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(...) I am working on a WYSIWYG with a few people from this forum. Real life has gotten in the way of LEGO for the last month or so, but as soon as I figure out how to get myself setup with a build environment that has the right Qt libraries, I'll (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Submission for MOTM/SOTM/POTM closes in a week
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Hi folks, we still seek some entries for the MOTM/SOTM contest: (URL) currently have 4 entries for the MOTM, 3 for the SOTM and many for the POTM. As you might know we will run these contests only if there are a minimum of five entries. Please (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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Hi, while doing some more patterned baseplates for LGEO (Yes, I am working on it, doing some fixing and adding more patterned parts for the time now), I discovered the road pattern version on 2358 road 7 stud straight, 2358p01 was moved to 80547. (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Problems in import models to Blender
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Daniel have some difficulties in post here and ask me to put this message: hi, i'm trying to import ldraw models to Blender. It is necessary to install a import script. I tried some script that were mentioned in this newsgroup but neither of then (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Virtual Minibrix
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(...) Oh! A really great side that you have build and also the content "virtual minibrix" with all the part must have catch a lot of your time over the last, say 2 year. I really like what you have done here. I also have created a virtual toy (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Name of part Train Base 4 x 8 with Wheels Holder
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(...) If you mean (URL) that is called "Train Base 4 x 7 with Wheels Holder". mikeheide (19 years ago, 16-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New SR 3D Builder release
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(...) Unfortunately my display was (and is still) set to 32bits color. (...) Looks like I have to try on another computer :-( Thanks anyway, Philo (19 years ago, 16-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Why is part 824 named 'Train Base 4 x 8 with Wheels Holder', while it's dimensions are 4 x 7 ? Niels Karsdorp (19 years ago, 4-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New SR 3D Builder release
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(...) Hi, the problem maybe that your current video display is not set to a 32bit color depth. Try modify your display setting to allow 32bit color (your screen resolution shoud not be affected by these setting). I have tested the program on such a (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Wither LPub?
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(...) I don't know about Kevin's site, but (URL) is still available. However, the version available there is identified as 2.4.8.0. For what it's worth, a month or two ago Kevin did suggest that LPub is still being actively developed when he (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Wither LPub?
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It has been a while since I wandered into LUGNET.cad but today I found I needed to go back and modify the NCLUG logo which is built with ML-CAD and rendered with POV. As long as I was doing that, I thought I would install LPub as well but it seems (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New SR 3D Builder release
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(...) Hello Sergio, I installed SR3D but can't get it run. When I launch it I get the message "Unable to create device, Consider update your graphic card". I have a Radeon 9600 with latest drivers. DXdiag tells me I have directX 9.0c. If I disable (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New SR 3D Builder release
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Hi everybody, new version 0.2.2.5 released on 11/08/2007. A lot of bug correction about grid positioning (see history for a list of changes) and a really interesting new features: Connection Solver to quick align and connect rotating brick (see (...) (19 years ago, 12-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Confusion on the PT, please help
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(...) SNIP (...) This was a pending post. The problem is already solved and the parts on the pt new uploaded of on hold. I am waiting to send a delete list until the converting process is finished. mikeheide (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Thanks a lot for your answers. But you are right. In Windows System it is not easy to do something like this. But I will think of it. mikeheide (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) search for sets instead of (or in addition to) parts. I had part identification in mind when I wrote the services, but I suppose similar set searches would be useful for collectors, too. Jim (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Sorry I didn't respond sooner, Mike. Anyway, Travis is right. It's especially easy to make services out of simple little scripts with a utility called ThiService ((URL) what it's worth, the scripts are extremely trivial - they simply open the (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Services are an integrated part of Mac OS X that aren't present on other OSes (except NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, which aren't available any more). They make it fairly easy to do what Jim did here. While similar functionality could probably be (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part 2609b
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(...) Have you already finished these parts? I would like to see them on the PT. (19 years ago, 11-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Does this also work on a Windows PC? mikeheide (19 years ago, 9-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE.
