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(...) Sorry Mike. My brain completely skipped over the "and" in your sentence. --Travis (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) I just noticed a problem when using LDView as LPub's renderer. LPub (alpha 3) isn't using the -SaveActualSize=0 command line option, so if you don't have the "Save image with specific size" check box checked in LDView's Save Snapshot dialog, (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I assume that's what the and on is for ;) But I don't remember where we host the file... sorry but Mike's is as or more up to date anyway. Tim (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) I just got a new machine with Vista Home Premium 32-bit on it, and the LPub posted in (URL) this post> works fine on it with LDView 3.2 (aside from the minor problems I posted about). --Travis (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) Ironically I've met some mathematicians who worked with TLG on this problem about five years ago. Their conclusion of "it can't be done" seems to be holding out still. I'll stick to LPub and (now less) elbow grease. Tim (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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--heavy snipping-- (...) Hi Kevin, I really,really can't wait to try this and just did up some new instructions for an old MOC as a first test for it. But... I'm a forced Vista user (thanks HP) so I need to be sure it's going to work and not ruin my (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Ronald, I used the Configuration->Callout Setup dialog and was able to stop Callouts from having PLis. Did you try it this way, or did you type it in manually? Kevin (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've gotta say that from the demo, this is amazing. I don't see the Mac version out there and didn't think to ask you for it whilst hanging this weekend. Can you email it or post it? I'd love to try it out on one of my old models, you know, (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Jaco, In case I forgot to mention it, LPub 4 only currently handles DPI. According to the page sizes that Qt supports, A4 is approximately 8.5 and 11.0. The page sizes you used are in centimeters? LPub performs a best fit match of the (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the update. Shouldn't the bylaws be updated to reflect the changed operations? Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) LOL! I don't know. (yet?) Kevin (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's quite a bind you're in. Who does the help desk call when they need help? (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Congratulations, Kevin. So when are you getting poached by Billund/Sweden? ;) Tim (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) --Travis (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) I found the original ldraw.xml file here: /Applications/LEGO Digital Designer.app/Content...ces/Assets I'm trying your newest now. It worked! Thanks, Kevin (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) I have no clue for MAC’s, but when you copied the ldraw.xml to the location, did you see the original ldraw.xml from the LEGO LDD install? If not search for it and see where it is. As far as the error you get while exporting, could be a bad (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Hi Travis, Thanks for the thought. I had made it this far. I tried to save my test file to my home directory and got this message: Warning Unable to export model to "/Users/kclague/test.ldr" Kevin (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) I haven't ever tried LDD on the Mac, but I do have some Mac info that might help. First of all, unlike the system Windows Open/Save dialogs, the system Mac Open/Save Panels don't support file type selection, so doing this at all requires (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Hi Tim, Thanks for the work on ldraw.xml. I just downloaded LDD 2 from the LEGO website onto my Mac (running leopard OS (10.5)) and copied your new ldraw.xml to: /Applications/LEGO Digital Designer.app/content...ces/Assets When I try to use (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Originally, the building instruction team had a huge building with a table for each step with the parts for that step assembled on the table. They photographed the assembly, and then "cartoonized" the picture. It was a huge process. I don't (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) We were told that the building instruction group uses Mayas and that there is a big gap between the LDD group and the BI group. Thanks, Kevin (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I missed your presentation this weekend, but it sounded interesting. A friend of mine who lives in Chicago came to BrickWorld that day and we went to lunch, which was when you had your sessions. I too have wondered how LEGO made its instructions in (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Richie, the LDraw Steering Committee's summary can at any time found at: (URL) learn that the SteerCo has decided to not elect any of the above positions - same as last year. As for the activities we are still engaged with the CA and other (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Here's a quote from the POV-Ray documentation: "Triangle mesh objects (mesh and mesh2) can now be used in CSG objects such as difference and intersect, because, after adding inside_vector, they do have a defined 'inside'. This will only work (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Is code generated using L3P copyrighted in any way? I would like to publish some POV-Ray macros that use some snippets, and wanted to check first whether I can do this. -Mike (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) It's been a few months now: are you able to advise which Steerco members have been elected Chairperson, Treasurer and Secretary? It'd be good to be able to follow up the quarterly report of activities and progress and financial reports with (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) With an OK from Orion, who regrettably couldn't attend, I presented the award to Kevin at the closing ceremonies yesterday. LDraw is core to how we communicate and share with each other in the hobby; so I'm glad when a recipient is able to be (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I demo-ed LPub 4 for about an hour and a half at Brickworld. I feel the process went very well. There were lots of great questions and suggestions. Paul Smith Meyer, of LEGO, was present for much of the demonstration. I've always been curious (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad) !
