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I think it would be cool if people collaborated to create a desktop theme using LDraw/POVRay. Here's one for Disney that kind of gives an idea of what could be done: (URL) (16 years ago, 25-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Color Dithering Chart
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In working on getting the new colors into LDConfig.ldr, I thought it helpful to see a visual reference of the color dithering, and I thought that I'd share it for those that are interested: (URL) W. (16 years ago, 24-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Anyone working on 60478 ?
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(...) I wouldn't rely on Google - if you know the part number it is far easier to use the "lookup" box on almost every page of the Parts Tracker (URL). There has not been voting on parts submissions for many years now - there is a review and (...) (16 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Electric Wire [DAT]
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Hi all, Using LSynth I am trying to create this wire: 0 Wire 0 Name: wire.ldr 0 Author: Jaco van der Molen 0 Unofficial Model 0 SYNTH BEGIN ELECTRIC_CABLE 0 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 1 0 60 -88 40 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 (...) (16 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Hi Willy, I don't want to make my approach too simplistic, but if you try using my program, it automatically creates a file called Parts00.lst in lDraw folder. If anyone can translate it in any language and we choose a SIMPLE naming Convention (...) (16 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Anyone working on 60478 ?
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(...) That didn't turn up in my Google search. I downloaded his file and am using it instead of mine. What happens if two people develop the same part? Are both eligible for voting? (16 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Anyone working on 60478 ?
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(...) An unofficial version was posted to the Parts Tracker on Saturday by Michael Heidemann (URL) Chris (16 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Anyone working on 60478 ? [DAT]
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(...) I edited the 48336 in the unofficial parts library (by Guy Vivan [guyvivan]) and turned it into 60478. I've never submitted a part to the library before, so I don't know the procedure, but here it is anyway... I am happy to relinquish all (...) (16 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Anyone working on 60478 ?
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I can't find this part in any parts library, unofficial or otherwise: (URL) anyone worked on it? It seems to me that it would be similar enough to 48336, which does exist in the unofficial parts library, that it wouldn't be too hard, no? (16 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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In lugnet.cad, Sergio Reano wrote: Hi Sergio, (...) This has been on the LSCs laundry list for a very long time: (URL) they even have a draft written by Jacob: (URL) if I remember correctly all the 1.0.0 and header stuff got into the way. w. (16 years ago, 20-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Wow! Nice feature. Haven't tested it yet but this is definitely going to be very useful. I also updated my betatest page. w. (16 years ago, 20-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Looks like it is _something_ on my W2k machine. I tried an another computer with XP and it works fine (...) ...or maybe it is something wrong in the registry: on the XP machine I get a nice grid toolbar that I don't see on the W2k one! (though (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 50th anniversary of the Smurfs
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Hi all, LEGO is not the only one who celebrates a 50th anniversary. (URL) (click pic) Larger images in my (URL), once moderated. Hope you like it. Play well, Maarten (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Without adding options, it would be best to have all transformations operations centered on main file origin. An extension would be to allow transformations centered on on user defined point (cf. MLCad). And to go further, transformations (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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(...) I have been waiting to hear from someone on this. The issues left to be worked (as I remember them anyway): 1) compile all of the colors into one file (LDConfig.ldr) 2) work out the LDRAW color IDs as best as possible and get the steer co to (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's position on the copyright of rendered images
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(...) Thank you Willy and the SteerCo for answering the question with this clear and eminently reasonable response. For reference, here is my original question: (URL) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | SR 3D Builder 0.3.2.1 Released
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New version of my CAD application has just been released as always you can find it at (URL) building Sergio (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) The suggestion that fixes to already released official parts should not be in the unofficial library download ((URL)) seems reasonable at first reading, but we need to consider the wider implications. For example, consider the following (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) And they may come back on Tracker as a new version when an author improves an already certified part. So often you have to deal with two version of the same part, one official and one (improved) on PT. Philo (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) That has always happened in the past, and will presumably happen with the next update. The parts tracker "unofficial parts library" only contains new (unreleased) files