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(...) Those style links are created and understood by the web interface to insert in-line links and image. The use of <> however "broke" and confused all the NNTP clients so we see it string together. ThunderBird handled it well enough and split it (...) (17 years ago, 17-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Is there any DAT file that reflects the efforts doing these two pieces. Also a mockup will help me. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 17-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) steve, any updates on this? BTW, did you get my request to use LDAO in the All-In-One-Installer or has it been eaten up by your spam-monster? w. (17 years ago, 17-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: First Impressions: LDD 2.0 and building with Technic elements from NXT.
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(...) Granted, meshing gears is awful. You have to place the gears on axles with space between them, rotate one with hinge tool until they could match, then move the rotated gear and axle in meshing position. And trying to modify a gear ration in an (...) (17 years ago, 16-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: First Impressions: LDD 2.0 and building with Technic elements from NXT.
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"Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:JoGFz5.BIC@lugnet.com... (...) Perhaps I am not harsh enough. Build a model that shows the possible gear ratios for gears contained in the NXT kit. You can even mail it to me if you like, (...) (17 years ago, 16-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Hi Geoffrey, I think you are a bit harsh about Technic/NXT building with LDD. I agree with you that it is not perfect, and it is sometime painful to do what you want, but it is possible to virtually build things with it. And the hinge tool does work (...) (17 years ago, 16-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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This is possible to do, yes you will receive annoying messages that you won't be able to save or upload any models you create, but at least you can wander around in a daze trying to make something using the 'free build' option. Firstly, when placing (...) (17 years ago, 16-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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I have uploaded a new version (1.1.4) to my homepage (www.michael-heidemann.de). With this version also the lastest changes to the Official Parts Header Specification are maintained. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 13-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - MATRIX section updated
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(...) OK, I updated the first "4x4 3D transformation matrix" to now be "4x4 homogeneous transformation matrix". I didn't feel that leaving 3D in there somewhere was practical. Because of this, I intentionally left the text alone two sentences later, (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - MATRIX section updated
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(...) Yes, the matrix is still homogeneous. In fact this page contains a nifty explanation of how what we normally think of as a translation matrix is actually a shear matrix where the extra w dimension added to make things homogeneous is the fixed (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) That's unfortunate (but what I thought I remembered). I didn't have a lot of luck updating the ldliterc.dat file used by the PT. Even after regenerating all the unofficial part images, 58119's image is still incorrect. I'll have to mess with (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If you don't (and I suspect that you don't), I'd be happy to help you compile it there (assuming the binaries don't work), but there's a significant catch. Even when rendering snapshots from the command line, it currently still requires a (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Well, I guess being cornered for hours by so many LDraw gurus during the summer prompted me to exert some kind of revenge :-) But of course any Lugnet thread counting more than 20 messages is always worth investigating... Jean-Marc (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Before I do that, can someone tell me if a 3D transformation matrix that includes shear is still homogeneous? If not, then I'm not going to put it in. --Travis (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I missed that one. We've got ldview installed on the server? Hmm... Steve (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem with part 30208.dat
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Please upload this version to the PT. Only by this it can be corrected completly. It is now so many years an official part and nowbody has realized that it was wrong. Your version works fine as I can see. There are also missing inner lines. So (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hey, could you perhaps toss in the word "homogeneous" when describing that matrix? I tend to find more complete explanations when I add that to my internet searches. Have fun, Don (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) Yeah, it might be time to make the switch. Ldglite has never been updated to use ldconfig.ldr (although it probably wouldn't difficult). It currently only supports the older ldlite config file ldliterc.dat with ldlite COLOR metacommands to (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) consider also a switch to LDView as rendering engine; it does a fine job for the MOTM: (URL) w. (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) That's a good question. The Parts Tracker probably doesn't use ldconfig.ldr, because the image-generator uses a custom script to maintain a combined library of official & unofficial files, which predates ldconfig.ldr. I'm also not sure the (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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