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I have used L3P for years, and suddely it went on strike. AutoExec.bat still contains: SET LDRAWDIR=F:\LDraw And the SET command still outputs: LDRAWDIR=F:\LDraw And C:\Windows\ldraw.ini still contains: BaseDirectory=f:\LDraw But running the .bat (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Should MLCad be able to run on Windows Vista?
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(...) It runs fine. (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Should MLCad be able to run on Windows Vista?
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(...) I am running MLCad and LDView on Vista without any issues. I haven't tried any others, but I hope this helps. -Duane (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Should MLCad be able to run on Windows Vista?
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Subject speaks for it's self. I got a question from a Dutch Lowlug member regarding running MLCad (and other LDraw related software) on Windows Vista. Does anyone have experience in doing so? Thanks. Jaco (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Help need
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(...) Si, accosento that the "pipistrello" part is not the best to begin with as an unexperienced LDraw author. I had it in my LDraw todo-bucket before I sold my LEGO collection. I regret that I didn't withhold that bucket from the deal, or I could (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Help need
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(...) ciao miriana, la creazione di parts (specialmente di un freeform come il pipistrello) richiede una certa esperienza CAD per raggiungere un risultato soddisfacente in breve tempo - e comunque prima che il tutto diventasse troppo frustrante. se (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: A Cool Viaduct
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(...) It's definitely not Mac specific. I know someone using a PC who's had the problem too. Tim (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Oh yeah, no problem about calling me Jason. It happens a lot in real life to me, too. I guess it could be a Mac-specific bug. If you know of any other Mac LDD users (or have a spare Mac box around), perhaps they could download this model and (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Model scales?
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(...) You can do this directly in your LDraw model. The most direct way is to open your model file in a text editor (like Notepad). Then add a new line for your reduced-scale model: 1 16 0 0 0 .5 0 0 0 .5 0 0 0 .5 MyHalfScaleModel.ldr The three .5 (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Help need
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Hi! I'm Miriana, from Italy. I'm a Lego fan and I need help to make own part. Now I'm making howgwarts castel and I noticed that some parts are not on database. Can I make them by my own? For example if I want make bat part (30103.dat) how can I (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Model scales?
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(...) Uhh, I meant Erwin. Sorry. -Orion (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Model scales?
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(...) Hi Edwin, Look in the L3P file for the main model reference. For example: object { _6825_dot_mpd #if (version >= 3.1) material #else texture #end { Color7 } } Now all you need to add is a scale directive (I've indented the original code for (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Model scales?
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I have seen some Pov-Ray renderings that a normal scale model placed on a mini or nano scale model, How to do that? I really want to know the way to do it. Can anyone help? Erwin~ (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: DATheader
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Willy Tschager schrieb: (...) -- snip (...) Sorry, my webspace was full. I have deleted some old versions.. Now all works fine (I have tested it!). I recommend all to update to the latest version! cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Yet Another Color List
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As if there weren't enough of color lists, I've also made one myself.. This one is from an L3 user's point of view, that is L3Lab and L3P. So far, it lists colors from ldconfig and Lugnet Color Images Guide, but I may add other sources. For a user (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: DATheader
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(...) version 1.1.1 and 1.1.0 at: (URL) not found :'-( FEHLER 404 Die gewünschte Internet-Seite ist nicht erreichbar. Überprüfen Sie bitte die Adresse oder versuchen Sie es später noch einmal. bye, w. (17 years ago, 15-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Are the metallic colours defined in LDraw?
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Hi all, I was wondering if the metallic colours from Racers sets etc (what I call faux-chrome) have ldraw colours. I can't find the numbers for them but that doesn't guarantee they don't have numbers. In my opinion there should be if there is not as (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: DATheader
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I have just uploaded a new version (1.1.1). What has changed: Version 1.1.1 The following testing will be done additionally if you want to save the file: Now you have to set a Liscense Type and BFC Statement. Also you need to set the Author Name. A (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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In lugnet.trains, Jeroen de Haan wrote: ... (...) In working with LDD, I've found a couple of tricks. First, even in the instruction mode you can change your viewpoint to see the bricks that have appeared (a "highlight new bricks" feature in the (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question (and answer?)
