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(...) If you have LGEO installed in a directory just add "+Ilgeodirectory" (no exclamation marks) to the command line input box in POVRAY and it should find it. Tim (18 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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To keep moving this forward, I asked a LinkedIn question on the topic seeking help from a JS developer. This gentleman was kind enough to put a few cycles into it. Here are the results. I'm posting the question/answer thread in reverse chronological (...) (18 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) And I forgot to mention that when I try to use LGEO parts, POV-Ray gives me a warning that it can't include the file lg_defs.inc. And include commands are one of my many fuzzy areas in POV-Ray. (18 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Thanks, guys, for the quick responses. The color 256 in MLCad advice works great. As for the suggestion regarding the "finish { reflection {0.0} ambient 0.5 diffuse 1 } line, where would I insert it in the POV-ray code? I've been learning somethings (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hey all, This is a wee bit off topic, so apologies in advance. I'm a long time lego fan but a relative computer novice. So I thought I'd turn to my fellow hobbyist in regards to their specialty. I'm really seeking a 'book of everything' something (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Daniel, You can do whatever you want if you dare to edit the POV file before rendering. POVRay isn't that difficult to fafthom, and there are lots of things you can do that creates a better render. Like this: (URL) for example (I think I can still (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hi Daniel, It has to do with the lighting model. There are three components that are factored and then summed to get the total brightness of a given pixel: ambient - light that comes from all directions. On a sunny day on the north side of (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Use LDraw color number 256 (black rubber) for the tires. I'm not sure about your other questions. --Travis (18 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) The best solution is to use the LGEO library ((URL) which can be a bit of a hassle to install but improves very many things in your renders. (...) I'm not sure that this is possible. Since a blue sky emits blue light it will affect the scene. (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Just a few questions that I've been having a need to be answered. If anyone can help me out.....? Something that I've never liked about my renders in POV-Ray is that the bricks are way too reflective. Sometimes they're as reflective as the mirrored (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Willy & All, I'd also like to throw my hat in the ring for an LDraw ambassador position. I've re-ignited an interest in encouraging development of LDraw tools. I believe it's in LEGO's interest to help the LDraw community, and would enjoy (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thats a good idea. I prefer to depend this on the part type, because -primitive has to go to "p\" -high res primitive to "48\" and -subpart hat to go to "s\". So this is perfect and easy to implement into the prog. And I can also add for (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Actually I have one wish... it would be nice to have a way to prepend a "s\" or "48\" before the file name in name field. This could be done from the part type, or (probably simpler and more flexible) with a 3 way selector. Philo (18 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Mikeheide, (...) That's perfect, thanks a lot! Philo (18 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have to announce the next update to DATHeader. Every time I got you wishes I try immediately to build that into that prog. You can download the current version 1.1.7 at (URL) (and comment) cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I just have to announce the next version of DATHeader with your wishes build in. It was not so complicated I expected ;-) cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I still don't understand ;o) (...) Ah - you're right, it works if you d&d on the icon. But I tried to d&d on the opened program window - and that doesn't work. Philo (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have just tested with drag and drop and it works on my machine. Hopefully on your too. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have never done this in my progs, but I will try to implement. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Here is the latest cryptic little utility to stumble out of my LDraw laboratory. Basically it just removes redundant characters and justifies fields. "LDTrim was developed to help pretty-print examples for documentation or discussion, but it could (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Mike, (...) I'm not sure to understand what you mean... Would it be difficuld to implement drag and drop of file to Datheader? that's a feature I often miss... Philo (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi, More than 5 years now since I've discovered the AFOL community. But I'm still incredibly amazed by its generosity and ability to make people collaborate. This post by Mike could look ordinary. But what a huge job from James Jessiman to this (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It makes (a lot of) sense. But I am not qualified to write installers... Maybe Mike? There is also the IP issue, some of the tools are neither mine nor Mike. Especially Edger, I tried several time to contact Lee Gaiteri to get the (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Mike, Philo, would it be possible to bake a fine prog including all the progs with a GUI, installer, tutorials ... to ease installation, maintanance and such? w. ps. it is known that im not a coder so please let me if I had just asked a stupid (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) When I created the wagon cover I made it drapped, since an flat sheet would work only for BOMs. Furthermore I used color 16 for the main part. I built a frame around the real cover to get the figures, beside recreating the same frame in MLCad (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Version 1.1.6 of DATHeader is now available for download at www.michael-heidemann.de. You can now give DATHeader a file with path as a parameter to open. You can now change the category back to nothing if needed. Enjoy mikeheide (18 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have now ready a new tool to give the very good commandline tools a gui. You can find the tool at: (URL) hope you like it. Please come back with your experience, so it can become better. