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Hello all, Just recently I bought a web domain and started a small site. One of the first things on my list was a decent FastRad tutorial, because before I was limited to text-only with Brickshelf. I tried to make it as simple as possible, with (...) (16 years ago, 13-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Have you missed this message (URL) ? Exactly what you wants to see can be found at (URL) most parts are now on the PT (because it is a rewrite the parts needs to be certified before they can be issued). I would welcome you and also other to (...) (16 years ago, 12-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm also interested in a list to see before i deside if i install the Non CA parts or not. I guess a list with a small picture on LDRAW.ORG could be possible? Anyone can reffer to this list, and once the part is re-written, it can be deleted (...) (16 years ago, 12-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) I chime in with Mikeheide: please come in and author and review!!! Sometimes we feel a bit lonely ;o) Philo (16 years ago, 12-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | MLCad with a Mac
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I confess this is a strange post for me to be writing, but lo and behold, I discovered yesterday that I can run MLCad on my Intel Mac without Windows. And the installation is utterly painless. It goes like this: Download Darwine at (URL); it's a (...) (16 years ago, 12-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Feedback: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) I was able to run this installation package under my Windows NT 4.00 operating system. However, there was one error during the installation, in the part where one picks the destination folder. Instead of the default location "C:\Ldraw" I've (...) (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Thanks, that one works just fine. (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) OH, please do not wait. Please go to the PT and review and review and review! Now that the way is clearly structured we need all reviewers and authors back on the PT. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Foundry Technology Preview Tool (was Re: BFC Tool?)
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(...) (drooling over the possibilities...) (...) Sorry again... I totally agree that it is something that can wait for an official release! (...) Yes - parts/ too. (...) Sure. Keep us posted with new previews! (...) Thanks! Philo (...) (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) I think the mklist.exe included in the zip file here is built for win32. (URL) could give it a try on 64bit Vista. (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Foundry Technology Preview Tool (was Re: BFC Tool?)
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(...) That's why the easier one to use, lower-case, is 1; and the backup option is there "just in case". (...) Oh, we agree, and that's why it's now an option. The original intent was to get the best looking viewer for developing the OBI syntax (...) (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) next Ldraw Parts Update again. (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Yes, for 64bit editions of Windows, Microsoft completely removed support for 16bit DOS and Windows 3.x software. This is causing problems even with some early 32bit software, that started in 16bit mode and then choose if continue in 16bit or (...) (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Very cool! Even watching from the outside, I know this has to have been a long hard process, so I thank everyone involved with this release! Jeff (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Thanks for the tip, but it still won't run. I think it's a 64 bit issue incombination with native msdos applications. Because eg L3P, whom is a win32 console application, runs fine. Roland (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) I ran into the same issue. Running the .exe in Administrator mode (right click on the icon, choose Run As Administrator) took care of the problem. For MLCad users, I also had to run MLCad in Administrator mode to do a scan for new parts so (...) (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Very nice work, thanks to all involved. Minor issue I'm having: During install mklst.exe fails, vista won't run it (even when using compatibility mode), I'm using Windows Vista 64bit. I this little program still native msdos? Maybe someone (...) (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Many thanks for this looooong awaited update !!! (...) As author of SR 3S Builder, I say that my software is not going to fully support these kind of colored parts and, as Travis Cobb says, they could cause problems and confusion to people not (...) (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4.0.0.1 available
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Kevin, Bufferexchange seems not to be working anymore in this version. Jaco (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Foundry, (was Re: BFC Tool?)
