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(...) I wasn't aware of the tang primitive, and I had forgotten about the chrd primitive. Going from the chrd primitive to the proposed truncated disc requires the addition of one triangle, and the total number of triangles after adding that one is (...) (17 years ago, 30-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) There are already circle chord and tangent primitives on the parts tracker. You would just need to add a couple of triangles to get the ones you're proposing. See: (2 URLs) (17 years ago, 30-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I have send my first efforts already by email. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 30-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) OK, now that's just plain weird. Glad to hear it's fixed, though. --Travis (17 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) If you used my code as an example for Core GL setup, then the error was due to a bug in my code. If not, put the following in your CGLPixelFormatAttribute array, and it should work even via ssh: CGLPixelFormatAttribute attrs = (...) (17 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) problem fixed. extern void qt_mac_set_native_me...bar(bool); qt_mac_set_native_me...bar(true); Kevin (17 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Cool. We might actually get this very difficult part done. It may take a while but I'll try to get the inside bit mostly complete (easier than the outside). Then we can split the work into the harder bits... Tim PS. We should probaly shift to (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I have never done in this way, but it sounds good. I think first step should be a mokup for the overall dimensions and the connection (axle hole etc) points. The fine tuning (ribs in frontside etc) should then be divided into areas for you and (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I'm guessing it's related, but there's presumably something you did that QT Designer doesn't do, or vice versa. Obviously QT is designed so that apps can be written completely without using QT Designer. One thing you might do is create a (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hmmm..... one major difference is that I didn't use the designer for any of my GUI. I wonder if that is why things are different. Kevin (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Do you fancy a divide and conquer approach? If we each did different sections it might make it more possible. At the least it is a fairly easy part to subdivide. Tim (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I figured that Development would be use by parts authors. I was offering it as an alternative to D:work_in_progress. LSynth it is. Kev (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Perfect - many thx! Don't think there is any need for "development" but "<LDRAWDIR>LSynth" wouldn't hurt. You could then store all constraints and synthesis parts in that folder without the need to mix them with the official parts or rebuild (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDView has its main menu inside the .ui file for the main window. It was created and is maintained in QT Designer. Take a look at LDView.ui to see if there's anything obviously different there. --Travis (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I wanted to start that part some month ago, but at a closer look I decided to not doing it because it is a real challenge. But I want that part very, very much. So please go ahead and make my dream come true. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) All I get is a single menu item in the menu bar above the desktop. It says LPub. The contents of the menu are not from LPub though. I've built LPub using QMainWindow. It has a function that returns a pointer to the menuBar(). I build all my (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm not too familiar with Qt or Trolltech's recommendations, so maybe someone else can help work out what you need to do. The Mac version of LDView 3.2 is a Qt app, so maybe Travis can get you started. The application bundle structure applies (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Just out of curiosity, what IS in the menu bar when the LPub window is the current active window? --Travis (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) OK, that's very very strange. LDView's main menu "just worked" (mostly). I had to do some fixups to make it fit the Mac style, but it was perfectly usable without those. It "just works" when compiled with QT 4 also. (...) Menu" on a Mac isn't (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I believe a MAC version mklist utility used to generate the PARTS.LST file comes bundled with the OS-X version of ldglite. Source code is available, so anyone can build it on whatever platform they like. There may be better ways to build the (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) So, popup menus work, but my main menu does not show up. I found this information on trolltech: (URL) I don't know what it means to run out of a bundle. Qmake created lpub.app Contents Info.plist MacOS PkgInfo Info.plist contains <?xml version (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) <snip> LPub does not need a total list of parts, so it doesn't have to scan all the paths. It does need the titles of parts that are used however. Since parts.lst is a precomupted list of some of them, LPub reads it and puts the contents in an (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Don, It worked! Now I just have to figure out how to get my main menu and popup menus to work on the Mac from Qt! Thanks! Kevin (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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Hi all, Just thought I'd check to see if anyone was working on part 32475 ((URL) It's a horrid part to work on so I'm hoping someone has but realise it's probably unlikely. Thanks, Tim (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Mathematics to use 1-8tdisk is easy, divide the width by 0.707 and height by 0.293 (1-(sqrt(2)/2) to get size of the tdisk. Move the center accordingly. Yes I have used that trick several times, using regular disc/ndis primitives, inlining (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks guys for all the help. I grabbed BrickSmith and moved the ldraw folder that came with it to /Library. I wanted both anyhow so it seemed to be the way to go. Then I built a new (universal?) ldglite with your static libpng and some (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I agree with you in all points. But if I see that also you are thinking that capped cylinders are useful maybe there is somebody out who can write a prog for that. I have tried something similar in the past and was not very happy with the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I think I can follow your thoughts. Have you tried that (48/1-8tdisc) already in some items with different curvatures? If yes and you have found out that this can also be used without dramatically mathematics (I prefer to use triangles so I (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You are right, but there are only three lines of code (easily created with MLCad) that would be substituted with such a new primitive. I think it is not worth. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) OK, I sent an updated version to the tracker admins, and BFCd it while I was at it. --Travis (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) I would use the cylinder as model, with the cap at Y=0 on top and an edge at bottom. But I somehow agree with Steve Bliss that it may be overkill if we decline capped cylinder in all angles... Philo (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) A few examples where I would use the 48\1-8tdisc (to use Travis naming suggestion): 58135s01 (rounded sides), 464s01, 54096, 61068 For the 48\1-8tndis (less useful I agree), an example would be 3455. In many case you can stretch a bit the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) One concern about capped cylinders is that they would lead more multiples of cylinders - single-capped cylinders, double-capped cylinders, 1/4 capped cylinders, 2/4 capped cylinders, Hi-res 3/8 double-capped cylinders, etc. etc. And every (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) One of those. (...) No. They don't distribute the full library; you would have to merge together all the updates with the original LDraw DOS package. Not fun. (...) Wherever you want it. If Bricksmith is installed, you can find out where the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Please let me have some example where they are useful. I found during authoring parts that, just for rounded parts, you would need lots of such truncated primitives, but they would need to be truncated anywhere and not only the way this new (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Oh, and should the cap be at Y=0, or should the base be at Y=0? (For reference, with the stud primitive, the base is at Y=0.) --Travis (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) OK, so I'll make this primitive, but which way should it face? Should it face up, like the stud primitive, or should it face down, like the box primitives? --Travis (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) First of all, I like the idea of a unit capped cylinder. The stud could then be changed to a reference to the new primitive. We could use x-ycylc as the filenames and call the primitive Cylinder Capped. This would be consistent with the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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In addition to the unit capped cylinder I suggested here (URL) I'd also like to see some truncated disc and ndis primitives, like the red ones shown below (the truncated disc can also be seen as a half chrd primitive). (URL) This would help building (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Perhaps if there was a unit capped cylinder in the primitives authors would not be driven to use studs? Philo (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks Willy! I'll work on this very soon. Kevin (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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. (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (17 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. (...) (17 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 (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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. (...) (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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 (...) (17 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 (17 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. (17 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 (...) (17 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 (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 20-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | SR 3D Builder - Version 0.3.1.0 released
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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 (17 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 (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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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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| | 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 (...) (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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| | Re: LPub 4 Status
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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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| | Re: LPub 4 Status
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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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| | Re: Any LDView users with quad-core machine?
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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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