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(...) You may see condlines in MLCad this way: Select everything, then refresh screen (Ctrl-R). Condlines will be displayed and can then be selected. For more complex cases this method can be helpful: (URL) (16 years ago, 21-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: My 2009 wish list for MLCad
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(...) You can see all condlines in MLCad: Select everything, then refresh screen, or scroll the view you want to work on. All condlines will be displayed. For complex cases, this method can help too: (URL) (16 years ago, 21-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | 2009/2010 LDraw.org Steering Committee: Nominations closing in 1 week
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) for the 2009/2010 LDraw.org Steering Committee election will close in a week, at 11:59 PM GMT on 28 February 2009 and elections will start the 1st of March. Only those candidates that have been nominated, seconded, (...) (16 years ago, 21-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: My 2009 wish list for MLCad
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(...) I'd love to have an option that shows all conditional lines like the one in ldview, would greatly ease (my) hunts for excess conditional lines! (16 years ago, 21-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: 2009/2010 LDraw.org Steering Committee: Call for Nominations
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(...) Someone has to do also this job. I accept. Thanks for nomination. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 20-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: My 2009 wish list for MLCad
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(...) Actually you can search for parts, just hit Ctrl-F to pop up the search dialog. Note that if the search string has spaces, it must be encased in "quotes", otherwise MLCad will complain. To get the next match, hit Ctrl-Shift-F (the context menu (...) (16 years ago, 20-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: My 2009 wish list for MLCad
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(...) At this point, I think the answer to this is unknown. Hopefully, yes there will be a next version, and there has been at least some effort put into it. However, at this point, I'd say that there are no guarantees. I have more info, but it's (...) (16 years ago, 19-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: My 2009 wish list for MLCad
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(...) I've a few more but also a question: is there actually going to be a next version? It's been over three years since the current version was released... Fix the scrollbar bug. In large models it takes a number of times moving the scrollbar to (...) (16 years ago, 19-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw colour for metallic silver
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(...) Maybe he meant "forged" as in "faked." ;) Dave! (16 years ago, 16-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw colour for metallic silver
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(...) Forged? Cast, probably. Forging is pretty unlikely. Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Stretching cylinders [DAT]
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(...) There is no way to get your shape using primitives, it would require non-linear transformations. So, as mentionned by Michael, the best way is to use Coverer. You can nonetheless get a similar (but quite different) shape using shearing as (...) (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Stretching cylinders
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Is this what you had in mind? (...) Basicly changing any of the non zero coordinates will scale along the coresponding axis. You can also accomplish shearing by replacing any of the zero's with a different number. (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Stretching cylinders
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(...) AFAIK there is no solution with primitives in this case. I would suggest use one of the tools from Philo ((URL) to fill the space between those 4-4edge.dat cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: LDraw colour for metallic silver
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(...) interchangably, and not enough listed colors to cover them all individually. Here are the ones I know about: Chrome silver - Parts that are actually coated with a thin layer of aluminum, and have a polished mirror-like surface. Should be very (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Stretching cylinders [DAT]
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Well, it's my second thread today, but how would you go to "stretch" a cylinder, like a cone, but only in Y-axis, not X-axis? I've again attached a dat file to show what I mean. Basically I'd need a cylinder that'd fit those two 4-4edge.dat:s, any (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: cylt.dat
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(...) Agh... guess it's going to take some time before I'll master those cyls.dat files. Well, this seems to save me a primitive. (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: cylt.dat [DAT]
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(...) As far as I can see the same can be build by 1-4cyls.dat like this: 0 Untitled 0 Name: Untitled.ldr 0 Author: Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] 0 Unofficial Model 1 16 -1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1-4cyls.dat 1 16 -1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 1-4cyls.dat (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | cylt.dat [DAT]
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Hello, I've been in need of a primitive something similar to a sloped cylinder, but something little different, so I made such primitive. I can't describe the primitive, though. You'll have to see it yourself. :-) What I'm concerned now is the (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | New Tool GapFinder
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I just have finished a new tool called GapFinder. ((URL) is designed to find gaps between triangle and/or quad. The results might be useful to correct a file. But please use the results with care, as human eyes are not exact like this tool ;-). Also (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LDraw colour for metallic silver
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(...) For me it looks completely like Chrome that is already defined in the LDConfig.ldr. If I get some picture where I can see differences I will change my opinion. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw colour for metallic silver
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(...) I would add Metallic Silver to the LDConfig.ldr file: (URL) so fare I cannot see the difference between the Silver used in the Pearl category and the Silver in Metallic: (URL) pictures would help. w. (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Move Datsville to LDraw.org
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(...) Nothing hinders from the POV of the webmasters. I'm forward this to the SteerCo. w. (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Move Datsville to LDraw.org
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I was wondering if we could maybe move the Datsville project to LDraw.org and turn the currect sub-tree on LUGNET into an actual discussion group. -Mike (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw colour for metallic silver
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Any ideas? Tim (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.color)
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| | New version of DATHeader out now
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(...) Ok. DATHeader Version 1.2.2 is now available. I moved the location for DATHeader and give it a full webpage. You can now find that webpage at (URL) fun. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 13-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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In lugnet.cad, Anthony Sava wrote: <snip> (...) Hi Tony, I'll convert my CAD files over to ldraw this weekend and email them to you. Cheers, Ben Fleskes Big Ben Bricks LLC (16 years ago, 13-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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(...) Hi Tony, I'll convert my CAD files over to ldraw and email them to you. Cheers, Ben Fleskes Big Ben Bricks LLC (16 years ago, 13-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New Version of DATHeader will come soon.
