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(...) It looks like I have lsynth 2.0 (had to start the installer to find out: no "about" or version number in lsynth.exe or readme :-( ), so I guess the fix you got hasn't been implemented yet. -NB (19 years ago, 16-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Help on custom kit in honor of Brian Kelley's son Joshua's life
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Brian Kelley, who is having difficulty posting to LUGNET, asked me to post to LUGNET asking for assistance in creating a commemorative model to celebrate his late son Joshua's life. I did a quick search for a post from Brian regarding his son's (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.people, lugnet.cad) !!
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| | L3PAO Install Problem
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I've e-mailed the author and ldraw helpdesk. I haven't had a response yet and due to a time constraint, I'm posting here. The Portland State University lab uses Windows XP. When running L3PAO, it seems that the command line does not pass on to the (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lsynth and control points
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(...) I found a similar problem a while back, lsynth seemed to treat those hoses "not as bendy" as they actually are. I emailed kevin and he sent me an update that fixed the problem, I'm not sure if it has been released publically yet, but I'm sure (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Lsynth and control points
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(...) Are you sure you have your constraints in order from beginning of host to end of hose? (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Lsynth and control points
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I have a problem with a moc, no matter how I try to place the control points, the hose make this 7-shaped form instead of a nice ?-shape. The hose is fairly flat in the y direction, so this picture should show the problem: (URL) I'm using Lsynth via (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Help LDD won't Run
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LDD does not recognize my WildCat II 5110 64MB card with a Microsoft cert driver. I run graphics programs all day long and this dinky program won't run. LDD 1.4 has a file called reqcheck.xml is there a way to hard code this file and make (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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Hi James, whew - this is getting to be a big mail, but I will try and answer in situ... (...) I suppose I consider it part of the concept, so then I, or others can build what I built, although given the original LDraw file, some may be able to work (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: LDD "hackers" made CNET
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(...) Excellent question. We did get 2 rounds of answers but they weren't very "meaty". (...) I think as the article said, LEGO are constrained as to what they can say officially/publicly. But unofficially we're getting lots of winks, nods, thumbs (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD "hackers" made CNET
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(...) Why isn't TLG giving this sort of feedback though the (URL) forum> it set up specifically for that? LEGO Factory has been out for three weeks, and the TLG reps have yet to provide any answers (other than "LDD will be improved in the future"). (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | LDD "hackers" made CNET
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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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| | Are my radiosity settings up to date?
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hi folks, disapointed by the overall rendering performance of our radiosity settings (the longest engaged 3 weeks to calculate) I stopped the developement of better tweakings a long time ago. now I have to do a huge rendering for a show (7000x5000) (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Galleries of ldraw files
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(...) Cool! Yes, that is what I was thinking. I think ldraw.org should have links to sites like these.... James (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Galleries of ldraw files
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(...) Duh! Why didn't I see that? Thanks! (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | ZRX1 Instructions -Preview-
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Biomechanical Bricks - MC7 (URL) ZRX1> Instructions -Preview- (URL) if you can find the new "Things"!>> Many thanks to Kevin Clague! e (URL) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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| | Re: Question about "stickers"
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(...) In this case, I think you should make them the same size as the shield, armor, or flag face. -ORion (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Galleries of ldraw files
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(...) It's not mine, but this one's huge: (URL) Cobbs (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Galleries of ldraw files
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(...) --Travis (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Question about "stickers"
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(...) hi mark, I've never got reply when I sent you the scan of my stickers (suppose the mail has been eaten up by some spam filter) and therefore I'll post the link her: (URL) (234 KB) I also measured the stickers (though they are not in the best (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) I did mean paths as in lines and curves, as I hope became apparent later on. (...) would apply to this technique, is that it may make building steps a little unnatural. Though you might be able to get it to look good in LPub... (...) Yes - a (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Galleries of ldraw files
