? Any help welcome , thanks Regards, Didier (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I highly recommend the O'Reilly "lex and yacc" book, I found it very helpful for a project I did at work a number of years ago. The moderated (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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