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(...) It was rendered with LDview and parts [LDrawPart 3957:0], [LDrawPart 104:15] and [LDrawPart 4215a:39] are cut (3957 and 104 at the top and 4215a at the bottom). I note that the two cut at the top are tall and thin whilst that cut at the bottom (...) (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) ldglite crops the images before writing them to a file. LPub does no cropping when rendering with ldglite. When rendering with LDView, LPub crops the images. Which renderer were you using when you see the cropping problem? (...) You're (...) (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Hi Kevin, I'm using Windows XP Pro so I can't help with testing on 2000 but anyway I had installed older versions of ldview and ldglite anyway and the problem seems to have gone away with the new ones. There is still little bit of a problem (...) (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: Instructions or Model for 10152?
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(URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Burger Sent: 20 May 2005 06:59 To: lugnet.cad@lugnet.com Subject: Instructions or Model for 10152? hey guys im looking for instructions , or the (...) (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Instructions or Model for 10152?
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hey guys im looking for instructions , or the dat's for set 10152? *mines in pieces with no instruction* orion, thanks for the enzo files, look for my rendered racing enzo soon. (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Correction to: Spherical Podule [DAT]
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(...) There was a slight error on the corridor mounting clips - a missing 1x3 plate. This is corrected in this version. Jason Railton 0 FILE spherical_podule.ldr 0 Spherical Podule (Final Assembly) 0 Name: spherical_podule.ldr 0 Author: JJ Railton 0 (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Yes. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe I saved a global config, that was preserved "as is" through updates? Philo (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Bug report: (This happens in every version I've tried, by the way.) When you do the Generate->CSIs, PLIs and BOM, and then go do other things on your computer, LPub uses 100% CPU on the machine once it's finished, and has the progress panel (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Here's what I did to get LDView to work. First, you need to be using LDView 3 Beta 1. LPub won't work right with LDView 2.x. In LDView, go into preferences, then to the Preference Sets tab, and create a preference set named LPub. Apply that (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Mangled URL alert! Try here: (URL) also added a link on the main ldglite site. Look for the "Beta Version" windows executable. Enjoy, Don (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Is it still there in 2.3.0.7? It was supposed to be removed..... Maybe I removed it and saved a .lpb. I'll check when I get home. Yes. removing the -Z90000 is critical. LPub now figures out a value for this on the fly. Thanks for mentioning it (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Thanks! I was hoping you'de pop in here soon! (...) Run LDView outside LPub, and edit/save your preferences. I don't think that the preferences have anything to do with view angle though. LPub communicates that to LDVIew (and ldglite) through (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Are you *sure* you have erased the part image cache? In case you are using Windows pre 2000, it has problems. I've got to debug that. If you're savvy with the system, and are willing to dig in, it would be a big help. Drop me a note and I'll (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Thank goodness someone else had this problem. I spent hours last night trying to solve both of these issues and was beginning to feel very stupid as noone else had reported the same problem. Perhaps Kevin could post the .lpb file (hope I (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) I had the same problem that I solved by removing the -Z90000 default LdGLite user option (perhaps it was previous install dregs). Philo (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Works fine now! (I have yet to find how to change layout page dimensions, but I guess I have to plunge deeper in documentation...) Thanks ;o) Philo (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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Time for me to come in! First of all: being able to render with LDView and LDGLite is GREAT!!! However I have a problem: I cannot seem to be able to render in isometric view in LDView and no images are generated using LDGLite. Can you, Kevin, or (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.7 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Hi, I've released a fix for this problem. It is available as 2_3_0_7. www.kclague.net://LPub (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Double Stack 10170
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With bated breath I am awaiting a mid-June arrival of two double stack 10170 sets. My intent is to build them into either a three or four bay set. My skills in CAD are insufficient to build up the set in LDraw from the pictures released so far. Is (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Spherical Podule [DAT]