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(3 URLs) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | RE: Galleries of ldraw files
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Define "major" ;-) Most of mine have LDR files for them (URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of James Reynolds Sent: 05 September 2005 07:00 To: lugnet.cad@lugnet.com Subject: Galleries of (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Galleries of ldraw files
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After searching for a few hours, these are the major LDraw model files (MOC and official) I could find with the files available: (URL) thought the ldraw files for this gallery were available once but they aren't now...: (URL) hoping there are more? (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) Ok, you lost me. Are you talking about paths as lines and curves or paths as in parent.child.grandchild? Because you mention XML and objects, I'm confused (could mean XPath or OO...). (...) Yes! I talk about overriding default origin here: (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | LDraw to LDD conversion chain
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Please see this post on LEGOFan.org (URL) addressed a lot of the technical issues with importing LDraw format files into LDD at the file conversion level. I think there are things to think about at other levels (like, how to constrain models to use (...) (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: little help with rendering
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(...) Hmm.. How did you generate the POV-Ray code? Did you use Lars Hassing's L3P, or some other application? Dave! (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: little help with rendering
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(...) I am using POV RAY. (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: little help with rendering
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(...) What software systems are you using for your rendering? Dave! follow-ups to the lugnet.cad.ray-tracing group. (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: little help with rendering
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(...) Vineet, This post belongs in the lugnet.cad newsgroup so I have moved the thread across. Unfortunately I can't help you with your question without more information. Tim (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The LDraw MOCs tour
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@ (URL) Dave Schuler> Never seen that before, quite interesting. @ (URL) Mladen Pejic> Many MOCs that are new or that i did'nt previously noticed. I really like the M:Tron OrcFish. I have downloaded several MPDs, they are great. Can i make one (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Newbie questions about Lego CAD
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(...) I'm still working on this modell, slow, but sure.. I've found a solution for the above problem: I 'created' a dat-file for the complete turntable. Well, 'created' is a bit exaggerated, I just 'hacked' the both part-files via copy&paste to a (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: The LDraw MOCs tour
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(...) (2 URLs) 92 MOCs available for download in .MPD file format (total size 3.25 MB) LDraw Parts Update 2004-04 needed unofficial parts are already included in the necessary files (URL) Mladen Pejic> (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX)
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| | LDGLite 1.0.18 for OS X now sets LDRAWDIR correctly
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Thanks to Erik Knopp we discovered that the set-ldrawdir.command script that shipped with LDGLite 1.0.18 was not correctly setting the ldrawdir value for users who placed their ldraw directories in their user libraries (~/Library/ldraw). That error (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: The LDraw MOCs tour
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(...) Heck this is right up my alley! Here's the link: * (URL) 13 MOCs, most are variations on the Blacktron theme * The as-yet-not-formally-released clone.dat library is needed * Extensive (bordering on exclusive) use of unofficial parts! Thanks (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | The LDraw MOCs tour
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Hi All, Please post in this thread if your website has more than 10 LCAD-ed MOCs. Please precise: * webpage URL * number of MOCs, plus eventually archive format and size * LDraw Update needed * comment about the usage of unofficial parts I start (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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(...) (* off-topic discussion *) To create a matrix the OCaml code is: let x = Array.make_matrix nrow ncol 0.0 I acknowledge: * OCaml is not widely used * even more esoteric than Perl would be a complete turn off * popular is not a word I would (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Bag inventories now available in LDD format!
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Several industrious guys (Larry, Adrian, Dan, probably some others I'm neglecting) have figured out the part bags that LF is using for its pricing, and how to convert these into files that can be used directly within LEGO Digital Designer! By (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX) !!
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| | Air Hockey table on LEGO Factory
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I've made a minifig-scale air hockey table, as well as I could given the LEGO Factory constraints and the desire to keep the price as close to reasonable as I could (which is to say, I built it from a single kit — this was before the bag inventories (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Am I the only person who finds Lego CAD systems infuriating?