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(...) It was a great honor to receive the 2007 James Jessiman Award at Brickworld. It was unfortunate the current SteerCo members were unable to attend, but you were there in my mind. I was especially honored to receive the award from Tim Courtney. (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I am confused. Maybe someone can help me. If I have a file that is CW and I have a subfile that is CCW. I want to inline that subfile without having additional BFC statements. As far as I have understand BFC I have to rewind the lines in the (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) be sure I've tried all sorts of combinations but I get the triangles simulating the ndis primitives only in one corner, while it looks like that the other corners get merged: (URL) there something I haven't taken in consideration? BTW I use (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Willy (...) There already exists such an option : -o4 : no merge to quadrangles All the options are listed here (URL) Would it further be possible to mirror all points on the y-axes right away with (...) Have you considered using a subpart the (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hey Jim! These look great! Kevin (18 years ago, 22-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Sorry Willy, but as I do not buy every new set I have to wait for submissions ;-) from others or that the instruction is available anywhere (now it is) and then I need time to make it. It is on my todo list. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 22-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) From Facebook "Can I make a suggestion? Make video parts authoring tutorials, with line-by-line switching between code and result. You might end up with a bigger parts author turnout. Alright, sorry about my rambling post." I think that's a (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi guys, has any of you a LDraw file of the 10182 Cafe Corner (URL) browsed BS as well as Mike's OMR but fould nothing :-( w. (18 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Hello Kevin. This version still seems to depend on MSVCR90.dll which isn't included in the setup. The failure message is: ---...--- C:\Program Files\LPub\lpub.exe ---...--- C:\Program Files\LPub\lpub.exe This application has failed to start (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Because I like to build alternate models, I realized that I often look for the same bunch of parts in Bricksmith's part browser - the parts from the original set. I worked out a way to add new categories to the browser and to automatically get the (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Hi Ronald, Thanks for trying the new LPub. Which method did you use for changing scale? The application menu has a Configure menu. The Assembly sub-menu has a Scale control that sets the scale before the first step, which means it applies to (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Ronald, Thanks for trying the new LPub. Which method did you use for changing scale? The application menu has a Configure menu. The Assembly sub-menu has a Scale control that sets the scale before the first step, which means it applies to (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Ronald, Thanks for trying the new LPub. Which method did you use for changing scale? The application menu has a Configure menu. The Assembly sub-menu has a Scale control that sets the scale before the first step, which means it applies to (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Marc, authoring this part (URL) tried to simulate LDraw's "ndis" primitives to ease the substitution once the part is in dat shape. The STL preview showed the triangles at the corners of the various cylinders but it looks like STL2DAT merges (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Jaco, That problem sounds familiar. I reported the same thing, and Kevin fixed the bug. Perhaps it was only fixed on the Mac side, or maybe you have a slightly older version of LPub? In any case, I just set 11 for width and 8.5 for height (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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Jim, I am impressed. Very nice instructiins and model too BTW. What I whould like to know though is how you created the PDF landscape format. I am making instructions too, but I only manage to create portrait pages with the landscape format on the (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I would agree. I've never had a chance to try LPub before, but recently I've been experimenting with the Mac version (built from (URL) Sourceforge> for now) and I'm quite pleased with what I've been able to create: (URL) Some other experiments (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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Hey Kevin, First impression is great! It works really smooth. I've a few questions though: *When I change the scale, it changes the 'zoom' of the step image, but not the dimensions. I've looked in all the settings dialogues but I can't seem to make (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I should be more clear with VB. I am talking about VBExpress that is a NET Framework language. As far as I understand with the NET Framework it is possible to use a DLL that is written in VB also with the other Framework languages. So maybe it (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well :-) The short answer is that I was using 606p02 as a reference, and it has edge-lines... I have now been made aware that this wasn't the best example I could have picked :-D Anyway...I'm about to start an overhaul of all the 32x32 (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I really should have responded to your original message before posting my message about LDView's parser. As far as I'm concerned, having a public VB parser for LDraw files would be great. I won't use it, but if others find it useful, that's (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I know that LDView is a very good tool. And I know also that the code is under GPL. But there are people out there (me too) that do not know about C or C++. So it would be great to have a DLL to handle the core methods (and maybe objects) for (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, thanks for the clarification. -Mike (18 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I forgot to mention something fairly important (which may be obvious). LDLoader is a library for loading LDraw files into an internal memory