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(...) As it happens, the 3x3 matrix that LDView gives you when you do View->Show View Info isn't the camera matrix. It's the rotation matrix applied to the model around the model's centroid. Having said that, I can derive a camera matrix based on (...) (19 years ago, 4-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) You may try 494 (256 + 16 * 14 + 14) Electrical contacts (yellow). Otherwise first use 334 and note the RGB values in the POV file. Then use 383 and manually change the RGB values to those of 334. The coming L3P supports the ldconfig.ldr file (...) (19 years ago, 4-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Does L3P support the gold-chrome color of coins, the bugle, the new 2x4 bricks, etc? I know that color 334 is recommended, but I don't use LGEO, and when I process a model through L3P color 334 comes out as sort of a dark orange and decidedly not (...) (19 years ago, 4-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Thanks to both of you. Just for me, I would be completely satisfied if LDView shows (and exports to clipboard) full 4*4 trafo matrix instead of 3*3 matrix as it does in current version. Then I am able to derive .pov trafo matrix by myself. Small (...) (19 years ago, 4-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) It would definitely be more convenient for me if you had a -matrix option. I'm not sure off the top of my head how to go from my camera matrix to your latitude/longitude/roll (although I'm sure I could probably figure it out). (...) I'll take (...) (19 years ago, 3-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I have already implemented support for the sky vector and for camera roll, see (URL) perhaps it would be more convenient to have a -matrix option to directly specify the camera matrix ? I know POV supports the matrix keyword inside the camera. (...) (19 years ago, 3-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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----- CUT HERE LISTING 1 of 2 ---...--- -- 3DS Max Exporting with rounded-off precision ----- close out_file tmesh = snapshotAsMesh selection[1] out_name = ((GetDir #export)+"/testmesh.dat") out_file = createfile out_name num_verts = tmesh.numverts (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Version 3 Parts List: x784.dat x784s01.dat x784s02.dat This is x784s02.dat 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel Segment of 8 fin units and 14 teeth 0 Name: x784s02.dat 0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Version 3 Parts List: x784.dat x784s01.dat x784s02.dat This is x784s01.dat 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel Fin Segment 0 Name: x784s01.dat 0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 3 16 34.9836 261.141 11.3246 35.32 263.049 (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Version 3 follows. All parts need to be replaced. I fixed the cracks. I removed trailing zeros. I changed the precision to 4 decimals. I inset the teeth a tiny little bit to hide the convex backside. I removed two extra faces that were just adding a (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I tried to implement this functionality, but ran into a brick wall. The problem is that L3P doesn't allow for arbitrary camera positioning, so there's no way to convert LDView's arbitrary camera position into an L3P command line. Specifically, (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi I am using it and I am really glad I've found it. But some models (or details) require better rendering, so I use POV-Ray. In POV, pinpointing exact camera_position and camera look_at parameters just by typing coordinates is real pain even when (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Sorry I missed this in my first reply, but I just noticed. There's a minor modeling glitch that's resulting in extra polygons on one side (but not the other). Take a look at the circled sections (you can just make out the problem via the shading): (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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I have a few comments to make about the part in general, and since I wanted to highlight some lines in this particular sub-part, I'm entering my whole reply here. Lines 46-55 in this file are listed as triangles, but all have two identical vertices, (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) You still need to remove trailing zeros. For example in the line above, 1.00 should be simply 1 and -0.000 should be 0. -Orion (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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New Version of x784s02 Each file I previously posted needs to be replaced. The new parts list has: x784.dat x784s01.dat x784s02.dat x784s03 has been deleted 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel Segment of 12 fin units and 14 teeth 0 Name: x784s02.dat (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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New Version of x784 Each file I previously posted needs to be replaced. The new parts list has: x784.dat x784s01.dat x784s02.dat x784s03 has been deleted Each of the new files will follow this post. 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel Fin Segment 0 (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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New Version of x784 Each file I previously posted needs to be replaced. The new parts list has: x784.dat x784s01.dat x784s02.dat x784s03 has been deleted Each of the new files will follow this post. 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel 0 Name: (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I don't expect it to be a problem, but if you do see seams, you can always have the subfile contain two blades, in which case the alignment between the files becomes exact. --Travis (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) No, it's not an issue. Within a reasonable amount of error, of course. If subfiles are positioned orthoganally to each other, there should be no alignment errors. With this part, that's not possible. You can reduce the size of the calculation (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Looks good but you need to trim down your decimals and get rid of trailing zeros. 