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(...) Yes, that makes sense. Looking back at Travis's code, I see that's basically what's happening there, except that some references to the original matrix should be references to the inverse matrix. He probably used it only to invert rotations (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) Som further clarification... I was back in the 3x3 matrix world when I wrote this: the true inverse of a rotation + translate in psuedo-4x4 notation is as follow [ R11 R12 R13 x R21 R22 R23 y R31 R32 R33 z 0 0 0 1 ] goes to [ R11 R21 R31 xp (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question (and answer?)
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(...) If it's only rotations then it should make sense. Another way of passing the information is as follows (M,x) where M is the matrix and x is the translation vector the inverse of this is (Mi,-Mi x) which you can see by showing that an operation (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question [DAT]
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(...) You might want to check your row/column order for the converted code from LDView. At least conceptually, I always invision transformation matrices like so: A B C X D E F Y G H I Z 0 0 0 1 Notice that the translation info is in the last column, (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question (and answer?)
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(...) I think I just answered my own question. I applied the inverse rotation (calculated by swapping the off-diagonals) to the translation row of the original transformation and then negated it to get the translation row in the inverse. That worked (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) I can see the advantages of swapping the off-diagonals for inverting the rotation(s), but that still leaves the question of how to invert translations. In a current example I'm looking at, a minifig hand, the hand is rotated 45 degrees, (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) Quarternions are, IMO, a bad way to do what matrices do well. For a rotation you don't need to (and shouldn't) calculate the inverse by a routine. Just transpose (swap the off-diagonals) and you have the inverse. There's no point running (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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Thanks for the information, everyone. Although the test case I posted was arbitrary, I did some other tests with matrices that were used for rotations and translations. The upper-left 3x3 seemed to be OK, but the bottom row had problems. I'm (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LSynth Service
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Hi, all. I've taken the liberty of fiddling around with the LSynth 2 source code a little bit more to create an LSynth Service, a text-processing extension for Mac OS X that lets you run LSynth just about anywhere you can edit text. The service (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) Hi Travis, Looking at the java version of your inversion routine I would guess that it will work for almost any 3x3 matrix + 1x3 translation (the 4x3 + 1 form). Where it will have problems is in matrices for which one or more of the (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: NEW VERSION! Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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Hi Mike, Couple of ideas for a couple of the bugs. (...) Did you triy transparent and opaque? (...) Did you try 30039? (...) Tim (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) Sorry about that. I wrote that code so long ago that I forgot that it wasn't a fully general-purpose matrix inversion routine. (Note that it is the way it is so that it will perform better, not because I was too lazy to do the whole shebang.) (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) I think you've converted Travis' code properly, but just looking at the code, I'd say it's only intended to produce the inverse of the upper-left 3x3 matrix. None of the other rows or the determinant depend in any way on the 4th row, and it's (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Another matrix inverse question
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Hello, I read James Reynolds' question about inverse matrices and the responses with interest since I similar questions about matrix inverses. I used Travis's TCVector::invertMatrix code as the base for a Java function. Other than the change to Java (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: NEW VERSION! Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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(...) I just uploaded my version 1.01e. This is what I have fixed and found as of today. I’m still working on some problem ones below and I’m at a loss on what to do if anything I could do. If you already downloaded the 1.01A through D you will have (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: POV Color Cheat! Turn Pink into Medium Blue
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(...) I thought it was, but in this case it wasn't. The color 24 line can be skipped. And the double pigment declaration was just a pure mistake; one definition is of course sufficient. :) /Tore (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POV Color Cheat! Turn Pink into Medium Blue
