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(...) These guys are too modest to plug a lot of their own work, but I learned the basics of making parts (and of Ldraw too) from Virtual Lego by Tim Courtney, Steve Bliss and Ahui Hearera. I still refer to it all the time and highly recommend it. I (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Just uploaded the latest ldraw.xml to my sites. V1.3 LDD 2.3.19 Brick ver 38.19 This time I included parts that still need work. The thinking with this is that you can export then import the parts to the original location. They will just be in wacky (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Sure, this part is a good one to start... Some tutorials: (URL) reference stuff: (URL) (mainly (2 URLs) and (URL) overall see how other baseplates were created, for example (URL) and so on... Philo (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Dave, 3404c01 has been modeled, but it is not yet included in the official LDraw library. You can see the part file at (URL) this page>. You could download 3404c01 by itself, but it requires four other unofficial files to make it work. It's (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Bricksmith's "Export Steps" command does not create printable instructions - it saves a separate LDraw file for each step of each submodel. There's no inherent view to these or any other LDraw models (at least as far as Bricksmith is (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I could take some pics of it. How would I learn about modeling parts? dave (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It should be easy to build... would you have a good photo of it, viewed from top? Philo (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You seem to be right. I tried LPub4 on a XP machine with VC++2008, and on a W2k one without it, it works in both cases. Philo (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hey Dave- Welcome to the wonderful world of making any Lego model you want, regardless of what pieces you own. As to your request, I have two answers: The first is a suggestion/reminder to look in the Other Parts/T section of the parts window (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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How do I have one step with a view of the underside (of a car) and the next step with a view of the top of the car. I understand that any view can be chosen for any step, but I am referring to the exported steps (meaning the printed instructions). I (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I was hoping someone could help me with another old part, the 50 x 50 baseplate with the 'Road 3-way Curve with Gray Pattern' This is set 078, part # x1460px1 Keep on bricking, dave (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I have just downloaded the LDRAW parts library/list and am trying to model an old set that needs the old style turntable, part # 3404c01 Has this part been modeled? Where might I download it from? Thanks for helping an LDRAW newbie, dave (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Please let us know which LDView versions works best once the Mac LPub alpha is available. I haven't had much luck at all with any of the pre-release versions of either program I've tried recently. Jim (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Never mind. I'm pretty sure that the answer is that you do have the VC++ 2008 runtime libraries installed, because when I install them, LPub works. Anyone else that can't get LPub to launch can download the runtime libraries from Microsft here: (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote: Hi Philippe. Do you know if you have any other software installed that was developed using Visual C++ 2008? Or, for that matter, do you have Visual C++ 2008 (Express or otherwise) installed? The reason I ask, (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It won't launch on my machine. I'm not quite sure why, but this is what Dependency Walker says: Error: The Side-by-Side configuration information for "c:\program files\lpub\LPUB.EXE" contains errors. This application has failed to start (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) i really do appreciate all the work you guys do with the software. i've been here since the beginning and even did correspondence with james when ldraw first came out. the add-ons and enhancements have made the already-useful software a (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) thanks for the compliment and thanks for the tip, i'll get that fixed. ..joseph g (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) No, this is not supposed to happen. Are you talking about the menus in the main menu bar, or popup menus? The menu items in the configuration menu in the mail title bar should pup up dialogs to allow you to edit related topics using a larger (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Kevin, (...) I was brave enough to create this ((URL) - based on this set: (URL) in a very short time... But many menus (such as the ones to setup page size or change images scale) are empty. Is it something to be expected for this alpha release? (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Mike, Yes, I considered this possibility in the beginning, but I was not convinced by the vectorization process. One key issue is that silk-screened parts are far from perfect (misprints, color registration problems...). I found that (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) ...and thank YOU for posting these nice models, these makes LDraw guys work useful! Philo PS: in your model St. Martin the 50898s01.dat used in 57910 mockup should be referred to as "s\50898s01.dat" for proper opening. (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Another great idea. Spotlighted. Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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A few months ago I finished a new lego clock: (URL) I have now uploaded a ldraw file of my lego clock before the chimes. The clock is complete but the parts are not in an instructional order yet. (URL) Chris (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) And just to keep it broad I created a Flickr group too (URL) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This is a great idea! Spotlighted. Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi all, I took the liberty of creating a Facebook group for LDraw users. It should provide another means for those of us interested in LDraw to keep in touch. Link: (URL) for checking it out and I hope to see some of you joining. Tim (as an LDraw (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw model of Spybotics programmable brick