3 decimal places are fine for most situations. -Orion (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hi David, rect3.dat is a primitive which should have been put in your LDRAW\P directory. Check that directory to make sure it is there and has that file. If not, you should download the latest official parts file from here (URL) will need (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I get the error message "rect3.dat not found continue loading Yes/No". It doesn't matter what I select I still get lots of these messages. I haven't got this file in my directory. What have I done wrong, is there something I haven't downloaded? (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Don't make a separate file for x784s01, just put that code in the main x784.dat. Steve (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Oops. You are right, the inner ring fell off of the x784s01.dat part somehow. I'll fix that. (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Thanks for the formula Anders Do you have any idea on how to convert it to the vector type used in MLcad? (xyz+angle)? Cheers NB (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I wasn't sure how to handle primative paths. I'll try it without a path and see if it works. The internal rings are attached to the fin in the x784s01.dat sub-part. That sub-part is really sort of a cross secton of everything except the teeth, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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To make the Hailfire Gear, I modeled one segment with one fin in 3DS Max. I exported it with the script I previously posted. Then, I spun the segment around with the following code. I also spun in 168 teeth from the gear tooth primative. // Hailfire (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I'd recommend taking a balanced approach to nested sub-filing. A 48x48 area of studs could be NSF'ed to 22 lines of code, but would require 10 very trivial subfiles. This trades one kind of complexity (lots of code lines) for another kind of (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks a lot! Many people including me waited for this part... I have a few problems with it though: - The first subpart has a wrong download name (lugnet.cad.dat.parts:5772), the name inside dat file is wrong too (0 Name: x784.dat0) - I don't (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Using sub-sub-sub-parts is no problem, this currently happens to the stud group primitives, too. stug8.dat contains 4 references to stug4.dat stug4.dat contains 4 references to stug2.dat stug2.dat contains 4 references to stud.dat Niels (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Inner Tooth Segment of 14 teeth 0 Name: x784s03.dat 0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 1 16 0.000000 -215.000000 0 1.000000 -0.000000 0 0.000000 1.000000 0 0 0 1 ..\p\tooth24.dat 1 16 (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel Segment of 12 fin units 0 Name: x784s02.dat 0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 1 16 0 0 0 1.000000 -0.000000 0 0.000000 1.000000 0 0 0 1 s\x784s01.dat 1 16 0 0 0 0.997859 (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel Fin Segment 0 Name: x784.dat0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 3 16 17.8261 262.87 11.3246 18.037 264.796 0.337064 13.962 265.063 0.337064 3 16 13.962 265.063 0.337064 13.9197 (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Parts List x784.dat x784s01.dat x784s02.dat x784s03.dat 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel 0 Name: x784.dat 0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 1 16 0 0 0 1.000000 -0.000000 0 0.000000 1.000000 0 0 0 1 s\x784s02.dat 1 16 (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Tonight I hammered out the Droid Wheel Gear. I used lots of sub parts, and I think it is pretty efficient, especially considering how many fins and teeth this thing has! I will post the dats in a follow up in plain text. (2 URLs) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Still haven't heard back from the Poser software vendor. I'm starting to think that they don't take Legos seriously. ;) I added a more interesting pose to the (URL) folder> and a (URL) render>. (URL) -dw (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New Part: 41530 Propellor 8 Blade 5 Diameter [DAT]
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Ok, here is the dat file reposted, one more time. It doesn't include any of your suggestions yet. I will work on that. Thanks for the feedback. I'll look at the model again and see if I can rig it up with sub-parts. I was worried that sub-parts will (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Exporting Minifig to Maya - edgy model
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(...) Hey, that sounds like really good idea though. Wonder why it didn't even cross my mind. I guess I wasn't That eager to render that minifig, but now I am :) I could easyly use the low-res fig as a template. However, I can recall I've seen (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I thought about suggesting that, but unless you skip the polygons around the outside of the blade, (and put them into a higher-level "full blade" sub-part), this will add new polygons, since the polygons around the outside of the blade span (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Or, make the sub-part be half of a blade, and reference it 16 times. (...) The axle-hole area could probably be replaced with one or more primitives. I'd have to compare this part to the existing axlehole primitives to be sure. (...) I totally (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) It looks like you can't post DAT files in FTX mode; you have to use Plain Text, as the file is still scrambled. As for the part itself, you definitely want to create sub-part for a single blade, and then reference that sub-part 8 times in the (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Any news in this matter? I have been using AOI for a few years now and it's now a very nice and competent software, latest version 2.2 is impressive. :) A good and growing AOI forum: (URL) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Part: 41530 Propellor 8 Blade 5 Diameter [DAT]
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Sorry, That dat file seems to have been scrambled. Here is a corrected version (...) 0 Propellor 8 Blade 5 Diameter 0 Name: 41530.dat 0 CATEGORY: Technic 0 KE 0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 3 16 -5.5821e-007 12.7703 3.99319 (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM Relaunch