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(...) Good to know. Thanks! (...) I kind of recall that. In some cases, I've seen that L3P ignores an LDraw file with just Type 0 lines. I haven't checked if the IFPOV code makes it not ignore C13-73.dat, but I just did it in a routine manner. /Tore (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POV Color Cheat! Turn Pink into Medium Blue
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(...) If you want to see the medium blue in LDView, just add the following line to C13-73.dat (anywhere outside the IFPOV section): 0 !COLOUR Medium_Blue CODE 13 VALUE #6E99C8 EDGE 0 Tore, is the color 24 line in the file necessary in order to make (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POV Color Cheat! Turn Pink into Medium Blue [DAT]
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(...) This is a great idea that deserves to be highlighted while we're waiting for L3P and other programs to support ldconfig.ldr! Inpired be the objects like timers, dialog objects, menu items etc I add to a Form in a Delphi project, I just came up (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) Now that I'm at work, I'm able to look at Microsoft's implementation of fgets for Visual Studio 2005. They do a lock on the file prior to their loop, then call _fgetc_nolock to get each character, instead of fgetc or fread. (That's an (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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(...) Same here on Kubuntu Edgy & RHEL4. Up until LDD 1.4 it worked, but some routines were obviously modified afterwards which use routines not (yet?) supported by WINE. (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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(...) Well, it was worth a try. I tried both LDD1.6 and LDD2.0 . Both required a new Linux /lib32 library, libdrm.so.1 . I got that and installed it. LDD1.6 tries to do what looks like some OpenGLL stuff that isn't supported. It *did* manage to (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) I thought about using a static instead of ungetc() in the first version of readLine() that I posted. This means that you can only read from one open file at a time, but that is usually an OK restriction as long as the programmer is aware of (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) As long as you only have one character to 'unget' you could probably speed it up by introducing a static char which holds the 'ungetted' char (or null), instead of going through ungetc() -- fgetc(). OTOH, the if-statement to check if there is (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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The latest: (URL) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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(...) Well I'll be! That works too! Thanks you guys! James (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix? [DAT]
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(...) Did you mean this: [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ] [ 1 5 9 13 2 6 10 14 3 7 11 15 4 8 12 16 ] I have yet to try it. James (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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(...) I learned my matrix math from a 3d game programming book and I have no idea what the diagonals are... I was going to look it up but I got Travis' code to work! (URL) might still look it up as I may need to know about it) James (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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(...) I mean swap the OFF-diagonals, leave the diagonals as is. (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) Interesting. I looked at the C runtime library sources that came with MSVC++ 6.0. The fgets() function there is definitely a little different than either yours or the one ROSCO linked. It does have a couple calls for thread safety, but (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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(...) Just take the transpose of the 3x3 world rotation matrix and it should work as the inverse. Transpose means swap diagonals M[1,2] <=> M[2,1] etc. If this doesn't work I've misunderstood you. Tim (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hehehe, cool, I'll try that. Thanks! James (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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Clarification! .... snip (...) I am using additional points to specify the location of feet. Combined with the model location, I have 3 points for the hip and feet. [now the following paragraph should make more sense] (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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(...) Arg. I thought this was going to be easy. I liked this part of the wikipedia article: "In practice, inverting a matrix is rarely required. Most of the time, one is really after the solution of a particular system of linear equations." Hm. I (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) Thanks, ROSCO. I took that code and modified it to use char instead of _TCHAR, and got timings of 720-750ms, compared to the 750-780ms I got with my original one. I then modified it to support CR and LF interchangeably, and got back to the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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I decided to model the very well known GG1 locomotive as a model available from LEGO Factory. I took some liberties with the design and color scheme in order to accomodate what can be done in LDD. Even so, I think the result is inherently (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX) !