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(...) Philo, Congratulations! This is a fantastic part! LDraw sure has come a long way since its humble beginnings, and the ground breaking work by James. Kevin (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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| | I had to get something out before Brickworld
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Hi gang, With a tremendous amount from Travis Cobbs, I managed to get a version of LPub 4 ready for an alpha release. I wanted to get something out in time for Brickworld, because I'm presenting it there. I'll need Travis to let you know where to (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Reading your tutorial made me wonder whether scans of the orignal parts could be vectorized using Inkscape (Inkscape includes an automatic raster-to-vector converter). The resultant SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file could then maybe be converted (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: LD4DStudio Beta 3 Release
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(...) WOW! LD4D has come a long way! Very impressive! -Mike (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Vulcan Armor - 8111/8112 combo alternate model
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(...) And thank you for posting your models here! I'd love to see more models posted by you, and by more L-Cad people! Bring back some life into lugnet.cad! /Tore (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Vulcan Armor - 8111/8112 combo alternate model [DAT]
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thanks to ALL developers and authors of official and unofficial parts. i can't do this stuff without you guys!! 0 Vulcan Armor - 8111/8112 combo Alternate 0 may include unofficial parts 0 Name: vulcan.dat 0 Author: Joseph Gonzalez (c) 2008 0 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | St. Martin - 8114 Chameleon Hunter alternate model [DAT]
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just posting 0 st martin - 8114 chameleon hunter alternate model 0 Name: stmart.dat 0 Author: MLCad 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 30373.DAT 0 STEP 1 0 0 24 -50 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Samson X Armor - 4915/8673 alternate model [DAT]
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just posting 0 Samson X Armor - 4915/8673 combo alternate model 0 may include unofficial parts 0 Name: samson.dat 0 Author: Joseph Gonzalez (c) 2008 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 1 4 -1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Pale Horse Armor - 7700 Stealth Hunter alternate model [DAT]
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alternate model 0 Pale Horse Powersuit - 7700 Stealth Hunter alternate model 0 Name: p-hors.dat 0 Unofficial Model 0 may include unofficial parts 0 Author: Joseph Gonzalez (c) 2008 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 00 Untitled 1 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Gundam - 4953/7700/7700 combo alternate model [DAT]
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i'm doing some housecleaning and wanted to make sure i get the next few files posted. ..joseph g 0 RX-78 Gundam - 4953/7700/7700 combo Alternate 0 may include unofficial parts 0 Name: gundam.dat 0 Author: Joseph Gonzalez (c) 2008 0 Unofficial Model (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Hard to tell... I worked on it on and off during 15 days. I would say about 10 hours. Philo (18 years ago, 9-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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That is some seriously talented work! Can I ask how long it took you to create it? Scott (18 years ago, 9-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) SNIP (...) Great to see that parts now on the PT. Thank you Philo! cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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| | Re: BlueBrick
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(...) Yes of course. BlueBrick is compatible with Track Designer. But actually, the picture of the 4.5V and 12V tracks come from a zoomed screenshot of Track Designer, so they are not very nice. I hope someone will find nicer pictures for these (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw model of Spybotics programmable brick
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Linmix once said to me that he couldn't find a LDraw model of the (URL) Spybotics>... so I decided to cope with that beast. Here is the prevue: (2 URLs) The LDraw files are available from (URL) LDraw Parts Tracker>. Don't forget all the subfiles! (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX) !
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(...) It sounds very promising from what I have read in RailBrick. I have not tried BlueBrick, yet (I currently have the .Net framework 1.x on my system, and I'm only gonna upgrade to 2.0 if I really need to). Does BlueBrick also support the track (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Sorry, I forgot to give the link for those who didn't read Rail Brick :-) (URL) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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(...) Thanks guys. Tim (18 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Congratulations Tim! Kevin (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi, I gave the exclusivity to RailBrick to announce the release of BlueBrick my new Lego Train Layout Editor but of course I'm very excited about receiving your comments, suggestions or bug report. I'm also open to any proposition of contribution. (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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(...) For those of you who didn't see the announcment, Tim Gould was chosen as one of the new ambassadors. See here: (URL) Tim. --Travis (18 years ago, 4-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's May 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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(...) This time I don't feel bad voting for myself ;o) Philo (18 years ago, 4-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I'm going to use my amazing powers of prognostication and predict a win by Philo for the June POTM contest. --Travis (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's May 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the May 2008 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Door 1 x 8 x 6 Frame by Willy Tschager (Holly-Wood) and LEGO Universe Team> (URL) POTM – Most Desired Part, Window 1 x 4 (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD question - how to rotate pieces?
