 | | Re: New LDraw Parts Admin appointed
|
|
(...) This is great news! Congratulationsm and thank you ROSCO! Kevin (18 years ago, 17-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | New LDraw Parts Admin appointed
|
|
I am pleased to announce that a third LDraw Parts Admin has been appointed to join Steve Bliss and myself. Ross Crawford (ROSCO) is well known to many in the LDraw community, is currently a member of the LDraw Standards Committee, and has kindly (...) (18 years ago, 17-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad) !
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) This is already an option! Use the command line "-b 1" to get the bottom layer of plates studs up instead of studs down. Increase 1 to whatever number of layers you want studs up (it'll do 5 layers at a time, so the next meaningful layer (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Another handy option might be one to flip bricks pointing down so that they point up. So the sculpture would be completely studs out execept for the bottom, which would always be studs up instead of studs down like it is now. Not sure how this (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) I don't even keep a copy of the vertices in system memory, I upload them all to the video card and forget about them. It might not be terribly bad to sort the triangles per frame since usually there aren't that many translucent pieces but I (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Amazing work Bram! Loved the paper. Just a quick note: The 3D converter that you link to can take as import Renderman files (RIB) and output PLY files. RIB is one of the supported file formats to E-frontier's Poser software. This allows for (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Yep, that should work. You might get some funky pieces around the edges of the mesh, but most of it should be good. If you want a studs up landscape, use "-q -n" in your commandline. (...) I look forward to some cool results! --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Hey James, right now there are no inner workings on any of the rendered models. It's up to you to figure out how to build the shape my program spits out. --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) I used someone else's library to read in the PLY files, so I'm not sure what it prefers. STL is a simpler format, so I wrote that parser myself...and haven't had any problems with it. (...) Try saving as PLY binary from 3D Object Converter. As (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
Very cool. So it looks like this was used for a class project (based on the header of the paper). If so, I hope you got an A. The paper itself looks exactly like papers I've looked at in the past that were presented at SIGGraph. It seems to not like (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Those sculptures look great with studs-all-the-way - it looks like you have released a whole new degree of freedom in sculpting! (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Wow. It amazes me what you can come up with :-) I love LEGO. It allows people to do such cool things like this. Spotlighted. -Anne (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Wow! I have been working on some sculptures, scenery’s and a huge globe using these studs out building technique lately. And this would be a great addition. I presume I could also use this in making a landscape with the correct 3D triangle (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
Awesome work, Bram. Any chance of getting an MPD or some screenshots of the innards of the cow? James Wilson (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) I sure did!!! Outstanding... Three things I found: - LSculpt seem to prefer "Unix" style PLY (with only CR at the end of text file instead of CR/LF Windows style). I had to convert Stanford bunny (bun_zipper.ply) to be able to use it. - After (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
Wow... if I were still building witth LEGO bricks with any regularity, this style is all I'd be doing. Beautiful stuff. Eric (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
Haven't had time to really read into this (will though!) but wanted to post a quick congrats based only on first impressions. They look great! Well done! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Reviewing tutorial take 3
|
|
Surfacing from examnpaper-writing tuesday, I finally had a chance to update my tutorial per the suggestions in this thread: (URL)... before I submerge with the next paper *sigh*: (URL) Critique, comments, corrections etc. are very welcome. Cheers NB (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Building stuff is fun. (...) Thanks! Shoot me an email if you're interested in the code. --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) And apparently my ability to ask questions far supersedes my ability to follow links. I see you've written a handy paper to explain the method. Thanks. Tim (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(...) Hi Bram, Some excellent algorithmic design there. Are you sure you shouldn't be doing combinatorics rather than engineering? A few questions about it: 1) Is the whole thing algorithmic or do you have to specify where your snot-centers (I see (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | First SNOT spheres, now SNOT bunnies?
|
|
(URL) Click the pic for more info Here's some more examples of my software at work, rendered in POV-Ray: (URL) Here's how studs-out building compares to studs-up: (URL) Enjoy! --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.cad, FTX) !!