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(...) Thanks - text editors I know start numbering at 1. (...) ;o) In a perfect world Hires would be a good choice, but since everything is not hires substitution yields misfits and gaps I find especially ugly (same thing in LDview). I have another (...) (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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In lugnet.cad, I had written: (...) This had been purposeful, base-0; I convinced that the status bar should start at 1. %d should now represent base-1 line number in the command line issued, and %D represents the base-0 line number. (...) Yes, this (...) (16 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Congratulations on getting this out, and thank you very much for all the hard work you and the other admins put into this. It's very much appreciated. (...) While I understand the reasoning behind this, I personally would recommend removing (...) (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) First I'd like to say how pleased I am that the bulk of the parts are under the new license. It's been a long process but I think the legal flexibility offered should really help LDraw. I was hoping Chris would let someone else post this (...) (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) A hearty congratulations and thank you for all this hard work. This is a significant achievement! Kevin (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Great News these days! Many thanks to Chris in special because the main work remains to him. Just one thing should be mentioned more clearly. There are only a very few parts that needs rewriting. The others are on the PT. The current list of (...) (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Great news, and eagerly awaited for many moons. Thanks and congratulations to all of the contributors. Dave! (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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The 2008-01 LDraw parts library update has been now been released. This release is complete re-issue of the official library, up to and including the last (2005-01) parts update, with the primary purpose of aligning the library with the Contributor (...) (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
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| | Re: Default LPub project settings.
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(...) I very intentionally made LPub 4 know nothing more than the preferences you set when you fire it up. This means that everything else is stored in your LDraw files, *not* in some defaults database. The reasoning is that if you try to give your (...) (16 years ago, 9-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Technic Action Figure
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(...) Oh. Shame that. Oh well, thanks anyway. Owen. (16 years ago, 9-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Default LPub project settings.
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(...) Hi Dean, I recommend you create a submodel with all the defaults you want, and no steps and no parts. See if you can use that submodel as an include file. Kevin (16 years ago, 9-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hey! I told you we were old-school programmers. Doesn't the whole WORLD count starting from zero now? :grin: I'm imagining that it's easy enough to fix. Oddly, I find that it takes me to the right line in the file in notepad2 anyway. It's (...) (16 years ago, 8-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) Works fine here also (regarding spaces in filenames) with "C:\Programme\LDraw Design Pad\LDDesignPad.exe" "%f" as entry for the editor. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 8-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks, works great now! Two new bug reports nonetheless ;o) - Line number shown in status bar is off by one (eg it shows 234 when actual line in the file is 235) - Both display and tree expansion use Hi-res primitives (when they are (...) (16 years ago, 8-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) Mike replied: (...) Agreed. Sorry I didn't test it better. We fixed one issue, but not both. (URL) to have fixed the issue. No other new changes. (FoundryB.zip is gone, there wasn't much of a point to keeping it around) -- joshua (16 years ago, 8-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This version does not work with the following line for the editor: "C:\Programme\LDraw Design Pad\LDDesignPad.exe" "%f" cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) INTEREST is what keeps authors going. Apparently, the interest here has had its effects... :-) (...) Please try (URL) spaces issue should hopefully be resolved, and we've added a "reverse winding" right-click menu item for triangles and quads (...) (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I want to change to LDDP but the following line does not work: "C:\Programme\LDraw Design Pad\LDDesignPad.exe" "%f". But normally it should. With the 8.3 names the following also works on my machine: C:\PROGRA~1\LDRAWD~1...DESI~1.EXE "%f". cu (...) (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I had to change the entry for the editor like this: C:\WINDOWS\notepad.exe "%f" and it works on my machine. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah... sorry for that ;o) I hesitated before posting this comment, but... (...) I had problem with both. I'll try your DOS trick in the meantime! Philo (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Is it time for a new calculator?
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I found yes. So I wrote one, but close to that what we know. Be sure to have the MSFramework 2.0 installed, otherwise it will not work. It can be found at (URL) comments are welcome. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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(...) If it is a messagebox, pressing Ctrl+C will copy the contents to the clipboard and beep. (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) What, like the ones that have existed pretty much forever on Unix? :) I will also point out (in case it catches anyone out) that it is possible for something to NOT have a 8.3 filename, but on most systems, this won't be a problem. (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Default LPub project settings.