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(...) Jordan, Thanks. Don't know why I didn't try that key before. Thanks also for the keyboard shortcuts, I had found some, but the rest were helpful as well. The preferences window has a check box for 'Brick Count Show the number of bricks in a (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Official parts restrictions document ratified by the LSC
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(...) Thanks guys, It's really handy to have rules and a document clarifying some of these issues. Tim (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Official parts restrictions document ratified by the LSC
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The LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) has ratified the document (URL) LDraw.org File Format Restrictions for Official Parts>. This document lists restrictions that aren't part of the LDraw 1.0 spec that are placed on files in the official parts (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD question - how to rotate pieces?
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(...) Hi Dave, Use the arrow keys to rotate pieces. When you insert a new piece, I believe it always defaults to the same orientation. If you want to insert a bunch of identical bricks with a particular rotation, you can always insert the first one (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDD question - how to rotate pieces?
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Hi all, I am an LDD newbie, and can't for the life of me figure this one out. I want to rotate a piece. How do I do it? I have 2 16x32 baseplates (side by side) to make a 32x32. I want to place 1x8, 1x6, etc tiles around the 4 edges. When I insert a (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: How do I...? 3 questions about POV-Ray.
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Thanks, man. That did the trick. (18 years ago, 1-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: How do I...? 3 questions about POV-Ray.
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(...) If you're in Windows, do the following: Select Tools->Edit Master POVRAY.INI Add the following to the bottom of the file: LibraryPath="C:LDRAWPOVlgeo" Change the path above to match your LGEO path. Save the file. Back in POVRay for Windows, (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: How do I...? 3 questions about POV-Ray.
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(...) Where would I find the input box? (18 years ago, 1-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) A VB app (assuming vb6) should run everywhere and wont cause any problems. (18 years ago, 30-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) VB is as good as any other language as long as it does the job! Why spend time recoding something that works? (18 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) Mike, No problem with VB. I just didn't know if it was still commonly used. (Microsoft now has VB.Net etc. ). I've been programming from when Fortran was the language of choice and everything was done on punchcards. I still use QBasic to write (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) This looks very useful. Do you have a problem with VB? I think it is a wonderful and powerful language. I am coding with VB since version 1.0 and it is getting better and better. For most application VB is a very good language. For me the (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) Erik The program is written in Visual Basic. I currently have clean up some of the bugs (usually division by zero errors and others) and then I'll turn it into an .exe file. I hope to have a working copy for Brickworld in Chicago (June 19th) (...) (18 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) Hi Arthur, It seems very interressant and promising. Is there a place where to download your software and try it? Erik (18 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Dome Creator
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I’ve seen a number of sphere generators but many of the domes I need to build are not spherical. After working, reworking, and re-reworking a few domes I decided it was time to computerize the process so I wrote a program called Dome Creator. So (...) (18 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Parts requests? (re: x136 and 50944px1)
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(...) Excellent... Thank you Philippe! Ryan (18 years ago, 26-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LD4DStudio Beta 3 Release
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Hello All, Bug fixes and some new features. You'll find it here: (URL) release notes are here: (URL) can install this one over any old one, an uninstall is unnecessary. Greetings, Roland (18 years ago, 25-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) Maybe you could email me your working plist because I'm at the "just making things worse" stage. I tried cloning the L3Lab plist file and that made ldglite disappear from the list of choices for ldraw files. I was kinda hoping lsregister with (...) (18 years ago, 25-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) Well, I tried that, and all it did was make it so that LDView couldn't be chosen as the app to open LDraw files at all. Comparing to L3Lab's Info.plist, I haven't the foggiest why. The L3Lab one seems to work. However, when I carefully cleaned (...) (18 years ago, 24-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) I don't either, but I think the problem is that ldglite uses a really, really old version of the info.plist settings, probably obsolete. I have to read up a bit on the new keys to see what they do. According to these notes, things changed a (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) [...] (...) Mmmm... I like swiss cheese too (...) Oops sorry. I shouldn't have assumed that you forgot those conversations. It would be cool if you could get Safari to do it. (...) It would allow the user to select which things to be (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LETGUI new version 0.1.0.12 out now
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Drag and Drop now fully supported. Changed the location of the LETGUIINI.XML file. Now it is in the same folder than the application. Supports now also a filename on the commandline that contains spaces. Now you can have a warning if the outputfile (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) Hi Chris, it's like swiss cheese, but let's keep that a secret. (...) Yeah I remember, but now I actually have a junky used Mac of my own to play with, so I want to learn as much as I can before it dies. I was sorta assuming Mozilla still (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) OK, long time Mac users here. In the days of long ago, most/all browsers could be configured so that when the browser didn't know what to do with a file, a helper application, specified by the user, could jump in to open the file for you. (I (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | SR 3D Builder - Version 0.3.1.3 released
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New version released of my builder. Nothing really new, just a lot of fixes in gears movements Also over 150 part connection fixed (most in technical category) Dowload as usual from (URL) (18 years ago, 22-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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(...) Kevin, Tim, please answer to these via email by tomorrow: * Name and age of the nominee. * Where is the nominee from? * Which Group does this nominee represent? * Key interests of the nominee (themes, building styles, and some examples of (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Retrieving tabular/csv inventories of individual sets
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Does Peeron provide downloadable tab-delimited inventories for individual sets? I am aware of the "Export My Parts" feature, but as far as I can see that provides an aggregate list of parts from all sets in a user's collection. Is there a way to (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) So I installed the Mac version of L3Lab last night, and wouldn't you know, it took over control of .dat files from ldglite, like I expected. Double click a dat file on the desktop or click on one in safari and it pops up in L3Lab now. However (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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The winners of the 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Kevin Clague Tim Gould Willy Tschager As stated in the announcement (URL) at least 3 testimonials from members of nominating group are required. (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: In search of 3 parts...