and that have been modified since the last update. This update was (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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Hi, I'm the author of SR 3D Builder and I was thinking that the update were including part corrections and fixes at least for the official parts, but I understand that is a huge work. Since my appl loads the whole part library to build images for (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) NOT that it's probably relevant to the discussion one way or the other, but... :-) Back before TLG was into their current practice of saving on packaging*, the boxes had what I always referred to as the "Display tray", a plastic molded tray (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) Sorry. I misinterpreted your initial post. I just went back and reread it, and see that it doesn't actually say that the user used 4107488.dat, but it does seems to imply this (at least to me). (...) I had forgotten about that new format for (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) The point is that the model does *not* use 4107488.dat because that is not the right shape for the model...... If everyone only ever used 4107488.dat, I would not have brought it up. (...) Chris has told me how to recognize the complete parts. (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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In lugnet.cad, Chris Dee wrote: <snip> (...) This is good to know. Sorry if I missed that. (...) Kevin (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) purely a header standardisation exercise, although minor changes were made to part descriptions as part of this. Chris (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) Well, it's not shipped completely disassembled (arms and hands are pre-attached to the torso, and legs are attached to hips). However, I have certainly never seen them shipped completely assembled as a minifig (except for the glued keychains, (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) Whether the Header Specification is ambiguous or not, this is how I believe I have implemented the "Shortcut" filetype in the !LDRAW_ORG line. So for the 2008-01 official library onwards, grep '!LDRAW_ORG Shortcut' * > foo should be reliable. (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Since there is question about how LDDP should mirror, what is the expected behavior? If my method is unexpected then how should the process be changed? (...) Can you give me more specifics? I added this since the last beta so it might not work (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) <SNIP> (...) Yes, they should, but the "mistake" was made eight years ago, before we had the clarity that time brings to standards implementation. The same applies to 754-756, at least. For backward compatibility reasons we can never remove (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) I guess they should be, but they are not. (...) Fair enough. I didn't know they were always shipped disassembled. (...) The only files that LPub opens and analyzes are model and submodel files. All other opening and analyzing of part files is (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) Shouldn't 680.dat, 681.dat, and 682.dat all be in the parts/s directory? They don't represent real pieces of plastic (or rubber in this case), so I don't understand why they are modeled as such. Or do synthesized sub-parts get treated (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) A welcome addition to LDDP! Now I find Mirror/Rotations a bit misleading: - Mirroring of type 1 lines is done centered on subfile origin - Mirroring of other line types and rotation of all element types is done centered on main file origin. (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) You are right, the file is truncated. But this mistake is not recent, it already appeared in LDraw.org Parts Update 2003-02 ((URL) A corrected version is now on PT ((URL) (...) This is not a problem, "The whitespace characters allowed for (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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Attention please: Part 32172.dat has incomplete last line. Fix it Also part 4220.dat has TAB char separator instead of spaces... Thanks Sergio (16 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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(...) Joshua, Scott, are there news on the new LDConfig.ldr? Sorry, I didn't have the time to keep updated on the process. Did you syncronize your efforts? PLMK, w. (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org's August 2008 Model and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the August 2008 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Prinoth Leitwolf with Power Functions by Han Crielaard> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Electric Spybotic Brick with Trans Red Cover (Shortcut) by (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's position on the copyright of rendered images
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The LDraw Steering Committee (SteerCo) has been questioned about LDraw.org's policy (as expressed by the Contributor Agreement (URL) other documentation, or tradition) on third parties capitalising on the considerable volunteer time, effort, and (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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Hi, I want to start by thanking the LDraw Standards Committee for all their diligent work in stratifying the documentation on LDraw Header format: (URL) As thorough as this document is, it is incomplete or ambiguous in the area of describing (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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Here's the file for LDDP 2.0 beta 4: (URL) Add the the ability to move/rotate lines based on grid settings (Thanks to Philo for the icons) - Reorganized many UI menus and the options dialog - Error fixing should now be fixed (again) - Other bug (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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