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Hi, folks. After reading some of the recent posts discussing support for unofficial parts and part directories, I decided to release this script I wrote to help manage the unofficial parts I use. I keep my unofficial parts in a parallel part library (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | CATEGORY and KEYWORD extension ratified by the LSC
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The LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) has ratified the CATEGORY and KEYWORD language extension. The most major change between the ratified specification and the de-facto standard is to officially move the creation of new part categories away from the (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) The following files in LDView's source tree contain the LDrawIni stuff: LDLoader/LDrawIni.c LDLoader/LDrawIni.h LDLoader/LDrawInP.h There's a #include <TCFoundation/TCDefines.h> near the top of LDrawIni.c. You can delete that; the only reason (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) I'm using Qt, and LPub is under GPL, so this sounds perfect. I'm all for standardization, so this sounds great. (...) I'm not looking to judge or criticize anyone. All of our programming efforts are works in progress, so these self analysis' (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDD goes Technic
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OK, it looks like the Mac version isn't quite ready for prime-time, but I'm curious if anybody else has noticed this: (URL) tried it out yet? I've got one model (my NXT remote) already made, and the learning curve was far easier than I expected (it (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) The 0.7 source code is available here: (URL) that (as listed on that page), you'll need POVRay 3.1g to be installed. I have no idea how easy or hard it is to get this source to compile, but it is there. --Travis (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) I didn't find it, but have you looked at PP_Find_Edges in the current MegaPOV? They claim that it's equivalent to the find edges functionality available in earlier versions. --Travis (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) I agree (which is why I voted yes on the other proposal, although it's not an exact match for what you're asking for). Having said that, Lars did offer the INI parsing code, and since it's already in LDView (which is under GPL), anyone who (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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I'm trying to do the old find_edges renders with the current version of MacMegaPov and they aren't working. Reading through here, it sounds like the 0.7 version of the program works fine for this. I've googled up and down but can't find 0.7 (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) That makes sense to me too. Based on the coincidental informal convention already used by LDView and Bricksmith, I suggest $LDRAWDIR/Unofficial as the default unofficial parts directory. It is structured like the regular LDraw directory with (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dear LSC, was: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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(...) That's because the LSC voted against it. Took me a while to find the discussion as well - and I knew it was out there! (URL) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) Get the best of both worlds and do both. Check for the environment variable and if it is blank (or non-existant) default it to a "known" sub-directory. W (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Convention for directories for unofficial parts?
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To all developers, The LSC does not want to specify how unofficial parts are handled. Personally if find the recommendation that we pull down individual unofficial parts into the same directory as our LDraw file a hassle. Would the group prefer (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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To all developers, The LSC does not want to specify how unofficial parts are handled. Personally if find the recommendation that we pull down individual unofficial parts into the same directory as our LDraw file a hassle. Would the group prefer (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dear LSC, was: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 5:56 PM Subject: Dear LSC, was: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths) (...) (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Dear LSC, was: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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(...) Dear LSC, I examined the LDraw website and was unable to find formalization for the support of optional part paths. I'm updating LPub and would like to include support for this concept of alternate paths for LDraw parts. The PRE and POST (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Optional Lines Calculator utility
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(...) Now, not know !!!! Philo (17 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Optional Lines Calculator utility
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I know host (URL) OLC>, a neat program written by Richard Baxter which calculates conditional lines of a LDraw file. I have also made some minor improvements to my own (URL) Isecalc> and (URL) Linetrim>. Enjoy, Philo (17 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | 4939/4891 Creator Alternate Models
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Here are some little vehicles I built from the the (URL) 4891 Highway Haulers> set: a nasty rat rod and a rugged prerunner (an off road truck). These can be built at the same time from a single set. (URL) rod front>> (URL) rod rear>> (URL) front>> (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, FTX) !
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| | Re: Paging Tim Gould, Paging Tim Gould....
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(...) John, I am in no way a POV-Ray expert (I'm pretty much a novice) but I have done it on a Mac. The tools I use after putting together the model using ldglite or MacBrickCAD or Bricksmith are the Mac OS X version of L3P, POV-Ray 3.6, and (...) (17 years ago, 3-Jul-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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