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(...) Perhaps if there was a unit capped cylinder in the primitives authors would not be driven to use studs? Philo (19 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) OK, I'll do that (no votes yet...) (...) I agree. Philo (19 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) How about I send you a universal binary of a static libpng? (If I remember correctly, it was a real pain to make.) (...) I think I got mine via BrickSmith, which is kind of sad, really, but I just checked, and LDView will happily download the (...) (19 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, gotta work on that... But hey, the kids just got a macbook! And, as of yesterday, it has a sneaky ssh login just for me so I can soak up some of the idle cycles from across the living room. But...my notes on libpng for OS-X are about 5 (...) (19 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) As far as I remember this is formally ok. But you are right, this should be avoided. Please correct that and send the file to the PT. cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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30035.dat uses stud.dat in a location that isn't really a stud, but is the same shape as a stud. This leads to a rendering problem if stud logos are enabled: (URL) (Notice the LEGO logo peeking out from under the pole.) Is the above considered (...) (19 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) If there are no current votes on the part I suggest to resubmit them. If they have already a certify vote send an email to the admin with a link to the part and the change he should do. I think also "Electric Power Functions" is a good name (...) (19 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks Willy! I'll work on this very soon. Kevin (19 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I should indeed have paid more attention to that. Would it be best to resubmit parts with correct name, or simply (for me!!!) do an admin edit? Philo (19 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) As will LPub before it is made available to the public. Thus the comment about short sighted. Now that I have an example on what to do, I'll implement that instead. There is one class that will have to be changed, and no one else needs to know (...) (19 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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Hi, the Power Functions parts currently at the PT are named: * 58119.dat - Electric Power Functions 9V Battery Box (Complete Shortcut) * 58120.dat - Electric Technic Power Functions Medium Motor Complete Shortcut * 58121.dat - Electric Technic Power (...) (19 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks.. It's relaly been a series of things that TLC did that brought me to where I am at. The ones that I mentioned are I guess the main cracks in the "LEGO faith" so to speak. Granted I love some of their new concepts in town, the walking (...) (19 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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(...) <big snip> Ahui - sorry to hear you are bumming about TLC and the train stuff. I can't say I understand what you are feeling because I don't worry about the color of my robots and I don't have a bunch of train stuff. But, I do know that (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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(...) Sorry to everyone else for having this on a public forum, but since Kevin doesn't appear to be receiving my emails, I feel that I need to post this here. I just resent all the messages I've sent you in the past month or so. I strongly suspect (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Kevin, I bet you've already found what Travis's talking about; if not the tutorial can be found here: (URL) I used <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial_Parts since MLCad was the first prog supporting unofficial parts but agreed with Travis and Allen to (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is PARTS.LST the file that gets generated by some DOS utility in the original LDraw distribution? You can't rely on that being present. Not being able to rely on a DOS utility, Bricksmith reads the part library and generates its own XML parts (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I'm leaning 90% towards not attending this year or next or the year after that. =( I'm a bit annoyied with TLC on many issues every since the color change, the "flesh" minifigs and now the end of 9V trains. My heart is just not in it anymore. (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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(...) I understand and respect wisdom of the the LSC's decision to not define where to store unofficial parts. I was wondering if the LSC would consider defining how one defines the paths to unofficial directories? At least that would give us some (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Travis, I did not get any emails from you about the code tree. Would you please try again? Thanks, Kevin (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you're going to schedule your own session for that, it would be awesome to have it on Saturday as I'd love to attend. Let's get a roundtable on the docket too. I'd like to spend a couple hours playing on the laptops and shooting the breeze. (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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(...) You're welcome. Can you verify that you got my email messages regarding the source tree you sent me? I never got any responses to the messages I sent you, and I want to make sure they got through. --Travis (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Travis, Thanks for the help. I have a .pro from Orion. I have to update it, because the list of files has changed, but that should be straight forward. Thank you very much, Kevin (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Additionally, LDView is hard-coded to look in the <LDrawDir>/Unofficial/Parts and <LDrawDir>/Unofficial/p directories when it doesn't find a part in its search path. It then attempts to download unofficial parts from the part tracker into that (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The LSC voted on that, and officially declined to specify an official location for unofficial parts. (...) You have to install the dev tools from the OS CD (DVD?) that came with your Mac. They aren't installed by default (which is probably a (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDView and MLCad shows a way for solving this issue. In the MLCad.ini you can define alternate search path for parts, so you do not have to mix official and unofficial parts. Also LDView has the possibility to search in different directories. (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think those and other development tools are available as an optional install from your system DVD, if they're not already present on the machine. Jim (19 years ago, 23-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) You are more knowledgable on this topic than I am. As far as the assembly images go, at least for now I'm at the mercy of LDGlite. I've made good use of the superb document and specifications on LDraw.org. I want to thank all involved in (...) (19 years ago, 23-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote: Hi Kevin, (...) I was refering to the use of unofficial and custom parts and the possibilities to include them into BI without the need to store them in the <LDRAWDIR>Parts folder or include them in (...) (19 years ago, 23-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Willy, Thanks! Background images are already in as is ldconfig.ldr. The arrows come from your generator in MLCad. When you say unofficials and custom folders, what are you thinking? Since it uses ldglite, there are some rederer features I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) I came to LDraw in 2004 and was very interested in creating parts. So I have asked lot of people that know me then. Also I made many submission, reviews on the PT, also many people knows me. I wrote little progs that should help people to work (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'll do not come, because of the distance. cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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(...) custom folders, background images ... furthermore are those arrows coming from MLCad or has 4.0 its own generator? w. (19 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder - Version 0.3.1.0 released