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This is the DAT file for my Spherical Stellar Cartography Podule. Each part of the structure tells you how many to build. You need one stand, one base and one top. The stand uses the 'Classic' Moonbase standard, so you'll have to put longer legs on (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) I think it's probably because ldglite defaults to the 2/3 screen offset used by LDRAW and ldlite, while l3p defaults to the center of the screen. You might be able to work around it (for now) by providing an offset in the ldglite command line (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Yes, and we have a fix. LPub automatically centers the 3D model about the origin. ldglite draws the origin at 2/3 of the way down the window, so it ends up rendering it partially off screen. You can manually work around this by using the (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Blazingly fast indeed... But I can't get it render complete images: (URL) (LPub 2.3.0.6, LdGLite 1.1.6, Windows 2000). Any hint? TIA, Philo (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Yeah, I can never remember how to attach gdb to a running process, so that one isn't in my usual bag of tricks. I'll have to try harder to remember it next time. Fortunately for me, Kevin already found the bug in lpub. :^) Don (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: I just timed rendering of all the pedmatic construction step images and part list images and the process took less than 3 minutes! Amazing. After I debug ldglite and ldview on windows 98, then I'll work on the (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Actually it was a bug in LPub. ldglite pre-crops the image to the smallest enclosing rectangle. LPub didn't expect this, applied its own crop routine, and added artifacts. Also this pre-cropping is why ldglite process is much faster than (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 8652 Enzo Ferrari 1:17
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(...) Looks cool. It also exposes a bug and a missing feature/possibly bug in the current LDView releases. LDView doesn't properly support files in subdirectories inside an MPD (such as s\). It also doesn't detect primitives inside the MPD, since (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) I got the command line by putting a MessageBox call at the very beginning of the main entry point for LDView. Then, I manually attached a debugger to the process when the message box appeared. This lets you debug. --Travis (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Possibly. (...) Yeah, I noticed this too, but I haven't been able to capture the exact ldglite command line and temporary .ldr file used by lpub to render a single part for the BOM. Lpub seems to delete them, and I'm not sure if I can keep (...) (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) It's not your eyes. I think this artifact is visible in *every* parts box. Maybe a bug in ldGLite when rendering a single part? The single parts are also clipped on the left side, the leftmost edge line is missing (or at least thinned) (...) (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Dat file for x1201 1x1 plate with tooth
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(...) I send this part to him personally. because he also asked at 1000Steine.de for this part. But thanks for publishing here that this part has been done. CU Bernd (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Hexagonal Moonbase Podule Corridor [DAT]
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A 16-stud long hexagonal style standard Podule corridor for moonbase spacemen or Daleks to loiter in... Jason Railton 0 FILE hex_corridor.ldr 0 Hexagonal Podule Corridor 0 Name: hex_corridor.ldr 0 Author: JJ Railton 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION (...) (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) Thanks! (although I thought I asked for LDLite, but I forget, besides this one is multiplatform!) Overall it looks great! However I have a nit, (perhaps???)... In (for example) (URL) this> image: (URL) I'm wondering: is there a bit of an (...) (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.6 available (ldGLite working and looks Marvelous)
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(...) After some fixes in LPub, I got ldGlite renderer working with LPub! The images are comparable to LDView, but ldGlite renders blindingly fast! I rendered all the images for pedmatic in less than 5 minutes. Amazing. (URL) seems to be a bit of a (...) (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 8652 Enzo Ferrari 1:17
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As promised, I have posted this set to my website: (URL) under the Racers category. -Orion (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Dat file for x1201 1x1 plate with tooth
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(...) (URL) that this file is unofficial. -Orion (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub and LDView working better. It looks awesome!
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(...) I just rendered James' car.dat and it looked good when the transparent parts are in the model with other bricks, but when I render the transparent parts individually for PLIs, they come up blank. Thanks, Kevin (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub and LDView working better. It looks awesome!
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(...) It looked good in the pedmatic instructions. (...) Correct. No transparent parts in pedmatic. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub and LDView working better. It looks awesome!