|
| |
| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2006
|
|
(...) Well, wow! Thanks to the SteerCo for recognizing my humble efforts to make the community better. While my ability to contribute has diminished over the last year or so, I'm still committed to making LDraw and LDraw.org a better (albeit at a (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) I think this excerpt from a mail between me and someone else is the only written documentation: -8<---...--- BEGIN ---...--- I capture the mouse on a drag operation in LDLIST, and sends the following message to each window the cursor passes (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2006
|
|
(...) Well done, Orion. Not only have you done a LOWBTS, but you've done a lot of very useful and visible stuff too, congratulations! ROSCO (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw - Thanks for the info
|
|
(...) Given the nature of the topic, I would say a Freudian slip ;) - Jim F. (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2006
|
|
(...) Congrats Orion! I'm sure it is a well deserved honor. - Jim F. (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) I forget too, but it looks like I didn't make any changes for the part count update. It's a pretty cool feature and I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to implement. And maybe I can make the cursor switch to a drop target as well. (It does it (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2006
|
|
(...) A hearty congratulations to you Orion! Well deserved, to I must say! Kevin (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw - Thanks for the info
|
|
(...) Nice catch! :-) JOHN (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw - Thanks for the info
|
|
(...) "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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2006
|
|
(...) Congratulations, Orion! (...) Good job, SteerCo! Steve (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw - Thanks for the info
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw - Thanks for the info
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2006
|
|
(...) Congratulations to Orion. I think he is more than deserving. Tim (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
|
| |
| | James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2006
|
|
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) !!
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) Try LeoCAD... it allows to rotate parts around their own coordinate axis ;o) Philo (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Still Missing primitives
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Still Missing primitives
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Missing primitives after part update.
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Still Missing primitives
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) If you're doing interactivity with opengl, don't bother using the gl_select mechanism, it's way to slow for even small models (the car for example). I discovered this the hard way, while writing an editor for my LD4DModeler succeder project :) (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) I've been considering starting in on a new WYSIWYG LPub. It has been a long time in coming. I was hoping to not have to figure out a new renderer, so I was thinking about using either ldglite or LDView as the renderer. I think these tools (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) Well, MLcad cannot click things into place. I've learned over the years to be careful to add parts to the model when using course grid, and then switch to medium or fine as necessary. MLCad will allow you to place on whatever grid resolution (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) Actually, ldglite is pretty much exactly what I was thinking in terms of using OpenGL to enhance the MLcad experience. And don't knock spaghetti code - a lot of programmers never release anything because they're too busy trying to "do it (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) Hi Travis, I frequently use LDview during the editing for the reasons you outline above. My point was more in argument against the "zoom and rotation" section of the comment. I would love to have a renderer as good as LDView implemented in (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) While mostly true, I think you're minimizing the utility that a really good 3D view could provide to MLCad. (Note that this isn't meant as a put-down of MLCad; implementing a really good 3D view requires effort that might best be used for (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) ... Hmmm, I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but what would you think about maybe taking over the maintainence and development of ldglite? I tend to think of it as the lowest common denominator of LDRAW viewer/editors, but with a (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCad Parts Tree (was: LDD vs LDraw)
|
|
(...) That is very helpful! Thanks! (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | MLCad Parts Tree (was: LDD vs LDraw)
|
|
(...) That's a cool idea. In the meantime, if you look in the MLCad program directory, there's a file called MLCad.grp. This contains all the grouping information for the parts tree. The organization of the file is pretty straightforward. In my copy (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) That doesn't surprise me; most of what I know about MLcad was learned by trial-and-error. (...) I must be doing something wrong, but whenever I place a new part it seems to appear in an arbitrary location in one plane, and doesn't "snap" to an (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Comments about James Mathis' Factory Sets
|
|
Hello, Ville, Thank you very much for buying these three train models. (...) You have examined them more closely than I did to find faults with the design. To the Pullman Car, I made no changes. To the DB103 I made the suggested changes: - floor (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
Hi Chris, Some of what you ask for in MLCad can already be done... (...) This surprises me. I've never had a problem. (...) You can sort of do this with submodels (...) Apart from looking nicer I don't think there's any viewing that LDView can do (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) I have used LDD (a little) and MLcad (occasionally over several years) and had already given this topic some thought, so here goes. If I were writing a new CAD program, it would do everything MLcad can do today, plus: I like the way that LDD (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
|
|
(...) I think there's some discussion on this topic already, but my view is that LDD and LDRAW each have their place. LDD Pros: -Easy to use with a gentler learning curve. Most kids can figure it out. -Quite rapid to construct models. -Real-time (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | LDD vs LDraw
|
|
Hey gang, So with the update on licensing soon to be finished for the LDraw community, it got me to thinking about the Pros and Cons of LDD vs the LDraw toolset. So I thought I would throw it out to the community to see what other thought. What are (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: SketchUp Lego Contest.