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(...) I'd appreciate it if you could send it. Thanks. (18 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: In search of 3 parts...
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(...) I have made a crude mockup of 47755-'Wedge 4 x 3 Curved with 2 x 2 Cutout'. If you could use that please let me know, so I'll send it to you. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 19-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have made a crude mockup for 47755-'Wedge 4 x 3 Curved with 2 x 2 Cutout'. If that can be useful for you I can send it. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 19-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi, guys. I'm in need for three parts from the Tiny Turbos line that aren't on the parts tracker: 50948-'Wedge 4 x 3 Curved with Cutout and Two Studs' (URL) 4 x 3 Curved with 2 x 2 Cutout' (URL) 30.4 x 14 Spoked' (URL) they're already made and (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I just have again updated LETGUI with a feature that I already announce in the last version, but I was thinking about something different. It is now possible to: 1) Start LETGUI with a file as parameter that will be treated as the inputfile 2) Drag (...) (18 years ago, 16-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I just have updated LETGUI with some (I think good) features. You can find it as usual at (URL) (18 years ago, 16-May-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Excellent! I forgot about L3Lab for the Mac. I'll have to try that out. It's too bad there isn't a category between LSRiskCategoryNeutral and LSRiskCategorySafe that lets you decide right then if you want to open it, or just save it (like in (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) OK, I'll update it. (Actually I already updated it to have both types in the array, but there's no point if x-application/ldraw never gets used.) Note that the Cocoa LDView hasn't been released yet. The one you're looking at is the QT LDView (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Select a file in the Finder and select "Get Info" from the "File" menu (or press Command-I). Under the "Open With:" section of the little window that appears, choose an application to open the selected file when double-clicked. Click "Change (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) ever used is application/x-ldraw. I'm pretty sure it works for mpd files as well as ordinary dat files, but maybe the file has to have a .dat extension? (...) I'll have to look into "Get Info". Being new to the Mac, I don't know what it means. (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) For what it's worth there is a guide to this topic on LDraw.org: (URL) confirms application/x-ldraw (and application/x-multi-part-ldraw for MPDs). Can't the user just use "Get Info" to assign an application of their choice to open files of a (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yeah, it's been application/x-ldraw since like forever. Hopefully you're setting up the Bundle tags in your Info.plist and not the Risk assessment keys from the safari prefs file. But I could swear I saw only a few bits inserted by QT and a (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) My Cocoa LDView info.plist has this information, but it uses x-application/ldraw. Is application/x-ldraw the correct thing to use instead? --Travis (18 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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So the other day I was browsing the Most Desired Part entries on ldraw.org with my junky used eMac and I noticed a new curved slope that doesn't seem to have the tiger striping problem. Naturally I wanted to see how it was done. But no, I'm on a (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LETGUI (update) / LDFlat (NEW TOOL)
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Now the first update for LETGUI is ready. Changes: Added support for the tool LDFlat You can find the current version (0.1.0.8) at: (URL) hope you like it. Please come back with your experience, so it can become better. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks a million John and David! Both these choices seem to hit the nail on the head and give me something to get my teeth into. Much appreciated! God Bless, Nathan (18 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Jean-Marc came back to me today with an interesting solution I think might work. See (URL) Click on MLCad's ball, then "Details" within the window. The specific versions will appear in the large band below. What does everyone think about this? (...) (18 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I have not read it, but I've heard a lot of good things about it: "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" (available through amazon or barnes & noble, or I'm sure other places, too.) JohnG, GMLTC (a computer programmer by (...) (18 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Nathan, You mentioned wanting to understand a computer's "inner workings," so you might check out the book "Inside the Machine": (URL) sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but you can read a sample at the website. Thanks, David (...) (18 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador Election is open
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In reference to this post (URL) the 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the ballot page on LDraw.org here: (URL) LDraw organization members may vote and you (...) (18 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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