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Daniel Bennett schrieb: (...) Are there any improvements from that time? It would be interesting. cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 5-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Confusion on the PT, please help
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I just try to minimize the hold votes on the PT and have overseen some files. To clearify you find below all information. My suggestion is the following: The part numbers I have used are the standard for stickers, so they should be used. The submits (...) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Is this also available for PC user? Sounds great, I want to give it a try. mikeheide (19 years ago, 12-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Wow, that is some handy tool. Pitty I do not have a Mac. Wouldn't it be great if this feature would be available for Windows? (or Linux :-) (19 years ago, 8-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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With much help of all the people who wrote replies in this thread, I was able to come close to a result I am going to be happy with. Special thanks goes to Travis Cobbs for his effort and patience in helping me out. And ofcourse Jim DeVona for his (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) Me? Scared? No :-) I have succesfully installed Cygwin on my XP PC and Vista Laptop. After some errors and Travis helping me solve those, I am now able to run his script and create LDraw files with the PreL3P commands in them. Thanks for your (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Virtual Minibrix
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If you're reading this, the chances are I've rung a small bell. Readers of a "certain age" may remember, and indeed may have grown up with, Minibrix. This was a forerunner to Lego, consisting of very realistically-coloured rubber interlocking (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Stl2dat settings?
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Hi, (...) for teps (EG. 0.1) when the coordinates in the stl file have to few decimals. (...) The -deps value controls if two triangles can be merged to a quad. This value is related to the -det option of l3p -check (...) The STL format produced by (...) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Stl2dat settings?
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Hi folks, as a stl2dat toddler I'd like to know what kind of settings you use for the conversion with a spot on: -eps value (default 0.01) -teps value : minimum distance for coincidence (default 0.001) -deps value : maximum determinant for coplanar (...) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Stl2dat settings?
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Hi folks, as a stl2dat toddler I'd like to know what kind of settings you use for the conversion with a spot on: -eps value (default 0.01) -teps value : minimum distance for coincidence (default 0.001) -deps value : maximum determinant for coplanar (...) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part Reference Search Services
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I've made a handful of little services that help you look up information about a selected part by name or number from nearly any application. Bricklink, the LDraw parts tracker, Lugnet partsref, and Peeron part searches are supported. Each database (...) (19 years ago, 8-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.4
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(...) I've posted a Mac "Service" version, too. You put it in ~/Library/Services/, and then you can process any selected LDraw text by selecting "PreL3P" from the Services submenu of the current application menu. I haven't tested it much. Although (...) (19 years ago, 6-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | PreL3P 1.4
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PreL3P 1.4 can process multiple files. It understands wildcard characters, too, so you can easily process many files at once in environments that don't perform wildcard expansion automatically (ie, "prel3p *.ldr"). (URL) always, please report any (...) (19 years ago, 5-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org's October 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the October 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb by Matija Puzar> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Electric Power Functions 9V Battery Box (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | 2007/2008 LDraw Standard Committee (LSC) election result
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The winners of the 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Travis Cobbs Mike Heidemann William Howard Philippe Hurbain Orion Pobursky Congratulations to the new LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: LSculpt update - Mac version available!
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(...) Incidentally, the (URL) PLY Tools> do build on Mac OS X with make all. These utilities might be useful for preparing PLY files for LSculpt. I have not tested the Mac version extensively, so please report any problems you encounter. Jim (19 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | LSculpt update - Mac version available!