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(...) And what I meant to say, and somehow forgot is that I'll be looking into that as well, and trying to fix it. --Travis (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub and LDView working better. It looks awesome!
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(...) You're welcome. Just to check, LDView still doesn't generate exactly the same viewing angle as L3P, right? (That was next on my list of things to fix.) Also, it's worth noting that the -SaveAlpha=1 command line setting in LDView 3 might have (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub and LDView working better. It looks awesome!
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(...) If you were having trouble getting good renders I certainly could see why you wouldn't like it! But these tired eyes have lots of trouble with instructions even WITH the thick black edge lines. (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub and LDView working better. It looks awesome!
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(...) new LSynth soon so people can have this fix. Travis sent me a updated beta LDView, so I re-rendered pedmatic, and all the hoses look great. IMHO, LDView (and soon ldglite) is a superior solution to POV-RAY and MEGAPOV. The MEGAPOV solution is (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the LSC. Blanks in file names legal?
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(...) Travis, I have done the same in LPub. Easier to implement it than explain it every time someone gets burned. Kevin (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.2 available (was: LPub 2.3 available)
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(...) This bug in LPub (requiring POV-Ray) will be fixed *very* soon. I've been wrestling with ldglite as well, but I'm having problems getting the command line option for saving the file and exiting does not seem to work (or, more probably, I've (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.2 available (was: LPub 2.3 available)
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(...) Hi Kevin, Can I join in the fun? Say I want to run a minimal setup of LPub with only ldglite as the renderer. I had this going a while back, but the latest version won't even let me get started. I get the dialog box with "Cannot find POV-Ray, (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LPub and LDView working better. It looks awesome!
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(...) <snip> (...) I fixed a few LPub problems with LDView, and got some instructions out. They look great! It seems that there are some problems with LSynth hoses and LDView. They render nicely under the offical LDView, but not under beta. Except (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LPub and LDView working better. It looks awesome!
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(...) <snip> (...) I fixed a few LPub problems with LDView, and got some instructions out. They look great! It seems that there are some problems with LSynth hoses and LDView. They render nicely under the offical LDView, but not under beta. Except (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the LSC. Blanks in file names legal?
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(...) (Note FUT lugnet.cad.dev) I realize that spaces are officially a no-no, but since I've also seen files that contain references to sub-models with spaces in the filenames, I'm adding support for this to the next LDView release. It will generate (...) (19 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | A Tree and a Tower
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I finally got around to converting some of my CAD stuff into real world models. (2 URLs) Click the pics. Enjoy, Chris. (19 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.2 available (was: LPub 2.3 available)
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(...) Actually, I added a MessageBox call to the very beginning of LDView so that I could attach a debugger. It never showed up, and L3P ran and generated POV files, so I really don't think it's running LDView for me. (...) I'll take a look. (...) (19 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Dat file for x1201 1x1 plate with tooth
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Hello all! Has anyone a self-made dat file for the 1x1 tooth plate or any good substitute for that part? This is the part: (URL) I would be glad for any help. Best greetings, Chris (19 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.2 available (was: LPub 2.3 available)
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(...) LPub has LDView render popped down, so you don't see the window pop up. I was trying to render (URL) using LDView. Not only is there a problem with the lens angle and such, LDView doesn't handle hoses generated by LSynth very well. They look (...) (19 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.2 available (was: LPub 2.3 available)
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(...) Hi Kevin. I want to fix LDView so that the camera angle and what-not matches the L3P output as closely as possible. However, I can't seem to get LPub to use LDView as a renderer. I select LDView.exe from the list on the Renderer tab, and then (...) (19 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3.0.2 available (was: LPub 2.3 available)
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(...) LPub 2.3.0.2 is available. It fixes the problem Philo discovered with transparency and layouts. Kevin (19 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: CCW vs CW