|
|
(...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | SketchUp Lego Contest.
|
|
The SketchUp people are having a Lego modelling challenge. Thread: (2 URLs) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
|
|
(...) Wow, that's really nifty. Can you imagine how cool an entire NMRA 3-D layout model would look? Naturally the next question would be: so when are you going to add some trains? However I suspect I already know the answer: "Ross has been working (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | LDraw.org's November 2006 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
|
|
Congratulations to the winners of the November 2006 Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, P-55 Exiled-Class Medium Fighter by Tom Kimsey> (URL) SOTM, Shipwrecked by Philip Heinrich> The voting for the December 2006 Model of the Month and (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX) !
|
| |
| | Re: Is the part 4515 slope face granular ?
|
|
(...) Bonjour Jerome, Part 4515 slope face is granular. Less than most slope bricks, but definitely not shiny. Philo (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | pov ray
|
|
Hi everyone, this is my first post. I've been messing around with ldraw for a while but now I'm seriously getting into it and I'm running into all sorts of problems. My main one is getting povray to do anything. I can render using the lpub gui but i (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: Is the part 4515 slope face granular ?
|
|
(...) Hello, Could someone help ? I would like to calculate a model with pov-ray that use this part. Thank you ! Jerome (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
|
|
(...) Your wait is over:-) I (URL) pics> by the same name. Ideally, you'd want nice, perpendicular shots of your buildings from the front and sides to create the best effect-- Ross had to use some pretty bad shots to get these, but I think they (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | dat file for wedge piece 50955 and 50956
|
|
Hello dear fellows! For the instructions of a new model I would need .dat files for the newer wedge pieces: (URL) 50955 ((URL)) and (URL) 50956 ((URL)) Unfortunately it has not been made yet. However there exist the wedge pieces for: (URL) 42060 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD Partslist errors
|
|
(...) I also have another solution, which may be of use. See (URL) this message>. Martin (18 years ago, 10-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD Partslist errors
|
|
(...) Hi Ludo, That is a known problem, see (URL) will also find that every sub-model is always counted, even if it is not included in the main model at all - MLcad currently just reports every part in the file itself. Until MLcad is fixed, you can (...) (18 years ago, 9-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | MLCAD Partslist errors
|
|
Hi, I recently build me a new freightcar,and build it also into MLCAD. See : (URL) The MPD file can you find in this folder: (URL) Because of identical repeating parts as the left/right side and the boogies, created i those parts as separate parts (...) (18 years ago, 9-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | RE: 56 x 26 Tire and Wheel
|
|
(...) See (URL)Is there some documentation on creating new parts? See (URL) (18 years ago, 8-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 56 x 26 Tire and Wheel
|
|
(...) Tutorials are here: (URL) and ref. meterial here: (URL) luck Brian! Philo (18 years ago, 8-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 56 x 26 Tire and Wheel
|
|
(...) I'm going to take a stab at the wheel. I don't yet understand how to view a preview of the primitives in MLCad, though, so it might be hard. Is there some documentation on creating new parts? BTW If someone else is currently at work on the (...) (18 years ago, 8-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: monkey rail was marble rail
|
|
Hello, New render old moc. (URL) (18 years ago, 8-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) !
|
| |
| | Is the part 4515 slope face granular ?