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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(...) I just realised something... do you want a general inverse or a specific inverse? Some inversions are simple eg. a pure rotation can be inverted by taking its transpose and reflections are their own inverses. Tim (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) Just as a proof of the value of disk caching, loading the same model using the system fgets after a fresh reboot, the same loading portion took 3300ms. Also, I switched the feof calls out for a check of the value against EOF just to see if it (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) (URL) Google to the rescue>. ROSCO (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) Quick question. I was in a hurry, and wanted to play it safe, so I call feof instead of checking to see if char1 == EOF. Any idea what gets returned for extended ASCII characters (>= 128)? Does the int contain positive numbers greater than (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) I timed the file reading/parsing portion of the model load. It would have been more difficult to time the actual amount of time spent inside fgets/myFgets, so realistically it's likely that myFgets is even slower in comparison to fgets. The (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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(...) There really is no easy way to do it. Feel free to look at TCVector::invertMatrix in the LDView code if you want to see code that does it on a 4x4 matrix. To convert a 3x3 matrix into a 4x4 matrix, put the 3x3 in the top left, put a 1 in the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | NEW VERSION! Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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(...) Mike Gallagher has very kindly uploaded his improved version of ldraw.xml to (URL) I recommend using it. Tim (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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(...) I will do that. Thanks for all the help and the ldraw.xml file. I loaded mine as it is today. I have a bunch more I need to do and I should have those done by Tuesday or so. I made this version 1.01a for starters and will keep most up to date (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) That was quick! Thanks for taking the time to indulge me... (...) It is interesting that it was that much time difference. Are these the total load times, or just profiling of the time spent inside the fgets() routines? I see one or two things (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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--snip-- (...) Hi Mike, It's my understanding [1] that we're allowed to post our own Ldraw.xml files so perhaps you could upload yours to Brickshelf. That way people can be sure that they've got the fixes right and the XML file can grow with fixes (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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(...) I also fixed these. First 2 I just had to fix placement, 3rd one I created a “transformation” and “brick ldraw” lines, the 4th I only had to add the “transformation” line, you all ready had the “brick ldraw” line. But 3069b and 3068b I could (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) Yes, sorry that my post sounded overly defensive. I have something of a chip on my shoulder from years of working alongside programmers who want to take shortcuts at the expense of their users. Very few seem to appreciate that it is worth a (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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(...) Me too to some degree. (...) I believe the system may be (incorrectly) case sensitive when reading LDraw files. Perhaps add b and B options. It's also possible this particular aspect is not yet programmed completely. Furthermore when (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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(...) I have been trying to correct some of the errors when exporting from LDD > LDR, and not being a programmer I have come to a dead end. I have been able to correct some of the parts that would show up but not in the correct location or rotation. (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Inverse matrix?
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(...) The inverse of <1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0> is itself. To compute the inverse of a general 3x3 matrix (essentially what you need to do) is rather complicated. You could do it in a macro using Gaussian elimination [1]. Tim [1] (URL) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) OK, as promised, here it my fgets replacement: char *myFgets(char *buf, int bufSize, FILE *file) int i; for (i = 0; i < bufSize - 1; i++) int char1 = fgetc(file); if (feof(file)) bufi = 0; if (i > 0) return buf; else return NULL; if (char1 == (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Inverse matrix?
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Does anyone know how to generate an inverse matrix. By inverse I mean it will undo the rotation of the original matrix. I thought the inverse of <1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0> was <-1,0,0,0,-1,0,0,0,-1,0,0,0>. In other words, multiply every value by -1. (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) You'll note that I didn't really say that there was anything wrong with your parsing routine (other than some personaly negative feelings about fgetc and ungetc). After fixing the bugs, it will do exactly what you say it will do. It's just (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: how does a line end?
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(...) Aaah, that's one of my most common mistakes. C is the third letter, so I think of it as 13 and not 12. (...) At last, someone agrees with me. :) There will still be a theoretical risk that problems will occur, "anything that can go wrong will (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: how does a line end?
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Tore Eriksson schrieb: (...) After read all this and also after I have had a look at (URL) I think that Tore is right by saying "read all and save secure". Do avoid for future discussions this should be mentioned also in the LDraw Specification. (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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(...) I must be missing something here--I mean you can go out and buy a really cheap Windows machine or a Mac mini that will run LDD. Money is obviously not a problem--since you state that 5 sets is just a "fair amount of money". To me that is a (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: how does a line end?
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(...) Slight correction - "0x0D 0x0A" And this is kind of my point. The string you pass to printf() has \n only, which is only one byte. Offhand I don't remember if this is because of the Borland libraries, the operating system, or the fact that (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: how does a line end?