format that is easy to deal with. It handle parsing, error checking (and reporting, via callbacks), and some (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) For what it's worth, LDView is Open Source (GPL v2), and all of its LDraw file loading code is kept in a separate library (which I call LDLoader). This library depends on one other of my libraries (which I call TCFoundation, short for Travis (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It certainly COULD be modified. However, it's up to Lars whether or not this actually happens. I looked at the mesh2 syntax, and changing to using it wouldn't really be trivial (although it probably wouldn't be all that difficult). Bear in (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I like the idea, I had some head breakers while trying to read LDraw files correctly the first time (especially regarding to reading recursive winding information). But I think, if there was going to be an 'official' LDraw api it should be (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Could L3P be modified to use the mesh2 primitive? I notice also that L3P doesn't output the "insidevector" parameter, so LDraw creations can't be used in CSG operations. This is disappointing. -Mike (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Hello All, I'm starting work on POV-Ray export for my LD4DStudio project and was wondering about the LDraw license. I'm planning to generate POV-Ray files/objects per highlevel LDraw part. In the resulting source I will include all '0' lines from (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I like the idea. Naturally, I would like a portable LDraw library even better. How useful would a VB library be to Linux or Mac LDraw users? (There are at least a few!) In any case, a generic API could certainly make it easier to create new (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Is there anybody that it interested in an dll that comes with objects and methods to handle ldraw related files? It would not be for showing the parts but could be base to develop that. Any comments are welcome. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think we do not need to specify the use of edgelines more than we have done, if everybody knows what edgelines are and that in some cases they are not shown in pictures/renderings. So they should be as nature only on edges. If there are (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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(...) The spec intentionally didn't put absolute limits on what color 24 could be used for, so I think it's up to the reviewers. My tendency would be to hold the part, but not because it does something that goes against the spec, but instead because (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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Hi guys, I thought we had specs for almost everything, but I was proven wrong. Looking at this pattern (URL) see 24colored edges around the pattern. I was going to hold vote it, since I never "edged" a pattern - and I made a lot of them in my career (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Jim, since the admins check the header and also modify them before shipping (Unofficial to Official for example) I would just "novote with comments" for NEWLY submitted parts to make the author aware of the new specs and the tools (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks, Steve. I wasn't sure there even were issues with the header - I was just looking for example reviews, and trying to figure out what purpose, if any, the specifications play. Jim (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If the header is the only problem, certifying is fine -- just note the issue, so the admins can clean up the header later. If it's a question of the header's content (ie, "is that the right title?", etc), then you might go for novote. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Willy, Thanks for the background. So, if the header just needs to be cleaned up, you recommend novote with a note about the header format? If I can ask for one more example, how would you respond to a header like this? 0 Car Mudguard 4 1/2 (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) This has been fixed. (...) This has been fixed. (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Facebook and Flickr groups
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(...) Wow. I'm impressed by the number of us on these social networking sites. Already 41 people in the facebook group (one of the largest LEGO related groups) and a further 27 on flickr. And best of all some new faces and de-lurkers. Tim (18 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Re: Vulcan Armor - 8111/8112 combo alternate model
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(...) ...or better use this one: (URL) (seems to be a more recent version of 57910) Philo (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Right! Found that. Tnx! (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Hi Jaco, Thanks so much for the entheusiastic response to LPub 4! I theory, if you place your cursor over a step in the callout, then right click, a popup menu should appear. One of the menu items is either: "Display as rows", or "Display as (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) And the first thing I am really exited about is the way you can add pointers to your callouts! Amazing! I cannot seem to force the steps in a callout to be packed horizontally using the LPUB CALLOUT HORIZONTAL meta command though. (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd **Updated Ldraw.xml
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(...) Hi Mike, many thx for all the good work. I mirrored your file at LDraw.org and the LDD/LDraw conv tutorial should now be up to date. w. (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Part review coplanarity check
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(...) Someone should ping the PT-Admins and make sure the L3P -check guide gets updated accordingly. w. (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another part review question - about headers