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(...) Thanks that's fixed now. I had to enter all the winners in to the database by hand so I expect a few mistakes that lead to broken images. -Orion (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Exporting Minifig to Maya - edgy model
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(...) Sorry for the smartypants non-answer, but you'd probably find it easier going to just model the minifg in Maya to begin with. I think someone even had a tutorial on how to do this somewhere, though I can't remember the link offhand. Maybe it (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | New Part: 41530 Propellor 8 Blade 5 Diameter [DAT]
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This is a cool little part that can work as an escape wheel for a clock. I wanted a dat file for it, but nobody seems to have made one, so I made my own. This is my first try at making a dat part, so please let me know if I made some mistakes. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Exporting Minifig to Maya - edgy model
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(...) It's certainly theoretically possible to convert much of the geometry with high polygon counts. LDraw primitives are such that a smart converter can use aribtrary complexity for cylinders, spheres, tori, etc. Having said that, it doesn't sound (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hey, I've been stuck with this problem for a while, so now I've come here for a discussion. It's quite simple actually, but I must say that I'm fairly new in the 3d world so I might have missed something crucial here. 1. I've made a simple minifig (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM Relaunch
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(...) Yep, looks good. I did notice that the January 2000 MOTM entry has a broken link for its actual image while browsing, but all the others I looked at worked fine. --Travis (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Finding a rotation matrix for a triangle
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(...) You take the cross product of two of the sides of the triangle, this will give the vector perpendicular to the triangle plane: (URL) will point either upwars or downwards. Unless your triangle is in a known winding state there's no way to (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM Relaunch
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(...) Yeah, I think so as well. I had a problems with this on other similar pages. (...) Yes, it was first implemented for the March 2004 contest. (...) The different views are for the contest ballot only. Once an entry wins, I chase one view and (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM Relaunch
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I get the same error when I try to click on the voting page: (URL) It might dissapear when some entries are added... Btw, the guidelines of MOTM say that we should send in ldr, mpd or dats, and you will render them from three different angles.. Is (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Finding a rotation matrix for a triangle
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(...) Hi Niels, There isn't really a meaningful way to get an angle out of a plane defined by three points. What would the angle mean? The xyz, angle formula in MLCad just says rotate the vector angle degrees around the vector xyz but in the case of (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Finding a rotation matrix for a triangle
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(...) Heh, probably ;-) Well, perhaps I got the math part, and definition process a bit mixed up: I'd just like to have a program that, from a three coordinates on a plane, can give me a rotation vector+angle that I can enter in MLCad... And I'm a (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Niels, I think you are getting two things a little crossed here but I will try to answer you questions. Firstly, you must remember that a plane can be defined meaningfully by a normal vector (one perpendicular to the plane) and a vector (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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What I mean is: In MLCad, you can take a part, and rotate it via a vector command like turn 45 degrees around y axis clockwise. Or more complex rotations based on more axes. What I would like to know is: How do I find the rotation vector of a plane (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Exporting Minifig to Maya - edgy model
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Hey, I've been stuck with this problem for a while, so now I've come here for a discussion. It's quite simple actually, but I must say that I'm fairly new in the 3d world so I might have missed something crucial here. 1. I've made a simple minifig (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM Relaunch
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(...) You found a bug in my code (not unexpected at all considering the size of the module). I've applied a workaround and everything should be visible now. -Orion (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM Relaunch
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(...) site decorations) with this in it when I click on the most recent winners, and two columns of this when I search past winners. I'm logged into my ldraw.org account when this happens. --Travis (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I'm pleased to announce the relaunch of LDraw.org's MOTM/SOTM contest. After writing a few thousand lines of code, the core functionality for the new contest and voting module finished. There's not a whole lot different visually but the archive (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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(...) Hi Niels, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by the rotation vector of a triangle? There isn't really one as a triangle is defined by three points (9 components) whereas a rotation matrix/vector is defined by only 1 point (3 components). A (...) (19 years ago, 27-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Uhm, it's the rotation VECTOR I need... The rotation matrix would just screw up the dimensions of the primitive. So does anyone have a program or formula that can give me the rotation vector of a triangle? -NB (19 years ago, 27-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Is someone working on this technic/mindstorm part?