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Jim Devona has kindly compiled LSculpt for Macintosh. It's a universal build, so it should work on Intel and PPC computers. I've also added a little more text to the HELP file and fixed a couple bugs. LSculpt is available at (URL) Here are a couple (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) Or if you're really, really scared of cygwin, this StepFade.bat file might work on XP. But I didn't test it all that much, and I don't claim to know all the nuances of the old DOS fc and find commands. The unix diff and grep commands are so (...) (19 years ago, 31-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) Try the following (assumes Win2K/WinXP): Download cygwin from (URL) (click the "Install or update now!" link) Run cygwin's setup.exe file that you downloaded Follow the instructions for a default install and choose a working mirror. (I used (...) (19 years ago, 31-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) LOL! I know (ofcourse). I wrote it wrong. I ment: how can one use the script Travis provided to insert the PreL3P codes into the LDraw files :-) (...) No it won't be fun at all :-( (...) I am still a bit confused how to work things out with (...) (19 years ago, 30-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing tomorrow
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) election will close tomorrow, at 23:59 EDT (GMT -0500), October 31, 2007. Willy Tschager On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee (19 years ago, 30-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) Well, that's what LPub does, right? Anyway, PreL3P should work at a Windows DOS prompt (or whatever you call it), so the PreL3P-LDView technique we talk about here should be possible in Windows. The shell script does require unix or cygwin, (...) (19 years ago, 30-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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And how can one create building instructions without access to a *nix machine (what is that anyway :-) and no cygwin components on a Windows PC? I am desperately looking for a way to create smooth building step images top view for a very large (...) (19 years ago, 30-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Non-fluo trans orange?
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(...) You're right. My mistake. -Orion (19 years ago, 29-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Non-fluo trans orange?
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(...) I don't know what LEGO color T182 is, but based on Philippe's title, I'm guessing it's the (relatively) new trans orange (non-fluorescent). Assuming this is the case, then color 57 isn't it. --Travis (19 years ago, 29-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Non-fluo trans orange?
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(...) Per the ldconfig.ldr ((URL) file, color 57 is correct. -Orion (19 years ago, 29-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part 2609b
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Dean Earley schrieb: (...) Hi, the current 2609 should be renamed to 2609a. cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 29-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part 2609b
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Dean Earley schrieb: (...) Hi, maybe this (URL) helps. I only have one part and that has also a groove. On the pictures also only parts with groove are shown. So maybe it has always grooves. cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 29-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part 2609b
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(...) As I'm rewriting 2609 to make use of a load more primitives, is there a version of either of these without the groove? The current LDraw part doesn't but all my real pieces do. (19 years ago, 29-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part 2609b
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Hi all. I have a magnet holder labelled 2609 but is about 4 LDU taller than the current part. Shall I just submit it as 2609b and what needs to be done with the current 2609? Thanks (19 years ago, 29-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Non-fluo trans orange?
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How should LEGO color T182 be coded? These parts: (URL) Ldraw color 57 but this is not correct... Philo (19 years ago, 29-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing in a week
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(...) Thank you. Whatever magic you did made it work and I was able to vote. I feel so democratic now! :) Rob (19 years ago, 26-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing in a week
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(...) hi rob, please try again - should work now. w. (19 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) No problem. Thanks for the clarification - I thought it was entirely possible that something else might have been intercepting the -help argument. Jim (19 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) Ah, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I was not aware of the difference. My addition currently understands multiple arguments with this syntax: prel3p 1.ldr 2.ldr 3.ldr Each ldr file is processed in place and the originals are copied (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing in a week
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(...) Well I have tried 3 times now to get access so I can vote, but nothing has worked so far. Can someone help me? I've created an account on ldraw.org. I've also become a "member" by filling out the form. I have responded to the email that was (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) Sorry, my wrong! I thought I used the latest version, but I didn't. All variants of the -help switch work on 1.3.1. Time to delete all outdated versions from my HD. :) /Tore (19 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) Just curious, how'd you end up implementing that? If I recall, unix shells will expand a *.ldr arg for you, but on Windows it's left to the program to do it. Don (19 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) I've added the ability to process multiple files in one run, but before I release that I'd like to check whether there's any more information regarding this -help issue. Can you confirm whether either of the alternate help options (-h or (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing in a week
