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(...) That's nothing to do with the rendering software, it's due to overload on the webserver, causing the script that queues the rendering request to fail. I requeue them manually when I notice. Chris (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello all, How likely is it this (reworked) part will be in the next (<6mnts or so) official library? Cause I'm working on realtime spring generation in my LD4DStudio project and would really like to include a sample using these (classic) shocks (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Parts.lst is crude and kind of annoying but given your desire for 'just works' (which I highly commend) could you not generate one to help other software to come a bit closer to that goal? Tim (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) FWIW if you want to generate the parts.lst file yourself, the OS-X version of ldglite comes bundled with a mklist executable. If LPub needs a parts.lst file perhaps it could be bundled with mklist as well. (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Allen - Thanks for that response. So to any other newbies, I simply downloaded the latest parts update from ldraw.org, and grabbed the parts.lst file and copied into my LDRAW folder under the Bricksmith folder. After this, the per step parts (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) But if I've understood correctly, the Peeron server is a *nix box and sr3dbuilder is Windows-only. So it can't work on the parts tracker unless it comes to support *nix too. Would the swich to LDView give a fix to the part images not properly (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If anyone interested, my application (SR 3D Builder) can generate parts images based on the contents of a text files or taking the single image directly from the screen. It generates the images for itself, but anybody can use them for any (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Chris is referring to the LDraw folder which is distributed with Bricksmith. You can move it wherever you want, but by default it comes in the same folder as the application. (Having a single distribution dramatically lowers the barrier to (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The parts.lst file should not be under Bricksmith or have anything to do with Bricksmith. It should be in the same LDRAW folder where the parts library is. (...) In order to do a BOM (Bill of Materials), you need to have a cover page. See this (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Ok, I have n00b question for LPub. I am using a Mac with Bricksmith 2.3. I have the latest LDview installed and LPub 4.0.0.1. I have 2 issues (they might be related. 1. When starting LPub I get this error: failed to open (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I created a command line-only version of LDView and got it built on the peeron server, but nobody took the next step of creating a new LDView-based image generation script. I'd be happy to help out anyone who has the access to do this and is (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Travis has worked on a switch after this post: (URL) I do not remember why there was no happy ending. w. (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Something to consider for the discussion; ldglite still uses dithering to render the part images for the tracker. If for some reason you decide to move the clear glass color from 39 to color 47, you may want to also move the clear light grey (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) This explains a lot of things - thx Tore for sharing. I'm going to discuss this in the LDConfig workgroup and see if we find a solution for the problem. w. (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Sorry if maybe I repeat something already said about color 39, but this is how I recall it: In Original LDraw, clear looked better with dithered lightgrey than white, so James and I decided to use color 39 for window "glass", instead of 47, (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) LDraw handling of transparent colors. Colors 32-47 are simply transparent versions of colors 0-15. So, color 39 is a transparent version of color 7 (light gray), and color 40 is a transparent version of color 8 (dark gray). This seems to have (...) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Please see also the comments about this issue on (URL) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK, understand! So using lDraw colors is the right way for the future. MLCad color in parts have to be fixed. Anyway I think it should be a good practice to disallow new (official or unofficial) parts using other than official lDraw colors. (...) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) BTW, could it be possible to update Parts Tracker image generator to use the new LDConfig.ldr? Case in point (URL) the front should be trans orange (color 182), not dull grey... Philo (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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