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(...) news://www.lugnet.co...lugnet.com Thanks (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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LDraw Design Pad (LDDP) is a tool for editing and handling LDraw files in a very comfortable way. The new version can be downloaded here: (URL) are: -Fully customizable editor with syntax highlighting -Open multiple files at the same time -Unlimited (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Newbie questions about Lego CAD
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Thanks for the fast repley (...) I also though doing this with submodels. But this way, each submodel will have it's one step numbers, meaning that the steps of each submodell will beginn with 1. In the offical LEGO BI (see) both, the chassis and (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Overview of LEGO Factory suggestions
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(...) Hundreds of dollars is what it should cost. What it would actually cost under the current LF system, even if the parts were available at all, would probably be thousands of dollars. I'm seeing about a factor of 25 waste here on realistic (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) First I should apologise if I sounded harsh - I have spent the last few months of my day-job dealing with a nightmare UI built by other coders with absolutely no end-user consultation. So I recognised similar patterns and had already gotten (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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(...) I think you may need to explain you choices further. Python supports variable numbers of function arguments, as does Perl. In Python it is relatively easy to check the types of the arguments, and implement overloading and type checking inside (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm glad you got it working. I am also glad that you had the patience to fix it. Now we know we have to fix the distribution. I wonder how many people just gave up. Chris (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) How are keyframes internally structured and saved to disk? Are they arrays, hashes, and how is the interpolation between keyframes usually handled? I haven't had time to research it myself, and I'm not sure I would even be able to find the (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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I wonder if anyone remembers the 80s game "Story Machine" from Spinnaker Software (publishers of "Face Maker" and other silly products.) This program acted out the sentences you typed in. It was a kind of self-illustrating text adventure. For (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Why not develop something abstract. If you come up with a way to notate an animation in any langauge, perhaps it will catch on. James (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Short Answer: That's how it's programmed. In order to really display a model made with references to parts in its enclosing folder, we have to make a number of decidedly unpleasant assumptions. Firstly, we have to assume the referenced parts (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I thought the "~" looked out of place when I was looking at the environment.plist file, but didn't know why. (...) Typed pico, got nano. So, I guess Mac OS X must fit into the "most *nix systems" category. (...) Indeed it does. Thanks for (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Overview of LEGO Factory suggestions
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(...) -snip- (...) -snip- EXAMPLE: Food for thought Like how much would something like this cost? (URL) Fantastic Town creations by: jdavis Just the price alone for the real model if broken down in retail terms would be emense! I do wonder how it (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) (* off-topic discussion *) Design and implementation are not as independant as i wish. As part of the design requirements, i pointed moves should be functions and be as composable as functions are. Practically that means the language must (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad, danny staple <orionrobots@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Wow, that really hurts. Especially the last sentence. Thanksfully i know you play role reversal: what you mean is users would immediatly exclude my tool from their choice (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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(...) LET'S DO IT!!!!! (...) otay (...) Just like real life -minus, Brick Link, ebay, etc,..... but yes your right. I have always said, LEGO is smart about making their sets and parts collectible. They ussually don't open the flood gate to full. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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OK, we've all had some time to play with LF and the new LDD now. I think it's time to try and compose a clear, well-thought-ought "dear LEGO" letter explaining whatever seems to be in the way of this being a successful program. It may be that LEGO (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX) !
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| | Re: Crazy idea for third-party Factory-like service
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(...) Heh...yeah, clearly it needs some updating. Honestly, I sorta lost interest when I couldn't get any feedback or help from Bricklink - that was the lynchpin in the system and without it, it was tough to make much more happen. Of course, that (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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| | Re: Newbie questions about Lego CAD
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(...) I recommend that you put the chassis as a sub-model relative to the main model. You can either do this using separate files, or you could use MPD. Use Multipart ->New model to start on the superstructure. Also make sure the superstructure (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I just tried this, but with mixed success. For example, I tried to buy parts for your Intermodal Spine Car. This produces "Oops! There was a problem processing your request: 1. Item #21: Item Not Found in Catalog." (You'd think it would then (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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