|
|
Hello, is the part 4515 slope face granular (like the 3298 part for exemple) or is it a smooth one ? The LGEO 4515 part appears smooth but I would like a comfirmation of it Jerome (18 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 56 x 26 Tire and Wheel
|
|
(...) It should be "light stone", but that color isn't officially defined in the LDraw system yet. For now, try color 503, which is (old) very light gray. Steve (18 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 56 x 26 Tire and Wheel
|
|
(...) What CAD tool do you use to design parts? One other thing, is there any talk about the chrome color being used for the NXT and motors? These look real funny when rendered because it reflects other objects like a mirror, so the color ends up (...) (18 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 56 x 26 Tire and Wheel
|
|
Hi Brian, (...) None I am aware of... But many other parts have been improved (see (URL) (...) Any good part modeller here (I mean... better than me!) wanting to cope with these parts (55976 and 54087)? Philo (18 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | 56 x 26 Tire and Wheel
|
|
Just wondering if there are models for the tire and wheel included in the final NXT kit? The wheel hub has circles inside instead of the spokes for the preview kits. The tire has sort of an alternating traction design instead of checkerboard. (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 2006: bad year for LDraw parts
|
|
(...) Pretty much the sole reason for this is legal/administrative. It has nothing to do with the amount of effort that has gone into part creation, or the amount of effort that has been put in by the parts admins. A decision was made not to do any (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 2006: bad year for LDraw parts
|
|
(...) the posts that got me working again on some parts I had started awhile back. There has also been an increase in traffic here, so maybe I'm not the only one who took notice. Maybe people didn't see your post right away, or didn't feel that they (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 2006: bad year for LDraw parts
|
|
(...) Why was I ignored ? I asked first about new parts (URL) Aban says we will end this year without no parts :( and no xmas gifs from ldraw comunity I'm really getting tired of ldraw I hope this doesn't keep every year we have no parts I can (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | My first atempt on MLCad...
|
|
Hello, during the last month I spent some time working with MLCad. After I had read "Virtual LEGO" it was quite easy to use. So here is my first result: (2 URLs) And here is the deep link to the (URL) as pdf-file. This is the (URL) complete folder> (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
|
| |
| | RE: 2006: bad year for LDraw parts
|
|
While there may be no official update, a huge amount of effort has gone on behind the scenes ... reduction of the number of held parts on the tracker from an all time high of 331 to the current 144 around 60 of the 100 non-CA parts have been (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: 2006: bad year for LDraw parts
|
|
(...) Perhaps we are missing parts reviewers... (hint, hint ;o) Philo (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: NXT sensor part updates
|
|
(...) Cross-posted to lugnet.robotics.nxt Philo (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | 2006: bad year for LDraw parts
|
|
Hi, 2006 is almost done and there's still no Official LDraw parts release... I guess this year will end without any update to feed our MLCad :-( (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: NXT sensor part updates
|
|
(...) XP to lugnet.robotics.nxt... Philo (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | NXT sensor part updates
|
|
I did some updating of the unofficial NXT sensor parts. The light sensor now has the orange depression that the real sensor has. The sound sensor now has the horizontal holes in the nose that the real sensor has. I did minor mergining of some (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: Comments about James Mathis' Factory Sets
|
|
(...) Hi Ville, Wow, thanks for sharing all of that great feedback on these Factory sets. That's a lot of useful information for anyone considering these sets. You even provided pictures of the mods you made! When I suggested you provide some (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
|
| |
| | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray
|
|
(...) I haven't seen that problem with L3PAO myself. <advert> Personally, I dropped L3PAO a while ago and wrote a replacement, which IMO has a few more useful features and is slightly more up to date. L3PGen can be downloaded from: (URL) comments (...) (18 years ago, 3-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
| |
| | Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
|
|
(...) It appears rippled because it is rippled in the photo from which it was taken. There was no intentional rippling (I think that's a 5 yard penalty and a loss of down!) JOHN (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts?
|
|
(...) Thanks for the updated links! The page listed in the earlier post appears to be out of date. (It has version 031 of LDS, and a broken link to your page.) It seems that there is a lot of great software already out there, which is not (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
|
