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(...) Very cool--I love it! To be honest, it would never have occurred to me to use Lulu; I got as far as "I should try Kinkos," and that's where I sort of stalled. I have to say that the end results look amazingly professional and high-quality. (...) (16 years ago, 13-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.inst, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Hi! I recently used (URL) Lulu.com> to publish (URL) LPub> instructions for a (URL) model> I created a few months ago. I have determined that I need to use higher resolution rendering settings and possibly avoid gradient backgrounds for optimal (...) (16 years ago, 13-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.inst, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Hi, Jaco. Try using an "absolute" rotstep in the callout submodel to specify exactly the angle you desire. For instance: 0 ROTSTEP 30 45 0 ABS Jim (16 years ago, 13-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks Scott! I actually had msflxgrd.ocx allready in the system32 folder. Placing sysinfo.ocx there solved the problem even without rebooting! Jaco (16 years ago, 12-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thx to the LSC for ratifying this so quickly. w. (16 years ago, 12-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Hi all, Creating buildinginstructions for the birds by MisaQa for my website ((URL) I am having trouble getting the right rotation step for the instructions of one of the swans. It is this one on page 2: (URL) someone help me in getting it right? (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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The LSC just ratified and made changes to the (URL) !COLOUR spec>. There were two changes: MATERIAL is now allowed in official LDraw.org color definitions GLITTER and SPECKLE material properties specified. Please note: these changes were made in (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Geoffrey, if you're looking for a time filler be my guest. There as still some parts in the need for a CA re-write: (URL) also these parts: (URL) looking for gifted people to get dressed up for a PT-party. w. (16 years ago, 7-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If someone really wants to go to the trouble of making a cross-section, and knows how to do so, adding in the missing surfaces shouldn't be that big a deal, yes? (...) I'd say no. People are clearly already concerned with keeping file size as (...) (16 years ago, 7-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message news:KG3zI9.Cno@lugnet.com... (...) The computer hasn't been programmed with a representation of "solid" for an internal representation of a LDRAW part, yet. But he brings up an interesting (...) (16 years ago, 7-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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It's a computer representation of the piece, it's not meant to show how it's actually constructed. -Stefan- (16 years ago, 7-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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LDraw parts are just a bunch of triangles, quads, and lines. There's no such concept as "solid". --Travis (16 years ago, 6-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Looking through various LDraw files I've noticed that the axles that connect for example beams into ball joints are modelled hollow, like axle holes closed on all sides. However, I've broken various pieces over my years, this one being broken quite (...) (16 years ago, 6-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LSynth 3 available on kclague.net
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(...) Thanks! Jetro (16 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have a setup program (for a product at work) that is doing more or less exactly this (asking for an extra folder, where the default value is found by searching the registry). It was quite a long time ago that I wrote it, so I may need some (...) (16 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) In LDView, use the File->Extra Dirs menu item to add to LDView's parts search path. --Travis (16 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've read about setting the path for unofficial parts in the MLCad.ini but haven't been able to figure out how to do this for LDview. Can anyone point me to a link on how to do this? For now I'm using MPDWizard to include all unofficial parts (...) (16 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Kevin, if they go into Unofficial no call for MKlist is required since MLCad and LDView load them anyway when the paths are set. At this point you might think about a <LDrawDIR>\LSynth or <LDrawDIR>\Unofficial\LSynth folder. People using (...) (16 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You can find the LDrawIni.c code in the svn repository here: (URL) I can't seem to upload web page updates to the sourceforge. Apparently they changed things around again and I'm getting a "permission denied" error when I try to use scp. Oh (...) (16 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You're welcome. One word of warning, though. QT probably uses the DLL version of the run-time library by default, so you need to make sure you build it to use the static version in addition to setting that option on the LPub project itself. (...) (16 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.cad)
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