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) election will close in a week, at 23:59 EDT (GMT -0500), October 31, 2007. Willy Tschager On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee (19 years ago, 24-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Unseen inner structures
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(...) Thanks Ross and all who answered on LDraw.org. Seems the consensus is to model at least a minimum of inner stuff. For the moment, I'll resubmit with a "needs work", as I prefer to work on the delivery of the others NXT parts to the Tracker. (...) (19 years ago, 24-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Looking for 7819 as a .DAT file
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Adrian Rohnfelder schrieb: (...) Do you have had a look at this side (URL) you found what you are looking for. As far as I know this is side with the most sets made for LDraw. cu mikeheide PS: What you are searching in at present not available. (19 years ago, 24-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Unseen inner structures
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(...) modeled it. I decided modeling the actual gears inside was not appropriate for this part, mainly because I didn't want to prise my only one apart, but also because I couldn't think of anyone ever wanting to see them in a model. Having decided (...) (19 years ago, 23-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Unseen inner structures
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I'd like to hear opinions about the discussion raised for 55967 part: see (URL) (19 years ago, 23-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: NonCA-parts in need of re-writing
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(...) Part 905.dat and 905c01.dat done! (sometimes it takes a bit ;-) I have updated the page at ldraw.org - (URL) as well as the Wiki - (URL) please give the Re-writes - (URL) high priority! w. (19 years ago, 22-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) For what it's worth, that is the error message that version 1.1 would report given the -help argument. Otherwise, you appear to be using it correctly. Do either of the synonyms "-h" or "--help" work? I can't seem to reproduce the problem. (...) (19 years ago, 22-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) ==== 8< - - - (...) Too busy with my latest project, I haven't tried PreL3P that much yet. I may have misunderstood the -help option, because I tried the v1.3.1 both from DOS Prompt Box as well as from a batch file, with same result: ---...--- (...) (19 years ago, 22-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
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(URL) just updated. So far, I've written 4 "chapters": * Brief Presentation and Preparations * Creating the Static Scene * Let There Be Light! * Let There Be Light, Part II Next step will be to improve colours using PreL3P. I don't know if it will (...) (19 years ago, 21-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Track Designer and Wine/Darwine
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(...) Bad form replying to my own post, but I figured out a way to make Track Designer work. I can ctrl click an object to select it (light it up blue). and then I ctrl+arrow to switch to the blinking cursor. It's not perfect, but it's better than (...) (19 years ago, 21-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Track Designer and Wine/Darwine
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So, I installed Darwine on my MBP, and I was excited, at first, to see that TD.exe worked. I've tried using it a bit, and I've discovered that using the mouse to select things doesn't quite work right. Ctrl Clicking selects multiple objects, and (...) (19 years ago, 21-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
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I have decided to set aside at least one hour a day to the project I just started today by writing this post. The three main goals are: 1. Create a short animation, using the tools mentioned in the subject line above. 2. Write a diary that explains (...) (19 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Thoughts sought on final newlines
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(...) FWIW I'm pretty sure ldglite saves with a newline (of some sort) after every line. And my opinion is that all programs that *create* ldraw data should do that. It's just common courtesy. After all, we have no control over third party (...) (19 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Thoughts sought on final newlines
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(...) I echo Mike. This is a programmers issue (is it honestly that hard to check? I would say no) and not something that should be put into the spec. -Orion (19 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Thoughts sought on final newlines
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(...) I agree fully on this. A text line is not complete until you have specified the end of it (with EOLN). A LDRAW model consists of text lines, and should IMO end with EOLN. Windows expects 'text' files to end with EOLN, and mistreats them if (...) (19 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Thoughts sought on final newlines
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(...) We had a discussion about this item some times ago. I can not find the thread right now. The conclusion was: The user should not mind about that, the programer should. So if you write a prog for LDraw compatible files, you should check for (...) (19 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Thoughts sought on final newlines
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A (URL) recent discussion> lead me to observe that Bricksmith saves models without a final newline (ie, CRLF - no "line ending"): (...) Since one line that ended differently from others lead to complications here, I wondered if it might elsewhere. I (...) (19 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Instruction Step Fading with PreL3P