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Is there a way to set any default project/callout/etc settings? These could then be applied when you first open a file that contains no other LPUB commands, and so, not breaking any existing files. The main ones for me are the part list scale, the (...) (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Technic Action Figure
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(...) As far as I know all you have found is all we have. Very sad, but true. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Technic Action Figure
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Hi all. I would like to know if the components of the Technic Action Figure have been created. I see at ldraw.org that there exist hands, legs and feet, as well as a few other minor components, but they are all from about 5 years ago. Do we have the (...) (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 3
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(...) As a result of the above, I introduced some bugs that prevent automatic error fixing. This will be fixed in the next release. -Orion (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks, Philo; you're doing some of the cutting edge toolmaking for LDRAW these days, so I appreciate the nice comments from you (as will the author). (...) I see that as a problem now too ["mumble, mumble, you tell them it's a Tech Preview, (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) Very nice!!! I love the possibility to select an element in 3D view (I miss that A LOT in MLCad!). But I seem to have some issue launching an editor, it doesn't seem to work when there are spaces in editor path or LDraw file path. (...) A VERY (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 3
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(...) I totally forgot about the major new feature: custom search paths. Look for it in the options dialog. -Orion (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) SNIP (...) It works for me just like you explained above. Looks good. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) better :-P), but if you get display anamolies with this app, you might want to try upgrading your OpenGL drivers (standard stuff). I have two machines, both ATI, one runs this thing perfectly, the other displays lines that just go haywire (yet (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) I'm currently knee-deep in LEGO database stuff; which I've put on hold to try to get the color stuff for ldconfig ironed out; all of which has this OTHER project on hold, but... I have a buddy who's only peripherally interested in LEGO, but (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) If you have a Mac you can select a line in L3Lab's Tree View and it will be highlighted in the main window. I will release a new Windows version shortly when I have finished L3P (currently writing update notes). /Lars (16 years ago, 5-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 3
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In lugnet.cad, Orion Pobursky wrote: Here's the file for LDDP 2.0 beta 3: (URL) a bug fix release. I've killed quite a few bugs this week. I think I finally licked revert and external change detection. I also revamped the error check messages since (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 61409 - Slope Brick 18 2 x 1 x 2/3 Grille [DAT]
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Hi all, Just whipped up this mockup for 61409 and thought I'd share it. I don't currently have the part handy and I wasn't sure if the little bump in the middle should be explicitly modelled but it serves as a pretty useful mockup for most models. (...) (16 years ago, 5-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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(...) I am very sorry for that mistake has happen. I would like to help you in this case, but as long as I have no more detailed informations, I am unable to help. For translations I recommend (URL) to use. As far as I know the best translation tool (...) (16 years ago, 5-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub and non callout sub parts used multiple times
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(...) Yes, it does. I've fixed the ROTSTEP issue. I've also got the xN submodels thing fixed (with mirrored detection). I've tested it against your 5990.mpd you shared so long ago and it works. Something is very whacked though, because half the time (...) (16 years ago, 5-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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(...) I find German hard to read, but not at all impossible. And I don't think Swedish is much closer related to German than English is. Anyway, you can always make a screen dump and crop out the error messagebox. /Tore (16 years ago, 5-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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(...) I downloaded tried to install MPDCenter from here: (URL) the installer is all in German, which I can't read, and I got an error message that I can't understand... I would copy/paste the error, but it doesn't allow me to select the text from (...) (16 years ago, 4-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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Sorry for the late response. I have placed the program and source code in a zip file here: (URL) colors.txt file contains an up to date list of all of the colors from Peeron, Bricklink, and LDRAW. I think there are 119 total. Some notes about the (...) (16 years ago, 4-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub4.0.0.1 available
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(...) Yes, Kevin it did fix my problem. Thanks much for the fix and the awesome program. (16 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Bricksmith now using Subversion
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Bricksmith's source code has been migrated to a repository using the Subversion source code management system. Subversion is built-in to Mac OS 10.5, so you don't need any additional software to play. The CVS respository will no longer be (...) (16 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 2
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- If you modify a file, have a look at it (using the LDView button) then close LDDP, then no file save warning is issued, LDDP closes and changes are lost. - Temporary files for LDview are saved in temp folder instead of a temp file of the current (...) (16 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 2
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(...) It looks like changing decimal accuracy values is only effective after leaving/reopening LDDP. Philo (16 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) This button allow to add BFC statements in LDraw code. To change winding of a tri/quad in MLCad, double click on its line in code window (or select it in one view and hit Ctrl-M), then push "swap" button. Philo (16 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC Tool?
