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(...) -SNIP- (...) Thanks for reporting. I'll have a look into this. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's the sort of discussion forum layout that I've seen dominate every site I use today, except for Lugnet. Lugnet surely went the hierarchical direction because the best Newsgroup readers supported hierarchical views. Like it or not, that's (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It's been so long since I looked at it, I forgot about the copyright of the images. I'll need to get some OKs first and give credit where credit is due. That semi-truck is 99% Pierre Normandin's design. There are also some personal thoughts (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'll accept two round-trip tickets and a nice hotel...just kidding. I'd love to see it, but that one is a bit far for me to go this time. I'll be at BrickWorld again this year, but even that is an 11 hour drive. Scott W. (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for the presentation Scott. I'd love to also see yours, Orion. I have been in charge of presentations at the last two national AFOL events in Spain (HispaBrick) and will be for the next one. I prepared a short and basic presentation (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) (April 9-11, 2010 in Fremont, California - see bricksbythebay.com) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Michael, I found a bug. When I start LDTranslator and open a menu but not pick an option but click elsewhere, an Unhandled Exception occurs. See screenshot: (URL) I click "Continue" I can indeed contiunue to use the program. Error: See the end of (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) <snip> (...) That's an absolutely fantastic presentation! Even a grumpy old man like me has nothing to complain about it. /Tore (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think TBB and flickR have an easier entry. LUGNET is a bit scary to sign up to, and is certainly a pain in the but to remember your username (member #) and password (is this even changeable). Actually, I remember it being a lot scary to (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You should add it to the ILTCO library. I can assure you that it's still used. Tim (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've been distributing my presentation by email, whenever I get someone asking about my MOCs: (URL) been meaning to get it posted to the ILTCO database of presentations, but ILTCO already has one foot in the grave. Scott W. (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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--snip-- (...) That structure attracted 6.2 thousand comments last year out of 8.4 million page views. You may not like it (I prefer threading too) but it's here to stay. And between TBB and flickr (same structure) there are already over 40 comments (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Part of the problem is that there are not as many presentations being given and general overall evangelizing being done at fan conventions. This is partly due to the fact that the de facto spokesman of the organization, Tim Courtney, has been (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, maybe it is a generation issue. I followed the link (URL) and I didn't like what I saw. I mean, most of the replies were in deed positive and encouraging, but the layout of the site... No tree structure but just a linear thread. Scroll, (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I hadn't really thought about the pool of volunteers drying out but you are right that it is. Even the 'new' names in key roles have been involved for many years now. And for many years we have not needed an election for the SteerCo as only 5 (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) As fas as I understand young people, it might have something to do with a high proportion of text matched with a low proportion of visuals. It seems that new generations prefer it to be very much the other way round. I've looked at some sites (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) LDRAW MUST NOT DIE Ldraw user since 1999 (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hm, not really. But I see definitely the potential in doing it. Once I start dismantling my old models (which, given the place and budget issues, is only a matter of time), I will probably do this as well. (...) Yes to all of the above! The (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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My turn to respond: IMHO LDraw is certainly not dead. In fact here in the Netherlands it’s is alive and kicking. With me presenting it to the public at LEGOWORLD in Zwolle every October I think there are many users who have joined since 2002 when I (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Out of the thirty odd responses I've got so far to my questions on TBB there hasn't been one mentioning ease of discussion so I'll hazard a guess that it's not a big deal. Tim (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm with you on this Tore. I sure I've said this before but I despise the flat posting style of forums like phpBB and I like threaded discussions. Threads allow the conversation to wander to 2 or more different but related discussions while (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) 1) Have you ever heard of LDraw? And if you have do you know what it is? Have you ever considered using it but decided against it? If so why? Did you know the parts are all designed by volunteers? Yes, I have heard of L-Draw and use it quite a (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, and no, or rather, maybe. In Delphi you would do something like Write(Format('%g', [Value])); i.e more or less the same format strings as in C. But, it is type-safe at runtime :-) (15 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (URL) This article> gives some answers to this question. (...) I think there are still as much activity on the subject as before. The activity is simply divided but spread. For instance, I'm amazed about the recent work by Sergio Reano (SR3D) (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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LDraw/LCad etc. are not nearly as dead as you think they are! The pioneering days are long gone, and the package of tools has entered the world of "mainstream software". People simply trust everything to work, and will only make themselves known (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) I felt you were preaching to the choir here so decided to broaden the questions and broaden the audience. Hopefully this will give us a bit of an idea of how the broader community deals with LDraw. (URL) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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--snip-- (...) --snip-- (...) Honestly