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I have posted an article (tutorial?) about using PreL3P for fading previous steps in instruction renderings: (URL) on some comments I infer that this effect may be old news to LPub/POV-Ray users, but I think it may still be of interest to some Mac (...) (19 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | PreL3P 1.3
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I posted the new version of PreL3P today. The only addition, of course, is support for meta commands at any point in the model. (URL) commands at the beginning of the model are still "special" in that they override the default command line options. (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) The intent was for it to be a announcement vehicle but this was neglected for 2 reasons: - There's a problem with automatic subscription to the list when you sign up as an org member that I haven't ferreted out yet. - 99% of the active org (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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All previous posts look promising! If you guys could use your precious time to write some Windows tools to do things like executing the script and stuff I can't wait to try it out! (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I think I should point out here that while LUGNET and LDraw.org are very complementary to each other, they are two completely separate organizations. That being said, it's understandable to assume that having an ldraw.org site login (for (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Yeah, I saw that. I just didn't realize there were so many distinct layers on the LDraw onion. I figured since it's being discussed on Lugnet instead of some internal LDraw mailing list, it fell into the same "members" category as the (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Jim, I just checked your status. You only have user rights, you're not an .org-member: "Only LDraw organization members may vote..." If you are not registered as a member of the LDraw organization and would like to join, follow the (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Ha, nope. In Safari, Firefox, Camino and Opera, I can see all four ballots listed when I'm not logged in, but once I log in to vote the LSC ballot is no longer listed. I guess I just misunderstood the eligibility for voting. Sorry. Jim (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Right. Well, maybe I've found some sort of caching bug in Safari 3 - it only displays the first three polls, even after resetting the browser. Everything comes up fine in FireFox, though, so no worries. Thanks, Jim (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Elections on LDraw.org are driven by Orion's MOTM postnuke module. You should actually see 4 polls: the MOTM, POTM - Best part, POTM - Most desired part and finally the LSC election. (URL) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's really a page of active ballots, the LSC ballot is at the bottom of the list (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Is that ballot link correct? It just takes me to the model of the month ballot. Jim (19 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Here's a slightly tweaked version that seems to work OK with paths and filenames containing spaces: #! /bin/sh prevfile='' for thisfile in "$@"; do if "$prevfile" = "" ; then echo 0 !PREL3P -ldconfig normal.ldr > "faded.$thisfile" cat "$thisfile" >> (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I tried the script out in Windows using cygwin, and it seems to work. Some observations: Until prel3p 1.3 is released by Jim, I can't be sure it works. The output is a mixture of DOS and Unix line endings. The files generated by MLCAD have DOS (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(URL) Thanks to everyone who provided constructive input on my Sticker Generator Software. The following improvements / changes have been made: More keyboard-user friendly Ignore White Color is more accurate Ingore Black Color is more accurate (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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(...) If you have access to a *nix machine, or have installed the appropriate cygwin components on a Windows box, the following script should take a bunch of step files spit out from MLCad and insert the appropriate PREL3P commands in. #! /bin/sh (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Correct. Technically, the prel3p commands affect color substitution on following lines, so you'll need to insert code in two places: once at the beginning of the model to use the "faded" colors, and again at whatever point you wish to restore (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hello Christopher, I will not go into the same level of details as previous replies in this thread, but rather reply in a more general way. First of all, you make a mistake if you call it "Library Updates for MLCad". In one way, yes they are (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have given Jim access to submit this change directly into Bricksmith's source code. Thanks, Jim, for wanting to improve my software. If a good, well-integrated, well-presented (and already coded) idea comes along, there's no reason for it (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) think it would be easier to just futz with the data during parsing. --Travis (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Jaco, I don't see why not. How much RAM? I just got a bug report that greater than 1G of RAM on Vista caused problems. I don't have Vista, and don't plan on buying it for a *long* time. Kevin (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) hi folks, we still seek some input on the parts above. if you have the real version of those please measure/compare and let us know. w. (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Indeed, while opaque parts are made from ABS, thansparent ones use polycarbonate. These plastics have different behaviour that require slightly different molds to get the tight tolerances you appreciate from LEGO bricks... Philo (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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The 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee[1] election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the ballot page on LDraw.org here: (URL) LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to five (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !!
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