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(...) I think the easiest thing to do is put LDDP into polling to cursor mode, then move down the part one text line at a time. When you see a reversed polygon, fix it. It's not perfect, but it's what I did when I decided to BFC an existing part. (...) (16 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | BFC Tool?
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Just out of random, or perhaps not so random curiosity, is there a tool that can take the red/ green of the BFC tools in Ldview/ L3Lab and highlight the corresponding lines? I ask because I'm slowly trying to reverse lines between MLcad/LDview/LDDP (...) (16 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 2
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(...) Actually your input revealed that this functionality was slightly broken and has now been fixed. (...) Yep, you're right. I went back and compared my code with yours and discovered that I was doing this: Angle1 := (...) (16 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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(...) I agree to Jim. To make it in an easy way I wrote a prog MPDCenter that is still available. Maybe you can use it. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Scott Wardlaw wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP Are you able to give that cool tool to the community. I thought about the color handling in MLCad for a while and now I read this! Awaresome! cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDDP 2.0 questions
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(...) Whether or not LDDP starts with a blank document or no document, the question would still be pertinent when a new document is created. I mainly use LDDP (1.x) for testing LDView, so I certainly wouldn't want a part header at the top of any new (...) (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 2
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A little problem: the color replacement dialog doesn't contain edge color (24). BTW, is it possible to add main and edge colors to the color replace toolbar? Philo (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP 2.0 questions
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(...) I'm your BIGGEST fan Anders, but to be honest I'd love to see it integrated into LDDP to allow "SyncEditing" while watching the result through LDView-Polling. w. (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 3069bp28 - thanx/update
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In lugnet.cad, Benjamin Lyttle wrote: Hi Ben, (...) If you cannot find a fitting ring use quads. A bit more file size isn't a problem a gap IS! (...) Please note that we normally expect authors to work from a real part rather than an image. You can (...) (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP 2.0 questions
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(...) My first choice would be a blank screen with no opened tab at all. If this is not doable I'd go for the header version. Forces me to investigate on the name and number ;-) (...) Like Philo I wasn't aware of it prior 2.0 w. (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP 2.0 questions
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(...) What's the 'normal' behaviour of renderers? If a majority uses a fixed search order, then it's OK for LDDP too, otherwise I'd advocate flexibility. Maybe a 'Restore default search path' function somewhere in that case? (...) The simplest (...) (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 2 [DAT]
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(...) Grrrrr... now I feel really dumb: it works perfectly now. Will be really helpful figuring out the exact spelling of some primitives! (...) ...but this one is confirmed, test data below. 4 16 20 -15.9343 -5.35757 15 -20.5537 -7.27099 15 -18 -11 (...) (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP 2.0 questions
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My opinions... (I won't strongly defend them!) (...) Use this as default but allow user to change. (...) I generally use no header at start and when my part is finished I run Datheader on it to fix everything. So the way it works now if fine with (...) (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP 2.0 questions
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(...) As a programmer that has used LDDP only a few times, here are my opinions, for what they are worth: (...) I would prefer to see this fully configurable. Let the user choose where in the search path LDRAW is included. But the default should be (...) (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDDP 2.0 questions
