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After seven years of thinking and hesitating, I have decided to improve my utility progam LDBoxer. There are lots of room for improvements, but to begin with, I will fix a couple of bugs I have discovered. Then I will focus on making two new (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) I more meant that it de-motivates me from remaking parts if I don't get the proper credit for them! I'm a human being - I want credit for what I do. But maybe "de-motivating" is the bad word for it. Maybe "annoying" is better there. But I just (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Non-issues to you, perhaps. To an outsider, they are symptomatic of a big exercise in narcissism. Decades ago, when I was without a tv but hoping to see the "Spock" episode of ST:TNG, a friend and I went to Penn State's Star Trek club. They (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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--snip-- (...) Please excuse ne while I become really blunt ;) That information isn't there for the end users. It's there for the people volunteering their time to make the parts. As Philo said it's very easy to add automatically with DATHeader and (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Is it really...??? Anyway, the average LDraw user will never see the Author line or the History ones! I definitely don't subscribe to the all legalese line we see today (in LDraw or in real life!). To me, it's just something that must be done. (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's 100% fair, and I wouldn't expect them to base any policy decisions on a platform that hasn't changed in 13+ years. The number of people who still use it as their primary interface can probably be counted on one hand. The main reason (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) LEdit's pretty much outdated these days. It doesn't support the LDConfig colours, nor can it edit MPD:s and the LSC is not taking it too seriously when making choices. (at least I'm not..) (...) I agree here partially. I too think that some (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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For whatever reason, I've never made the shift to MLCad or other platforms, and I've been served very well James Jessiman's foundation programs. Lars Hassing's L3Lab and Kevin Klague's LPub have been invaluable as well, but everything I do that's (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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--snip-- (...) I must admit that I hadn't realised it was so hard to post now. That, IMO, means we need somewhere new to discuss LDraw. If new people can't easily post in discussions then we are killing fresh discussion and that is a very bad move. (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Hmmm, did you click "Reply" so quickly that you missed the very next sentence in the previous post where it said, "I think you've just been here too long"? Like many of us, you've been here forever. So perhaps you don't realize that it's (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You must have done something to make it that hard for you to use Lugnet. I just click "Reply", write my response, click "Preview" and "Post". Everything else is already filled out. Play well, Jacob (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) <much goodness of newsreaders deleted to save space> While true, most newer Internet users don't have a clue what a Newsreader is. That's because Newsreaders are mostly used by Usenet users and Usenet (at least the groups I read) is dying. In (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego City Police Car - 7236
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(...) Maybe you are just looking for mpd files for official files? Then please try (URL) There are more than 900 mpd files for download from official sets. I did not remember how good they are (maybe missing parts at the time I build). cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Datsville Rev030 - Added Tim's DB425 Train and more
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(...) And here's a rendering with Tim's Train entering the station (URL) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Thanks for the offer Remi. I have my own personal webspace that I also use to test out LDraw.org ideas and a server running locally on my laptop so I can develop without an internet connection. -Orion (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Datsville Rev030 - Added Tim's DB425 Train and more
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In lugnet.cad.dat.models, Tore Eriksson wrote: The new revision of my unofficial Datsville is available at: (URL) even more of an "in progress" version than usual since big changes at several places are in progress. rev030 - 2010-03-18 Town-20.ldr: (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) This sounds promising. Doesn't seem very actively developed anymore, but then it's used here: (URL) you're interested, I've got some webspace where I can set up a test phorum, give you full access to try out & play with. I'm also proficient in (...) (15 years ago, 18-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Also threads with recent discssion are marked visually as being such and there's an Active Topics list available next to View New Posts. I'm going to be a little stirring here and suggest that possibly many of the same people demanding that (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Group discussion comments are very searchable ((URL) Image comments aren't which I agree can be frustrating. And flickr is very good at telling you where there is activity. Which isn't to say it's a good place to discuss LDraw. It is not. The (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) Maybe you're missing the 'login' part? When you're logged in you get a link "View new posts" on top right under the banner. You can also (when logged in) select the "Options" menu in the upper right (although a bit lower than the other link) (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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