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That is 4261.DAT Technic Steering Arm 4261.DAT official part Original LDraw Part - LDraw beta 0.27 Archive made BFC compliant by GuyVivan 07-18-2004 (...) (19 years ago, 27-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Is someone working on this technic/mindstorm part?
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(...) This is part 4261.dat named Technic Steering Arm. It's part of LDraw 0.27 archive and should be in every library. -Orion (19 years ago, 27-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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This email came into the LDraw Help Desk and I have NOT seen this part nor am I sure if anyone has/is working on it. ***...*** Dear Ahui Herrera, I have been trying to make a copy of my First Lego League team's robot and couldn't find this part. I (...) (19 years ago, 27-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Finding a rotation matrix for a triangle [DAT]
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Hi I'm working on a couple of LDraw parts, and need know a way to calculate a rotation matrix that corresponds to a quad (triangle), so that I can place a 1-4 edge.dat on it at the correct angle: Can anyone tell me how to do it? I can't see that (...) (19 years ago, 26-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Ldraw to Bricklink shopping list converter
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(...) Very cool. I like to see MPD support, if possible. -Orion (19 years ago, 26-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Ldraw to Bricklink shopping list converter
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Hi, want to quickly search Bricklink for parts in your Ldraw creation? check (URL): just upload your Ldraw file, and you'll get a complete list of links to Bricklink search pages. Let me know how you like this tool, and make sure you try the MLCad (...) (19 years ago, 26-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: New Part: 712p01.dat - Wing 4 x 8 Curved Left with Red Edge
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(...) I'd like to point out that it's fairly important not to mis-spell "Unofficial". The reason for this is that programs (such as LDView, and in the future L3P) recognize the "0 Unofficial Part" comment and act accordingly. The won't recognize (...) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: New Part: 712p01.dat - Wing 4 x 8 Curved Left with Red Edge [DAT]
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Oops! Wrong colour... Here we go: 0 Wing 4 x 8 Curved Left with Red Edge 0 Name: 712p01.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unufficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 1 16 -40 4 20 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 -20 4 20 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 0 4 20 (...) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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0 Wing 4 x 8 Curved Left with Red Edge 0 Name: 712p01.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unufficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 1 16 -40 4 20 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 -20 4 20 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 0 4 20 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 (...) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Subpart: s\712s01.dat - Wing 4 x 8 Curved Left Edge [DAT]
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0 Wing 4 x 8 Curved Left Edge 0 Name s\712s01.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unufficial Subpart 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 0 // edge 1 16 -80 4 -30 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 -10 rect3.dat 1 16 30 4 40 0 0 50 4 0 0 0 -1 0 rect3.dat 1 16 -20 0 -20 -60 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 60 (...) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: How's LEGO Factory working out?
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(...) Well, on October 12 Jake answered some LEGO Factory questions on (URL) his blog> (also posted on (URL) LEGOFan>), but it doesn't seem like anything has happened since then. Jake's answer included this quote: We’re working on creating an (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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It's been a while since the MOTM contest has been run and I feel that I owe an explanation to those who support me and LDraw.org. As some of you may know, I'm enlisted in the US Navy. Due to a combination of work schedule change, the planning and (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | The Cub's head in Lego Digital Designer format 1.3
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(URL) The Cub's head in Lego Digital Designer format 1.3> See the full rotation in the Gallery---> click (3 URLs) Minus a few parts that are not in the 1.3 Pallet, here is the Cub's head: (URL) I'm going to convert it in to LDD 1.4 and see what I (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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| | How's LEGO Factory working out?
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I got trapped under something heavy and haven't followed things in the LEGO world for the last couple of months. Last I was in it, a few of us had just figured out how the LEGO Factory bags are organized, and how to get part sets into LDD that (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw files for Large models/scenes?
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(...) One possibility would be to make the 'background' town and render it with a spherical camera (angle 180,90 IIRC). This can be saved and then mapped onto the sky_sphere (or a smaller encompassing sphere) and used as the background for scenes. I (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw files for Large models/scenes?