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(...) To Kevin's suggestion to keep LDraw tool as homogenous as possible I'd like to add that LDView automatically downloads unoffical parts in "<LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\Parts" and "<LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\P" - location which is also supported by (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm planning on going. I'll want to present LPub 4.0. Kevin (19 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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(...) I going to try very hard to make it but the definitiveness (word?) of my attendance is not firm at all. -Orion (19 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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Just curious - who from the LDraw/virtual LEGO community is going to be at BrickWorld this year? I'll be there for Saturday and hopefully Sunday as I'm arriving back in the US from Mexico on Friday night. I'd love to do something LDraw-related on (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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(...) Hi Sergio, If you can get past the fact that LSynth is an external program, I could modify LSynth to express the connection information you need, when the synthesis allows it. I prefer to try to keep all the disperate LDraw applications as (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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For a very long time, there have been no official release of LDraw parts, so many useful unofficial parts have accumulated on LDraw Parts Tracker. While LDraw Parts Tracker provides a way to download them all((URL) is no simple solution for LeoCAD (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.leocad, lugnet.announce)
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(...) It was becouse, due to the structures I use in my prog, I need to know the definitions of all groups before loading parts, and to change these structure was a too huge work... About LSynth, I don't feel the need to use it inside my application (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Sergio, I took a peek and a have a question. Why didn't you re-use MLCad's GROUP facility, instead of creating your own new similar mechanism? Also, had you thought about inferring the belt based on LSynth meta commands? Keep up the good (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi here is my Easter gift: a new release of my application is available on (URL) with - full uncerified part support - full group management - many fixes on undo/redo have fun Sergio (19 years ago, 20-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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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 (19 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 (19 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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 years ago, 18-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 18-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 17-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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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 (19 years ago, 16-Mar-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Voxelizer pluging for Blender to design Nathan Sawaya's style sculptures
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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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Thanks Jim! I've spent weeks of vacation time working on this. Good thing I have a lot more. Kevin (19 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 (19 years ago, 13-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 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, (...) (19 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 (...) (19 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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, (...) (19 years ago, 11-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 11-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: personal OMR
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(...) Just as a note, it appears that the canopy is rotated 180 degrees on set 7695 (maybe due to an update to an unofficial part?): (URL) it was due to an update to an unofficial part, there could be other sets that have the same problem. --Travis (19 years ago, 10-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: OMRMaker released
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mikeheide schrieb: (...) I have seen now that all generated pages are copyright by me :-). Ok thats no fun. Please have a look at the current version where you can customize some details. You can download OMRMaker at (URL) note that my pages created (...) (19 years ago, 10-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Status
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(...) Thanks Philo! I've limited to dots per inch inch and dots per centimeter. This is nice from a formatting pespective because margins and sizes fall into smaller ranges than with inches and meters. Kevin (19 years ago, 10-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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mikeheide schrieb: (...) I have to announce that the location has moved. The new url for my persoanl OMR is (URL) are also some new sets. I hope you like it. Your comments are welcome. cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 9-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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(...) DPCM might be enough: Photoshop (which can be considered as a reference...) only has DPI and DPCM. Philo (19 years ago, 9-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree. It was inconsistent. I've provided DPM, DPCM, DPMM, and the values specified in meta commands are scaled appropriately. (19 years ago, 7-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree. It was inconsistent. I've provided DPM, DPCM, DPMM, and the values specified in meta commands are scaled appropriately. (19 years ago, 7-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm actually can provide all of the above and to the math, I just don't want to have units expressed in individual meta commands. I ony want one unit and to have it expressed in the resolution meta command. So I could even have DPDM..... (...) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Which CAD program recommended for Mac??
