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(...) Yeah! 2009 starts well!!! Any changes done since beta2? Philo (16 years ago, 3-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Released
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Get it here: (URL) know there are still a few bugs but based on the feedback it's stable and usable. I'll work on bugs as they are reported or as I find them. Thanks to all the users who provided feedback during the beta process. On a side note, I'm (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad) !
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| | Re: Smoothing Question
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(...) You could inline the subparts so that L3P outputs the triangles as one subpart. This will allow Mesh Enhancer to work on these triangle as one unit. Let me know if you need help with this. -Orion (16 years ago, 3-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Smoothing Question
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I'm having some trouble getting a smooth surface on curved parts which do not have an LGEO substitue. Mesh Enhancer does a great job on triangular meshes, however there is a problem in parts with some sort of faceted symmetry. For example, the (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) That seems better than what I get. I had the loading parts window never go away, and when I exited and restarted Bricksmith, it just shows that window for a little bit and then crashes. This is what I see in the console log: 2009-01-01 (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Is there something special that needs to be done with the above zip file after extracting to get Bricksmith to recognize the parts in it? No parts appeared in the parts selector when I had the preferences set to look at the ldraw folder (...) (16 years ago, 1-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LETGUI new version 1.0.0.0
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Added support for the new tool Rectifier ((URL) version info at the options dialog. Stopped support for tool Linetrim (use Intersector instead). Changed version number to a more common system (Major/Minor/Build/Revision) You can download LETGUI from (...) (16 years ago, 1-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | My first set of LPub4 instructions
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This morning I got back to my first LPub4 based project which I had been working on before the holidays. Actually, it has been done for a while except for one incorrect part which I finally tracked down. I have posted instrutions for my Yellow (...) (16 years ago, 1-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New Ldraw parts authors tool: Rectifier
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(URL) This new utility optimizes a LDraw file by converting adjacent triangles into quads and transforms rhombuses bordered with lines into rect primitives. Program, documentation, source code are available (URL) here>. (URL) Applied on the above (...) (16 years ago, 1-Jan-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy New Year !
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(...) Best wishes for 2009, and many new parts (both virtual and in ABS...) Philo (16 years ago, 1-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Happy New Year !
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I wish to all of you a happy new year. My wishes for this year are many more parts (also Bionicle) and an parts updates ! cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 1-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Chris, Many thanks to you and the rest of the people who keep this parts library going strong! Cheers, Kevin (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) As announced (URL) here> the Windows distribution is no longer a self-extracting zip file, because we wanted to give new users a more friendly installation interface. As a side-benefit we were able to allow the optional installation of the (...) (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) LOL! I don't! Kevin (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Since some popular LDraw programs are available for the Mac these days - LDView, LPub, L3Lab, and of course Bricksmith - I think it's only reasonable to provide parts updates in a format readily accessible to Mac users. Happily, the (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) When satisfying both is trivial (like here) then you should satisfy both. Personally I would have preferred to dump the executable zip and just leave it as a regular zip. Tim (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Not really a helpful message! If you have a question - then ask that question. There are approx. 95% and more Windows users for LDraw and the remaining 5% or less are Linux and Apple users. So which direction you would go to satisfy the (...) (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Chardonnay? Zinfandel? Reisling? What wine do you drink while testing? Paul (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I've done that in the past, but I didn't have any luck in this case. Stuffit Expander, the built-in OS X archive utility, and another zip program failed to unzip it successfully. The unzip utility reports the following: (...) (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Note that most programs that can extract ZIP files should be able to extract the contents of the EXE file - self-extracting ZIPs are valid ZIP files themselves. ROSCO (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC Updates
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(...) Yes! I was already planning on writing a tutorial. It may not be ready until after the new year, though. -Mike (16 years ago, 28-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Hey thats great. I would have an instruction how to do such a tour. Can you make that and made it public? cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 28-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: MOC Updates
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(...) All right! The panoramic tour is online: (URL) (16 years ago, 28-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Chris has now changed the zip to include ldraw as part of the paths inside, instead of being rooted inside the ldraw directory, so it now works again with LDView's automatic library install. --Travis (16 years ago, 26-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Thanks Travis, This is good news. Kevin (16 years ago, 26-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Jim (16 years ago, 26-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) This appears to be the 2008-01 release: (URL) is the file that's linked to from the updates CGI that LDView uses for automatic updates. See here: (URL) that the CGI hasn't been updated to reflect the fact that this is 2008-01 instead of (...) (16 years ago, 26-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Actually with the new license anyone can repackage it as a regular zip. I suspect most zip programs could open the executable zip anyway. But I agree that ldraw.org should make it available in a universal format. I'd guess it just slipped (...) (16 years ago, 26-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) That's goofy. The content of the library update is a group of LDraw files, not a program. Zip is a common and perfectly reasonable format for distributing such files; it is natively supported on most operating systems I'm aware of. Packing (...) (16 years ago, 25-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Why do you need that? Under Linux I have tested this executable and it works perfect (with wine). cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 25-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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LDraw Library Update 2008-01 is still posted only as a Windows executable. Why is there not yet an universally-accessible zip file of its contents? Allen (16 years ago, 23-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: POV Coordinate Question
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(...) Sorry about the delay here. It turns out that the problem was simply that I'm an idiot. I guess I should have just started with that assumption. At any rate, the copy-paste from LDView works just fine. I was apparently deleting the "right" (...) (16 years ago, 24-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Hopper car model
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A few months back I designed a (URL) train car: (URL) And recently I built LDraw instructions for it and published them online. What's the best way to share them? I put the CAD file (URL) on my blog> and on Flickr (as a comment under the (URL) 3D (...) (16 years ago, 23-Dec-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 2nd batch
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(...) I woudln't bother pushing this. LEGO is being very nice to the fan community by providing us parts in LDRAW DAT format. I'd leave it at that. Jeff (16 years ago, 23-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 2nd batch
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(...) For sure it would be best to get a file format closer from the original design (.stl for example), to be able to tweak stl2dat parameters for better results. Or to create directly POV versions... Philo (16 years ago, 23-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 2nd batch
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(...) Mike, The LU Team submits directly in LDraw. As you can see in the header: 0 Created with stl2dat conversion tool they use Marc Klein's converter. It is known that TLG uses a heavily modified Maya to author parts. Bye, w. (16 years ago, 23-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 2nd batch
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I'm curious as to what the differences between the format they submitted them to you are? For instance, do the models you've received have surface normals? -Mike (16 years ago, 21-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LPub4 callout arrows vs. pointers
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(...) Mike, thanks so much for this suggestion. It certainly helps with things like the arrow shafts crossing the page boundary. I have no idea how this might print to PDF, but it looks like I'll have to upgrade to Qt 4.4 to be able to set custom (...) (16 years ago, 22-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 callout arrows vs. pointers
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Would allowing multiple sized pages solve the page boundry crossing problem? Imagine if I had most of my default page set up as Letter (8.5x11.0) but allowed a way (...) (16 years ago, 21-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw road macro update
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There were some bugs that I missed at the very last second. Here's the fixed version: (URL) (16 years ago, 21-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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