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(...) I think I've fixed this. Here's a link to the current build of LDDP: (URL) time I commit new code to the SVN repository, this file will update. -Orion (15 years ago, 2-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) Let me stop this before it gets started... It's not an offense, Tore, nor were you wrong at the time. There is no witch hunt, finger pointing, or conspiracy. We are not on a crusade against you or anyone else. We simply want to upgrade the (...) (15 years ago, 2-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It appears so, even if I wish it was just the opposite. I still haven't been convinced why it is so wrong to use the backwards compatible color number range when possible. I used color 462 for the orange part of the German flag because number (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hi, All these colors are in the 'dithered' range, if the actual dither color is wanted by the part author it has nothing to do with mlcad or has it? And isn't declaring new colors in the LDConfig using the dithered range breaking some kind of (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDDP 2.0.3 Released
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(...) I have two new color-related issues with LDDP: - I can't use the color search and replace to change colors not in ldconfig.ldr. Not very convenient to repair parts with wrong colors ((URL) Some colors, though in ldconfig.ldr, does not appear (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC tool?
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(...) One (currently undocumented) feature added in the Windows version of LDView's 4.1 beta is a remote control interface that other programs can use to select lines in an LDraw file (by line number) and have LDView highlight the geometry from (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There may be problems matching these colors. As you note, these are patterned parts and the colors Lego uses for the printing on patterned parts do not necessarily match the colors used for the plastic brick. -Orion (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Color 32 transparency
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The transparency of color 32 (named "Black IR" by LEGO) seems way too high. If you look through IR glasses of remotes handset or receiver, you see nothing through it except for light sources (leds) behind, or if you look closely in a very bright (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP 2.0.3 Released
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(...) Great! Thanks, Orion. Philo (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) When we updated the LDConfig.ldr 462 was already defined as Medium_Orange #FE9F06 and has therefore been kept. If Medium_Orange is appropriate for the German Flag is another story. The chart only list colors which are used in parts but are not (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: BFC tool?
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(...) Windz by Ildefonso Junior Zanette but it has neven been released to the public. I remember that Orion got his hands on the code or was it Philo? Anyway this: (URL) pretty well. Use LDView instead of L3Lab. Niels Bugge baked it into a tutorial: (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: DATHeader Update (The Reviewer Tool) Version 2.0.8
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(...) Thank you, the new window design saves much time. Il'dar (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | BFC tool?
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Is there a tool specifically designed for fixing BFC errors? What I'd like to do is see a visible representation of the model and either select using the mouse or cycle through all primitives and just hit a single key to reverse the winding. -Mike (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDDP 2.0.3 Released
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This release fixes the bug pointed out by Philo on this thread: (URL) also updates the error check to the new collinear line spec. Get LDDP 2.0.3 here: https://sourceforge....ects/lddp/ -Orion (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) How about color 462 in 777p01.dat? (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi, Scott Wardlaw has written a prog which matches the colors used in the official parts against the now updated LDConfig.ldr colors chart. This is a list of parts that use colors which were mainly defined in MLCad and have never been LDraw colors: (...) (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Quirks with Peeron part inventory images
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(...) Well at least 60483 and 62462 have corrupted images: (URL) (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks. The four parts that I was made aware of have been fixed manually, but until I understand the problem, there may be others. Chris (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problems with LDCfgalt.ldr and between LDConfig.ldr and LDDP
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(...) I'm trying to trace this issue but it's taking longer that I expected. I should have a fix by tomorrow. -Orion (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problems with LDCfgalt.ldr and between LDConfig.ldr and LDDP
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(...) I was wondering what this file was for. I wish I had known, as I really prefer colored edges. I have been providing a colored edge LDconfig file with my software that converts it for MLCAD use: (URL) you want to give my file a try, would it (...) (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problems with LDCfgalt.ldr and between LDConfig.ldr and LDDP
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(...) People? You mean person. I think the only real reason for creating that file in the first place was to hush my whining about boring colors. (URL) got a nice laugh from the delicious irony of stealthily replacing the shiny candy colors with the (...) (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Quirks with Peeron part inventory images
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(...) FYI, this problem now appears to be resolved - I now see the correct part images in the inventory mentioned above. Thanks, Jim (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 11-16 primitives?