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(...) The problem isn't displaying un-modified keys, the problem is having those menu items work reliably. Un-modified menu items are very far back in the responder chain; if there is a responder before them, the system will never even attempt to (...) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I'd say that DPM or DPMM make perfect sense. The thing is, your description said that units are all in CM or IN, and that M and MM aren't supported. And yet, you force the user to specify which units to use in either IN, M, or MM. That seems (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) When I looked around on the net I saw references to DPM and DPMM.... I didn't see DPCM.... it does make complete sense to use DPCM, but I wasn't sure people would think its a standard name. Kevin (19 years ago, 6-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Shouldn't that be: 0 !LPUB RESOLUTION <value> (DPI|DPCM) Based on this: (...) --Travis (19 years ago, 6-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) SNIP (...) Only one question is left! When can we get that? cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 6-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've got the math and implementation of resolution (dots per inch/meter/millimeter) as well as magnification for controlling model size relative to the page all worked out. Magnification 1.0 means a model that appears 8 inches wide will just fit in (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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(...) Hi Rosco, I'm going to make my font dialog, and default font picker only work with scalable fonts. They are perfect for this kind of situation. I guess that is why they were created by Adobe a long time ago (I read the Wiki!) Thanks, Kevin (19 years ago, 6-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I learnt a fair bit fiddling with (URL) Freetype> in (URL) txt2dat>, which has to translate point size to ldraw units. Freetype makes it pretty easy, as it gives you a nice API that works for lots of scalable fonts. I chose not to support (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I just found the following in my VB description: 1440 Twips = 1 inch 1 Twips = 1/20 point (DTP) 1 cm = 567 Twips 1 point = 0,3515 cm (72 dpi) maybe this is also useful. cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 5-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote: SNIP (...) Maybe the following link does help you a little bit: (URL) you use truetype fonts it should not be a problem to print them in the correct size. cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 5-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Most of this feature is done. I had to identify every LPub meta-command that had something with the units of pixels, and treat them as a new class of "units", meaning known absolute distances (i.e. meters or inches.) Every time these values (...) (19 years ago, 5-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Remi, I'm working on DPM and DPI now. Here is what I plan on doing: You set the page size in either inches or centimeters. You define the resolution in terms of DPI or DPM. You control the magnification. For example, if I have a 1 inch page (...) (19 years ago, 4-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It applies it to everything that it considers to be a part, but not a sub-part. A sub-part is any sub-file (or sub-sub-file, etc) of something that is determined to be a part. Adding an unofficial part header is the easiest way to convince (...) (19 years ago, 4-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Seam width in LDView
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Hi Travis. What does LDView apply the seam width settings to? When doing some part dev, I noticed it was "shrinking" a moved part, in this case, 3070.dat which includes 3070a.dat. I guess it is because it is missing an official part header? Thanks (19 years ago, 3-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) Ask a friend, the webmasters, the steerco, the community - how should we know you were volunteering for the job? w. (19 years ago, 3-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) No-one nominated me. (19 years ago, 3-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Help writing LDraw's history
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--snip-- (...) I'm very sorry to say that due almost entirely to my disorganisation it has been heavily delayed. With luck we should have an announcement soon. Tim (19 years ago, 3-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) We were hoping you might volunteer, Al. Tim (19 years ago, 3-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Help writing LDraw's history
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(...) -snip-> (...) Was there a James Jessiman Memorial Award presented for 2007? Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 3-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) Excellent. Hopefully, it's only a matter of time before you realise the nominations are obsolete as well. (19 years ago, 2-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Virtual Minibrix updates, 29 Feb 2008
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I have uploaded a large number of updates to the Virtual Minibrix site: I have added a new manual, the 1948 edition. I have also taken the opportunity to replace the page images in all the other manuals with ones of slightly better resolution. I (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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Hi folks, since only the LDraw Steering Committee members already in charge are running for the election of the 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee[1] and have accept their nomination in response to this message: (URL) election itself has become (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting for March 2008 contests is now open
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(...) at least in april your parts will have to run against mine. w. (19 years ago, 1-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Voting for March 2008 contests is now open
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(...) (19 years ago, 1-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Looks like I'm going to win POTM anyway! question is "for which part?"... Parts authors are welcome in this competition ;o) Philo (19 years ago, 1-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Voting for March 2008 contests is now open
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The voting for the March 2008 contests is now open. Visit the (URL) page> to cast your vote. Willy Tschager LDraw.org Administration Team (19 years ago, 1-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: Some mistakes in the last update
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(...) I have just corrected the two mentioned errors (303223 and 4210698). cu mikeheide (19 years ago, 29-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Some mistakes in the last update
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Hi, after download the latest update (well, last weekend or so), I manually checked the newer files against my installed parts (from mid 2007). Irritating was the followeing: 30255 moved to 30225 (where is old 30225) 30255p01 (why not moved to (...) (19 years ago, 29-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Help writing LDraw's history
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(...) That's right. I also did the Mac port of ldglite before BrickDraw3D. (19 years ago, 29-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L3Lab for Mac
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(...) Ahhh... Sorry for completely missing that. (...) In LDView, you zoom with either the scroll wheel, or by right (or control) clicking and dragging up and down. (On a Mac, Control click is almost always considered to be the equivalent of a right (...) (19 years ago, 29-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3Lab for Mac
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(...) Thanks! (...) Yes, I just realized I have misunderstood the Selected state in HIToolbar - only one item can be selected at any time, so I cannot use it for showing the state of the many toggles in the toolbar. Guess I'll have to change the (...) (19 years ago, 29-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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