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(...) "Combatibility?" Was that a Freudian slip, or an intentional Yogi Berra-ism? Either way, it's pretty funny. :) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) the future :-) Did you ever do any changes to make the response back so the part count in LDList is updated (or have we talked about this in email, and I'm forgetting even more?)? (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Congratulations, Orion! (...) Good job, SteerCo! Steve (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Yeah, I did this in ldglite a while back. You paste the peeron inventory in the ldglite window (with a ctrl-V in ledit mode) and it arranges the parts in a spiral so you can move them around and build the set. It's kinda fun, but a bit slow (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The simplest way would be if peeron.com could serve a set inventory as an LDraw file - then you just load the set into MLCad and rearrange the pieces. As a side note, LDList ((URL) has the possibility to load a set description and only show (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) We (the SteerCo) are in contact with the LDD team. My personal opinion is that the two are designed for different user-bases so combatibility is more important than helping them (or they us). Tim (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well gang, Thanks for all the input. I appreciate the views that were presented. I’ve noticed over the past few years that the cadding community has been producing some very nice tools. And now Lego has released there own (LDD). Is there a (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Congratulations to Orion. I think he is more than deserving. Tim (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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The James Jessiman Memorial Award was established by the Jessiman Family to honor an individual who has contributed to the furthering of LDraw, the DAT format, and James' memory. This year the LDraw.org Steering Committee is please to announce the (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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(...) Try LeoCAD... it allows to rotate parts around their own coordinate axis ;o) Philo (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) You might be surprised about the performance. LDView cheats and only sorts the centroids of the transparent triangles, but it does do a brute force sort (via qsort()) of all transparent triangles every frame (assuming you have that option (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The other day I started from scratch, installed 027, then the latest official release, and then all the unofficial parts. I did not run into any missing primatives. Previously I had had problems with some full width liftarms and axleholes. (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) The other day I started from scratch, installed 027, then the latest official release, and then all the unofficial parts. I did not run into any missing primatives. Previously I had had problems with some full width liftarms and axleholes. (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Is there a "scan parts" command somewhere in the mlcad file menu? Maybe that'll fix it. Otherwise, you might get a better answer for this in the mlcad newsgroup, so I'm sending you there. (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hello Michael, I have the same problem and re-installed 3 time know. I hope somebody can help us! Tymen (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Ahem Ahem... I know that at least Mladen and myself do this and I've been spreading the word. You pretty much have to if you design mecha. I do, however, agree that it is annoying to deal with when people don't (I'll name no names... Swami). (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have a question about this. It is very important to me. I like to make animations, and to rotate things correctly, I must use submodels. In using other people's models, I've discovered that nobody centers their submodels to the pivot point, (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) What I want to do is take the layout process (taking part list images, and partial assembly images and making actual building instruction pages interactive. Right now it is batch, pretty much on an entire model basis. I want to be able to pull (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Unfortunately this is a tradeoff between quality and speed, if I sorted by triangle it would give better results but would also be much slower to render. There are other options for transparency sorting, like doing a Z init pass or rendering (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not exactly sure what you mean about the performance issues. Running an external viewer in polling mode is too slow? What sort of interactive rendering are you considering? (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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