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(...) In the mklist beta I posted there's an undocumented -r switch to turn off the ragged edges and make room for 25 char filenames. There's also an undocumented -t to twiddle with the 78 vs 80 character line formats. But there's nothing yet for (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: 11-16 primitives?
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Sorry to follow-up my own post, but I did a quick test on MLCAD. (...) I had a DUH! moment after posting the previous message. If MLCAD can use a ragged format file, of course it can use a fixed-25 format file. DOH. (...) I prepared a PARTS.LST file (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) I'm assuming the 80 char lines is what you're aiming for here, so based on the 64 char limit on descriptions I started the descriptions on the 16th character of the line. That gives room for a 15 character name and a single space before the (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Problems with LDCfgalt.ldr and between LDConfig.ldr and LDDP
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(...) I seem to remember that part of the reason to have LDCfgalt.ldr was for people who prefer the colored edge lines. Actually, it seems like that was a big part of the reason to have the file. So why drop that functionality? Steve (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) My thinking is the 'ragged' format has the least impact - if there are no long part nambers, then the output PARTS.LST would exactly match the classic format, without the user having to know anything about long/short part nambers. Of course, (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Problems with LDCfgalt.ldr and between LDConfig.ldr and LDDP
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(...) LDCfgalt.ldr has been kept for backwards compatibility but colors have been substituted with grey to encourage the shift to the new LDConfig.ldr file and colors. w. (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Problems with LDCfgalt.ldr and between LDConfig.ldr and LDDP
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I noticed two issues with the new versions of LDConfig.ldr: - LDCfgalt.ldr contains only grey colors (#c1c1c1) with black edge. Though I never used LDCfgalt this seems weird to me. - When I install the new LDConfig.ldr, LDDP replacement feature is (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Quirks with Peeron part inventory images
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(...) Hmmm. All the images are re-generated as part of a Parts Update, so that's probably the source of this problem. But nothing has changed in that process since 2009-01. However, at around that time there were problems with the server where these (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Quirks with Peeron part inventory images
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Hi all, I was perusing a Peeron inventory and noticed the wrong images were displayed for a few parts. Parts 3062b, 6233, and 6019 are displayed as other parts in the following inventory: (URL) is a screenshot just in case it is a temporary problem: (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah, I was actually planning a -f to force it to finish and -q for quiet. (...) For now I've added a -8 to make it use the 8.3 format. As per Travis' suggestion it converts to the canonical short form under Windows. The function uppercases (...) (15 years ago, 28-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: LD4DStudio 1.1 Beta 3 Released
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(...) Hello Mike, I've looked at those specs when I worked on the program but it seemed, to me, in a very early stage of development. So I build the 'suggestion database' instead for the time being. Also the proposed information far surpasses the (...) (15 years ago, 28-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LD4DStudio 1.1 Beta 3 Released
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I was wondering if your program uses same format as or could output to the LDraw Connection Database? (URL) would be cool to have a single database for connections, and even allow users to "submit" newly discovered connections just by using your (...) (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) For MLCAD it doesn't matter. Steve said that MLCAD worked fine with long filenames inside parts.lst. The only reason to put the short filename in is for other programs that might have problems with the long filename. And as long as mklist is (...) (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Sounds easy, but I think nobody can read that short filenames that would appear in the MLCad list!? cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) If it's running in Windows, I think a backwards-compatible switch should use the Win32 API to get the short filename (with the ~1 at the end, usually, determined using PathGetShortPath) and use that in place of the long filename. --Travis (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) That would be good, I think. (...) Can you have two levels? Level One that still shows the warnings, but doesn't stop, and Level Two suppresses all warnings. (...) I'd keep the current line-format for all parts conforming to the 8.3 format, (...) (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | DATHeader Update (The Reviewer Tool) Version 2.0.8
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Just uploaded a new version. New in Version 2.0.8 (Released 27.09.2009) 1) Now detailed scan is disabled if any change has been made. (This was necessary, as detailed scan needs the line number.) 2) History Dialog made new. 3) If last line is only (...) (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Website slow
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(...) I'd guess that this time there is a mass downloading of the newest parts update. Tim (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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