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(...) Aah! Mr. Goldman's stuff, yes. Well, I kinda figured out that needed something like that, but you've just hit the same wall that I did, when I'd finished those mocs: None of those architecture guys seem to be interested in modelling their (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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--SNIP-- (...) IMO the best solution would be to have a magic number at the start of the parts. eg. 0 LDP or something. That way the 'partness' of each part would be quicly verified merely be reading the first five bytes of the file regardless of (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) Surely the extension is entirely to identify the type of file, otherwise they would be irrelevant? While I understand that .dat is a widely used extension it would be foolish if any change was to .ldr (for parts), another extension would make (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) I think Tim meant LDraw files distinctive from other programs' .DAT files. Also from (URL) is problematic because its an ambiguous file format, many different programs use it. To identify more with LDraw, we chose LDR." Anyway, as Travis (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Scorpion
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(...) I just met with Chris Dee who is here in New Jersey on a biz trip. He just showed me his render of the Scorpion! I am so impressed! There is hardly another part as hard to make as the Scorpion. He did a fine job. Thank you so much. Lego Fans (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) What can I say? Tim has always been focused sharply on models. Although he used "model" extensively throughout that post, any implication of having separate definitions of "part" vs "model" as file-types is inaccurate. (...) That was entirely (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) this is what I did in the end. nontheless I consider this a bug worth reporting and subsequently sort out the ldr-dat mess we are currently in ;-) w. (19 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss wrote: [snip-snap] (...) hmm ... I always understod .ldr as scene file and .dat just for parts. at least this was what I thought reding from tim's post back in 2001: (URL) extension change is just that. Nothing changes (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) Yes, I would be great. But while it doesn't distinguish, we have to deal with it. I think the naming convention we had had before the .ldr extension, with officicial models named m926.dat and so on, solves this problem. So I suggest you name (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Getting back to the problem at hand, yes I do think this is a bug in L3P, the line specifically says include 926.ldr. Maybe L3P should include the extension as part of the inc file name unless it is .DAT? Of course that will break if the parts (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I read Steve's email as saying that they shouldn't and that the extension doesn't matter but IMO it does. Rereading it, it sounds like the extension does matter but that it shouldn't be used to identify the type of file which I agree with. /me (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) I don't think L3P pays any attention to parts.lst. To be honest, I don't think that it should. It's not an editor that's expected to give you a list of parts available for use. (And to be honest, I think that parts.lst is a generally bad idea, (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) The point is that it is not MLCad which differentiates, it is mklist. Tim (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But that DOES differentiate between .dat and .ldr by the very fact it has the extension in parts.lst. If it didn't, 3010.dat and 3010.ldr would be interchangeable everywhere. This means that 3010.dat is NOT the same as 3010.ldr but L3P appears (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, it doesn't. (...) MLCad has no such restriction - that restriction is put in place by mklist. Go ahead - create parts/3010.LDR, edit parts.lst, add 3010.LDR and a description, it will magically appear in MLCad and be usable just as any (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) Actually, there's really no easy way to do part detection, but filenames really aren't a good idea. I'm pretty sure Lars is fully aware of the part detection problem (since it also affects the seams option in L3P), and there have been (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Scorpion
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Eric Sophie schrieb: (...) It is now on the parts tracker. mikeheide (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) Surely the very fact it is .ldr instead of .dat differentiates it from the lego parts. MLCad doesn't recognise 3010.ldr as a valid part, and it allows both blah.dat and blah.ldr in the same mpd file. (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) I agree with that - it's much easier for the user to eliminate such conflicts (eg call the set file set-926.ldr) than expect the software to make such decisions for you. ROSCO (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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(...) Isn't there an official order of preference for where a file comes from (eg. check MPD firsrt, directory second and parts directory third)? If so then the most sensible way of processing would be to go through that, which would ensure no (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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I agree and disagree with this. I agree that it would be good (for now) if L3P only substituted LGEO parts for files with a .dat extension. Or, even better, if (a) the file being substituted has the UNOFFICIAL/LDRAWORG meta-statement and states it (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | L3P-Bug using LGEO
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hi lars, looks like L3P doesn't distinguish between part-files (.dat) and scene-files (.ldr) when I use LGEO parts. have a look at the following pic. when I render a .mpd (which containes the subfile 926.ldr refering to the sets number) without LGEO (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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