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(...) If it's not a whole lot of trouble, I would recommend it. (The conversion can be made automatic, as long as the individual files clearly state CW or CCW correctly.) Speaking as a computer graphics professional, I can say for sure that being (...) (19 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) Hi Kevin, Is this really a problem? It strikes me that this is the 'proper' behaviour for a 24bit raytraced image. I would prefer an option to switch off the alpha as sometimes I may wish to use this feature (eg. if I had a white background (...) (19 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | CCW vs CW
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The (URL) Language Extension for Clipping (BFC)> states in the Parts Library Guidelines section that Primitives should always use CCW winding. However some of the primitives use CW, for example (URL) rect.dat>. Should these be rewritten? Would it be (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) It does it... and well: (URL) (composited with Photoshop) (...) OK... I hope you'll get that working, I tend to prefer LDView style for instructions (should be faster too). Ah, another minor point: it would be nice if LPub remembered the last (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) Hi Philo, That is very interesting. I'll try these cases here. It looks like POV-Ray is providing an alpha channel that is not completely opaque. I didn't think it did this. It should be easy to fix I think. (...) The LDView and LDGLight parts (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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Hi Kevin, (...) It does, at least for me. But I have problems with transparent parts in the layouts: (URL) the POVed images are OK: (URL) with a nice background color see through. Another problem is that I can't get LDView generate meaningful (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) It should be. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) Is POV-Ray v3.5 also supported? -Ahui (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ROSCO (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) I have fixed anbd verified the fix for both v3.1, and v3.6. The new version is available at: (URL) (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) You can, but in the meantime I'm going to fix the bug. (...) Kev (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) No, I don't. Is that something that POV-ray creates? I'm only running v3.1 (with megapov), should I upgrade to to 3.6? ROSCO (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) It is not recognizing your POV-Ray.... hmmmm..... Are the POV-Ray registry entries still there? That is what LPub looks for. HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software\POV-Ray\v3....ndows\Home Do you have such a thing? (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) Thanks. My installation has encountered a hiccup. I uninstalled the old version, and installed 2.3, but when I ran it, I got a dialog with EAccessViolation. So I uninstalled again, this time removing the directory entirely (it wasn't deleted (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) I uninstalled the previous version. LPub 2.2 was developed under C++Builder5, and LPub 2.3 under C++Builder6. UNinstalling will give you a chance to discard the shared libraries that may no longer be needed on your system. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) I forgot to mention that I tested LPub on Windows XP and Windows 98. Kevin (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) You can find it (URL) here>. ROSCO PS: Does anyone want the brick.ttf font? It's not really very useful because of the limited characters, but if anyone wants it, I'll make a separate download page for it. (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) Hi Kevin, should we uninstall previous versions before installing this version, or will it upgrade ok? ROSCO (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub rendering wrong camera angle for instructions
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(...) Ok cool. I'll give it a go and let you know what happens. (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub rendering wrong camera angle for instructions
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(...) There are a number of reliability problems with the version you are using. I'd try the new one rather than wrestling with the old one. It is undoubtedly an LPub bug. Kevin (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub rendering wrong camera angle for instructions
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(...) As an aside, I'll be trying out the new version you just announced, I just want to figure this problem out with the version I have first. (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub rendering wrong camera angle for instructions
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(...) Yeah, that's pretty confusing. (...) Ok. In MLCad I've added an absolute rotation step of 30,45,0 to the beginning of my ldraw file. I've added a rotation end step to the end of it. When I try it now in LPub it crashes: L3P failed for file (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LPub 2.3 available
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I'm happy to announce the release of LPub 2.3. Enhancements from LPub 2.2 include: - POV Ray 3.6 support - PNG replaces BITMAP and JPEG formats. - PNG support for transparency - Layout support for multiple steps per page - New REMOVE_GROUP (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad) !
