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Hi Mikeheide, (...) Thanks for the precision. In the J.C. original French version it links to a user manual in French that I still have to translate ((URL) Philo (17 years ago, 19-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sounds great. I will give it a try later. On your webpage at philohome.com there is the sentence: "See Quad2Dat manual for more information." with a link that does not work. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 18-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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SILM is a tool that makes it easier to maintain a large number of model files where also unofficial parts are used. At some times the origin or the orientation of unofficial parts are changed and so the model is damaged. In this cases SILM is a very (...) (17 years ago, 18-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Written by parts author J.C. Tchang, this tool allows to convert LDraw files into Chris Alano's Quad2Dat file format ((URL) may then modify patterned parts using Quad2Dat, or use other tools such as Ross Crawford's Txt2Dat ((URL) to create texts (...) (17 years ago, 18-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Which Lego Cad book do you recommend?
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(...) I have both, and I would agree that both of them are excellent books. (...) If you buy both books, you would, in fact, be getting a lot of the same content. I think either book would be fine for a beginner, but "Virtual LEGO" covers more (...) (17 years ago, 18-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Which Lego Cad book do you recommend?
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Hello all My names Chris and I'm brand new to the Lego modeling community. I've just begun with the LDraw software and editors like MLCad,Leocad, LDD and SD 3D but of course am full of questions and a bit of frustration too. I saw these two books (...) (17 years ago, 17-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Mars mission IV
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(...) Hi Claude, If you need to model your rover, I just LDrawed the solar panel and the supercap... (2 URLs) Philo (17 years ago, 16-Mar-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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Hello! I have modified the Blender plugin of Michael Schard to voxelize 3d objects. This plugin can create a LDraw scultpures in a "Nathan Sawaya's style" from a 3D model in Blender. Exactly, this plugin voxelizes a 3D object and creates a LDraw (...) (17 years ago, 15-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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| | Re: Any LDView users with quad-core machine?
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(...) Thank you to those of you that responded to this here or via email; I now have some good feedback, and it appears to be working correctly on quad-core machines. If anyone has access to a quad-core (or more) Linux box or Mac, I'd still like to (...) (17 years ago, 14-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Tutorial - LDD->LDraw and LDraw->LDD conversion
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Is there a script file that could convert an LXFML file to LDR? Provided that the LDraw.xml file is up to date with the proper parts and part translations it should be something that is acheivable. I don't like having to use LDD as an intermediary (...) (17 years ago, 14-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Status
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(...) Thanks Jim! I've spent weeks of vacation time working on this. Good thing I have a lot more. Kevin (17 years ago, 13-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It looks like this project is coming along nicely! Great work. Jim (17 years ago, 13-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Any LDView users with quad-core machine?
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(...) I actually saw the "ideal num threads" call in the QT 4 documentation when I was trying to figure out how to get the number of CPUs on a Linux box. However, even though the sysconf calls are in a QT-only section of LDView's code, I can't use (...) (17 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I recently bought an AMD Phenom Quad core running vista 64 bit. I gladly do some tests if you want. I did some thread programming myself and discovered memory/disk bandwidth is the real bottleneck with modern cpu's, just can't get enough data (...) (17 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi folks, For those interested, I thought I'd give you a peek at LPub 4.0's GUI. I started with and LPub free file well, except for PLI sub kind of metas. I converted the submodels to callouts, placed the callouts, added pointers to the calloutss, (...) (17 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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(...) Hi Travis, Qt 4 provides threads. It can tell you how many ideal threads there are (presumably the number of hardware strands). Yes, the instruction set is SPARC, with 64 bit integer registers (31 of those), plus the usual 32, 64, 128 bit (...) (17 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Any LDView users with quad-core machine?
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(...) Thanks. (...) Yowza! In theory it will run on Solaris as long as QT 3.3 is installed, but I'm not sure if anyone has tried that. Note also that it would have to be a 32 bit compile, which may or may not be easy on Solaris. The current source (...) (17 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Travis, Congratulations on getting SMP working in LDView. If you can run on Solaris, I have an 8 core with 8 hardware thread box in my office I could try things on. Maybe you'll only use 32 given the above algorithm. I have access to a two (...) (17 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Any LDView users with quad-core machine?
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I'm working on SMP support in LDView, and I'd like to have someone with a machine with 4 CPU cores test it to see if it works properly on machines with more than 2 CPU cores (my CPU is a dual-core). (SMP is symmetric multi processing: multiple CPUs, (...) (17 years ago, 11-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LEGO iPhone App?
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A friend from school just tipped me off to what looks to be a mockup of a LEGO iPhone app, I wrote some thoughts about it and linked here: (URL) like an unofficial use of the logo, too. By the fonts and the design and how the logo blends into the (...) (17 years ago, 11-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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