I don't think LDD is so much of a competitor for many people. Its limited parts pallette keeps it quite restrictive. LDraw will always be the high end tool for LEGO CAD due to its versatility and when people (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Times changes and also the behaviour of the people. The internet changes much quicker. But I think the most important item is that LUTNET and also LDraw.org does not make adverticements. So how should be people find us. The new possibilities (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There are plenty of people still using LDraw and plenty of newcomers to it.In some ways I think it's a victim of its own success. The software is well developed and easy to use and the parts library is vast and easy to install. As such people (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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There is a discussion in the Lugnet group at facebook on the fact that people leave Lugnet.com in favour for other, often theme specialized sites. Questions like "Why is it so and what can be done to get people back to Lugnet?" are discussed. Some (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for the info. I've always used perl scripts to convert oddly formatted data to a consistent format and then read it like that. Nice to know I don't always have to. If it could only read some of the more bizarre Fortran formats I'd never (...) (15 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) All float specifiers (e, E, f, g, G) are treated identically by the scanf functions. When scanning floats, they always recognize all float formats. One other thing about %g on output is that it automatically strips trailing zeros, which %f (...) (15 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ahhh. I'd never heard of %g before now. I'm so used to %f and %e it had never occured to me that there might be a mixed option. Handy to know as I suspect it would be helpful in reading files of unknown format. I'm sure Delphi has some hideous (...) (15 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually, in C, %g does exactly this. Having said that, I think LDDP is a Delphi app, so it uses Pascal, and I don't remember how Pascal does formatting. --Travis (15 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I definitely know this. I see them far too much in my job as a numerical physicist ;) My point is that to write in mixed format (some %f and others %e) requires some strange coding unless there is a weird language which does it automatically. (...) (15 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm, I thought I killed that "feature". I'll look into it as I find time to finish up LDDP 2.1 -Orion (15 years ago, 11-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I mostly agree with this policy. (...) There is nothing strange in the routines, it is the standard format used to represent very large or very small numbers in a limited number of digits. Actually since values never get very large in LDraw (...) (15 years ago, 11-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) My suggestion would be to read numbers in that notation but never write them. I'm not sure why LDDP would write them that way (it would require some strange output routines) but if one thing writes them then it's best to read them. Tim (15 years ago, 11-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think it should be forbidden in official files as the benefit is very small and it is not good human readable. Benefit would be smaller filesize, as 0.0004 (6 characters) has more characters than 4E-4 (4 characters). Against could be 0.4 (3 (...) (15 years ago, 10-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) the part is not cleansed but at the moment , for me, is perfect to see the dimensions! thank you again! Cristian (15 years ago, 10-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I think you just catched a really wrong version of that part. The file that is currently on the PT is fine like I already wrote above. The last change to this file has been on 07.03.2010 so the mentioned error is now gone. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 10-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It seams to be in the third batch of "official" Lego LDraw parts at: (URL) as 71861. Though I would suggest making use of cylinder and torus primitives. (15 years ago, 10-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) The error is on the last comment line starting with 0. It's line 13 Note that it is on the unofficial file. Byes Sergio (15 years ago, 9-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Try this (URL) (15 years ago, 9-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hello, I need to know if someone have modelled this part: (URL) you Cristian (15 years ago, 9-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I just downloaded 32016.dat from the PT. I only found that this file is not terminated by CRLF like it should but all other lines seems to be ok. Can you please give the linenumber that has this fault? cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 9-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi again, as promised, it is available the latest release of my application It is available as usual for free from its official web site (URL) miss to read the history for a summary of enhancements and changes Sergio (15 years ago, 9-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Such notation is not noted in any specs.. neither allowed or forbidden. At least, I can't find such. Maybe we should bring this up at LSC at some point? (FWIW I sent this in yesterday but it seems the server ate the message.. resending it) (...) (15 years ago, 9-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi, for anyone interested in, a new video announcing the new features of the imminent release has been uploaded on youtube at the follwing address: (URL) new release will be available soon. One note about unofficial part library before leaving: part (...) (15 years ago, 9-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Such notation is not noted in any specs.. neither allowed or forbidden. At least, I can't find such. Maybe we should bring this up at LSC at some point? -Santeri (15 years ago, 9-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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If I rotate a part in LDDP the result may look like this: 1 16 4E-15 4 -20 0 0 1 0 -1 0 -1 0 0 stud4.dat This can be read by LDView and MLCad as a valid number. Is such notation allowed in official parts? It is nowhere explicit allowed or (...) (15 years ago, 8-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It makes sense, and has the benefit of homogeneous naming with cross blocks. Philo (15 years ago, 