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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(...) The minifig cape has also been done up in a draped position. (...) Take a peek at this if you want an idea what's involved in doing sails. (URL) has a nifty interactive simulation, and links to some articles on the math and physics involved. (...) (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hello! I am a Bricksmith fan too. (...) The only cloth or canvas LDraw part I know of is discussed here: (URL) a wagon cover rather than a sail, however. I suspect a challenge with creating cloth parts is deciding how to shape them since (...) (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I'd like to nominate Willy Tschager. Marco (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Many thx Tim for the nomination, I accept. w. (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Philo! Awesome tool, can hardly wait to check it out. I've been waiting for a long, long time for such a prog. w. (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle)
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(...) For unproject MLCad does the job. Symply select everything and set the appropriate matrix row at 0. This is perfect for triangle, quads... If you have primitives you have to later automatically fix the "all zero matrix row" using LDDP. The (...) (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hello, specially to mac users I finally got an Imac24" intel and I love it allredy made a new wallpaper 1900 x 1200 and I love bricksmith I have a question is there any ldraw cloth made specially boat sails? please update ldraw (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This is great! Like Tim, I'd been thinking about writing a tool like this for a long time. Thank you very much for making this available. Steve (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) It's a direct parallel projection. I think it's the best since the photo (with a long focal lens) or a scan has the same projection. Philo (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) I was curious if it was a direct projection or an area preserving one. A nice variant might be to write an area preserving variant although that would get quite complex. Tim (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) It should. One interesting aspect is that while photo/scan distorts the pattern, flattening the shape to put it in quad2dat does the same distortion so they compensate each other! Philo (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Here is the response I received via email: (...) If anyone wants to take a look at the code, please do. I'll have some friends look when I have the opportunity. -Tim (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I'd like to nominate Willy Tschager. Tim (18 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Wow. Awesome. I've been meaning to write something like this for ages so I'm very happy. Would it work on minifig faces too? Tim (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Very nice. I don't author parts, so I won't be trying it out. However, I looked at your tutorial, and I have two suggestions: Add "Un-Project", where it takes a projected shape and flattens it automatically on an axis specified by the user (X, Y, or (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Wow! That is very cool! I'm going to have to find a curved piece in one of my models that needs a pattern and try it out. Thanks! Scott (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Its not an issue for me, I know how to get round the problem, but I thought it would be useful for you as potential problem other people may encounter. I like to keep the unofficial parts separate so that I know when I create models they will (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thank you Travis. I accept this nomination. Kevin (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) What a clever tool. That seems like it will be very useful! Jim (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Tim, It sounds like you may have a unique situation. Please contact me directly, if you need any assistance. I suggest downloading both the latest official set of parts: (URL) the latest unofficial set: (URL) put them in the same directory. If (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(URL) This new tool allows easy creation of non-flat patterned LDraw parts. Create a flat pattern and stamp it on a 3D former. Program, documentation, source code are available (URL) here>. To show the usefulness of this tool, I created the four (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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(...) [...] (...) Ahui, Thanks, the detailed analysis helps a lot. I've decided to go with XP. I won't be doing 'life stuff' with XP as I have OSX for that, but I will be installing Windows LDraw tools and playing around. I'll have to look into the (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Tim over at The Art of Warfare (www.taw.net), gaming clan I'm a member of, we have hd this debate of XP vs Vista since Vista came out. After a 3 month study we are advising members to DOWNGRADE to XP on their gaming rigs espeically those (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Not this year. =( -Ahui (18 