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(...) Isn't that more or less an MPD? By *not* reusing sub-models you get a unique name for every group, sub-group etc. Or am I misunderstanding something? (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Can LPub show part pages with part name and number?
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(...) Hi Andrew, LPub cannot currently do this, but I'll add it to the wish list. If I concatenate the part-name and its description it should be easy to use in place of the instance count. The name is going to make things sparse, because the name (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Can LPub make a BOM or CSI image with the part number and name shown instead of "1x"? I am interested in dense pages that help me identify parts that I have. (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LSynth within LPub
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(...) When lsynth is installed, the installer creates a registry entry specifying the path. (...) Hmm...... I understand your issue. I follow these steps: 1. Use MLCAD to add synthesis specifications. 2. Save pre-synthesis file to disk. 3. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth within LPub
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(...) How do they find LSynth? I don't think it is on my path and I don't remember telling either LPub or MLCad where LSynth is installed. (...) I would like to, but I have found it rather inefficient, perhaps because I do not understand how to use (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Thoughts on File Format for LDraw Animation [DAT]
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(...) This is the way LDA2001/2005 already works on the inside. Here's a temporary object file, created by LDA2005, before it is inlined into its parent and grandparent files and, after that, deleted: 0 Project=MyAn; Frame #000; (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Thoughts on specific current parts
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(...) <SNIP> (...) (URL) (...) Ah Silly Me I saw 2004-04 and Thought April 2004.... Been working with Solaris too long... If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you are doing the wrong thing. ___...___ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Thoughts on specific current parts
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(...) I admit that there has been a significant delay since the last official update - but it is not as bad as you claim. The last update (2004-04) was released in November 2004 (URL) We will get back on track, before the end of the year. Thanks for (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) POV-Ray and my own Library and abilities, a Converter between LDraw and my Library exists and is slowly growing. Find what I and friends have done here: (URL) Anton (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Too true! (...) How about 3d modeling Parent->Child relationships When the Parent part moves, All children move in relation to it, including rotation (Unless they are Tracking to another (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've been playing with Blender to create videos from LDraw Files. A fellow wrote a LDraw Import Script, so creation of the parts is easy, I just create my model in MLCad and import it, then I begin the animation and movement. It's not exactly (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Well, as there has not been an offical parts release since early 2004.. I was looking at a few parts and will be looking at their cousins. Namely the Pneumatic parts (which have been waiting for a rewrite). While I do not feel savy enough to (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) <snip> (...) One of the weaknesses of the LDraw file format is that part instances do not have names. This makes it impossible to modify attributes about the part instance. The closest thing we have to date is named groups provided by MLCad. (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks for the details on this one. You're sort of right. On single step pages, the callout counter must reset after each page (each step). For multi-step pages, though, we have multiple steps on a given page. In this case the callout counter (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSC - current status?
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(...) We have a motion on the table to approve this. It is in discussion now. (...) I'll have to defer to Steve and Chris on these two. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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One more thing I forgot to mention: I am a lowsy programmer, so don't judge the LDA project by looking at its interface. It it primarly for testing my theories to see if they work. Just like I don't think anyone uses original LDraw anymore, I really (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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dear LSC members, could you please keep me updated about the status of the following topics: * approval of the ldraw spec 1.0.0 * internationalization and localization of the part library * request for new offical meta command called INFO or HELP (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, we traced over them today and the two parts do not match each other (i.e. they have slightly different radii and are not complimentary/mirror images of one another). Maybe this is true, but I suspect it's just the angle of the part in (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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I have added to my weblog (URL) so go to my weblog please help to start a bussiness. thanks, sorry for doing publicity. (19 years ago, 24-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I tilted the underside shots to show how the attachment points affect the framework, because it wouldn't be possible to see in a head on-shot (which would be pretty warped anyways). The distribution of the framework is excactly the same (...) (19 years ago, 24-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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