4-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad, Chris Dee wrote: <insert scissors here> (...) <insert scissors here> (...) I myself would rather like to see something like Cross Blocks. My suggestion would be: 3651.dat - Technic Connector (Pin/Bush) with 2 Studs 32039.dat - Technic (...) (15 years ago, 4-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe we can replace them after all. Look at this picture: (URL) orange poles indicate the occurances of x606p01b.dat. They are all in undeveloped areas, so I think it's possible to replace them with other roadplates. /Tore (15 years ago, 3-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, you are right! cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 3-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Actually, that says that the election must happen by 01 March, and new Steering Committee members become active 30 days later. So I guess 31 March is the official start date. --Travis (15 years ago, 2-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) According to (URL) we start on 01.03.2010 IMHO. Congratulations to all of you. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 2-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. When is the official start date? --Travis Cobbs (15 years ago, 2-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) LDVLib doesn't allow you to edit models at all. You point it at an existing file and tell it to load. Having said that, if you wanted to do some (most?) of the work, it could probably be made to be usable for a minifig modeler, since (...) (15 years ago, 2-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) heh. (...) Congratulations to the new SteerCo. -Santeri (15 years ago, 2-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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As only (URL) five people have accepted> nomination for a position on the 2010/2011 LDraw SteerCo and the SteerCo only has five positions I think we can dispense with voting. The new LDraw SteerCo for 2010/2011 is thus: Kevin Clague, Travis Cobbs, (...) (15 years ago, 2-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) By the way, I'm still not sure whether it's really worth it to attempt this in ldglite, or if it'd be more worthwhile to try something that might actually end up being useful, like say a minifig modeler (or maybe an lsynth GUI) built around (...) (15 years ago, 2-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) (URL) that some of the files may have BFC issues. Look at 973pa9.dat for a file that has fallback geometry. As a side note, rebel_tile.dat (and the part it points to) have bad texture coordinates, so the texture is mirrored. --Travis (15 years ago, 1-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I've been tossing this around for a while, and while I'm not sure who'd really use it in ldglite considering LDView is so much better suited for modern OpenGL use, it still seems like it'd be fun to experiment with. So, are there any example (...) (15 years ago, 1-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Unofficial Humor Part: 30162p01.dat - Minifig Binoculars with Cartoon Style Eyes Pattern :)
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(...) You have to be as innovative as Apple Computers to get such creative ideas! /Tore (15 years ago, 1-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Unofficial Humor Part: 30162p01.dat - Minifig Binoculars with Cartoon Style Eyes Pattern :)
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(...) <snip> I wish I'd thought of that! ;-) -- joshuaD (15 years ago, 1-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Unofficial Humor Part: 30162p01.dat - Minifig Binoculars with Cartoon Style Eyes Pattern :)
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(...) -SNIP- Hehe, thats looks very good!! cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 28-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Unofficial Humor Part: 30162p01.dat - Minifig Binoculars with Cartoon Style Eyes Pattern :) [DAT]
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Sorry folks, I just had to do it... :) 0 Minifig Binoculars with Cartoon Style Eyes Pattern 0 Name: 30162p01.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Highly Unofficial Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 0 Inlined: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 30162.dat 0 Minifig Tool (...) (15 years ago, 28-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) You're welcome. (I know I'm in the minority a bit, but...) I'm not a fan of bending mini-figures at the knees and elbows or performing other not-physically possible changes to the bodies when modeling -- why use LEGO elements at all if one is (...) (15 years ago, 28-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) <snip> Thanks for the input, Steve. I was just thinking in those areas. Also, we had a thread about a new Minifig Extractor/Modifier and the need of a syntax that covers all (well, at least more) of the situations that may come up in that (...) (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Help needed with Minifig [DAT]
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(...) Sorry I'm late to this party, but you also use LDLite metastatements. ROTATE and nested blocks make it a lot easier to position minifigs manually. In fact, just for an example, here's the output of the LDAO minifig generator. Note that some of (...) (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Datsville Rev029 - Added Belvedere and more
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The new revision of my unofficial Datsville is at: (URL) - 2010-02-27 Added Memorial to Diet version too Town1-1.ldr: Adjusted Bjphous1.ldr and Ljphills (10LDU offset) Town1-1.ldr: Added some grass around Bjphous1.ldr Town1-1.ldr: Added Ommbelvd.ldr (...) (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Thanks. :) (...) If you don't think of gradient colored irises, it would be 100 times easier with disc and ring primitives. Texture mapping is great - in other situations than this. (...) The one I just posted, or binoculars with cartoonically (...) (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) <model snipped> Wow, this looks really great. I have half a mind to texture map some (magnified) eyes into the end of the binoculars. I think that would look really humorous. In fact, this might be a nice general-use unofficial part, come to (...) (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) -SNIP- Ok, I see. There should be a possibility to change the binocular direction in the hand. Then the minifig generator is also able to bring this result (without calculation ;-)) cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Thanks for your response, "Mikeheide". Impossible - maybe for the Minifig Generator in MLCad, but not with the help from Notepad, Calculator, an inliner, and a lot of patience. :) I don't feel like installing the whole MLCad package just for (...) (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Technic Beams vs. Liftarms (was Technic Axle Connectors - naming rationalisation)