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New in Version 1.2.x At loading of a part DATHeader counts now the colors and listed the result on the right side, so you can see which colors are used in your file. If you know it should have only color 16 and 24 you can mark the file as Uncolored (...) (16 years ago, 12-Feb-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | *** LDView Version 4.0.1 Released ***
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LDView 4.0.1 is now available for download from the LDView downloads page here: (URL) This fix is a bug-fix release that fixes a couple minor bugs and one not-so-minor bug. See the full change history (URL) here> for full details. Please note that (...) (16 years ago, 11-Feb-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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If it's of any help, here's an image of the medium wheels I scanned in. If I have the time, I'll generate a LDRAW file, but it won't be standards-compliant. In the meantime, perhaps it will be of use to those more verse in Ldraw than I. (URL) (16 years ago, 11-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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(...) My files were not created from scratch, they were created from the versions available on Ben's site. This was because Ben's versions are created from his tooling software, and have way more detail then Ldraw needs, so I created less detailed (...) (16 years ago, 11-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | How to change the winding of a file [DAT]
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If you have the problem that you have made for example a primitive with the wrong winding then you think you have to write it again. You do not need! With Inliner ((URL) you can do it easily. Lets say your partfile is 'something.dat' and is BFC CW. (...) (16 years ago, 10-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Official Parts using MLCad colors
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Hi folks, working on the LDConfig file (URL) came across official parts that use colors present in MLCad but not the still official LDraw color chart: (URL) to mention a few: Color 430: 3811p02e.dat Color 431: 973p2e.dat Color 485: 973p4t.dat, (...) (16 years ago, 10-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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(...) I have emailed Ben but he's yet to get back with me. I'll email Ross when I can. --Tony (16 years ago, 10-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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(...) Have you asked Ben Fleskes or Ross Crawford, the two authors of the ldr files for the other BBB train wheels? It would be great to have the medium drivers in ldraw. Benn (16 years ago, 10-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Defining edge colors
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As it's known, when you define a color in MLCad, say 71 into Stone and 72 into Dark-Stone, or whatever color you make, the edge color is always black. I was, though, just fiddling with the color definition system of MLCad and managed to make (...) (16 years ago, 9-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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(...) No, I'm afraid it doesn't help me. Those pages contain the aforementioned files I already have. I have the large flanged and large blind drivers and the small wheel LDraw files. I need the LDraw files for the medium flanged and medium blind (...) (16 years ago, 9-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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(...) Do you know this page: (URL) this page (URL) hope this helps cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 9-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Big Ben Bricks Medium Drivers
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Howdy! Is anyone working on or have a LDraw version of Ben's Medium Drivers? I have a copy of the flanged and blind Large drivers, as well as the small wheels, but I am in desperate need of the LDraw files for both the Flanged and Blind Medium (...) (16 years ago, 9-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | New tutorial: How to scale down a Formula 1 race by Luca Rusconi
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Hi folks, I've just added a new tutorial written by Luca Rusconi to the site: (URL) teaches you how to scale down a Formula 1 race car using official information about the chassis dimensions, the shape and geometry of the suspensions, the engine (...) (16 years ago, 6-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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