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(...) (For some unknown reason, all my backslashes disappeared in previous message.) /Tore (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) 1. I always use alt. b. "printf("Hello, world!n");" But as a self-made hobby programmer not knowing all the tweeks and geeks, I wouldn't be surprised if the interpretation of this may vary from one IDE to another, or if there is an .ini file (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Chris, (...) I believe quite a few people have managed to get LDD running under WINE. Since the code was most likely designed from the ground up to work on PCs and Macs it might be emulatable than older versions. --snip-- Tim (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) I've been writing text parsing programs for over 20 years, and have found that the approach I've suggested works very well at detecting line ends in a consistent manner. Counting lines in a file by this method agrees with every compiler and (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Travis Cobbs schrieb: (...) It seems that all of you are programming in C. As I am always programming in VB it is much work to implement a new 'Line Input' as VB assume a CRLF at the end of each line. I have just run a little prog against the parts (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Unfortunately, that won't work for me. My computer (typing on it now) is running 64 bit Ubuntu Linux. I've managed to get MLCad and TrackDesigner running under 32 bit Wine (Windows emulator), since 64 bit Linux is happy to run 32 bit programs. (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) I don't fully agree with this. In the nearly seven years since I released LDView 0.1, I've never once run into an LDraw file that LDView couldn't handle due to line terminations, and it requires the newline character to be present at the end (...) (18 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) There was some discussion about this issue recently. Unfortunately, this is not the kind of problem that can be solved by tightening up the spec. The problem is that people use different text editors on different operating systems to create (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Mike, This thread ((URL) contains various bits of discussion about the issue. Given that all software works with DOS newlines (cr+lf) and some doesn't work with the other varieties I personally think that cr+lf should be forced on all (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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In the LDraw File Format ((URL) it is written that "LDraw files are plain text." and "Each line in the file is a single command.". Also in the LDraw.org File Format Version 1.0.0 ((URL) there is no more specification. I found some parts that do not (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You are not specifying a custom clock value so your spline lasts from frames 1 to 121. You actually want to specify a custom clock value. Something like this: animate_by_spline (east_to_south, auto_banking (0) + spline_clock ( ..... ) )} The (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I believe the functionality is there but the mapping isn't. As I posted (URL) here a fortnight ago> you can get it working a bit (very little bit) better using the converted conversion file from LDD 1.6 that I made. Tim (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) back, so I've seen firsthand the output from their older-generation machines. He showed me a nut and bolt that were fabricated already assembled. He said the company had demos where they could "print" a 3-D model of a ship inside a bottle, or (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Slashdot readers have probably already seen this, but for the rest of you, there is an article in the New York Times about using a 3d scanner and rapid prototype machine to reproduce LEGO: (URL) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Jordan, As I believe it was explained to me the functionallity to import and export LDraw files in LDD 2.0 is not there "Yet". I think there was a timeing conflict between getting the Hobby Train released and its requirement of having LDD 2.0 (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Hello all, I think there may have been some prior discussion on this issue, but I can't recall the answer. I would like to export files from LDD 2.0 to LDRAW using the File -> Export option. But the resulting LDR files only contain a few bricks, not (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote: --snip-- (...) Of course one thing which we have been told does _not_ break the NDA is to release our[1] own instructions in LDraw format or as LDraw generated PDFs. Once people start making (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Dear Jeroen, all the points you have mentioned are true. We UTB builders have beta tested the LDD and came up with nearly all these wishes as well... (I myself asked basically for LDraw-export/import). In the end I could live with using LDD (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Hi, Last Saterday it arrived, my 10183. It is an awesome set with loads of parts and possibilities. But after building the crocodile (building instructions included in the box), we (my daughter, son and I) wanted to build one (or two) of the other (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.dear-lego)
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The part title for light.dat is as follows: Pov-RAY Light Source (useless to give a color to it) This title is wrong. Even the L3P that's been out for years pays attention to the color, and creates a light source that matches the given color. (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) And it was really worth the effort! A funny story/scenery with a different use of the model. Hopefully the two guys succeeded without getting two wet. And thanks for the links. I will dive through it and will see, what I can learn next... (...) (18 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) At last, it's finished! It can be found here: (URL) (18 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) LDD 2.0 has a "filter" function that allows you to use only the pieces from the 10183 set, though it does not have the ability to keep track of the number of elements used from that set. The Hobby Train is LEGO© 's attempt to keep 9V trains (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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