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(...) Chris, My sincerest apologies for my remark - After double checking I realized that although I had installed the latest updates, I had not purged the unofficial files from the directories and started looking for liftarms to only find half... (...) (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This is the perfect use for the minifig generator in MLCad. You will soon see that it is not possible what you are looking for. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) This is the perfect use of the minifig generator in MLCad. As you can turn there the binocular, hand and arm separately but together if needed you will see that a minifig can not really use the binocular to see though. I hope this answer helps (...) (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Has this problem be solved in the meantime? cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) "Peghole" is already used in a few part descriptions in the official library, and there are even primitives named peghole* to support their representation. "Pinhole" is not used in the official library at all. Chris Dee (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I am surprised by this renewed criticism of the Technic Beam naming as we have worked very hard on resolving that issue over the past few releases. Is your library up-to-date? As mentioned at (URL) most of these issues were resolved in (...) (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Help needed with Minifig [DAT]
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Could somebody please help this poor fellow put the binoculars to his eyes? I find it extremely difficult to turn his hands properly. If he turns his head a little, it's onnly better. But I want the left arm to remain in the same angle. TIA /Tore 0 (...) (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Technic Axle Connectors - naming rationalisation
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(...) I appreciate your work on this, but I wonder if there aren't other more important changes (albeit probably more difficult ones) that would be of more benefit to the community. I'm referring particularly to the present dichotomy of Beams and (...) (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I am mostly OK with your suggestion. The only slightly illogical point is that the bush of 3651 and the Axlehole of 32039 are not so different, so why not name them the same? Otherwise, the other drawback of these names (especially angle (...) (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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In (URL) Philo wrote "Speaking of rationalization, I would be very happy if we could find a coherent naming scheme for parts 3651, 32039, 6553 (and 32013?) - I can't possibly remember 6553 name...". So here is a first suggestion: Currently we have: (...) (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Datsville Memorial, and Please Submit More Plants!
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(...) Thanks Mike! That did the trick. /Tore (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Yes, just hit edit if you are logged in and the page (URL) is displayed. Then you can edit that description - not the folder itself. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Hehe, just discovered a funny typo I made: Datsville has now become a "Point Project" I wonder what I meant by that... :) Is there a way to edit that subject line in Brickshelf? /Tore (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Here's a picture of the Memorial (the red blob to the left of the Church) Had to move three trees to make room for it. (URL) of trees - I think we need more different trees and other plants. We need more variation. Please submit your plants (...) (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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(...) Ok, Here now the correct version: 0 TLG Colour values 2010 from published picture 0 Name: TLC-Colors-2010.ldr 0 Author: Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] 0 0 // Color values taken from published color chart by color picker tool. 0 // So the same (...) (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I made mistakes in the previous values. Please do not use! I'll upload soon a corrected version. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) I have extracted all color values of that chart into color statements. Maybe it is of some use. 0 TLG Colour values 2010 from published picture 0 Name: TLC-Colors-2010.ldr 0 Author: Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] 0 0 // Color (...) (15 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2010/2011 LDraw.org Steering Committee: Call for Nominations
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(...) Thanks for your confidence - I graciously accept. Chris (15 years ago, 25-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Datsville Rev028 - Datsville expanding again!
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Yes, it's growing again! I have added the Datsville Memorial by Manfred Moolhuysen. (Sorry, you just had to wait 11 years...!) The new revision of my unofficial Datsville is at: (URL) Filled a large number of gaps in the ground - still plenty more (...) (15 years ago, 24-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Datsville rev 014. Datsville expanding again!
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(...) Now all we need is a method for digging holes in the POV ground... /Tore (15 years ago, 24-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | LDSwitch Sample #1: Do/Undo [DAT]
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Don't know if you prefer to make input here or at SourceForge, so I crosspost. Please give feedback where you like, here or at SF. Here's the first sample LDraw code snippet. Set the value of the variable Rev028_Changes to Do or Undo, run the (...) (15 years ago, 23-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've just registered myself and my first project at SourceForge: (URL) to join or just input! /Tore (15 years ago, 23-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2010/2011 LDraw.org Steering Committee: Call for Nominations
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(...) I'd second this nomination, if I'm allowed to. Regards Marco (15 years ago, 23-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'd second this nomination, if I'm allowed to. Regards Marco (15 years ago, 23-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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