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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: SNIP (...) Had a look and yes. I'n not sure quite why though, the sub model in question consists of 2 headlight bricks side by side with a 1x2 grill tile across the two side studs. It is used with the grill (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Memory usage is set to high, which I presume is the default. For the record I am using an IBM Thinkpad T42 with an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500. Interestingly I was speaking to Matt Hamann yesterday and he was having issues with LDView too, and he (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) While writing the LD4DStudio rendering code, I also had some problems with AV crashes. It turned out being caused by mixed glDrawElement usage (with / without glBindbuffer usage). I fixed it by calling: glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0); (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have found the solution for that with help of Philo. I will prepare a "How To" later on (URL) for all interested people. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (I did list that one first for a reason: to me it seemed the most likely culprit.) OK. Peter Bartfai (the person who maintains LDView's Linux port) has had crashes related to VBO in Linux on an ATI card. I'm not getting them with my ATI card (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, this is part of the plan. (...) LPub has to consider the rotation matrix for each submodel. If the rotation matrix includes negative numbers, then we're talking about mirror images which should not be put together in one callout. (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Having played some more it seems that LPub takes the first orientation of the submodel in it callout from its orientation within the model. It then follows any rotstep commands relative to that first orientation. This would be the reason for (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It had 111 steps (thus pages). Now it has 44! It took about 2 to 3 hours to layout the basics and another hour or so to fine tune. All in all about 3 to 4 hours, I guess. Modelling it (creating the MPD) took many more hours though. If you take (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I spoke too soon. Although it started working, it then stopped working halfway through rendering some parts for LPub. From then on it crashed on opening. I went through the reg keys you listed and the last one (it would be!) IgnoreVBO seems to (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've just had a play and its looking good (after downloading the MS stuff) I have used it once before and its come on a long way since then. Two issues -Would it be possible to have a imperial/metric option for page size? -I have four (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I believe that POV's FOV is the horizontal field of view, while OpenGL's is vertical field of view. So you have to convert from one to the other (which I do in LDView). Set your rendering window in both the OpenGL view and the POV rendering to (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Jaco, Just curious.... How many total steps in the model (i.e. how many pages before you did any step groups or callouts)? How many pages after laying out the BIs with LPub 4? How long did it take to layout the BIs? Kevin (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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I found a newer ATI driver and installed it, still same problem! I uninstalled all graphics card drivers and re-installed new one, LDView now works Thanks for the pointer Tim (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I also think it should be enough to place a disclaimer and preserve (part of) the comments to identify and credit the original authors. But with all the commotion around the license (library is on hold for years etc) It would be nice to have (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually I was planning to support both to see which approach renders faster. Having the vertex and index data in memory, the mesh2 approach was the easiest step to begin with. I only had to correct for quad -> triangle conversion to get (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Too late :-( I have redesigned the complete layout and am however more satified with it then with the previous version. So I guess I was lucky with this bug ;-) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Tim, I've been face down in LPub 4...... Has the LDraw community created its own convertor that supports MDP format? Thanks, Kevin (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) I believe it can read them but can't write them. Earlier versions definitely could but the newer ones may be missing that feature. And yeah the LXF file format definitely has the concept of sub-models. Tim (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Once I got a better ldraw.xml, the conversion process provided me with a valid ldraw file. The instructions associated with LXF seem to indicate that LDD knows about sub-models, but yet it seems to in-line them when spitting out the ldr file. (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Nor have I. (...) L3Lab doesn't have a Save dialog, but in the Open dialog there is a Pop Up Button with label "Enable", that let's you choose from: All Readable Documents L3 LDraw file (ldr) L3 LDraw file (mpd) All Documents If you select (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) That's right. L3P also passes comment lines (line type 0) on to the POV code, but there's currently no disclaimer at the top. The coming release has this line at the top: // LDraw.org: (URL) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, not that I'm aware of. Thanks for asking. /Lars (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I don't know about an official answer, but it's worth considering that L3P has been providing POV exports of LDraw models for over 9 years now, and as far as I know, nobody has complained. --Travis (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A few things. First of all, both the LDraw file format and the POV file format support hierarchical compositions, so I think it's a good idea to leave things in their original hierarchy. So, instead of having a POV object for each part that is (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually, LDView will run on a clean Windows 98 install (as well as anything since then). I think it will run on a clean Windows 95 install, but it might not; my test virtual machine for old OS support is Win 98. --Travis (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for that, I'll have a play. I suspect that the problem is likely to be the latest version of the graphics card driver! I tend to keep stuff up to date and LDView certainly worked in the past on this hardware (might have been a previous (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Anybody... ? An alfa version of a pov export you'll find here: (URL) would really like to get an 'official' answer to this. (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello all, I have been busy with POV-Ray export for LD4DStudio now and then for about two weeks now. It comes along quite nicely, but the results can be better. I am no POV-Ray expert so I'm looking for some tips from experienced users. An example (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe it requires a very specific version of the VB or .NET runtimes? Sometimes software won't behave if you don't have the exact version it was written for. -Mike (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It appears that the crash is happening in the ATI OpenGL driver. (Note: I'm not saying that the ATI driver is responsible for the crash, just that that's where it's crashing.) Some things to try: Create the following DWORD registry key and set (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I have a problem with LDView. When I open any file it gets as far as Calculating Size and crashes out. Error signature AppName: ldview.exe AppVer: 3.2.0.5 ModName: atioglxx.dll ModVer: 6.14.10.5014 Offset: 004353b7 It saves an appcompat file <?xml (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'd start with Assem Setup and Parts List Setup and reduce the scale. Kevin (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) OK. I tested the results using 11.0 by 8.5 which results in a landscape page fitting the page area. Unfortunately my design does not fit anymore, but I guess I have to edit it to get a landscape result. Back to the drawing board for me, I say! (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Cool POVray macro. I may be forced to use this when I post future CAD car MOCs. Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) --snip-- (...) Wow! This is great. Thanks to Travis I have it up and running and boy does it make instruction creation easy. Very, very cool! Thanks heaps, Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I've updated my LDraw road macro for POV-Ray. The macros have mostly been combined into a single item and now use a more convenient syntax. I've also added an Archemedes spiral in addition to the Nautilus spiral, and removed the dependancy on Chris (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Running the VS 2008 run-time installer from (URL) message> should fix the problem. --Travis (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm got the file but it's not working. Apparently the "side-by-side configurations" is busted : Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Travis, I'll give it a try once that link works again. Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Sorry Mike. My brain completely skipped over the "and" in your sentence. --Travis (16 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, (...) (16 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 (16 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 (16 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 (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LPub 4 on Vista? was Re: I had to get something out...
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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 (...) (16 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 (16 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, (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) Thanks for the update. Shouldn't the bylaws be updated to reflect the changed operations? Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) LOL! I don't know. (yet?) Kevin (16 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? (16 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 (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) --Travis (16 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 (16 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 (...) (16 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 (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (16 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 (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New POV-Ray Edge Tracing Utility
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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 (...) (16 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 (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2007 awarded to Kevin Clague
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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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad) !
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| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2007 awarded to Kevin Clague
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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. (...) (16 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 (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stl2dat merging plane triangles and quads to uniform surface?
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stl2dat merging plane triangles and quads to uniform surface?
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 22-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Hey Jim! These look great! Kevin (16 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 (16 years ago, 22-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: 50 x 50 baseplate with the 'Road 3-way Curve with Gray Pattern'
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 10182 Cafe Corner as ldr anyone?
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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. (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Custom Categories for Bricksmith's Part Browser
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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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Stl2dat merging plane triangles and quads to uniform surface?
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, thanks for the clarification. -Mike (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 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 (16 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 (...) (16 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 (...) (16 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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