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As I implement feature requests and other things, this thread will track the questions I have to the users of LDDP. Here's the first round: - Search paths I've added the ability to add custom search paths but currently the LDraw Base paths and the (...) (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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(...) I think the cheese slope is the perfect example of this happening. Most of my early MPDs using it are misoriented by 90 degrees due to a change in the part. (...) See above ;) Tim (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Do you have any help files on that tool? I don't understand how to use it. For one thing I put unofficial parts into my regular LDRAW\PARTS directory, so there is no "unofficial parts path." I wasn't aware that MLCAD could scan multiple parts (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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(...) I don't know. LDView takes care of retrieving missing parts in MPDs that I download, but there is a case to be made for including unofficial parts in the MPD. Since the parts are unofficial, changes to their origin or orientation might take (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I use number 2 and I think it's the standard practice. In an act of shameless self promotion, I recommend MPD Wizard: (URL) (may not work with Vista) -Orion (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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At BrickFair I made an MPD file of a covered cylindrical hopper car by Margaret Keys, but it used two unofficial parts. To make the file, I downloaded the parts (and the needed subassembly files) into my parts library, but if I share it with others (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 2
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(...) Don't seem to be working here. You mean if I begin typing 4-4ed... it should propose 4-4edge.dat? (...) I would choose the triangles with lowest angle (as I did in planarcheck): the overall shape will be flatter visually. I think there is (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It works for linetype 1. Typing the file reference should bring up the auto complete box if you have the ldraw base path set. (...) Yeah, I noticed that too. I figured that each individual machine is different in terms of speed so there really (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Don't know what I did wrong - works fine now... Wonderful! Philo (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub and non callout sub parts used multiple times
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(...) Yes. LPub 4.0.0.1 has no support for multiple instances of callout, but I'm almost done with this for 4.0.0.2. (...) Yes, I found my bugs here and fixed them. Thanks, Kevin (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) How do we use it? (...) Doesn't seem to work for me. Berhaps because I tested under Win2k? (...) We can't go too fast, with a 0.1s interval I often get a "can't create a "partname.tmp" file because it is used by another process. (...) Why not (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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(...) Hi Joshua, please post. Could you be a bit more specific about the problems with the LDRAW numbering system? If guess the bit-mapping (URL) was a requirement for backwards compatibility with LDraw which is obsolete now giving room to new (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: BlueBrick
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(...) I just have tried your new prog and I have so far only some comments: 1) It would be nice to have a zoom possibility. 2) I tried the blue rails and the export to ldr surprises me. There is only one rail instead of 2 and the plates are missing (...) (16 years ago, 31-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub and non callout sub parts used multiple times
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(...) Thanks. Mirrored is understandable, but these were just rotated by 180 degrees. On a related note, the "convert to callout" menu on a subpart, doesn't cope with ROTSTEP commands properly. It puts the "begin callout" command before the rotstep, (...) (16 years ago, 31-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub and the unit of measurement.. (and friends)
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Hi Dean, (...) Philo (16 years ago, 31-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 3069bp28 - thanx/update
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Willy, thanks for the help with this first part, I started fixing some of the issues you mentioned and then before I knew it started working on the silver rings (they been hard since I've been trying to us 3-4ring types to model the section). I have (...) (16 years ago, 31-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad)
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This is an area that I took interest in several months back. Most of the Peeron or Bricklink color values do not display well when they are rendered on the screen. Most of the LDRAW colors are a different value, so that the rendered color looks like (...) (16 years ago, 31-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub and non callout sub parts used multiple times
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(...) Hi Dean, It is now, as is finishing up the centimeters stuff. Please that submodels and their mirrored counterparts will be treated as two different models, even though they have the same name. Kevin (16 years ago, 31-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Kevin. I've just created instructions for several of my models, and LPub has added a set of pages for the same sub part for each time it is used (in the same set) Can it detect this and only add them once with a "x2" on it? I have told it to (...) (16 years ago, 31-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad)
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