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(...) Hi Jim, the new header was the result/a requirement of/for the CA conversion (Ratified 2006-09-08) but the PT is up since 2001. This means that you'll come across many parts which have been submitted earlier: My oldest is this one (URL) (Aug (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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Wow! I am blown away and simply love the "WYSIWYG" display for the pages. Though I concider myself an experienced LPub user, this adds the user friendlyness we´ve al been waiting for. Thanks a lot for all your effort you put in this, Kevin! I will (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) I had the same problem. Downloading and installing that Microsoft stuff did the trick. (18 years ago, 16-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Another part review question - about headers
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I'm looking at the "Official Library Header" specification ((URL) How strictly must currently unofficial parts conform to the !LDRAW_ORG and !LICENSE lines, for example? Are those set by admins once the content of a part is certified, or as a (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New POV-Ray Edge Tracing Utility
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(...) It looks quite interesting, and the technical description makes it sound like it does things the "right" way, so the quality can be quite high. Having said that, it won't work with L3P output with primitive substitution, because it only (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Part review coplanarity check
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(...) ;o) (...) Welcome among reviewers - your help is appreciated! Philo (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) I missed the previous posts about alpha1... With the package described here (URL) now LPub alpha4 is running :) Now I have to play with it. Thanks :) Erik (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Hi Eric, First I would like to conform that you are using Alpha3 instead of Alpha1. The problems you are having sound like the issues Alpha1 had. Alpha 3 has need for msvcr90.dll and comctl32.dll, plus a myriad of other libraries in the (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Philo, Ah - thanks for the clarification. Now I know what to do with one of those program I compiled! Bit by bit I am figuring out the review procedure. Jim (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi, I got the same error with Windows XP SP3. Didier (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello all, Just browsing the POV-Ray homepage and came across a link to a utility called POV-Edge. It consists of a standalone Windows application and a POV-Ray macro. It’s basically an edge tracer, creating images that appear to be sketched or (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Some weeks ago we discussed this issues in the LSC. We came to the solution that these tools are not doing what we thinking about. Philo has written then a tool that is at present the state of the art (I hope this is correct english). Please (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hello Jim, L3P coplanarity checks have some problems (they depend on the size of polygon, some explainations here: (URL) So coplanarity criteria has been updated ((URL) but guidelines were not. So the tool to use is Planarcheck. Philo (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi, I get an error : Unable to execute file: C:\Program Files\LPub\lpub.exe CreateProcess failed; code 14001 ... What are the requirements to run LPub ? My OS is Windows XP SP1. Erik (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Scratch that. That was due to a screw-up on my part. I somehow managed to install LDView 3.1 instead of LDView 3.2. After installing LDView 3.2, it works fine. --Travis (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Are you sure you're using the alpha 3 installer posted two posts up, and not the alpha 1 installer Kevin posted the other day? The directory name you chose implies that you used the alpha 1. I ran the alpha 3 on a system that as far as I know (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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As a rookie part reviewer, I'd like to check whether I understand the guidelines for this situation before casting a vote. The (URL) L3P -check guide> suggests different coplanarity determinant test thresholds for general files (0.1) and primitives (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I download and installed, and when I run it, I get the error message "The dynamic link library MSVCR90.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\Program Files\Lpub4alpha1;.;...stem32..." C:\Lpub4alpha1 is the path I chose to install to. (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) THis has already been fixed. (...) I should let the user have a lot more than 1 decimal place. (...) I'll fix that. (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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OK, I tried it on a clean machine, and it does indeed work. I did find a few more problems, though: If you hit cancel during LDraw directory selection, it just comes back again (repeatedly). (This machine didn't have LDraw, so I tried to cancel; I (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Well, I haven't tried it on a clean machine yet (one without VC++ 2008), but I have tried it on my main machine, and it seems pretty good overall. I did find a few minor problems. Every time you browse for LDView.exe, it automatically checks the (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: (snip) (...) Woot! I'm looking forward to downloading this as soon as I get home from work tonight! -Joel (18 years ago, 14-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi All, With help from friends, I've got a properly built version of LPub4 that installs simply and properly. No extra libraries. Those who used LPub4 Alpha1 found some minor bugs, but in general LPub4 Alpha is in pretty good shape. With LPub4 you (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 50 x 50 baseplate with the 'Road 3-way Curve with Gray Pattern'
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(...) Yes! but remains my first objection ;o) Philo (18 years ago, 13-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Why not an e-book in PDF-format to download for free? All in the true totally-free-of-charge spirit of LDraw. /Tore (18 years ago, 13-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A part authoring book... would be a great idea... if I was a good writer! An other hurdle would be to find an editor for a book so specialized! (...) Maybe I was a bit optimistic in the evaluation of time spent ;) And it certainly took me (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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