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(...) "Infuriating" is a rather strong word, but I definitely find all the LEGO CAD systems I have tried suboptimal. Unfortunately I'm a lazy bastard who spends more time thinking about how to solve the problems than actually solving them. (...) I (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Dinosaur Body Neck/Tail Ring (40375)
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(...) Wow, it looks like you got a long way on it. But I don't think I'm the one to finish it at this time... I'm actually using the neck ring for a smokestack on a steam train, and idea I got from Jeremy Rear. -Matt :) ---...--- (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Idea for better LEGO Factory building
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(...) Me too, actually, as long as no elements not from the palettes are introduced. I may have missed something when I perused the XML looking for things that it might key off, though. (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Surface-only convertion to POV-Ray
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What tool would convert just the surface information from ldr to pov or lws? Would 3DWin do it? (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Idea for better LEGO Factory building
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(...) Ah, no, I'm sorry — I didn't test that part. I tested that you can load such a custom .tix file into LDD, add it to your active list just like one of the built-in part sets, and make use of it to build a model. I didn't test that LF will (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Reduced versions of BBB wheels
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(...) Thanks Tim, yes I believe the originals are from a modelling tool. And I'll be first to admit, mine are not as accurate as the originals, I sacrificed accuracy for size. But they use a lot of primitives, which most LDraw renderers are able to (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Idea for better LEGO Factory building
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(...) Joe, what did you test? Did you use this small file to try to upload a design to the gallery for others to buy? My concern is that might not work, I couldn't tell what you meant, but if you tested it, coolness! (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Reduced versions of BBB wheels
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(...) So thats what you and Tim were talkin about yesterday, I was most confused. Your new versions look as good as the originals, so the reduced file size was deinatly worth doing. The originals were huge (some sort of conversion from the CAD (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Idea for better LEGO Factory building
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(...) (URL) BrickWiki> now has a page on (URL) Custom LDD Part Sets>. This has been tested and, apart from the custom icon, seems to work just fine. So now it would be even easier for someone to create part sets that correspond to the (URL) Factory (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Dinosaur Body Neck/Tail Ring (40375)
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(...) Hi Matthew, I've begun one half of the body part some time ago. If you want, you could finish it. For some pictures look here: (URL) you are interested, I would send you the part. CU Bernd (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Reduced versions of BBB wheels
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(...) No problem Matt, glad you found them useful! ROSCO (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Dinosaur Body Neck/Tail Ring (40375) [DAT]
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I needed the Dinosaur Neck Ring for a project I am working on so I designed it. It is my first part - fun stuff, I'll have to try another sometime. I have it submitted at ldraw.org, but I have a feeling the process is pretty slow to make it (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Reduced versions of BBB wheels
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(...) Very cool. I had wanted to do that myself - thank you very much for taking the time. I've already put them in a project I'm working on... -Matt :) (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Idea for better LEGO Factory building
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Some enterprising ALEs have begun to make inventories of the parts bags actually used by LEGO Factory (see (URL) LEGO Factory on BrickWiki>). The brick sets available in LDD 1.4 are stored as simple XML files, human readable and editable. On the (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Reduced versions of BBB wheels
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I recently created reduced versions of the BBB train wheels. You can download the LDraw parts files (URL) here> (just copy them to your parts directory and run mklist). Here is an example of how they render, alongside the BBB versions: (URL) (The (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDDP update (Was: "Y Column all zeroes")
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(...) I'll look into this one. It probably stems from the routine used to determine if the first selected line is type 1 (...) I know why this one behave the way it does and I'll fix this. Thanks for the reports, please keep them coming. -Orion (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
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(...) (URL) Dean Earley, Dee (dean@earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: (URL) +44 (0)780 8369596 (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
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(...) The above link is bad, can you provide a better one? -Orion (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
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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 v1.5.7 Released
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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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(...) -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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(...) 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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(...) 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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Hallo! I'm new to the LEGO CAD world, but so far I'm really amazed about the great possibilities this programs offer. Well, I try to ldraw the official LEGO Set 8837, one of my favorites before the dark age. Now I'm getting into some trouble. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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I like acronyms...anyways... I'm working on BrickSpace, and now BrickFire. Also trying to learn C so I can write my own FPS and RTS, but that's a bit longer term. Right now, I'm wondering if among our fine ranks there are any of you who are modders, (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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(...) The ability to sort the DAT code on X,Y,Z position or Color. Other than that, not much. -Orion (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Since using this beta, I have noticed that text selection is "screwy". Try select text by pressing the up key while holding shift. It appears to select text from the new cursor position to the old selection start position as opposed to the (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) The problem exists that Bricklink doesn't use the same numbering system that Peeron does for parts where the number is unknown. Bricklink and Peeron also differ, in some cases, on part naming. This leads to the neccesity of constructing a huge (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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