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Since I already have my name out there in other forums and groups I may as well raise my hand here too. Should people want me I would be willing to run. Tim (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I nominate Kevin Clague. On a side note, I won't accept a nomination myself; I don't feel I spend enough time with non-virtual LEGO. --Travis (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) If there is no other tool with that name - take it. But if your tool is for printing code I would suggest also the letter print in the name like LDPrint or better LDCPrint (LDrawCodePrint). cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Jim, I think it is tradition to name things with LD (LDView, LDLite). I didn't figure this out until after I named LPub and LSynth. Kevin (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Fair enough (...) I don't have any unofficial parts (well I do but kept separately) so that explains that. I'm not certain what you mean when you say "The next time the program updates a color file", When you create it again using Color (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I am wrapping up a little utility to pretty-print LDraw code (as a supplement to some things LDDP can do and as a stand-alone tool for other platforms). My working name for it is LDTrim, but I am curious if anyone has better suggestions. In (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hello Tim, LD4DStudio (I think you mean that one) works on both xp and vista but in vista the new 'feature' uac might complain during setup and or run. You can fix that by ether not installing in program files (instead use your user profile). (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think when / if these features are incorporated into MLCAD, this will work the way that you expect it to. It does not limit / filter your parts for each color. What All Real actually does is combine all of the color.lst files into one (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Tim, Thank you for taking some time to let me know your thoughts. 2a) I'd also like the dropdown color menu to be scrollable with the mouse. My C++ skills (and my time) have not yet allowed this feature. 2b) The missing parts that you see in (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Tim, Thanks for your compliments. If your Mac or Unix box has a CAD program that uses the Ldraw parts.lst file, then you can get some of the benefits of the program. The program comes with a folder that contains a bunch of color.lst files. If (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Actually, having just played some more, I don't understand how All Real works. When using any particular colour it only show part available, but when using All Real all parts are shown (as you would expect, they are all avaialbe in one colour (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I've had a quick play and have a few thoughts 1: its a great idea 2: it seems to work with a couple of provisos. 2a: the dropdown colour choice box doesn't seem to scroll using the mouse but does using the cursor keys 2b: I get missing parts (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's April 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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(...) Upps! My bad :-( The winning page states clearly that this is your part only - I overlooked it in the paste'n'copy . Sorry about that. w. (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In reference to this post (URL) the LDraw.org Steering Committee hereby calls for the community to nominate/self- nominate individuals as candidates for the LDraw LEGO Ambassador. Please read the official announcement at (URL) post (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I did some more digging on the project homepage and found the name of the creator. I sent him an email directly (vs the prof. over the project). We'll see what happens there. Otherwise, I've been meaning to have a friend or two look into the (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Nothing can be found in that file that helps us. You have to go to the project page and then you have all files for download and there are a lot. As far as I understand the code the file that has the code that we have to change is here, but I (...) (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Fixed. -Orion (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) it. -Orion (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Orion or Willy may be able to. I don't believe I have a local copy of the files and don't know what happened with the article. If all else fails, I hope Bram has an archived copy. -Tim (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hey, before this history thread drops completely outta site... Is there any way to restore the historical LDraw and LEdit tutorial that used to be available here? (URL) (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) Apparently it's not too hard to get it to compile under x64. I had a friend using 64 bit debian fetch the latest code from CVS and build it. He had to install the developer version of libOSMesa to compile, but that was about it. His Direct (...) (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's April 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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(...) Philo (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Scott - Haven't checked it out yet (Installing Windows is on my to-do) but I love the concept! Looking forward to seeing it in action when I have the chance. -Tim (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Release of Color Manager
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I am proud to introduce Color Manager for MLCAD and Ldraw. (URL) The main feature of Color Manager is to filter your parts list to only those pieces that are available (from Bricklink) in the color that you choose. This allows the user to build (...) (18 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX) !!
