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(URL) For those of you following the efforts of LDD users in streamlining the bag use in LDD, CNET published a cool article about it, and LEGO's reaction to their work. Quoted are Dan Malec, Larry Pieniazek, and Jake McKee (among others). I find it (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | LDD Loading Problem
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LDD is not working for me...it won't load! After starting the program, the start-up page comes on-screen and indicates that it is loading parts. It gets to 182 parts and freezes. Checking on system performance shows LDD to be non-responsive and (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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Ok, this post took me a long time to get through... (...) Ah. I've never cared for instructions... I didn't take that into account when I wrote the article... (...) I was only familiar with POV-Ray (well, I'm starting to be familiar with others now (...) (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | LDD story on Metropolismag.com
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Metropolismag.com has an interesting LDD story: (URL) Among other things, it says that the beta version of LDD has been downloaded 700,000 times (not sure exactly what they mean by "beta" since it's been available for a while), and almostl 32,000 (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Bag inventories now available in LDD format!
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My apologies; the previous link was broken because I'm new to LUGNET and its conventions for posting links. Here is the corrected link to direct download all of the LDD Factory palettes organized by bag: (URL) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Bag inventories now available in LDD format!
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I'd like to mention to everyone that currently all of the Factory starter sets have been inventoried by bag and converted into custom palettes (.TIX files) for use in LDD. I'd suggest visiting the Brickwiki site first, but there is also a direct (...) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Question on dithered color subfiling
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(...) looks like we have to do more chit chat how this advise shall be applied. please read my consideration at ldraw's PT: (URL) avoid further confusion I'm in favor to work out a general note which could be used by the reviewers to tag old parts (...) (19 years ago, 11-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Question on dithered color subfiling
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(...) Thanks, that was my default assumption. I only needed a confirmation from the LSC. Ampi (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Question on dithered color subfiling
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Right. As stated in (URL) I had my part certified in no time (URL) but it being published in a new 'parts update' is taking a bit longer... :) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Question on dithered color subfiling
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(...) While this is no longer a requirement, I feel that parts conforming to the old standard are not wrong and a hold vote based solely on this would probably be excessive. I would, however, make note of it in the review comments. -Orion (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Question on dithered color subfiling
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Dear List, I need a clarification concerning a part authoring/reviewing question. Until recently there were a rule for the part authors, that quads and triangles having dithered colors must be subfiled. If I remember well this was due to some (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Dutch translation for MLCad 3.20 ready!
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The Dutch translation for MLCad 3.20 is ready and downloadable at: (URL) (pages are in Dutch) How to install and activate it is described on the website too. If you find any typo's or errors, please reply to this message or mail me at (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Wrong Instruction for SET 3531-1 on PICSL
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Hi, I found that PICSL has a wrong Instruction for the set 3531-1 online. Does anybody know to which set this instruction belongs? I own all sets mentioned by peeron that belongs to ZNAP, but in no set I have seen this instruction. best regards (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | New Diagrams of Basic Pneumatics Parts and Circuits
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I've just uploaded some new pneumatics diagrams, the sort that could guide people towards the complex systems we've been discussing in .technic: All were originally drawn in Visio. The circuits themselves are all ones used in official sets, the last (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Galleries of ldraw files
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(...) [...] (...) There are a few LDraw source files on: (URL) hope I've managed to get all my LDrawings on that page, but disorganized as I am, it is probably not quite the case, so you may find some nice surprises browsing around on my site. Play (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New way to make Ldraw parts?
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Plough's script works beautifully even with Blender 2.37, but it does seem as if Yann beat the both of us to it. Thanks, I will check that out. Hm - I wonder if Blender could be used to place the markers for stud connections? Just a random thought, (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New way to make Ldraw parts?
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(...) If I recall that script won't work with the current blender version. A better script is here: (URL) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New way to make Ldraw parts?
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Has anyone looked into using Blender to create new Ldraw parts? There is a script that reads Dat to Blender (URL), so perhaps it wouldn't be so hard to flip the script? I'm a programming noob, so I may be off base there. As I understand it, Mlcad or (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: first timer help - looking for a part
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I get the same error. My guess is that this 'BEN' modified/altered/improved this 2878 part. For the moment, alter your .mpd so that all 2878a.dat become 2878.dat. (with notepad) Also, you could try and contact this person and have him send you his (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | first timer help - looking for a part
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I'm aspiring to built the cars & engines from Ben's "April Fool's" group of trains. (URL) never used LDraw or MLCad, so I downloaded the various installation packages and got everything set up right. Or so I think. When I open one of the mpd files (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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