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Well I worked out the scale factor, and imported the DATs into an Access db (some had to have some stuff inlined first) then manually went through the polygons working out all the verteces and entered them directly using Font Creator. (...) (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jon, This is not very clean in LPub, but the Globe Camera stuff does not affect building instructions. One thing LEGO does in their building instructions is turn the model, to make the backside of the model visible. MLCad provides ROTSTEP (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm using LPub 2.2.0.0 Why does LPub generate a render with the correct camera angle when I do a "Complete Assembly" but not when I generate "Instruction Images". In this case the camera angle is supposed to be globe, lattitude: 30, longitude: 45, (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) coerce it into TrueType format? Always one to push my luck, I do have two little quibbles. I liked the way version 1.4 printed the usage info when running txt2dat with no args. Now it prints a weird error message. Also, the internal default (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
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(...) I've stopped adding new features. I have been in testing phase. The building instructions I just posted were pushed through LPub to try to flesh out a lot of bugs. I've finished updating the docs. I hope that I can release it today or (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Ldraw.org still alive?
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(...) We are still alive and kicking. I personally have had very little time to devote to side activities lately due to a change in position at work and my impending move to Hawaii in 3 months. The library updates are on hold until we develop a (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Your wish is my command... well almost. (URL) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.org still alive?
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(...) While I can NOT talk for the rest of the LDraw staff last I checked (today) LDraw.org IS still alive. The LDraw Help Desk gets at least one email a day from users all over the place asking questions on how to install the software, issues with (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Ldraw.org still alive?
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Hello, it's been almost two months since anything happened on www.ldraw.org. No news, no library updates, no SOTM/MOTM. Is the Steering Committee busy with far more important things like going commercial or selling out to TLC? What is going on? (19 years ago, 8-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
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(...) You don't actually NEED to uninstall first. It handles upgrades/reinstalls (and subsequent uninstalls) very nicely. (19 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
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(...) Hi Kevin. Any idea when this new release will be available for download? No hurry or anything, but I've got a couple of instruction I want to generate sometime this year or the next, and would like to have a go at it. Do you want a beta (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Maybe it's a language thing. I've seen hints that some of the desktop.ini bits behave differently when you're set up for a different language. Or perhaps the OEMs package Windows differently for other countries and skip the desktop.ini file in (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you make a program that accepts drag and drop, you can drag the font file onto the program, and it will get the full path. I don't know what's up with Anders' system either. Mine behaves just like yours. Oh, and the UICLSID in the (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part requests: Lots and lots of parts
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(...) I have posted these parts on ldraw part tracker (URL) 44292.dat> (URL) 44308.dat> I plan to modelize the following parts (URL) Wheel Technic 14 x 70 mm Futuristic> + (URL) matching tire> (URL) BIONICLE claw> (URL) BIONICLE hook> (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) That's odd. I always set explorer that way myself, but I have the same desktop.ini file and the same behavior in the fonts directory on both XP and 95. Apparently you can modify all sorts of folder behavior with these magic options in (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, apart from the difficulty of converting a Windows face name to a filename as identified here, I always intended it to be relatively easy to port to other platforms. And the most non-platform specific way I could think to do that was to (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Or... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\S...ft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts This brought to my attention that not all the files listed are "single font" files (look for ttc files). Is there any reason that txt2dat can't handle font face names? (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ?? I have WinXP, SP2 and don't see this. But I have set Explorer to not hide anything and show all extensions. I haven't done anything special to the Fonts directory (as I remember), and it shows just like any other. (...) I have a nice little (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, I figured it out. XP seems to come with a special Hidden System desktop.ini file in the font directory with this in it. [.ShellClassInfo] UICLSID={BD84B380-8C...00948F534} It makes the standard Windows open file dialog behave in a way that (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ?? I don't understand exactly what you're saying here. Are you trying to copy the full file path to the Clipboard? If so, don't try in the dialog, select a file instead and copy the full path from the input field 'Font file' on the main screen (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but in both the (URL) GUItxt2d app> and (URL) my cheesy tcl app> I can't get the font file directly from the file open dialog in XP. Instead, when I double click on a font, I get a large (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: tris vs quads?
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(...) It probably doesn't matter. Either way, the rendered image should look the same. Speedwise, most renderers won't care. In fact, I believe that some programs will split the quads back into triangles in order to render them. In terms of file (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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