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| | LDraw.org's April 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the April 2008 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Technic Bionicle Claw with Axle by Philippe Hurbain (Philo) and LEGO Universe Team> (URL) POTM – Most Desired Part, (...) (18 years ago, 4-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: 3ds Max Import Script
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(...) Hi Guys, thanks for the feedback, what I've done is basically take both suggestions and merge them. Basically what I've observed so far is that not all parts in the "Parts" folder have the LDRAWORG meta tag (which denotes the type of file, (...) (18 years ago, 4-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Travis; You, of course, are correct. Home Basic and Home Premium cannot be virtualized, but the more expensive version can. Just recently MS was going to change the EULA to allow virtualization, but then changed its mind back. --Jim (18 years ago, 4-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Travis! Thanks for the input. I'm yet to fully exploit the meta/header data of the files, I've focused on the winding properties only thus far. This will give me greater cause to look deeper into them! Cheers Shane (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thanks Steve! That's really useful! I too thought that ldraw site would have the directory structure more documented then it is, but clarification is always nice. Cheers Shane (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I run Windows XP on my Mac via dual boot and VMWare Fusion and have had zero problems with any LDraw related software. I also run Vista on a dedicated laptop and have had few issues with some older programs (LeoCAD to be specific) but no show (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Note that in addition to the directory structure, official parts should all have a comment line in them that starts with one of the following prefixes: 0 !LDRAW_ORG PART 0 LDRAW_ORG PART 0 LDRAW_ORG ELEMENT 0 OFFICIAL LCAD UPDATE 0 Original (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's not 100% accurate. Vista Business and Vista Ultimate can both be legally run in a VM, as far as I understand. --Travis (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) --Travis (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Tim, I cannot comment directly on the LDraw software or on Parallels, however I run Vista via Bootcamp on my Intel IMac without any problems. If you can stand this additional inconveinance there should be no problem running LDraw software or (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm mostly interested in checking out SR3D and LD4DModeler. In addition to LDraw feedback, I'm also interested in general opinions on the two and am polling tech friends inside/outside of LEGO and a couple Microsoft evangelists I know who will (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) What specific Windows LDraw software do you want to use? I would just check whether there are any Vista compatibility issues with those programs. (I haven't heard of any.) Jim (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) A six year old version doesn't sound all that great. How hard would it be to get the current version to compile under x64? Failing that, how hard would it be to get the 32 bit version running under x64? With commands like linux32 and such I'm (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: 3ds Max Import Script
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(...) Hi Shane, This sounds like an interesting project. And useful. :) (...) I think any user of autodesk tools has cursed their name at some time or another. ;) (...) And, if you wanted, you could replace some of the imported "primitive bricks" (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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I just bought Parallels with the intent of running Windows LDraw software and eventually Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Now comes the decision: Should I go with XP or Vista? I've heard bad about Vista in the IT community, and I can scrounge an XP (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah, but the hint helped me. With the side mounted dock I was able to reproduce the problem (or a problem at least) on the G4. I cleaned up some of the buffer swapping and window reshaping code, and it seems to work better for me now. Of (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've been working on a script to import ldraw data into 3ds max with some moderate success. I've been able to build primitive data and apply color/texture to the objects. I did find an issue between max 9 and 10 this morning which has me cursing (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) I would definitely appreciate the help! I don't know which method would be best, as I said I'm not a coder, but I can follow directions well enough. Thanks, Tim (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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(...) Well, I pulled the window out from under the dock, and that didn't help. On an unrelated note, why will it only open models in the current directory? If I give the full path to a model in a different directory, it fails to load it. --Travis (18 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ahui - I thought the same had happened with you, eh? How's it going? Will I see you at BrickWorld? -Tim (18 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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Sorry, I missed your bug report. LeoCAD used to compile on 64 bit computers but it's been a long time since I last tried and I don't have access to one anymore. From your bug report it looks like 'make config' is failing. You can either manually (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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(...) A 32-bit build of LDView should work fine as long as you have the 32-bit shared libraries installed that it needs. If you want, I can work with you to get it up and running. As it happens, I have successfully built a 32-bit version of the (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) About 6 years ago there was a build of ldglite ran in 64bit linux on an alpha processor. It could possibly be made to work again but I can't really recommend it because the old LEDIT tutorial is now long gone from here: (URL) the tutorial it'd (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: picture save by commandline
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(...) Something like this might work. ldglite -i2 -q -l3 filename.ldr -MFfilename.png (18 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm just starting out with LDraw and I'm having a heck of a time trying to get anything running under my 64 bit Ubuntu 7.10 system. I'm mostly interested in LeoCAD, since it is the only native Linux building system that I know of. Since there are no (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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