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(...) .DAT (...) The error occurs when I try to launch the program. Mike (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) hmmm.. i just DL'd the .zip, unzipped it into a directory and ran it... the proggy has never been installed on this machine (i'm at work) and it came up just fine... are you getting error when you launch M-Peedy, or when you try to select a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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What is the recommended package of utilities I should use when creating/displaying LDraw files. I have LDraw, L3P, MLCAD, and POV-Ray, but I've noticede a lot of references to LDAO, LDLite, etc. as being required or necessary for running other (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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I've downloaded and installed both the M-Peedy Software, as well as the required Microsoft utilites. Yet, when I try to load the M-Peedy file I receive an error saying "Cannot Load from File". (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V1.6 IS AVAILABLE NOW ****
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Thanks for the new MLCad. I like the new move-mode better than the sliders. There is still a fault in save picture. On almost all off the pics off the model I just tried, there is missing surfaces in some off the bricks. I can E-mail you one off the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
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(...) are you using Steve Bliss' LDraw Add On??? specifially the MiniFig modeller allows for easy manipulation of .DAT minifigs. Makes it very easy to rotate any/all of their joints and the kinematic chain is kept intact automatically check it out (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Comments on models
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(...) I've got a rendered image of my model at www.geocities.com/Ar...4/lego.htm Also try going to www.ldraw.org where you'll find lots of rendered images Good Luck! Mike (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
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I'm trying to accomplish two separate effects: #1) I'm trying to pose the arms of a mini-fig "DAT" file so that its arms are "straight out (forward)" instead of "hanging normally", such that a rod/antenna being held in either of its hands would be (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Pentapterigoid Star Fighter wallpaper
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Bram Lambrecht <BramL@JUNO.com> wrote in message news:FMpB0D.6wv@lugnet.com... (...) best (...) the (...) in (...) created (...) Bram, could you please describe how to map an image to a rectangle in POV? Maybe a bit of pov-code as an example? -John (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Comments on models
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I'm not a CAD modeller. Are these models rendered somewhere for the casual observer to see? A revised version of this post with links to a rendered image of each model would be most, *most* appreciated =) ... if that's not too much trouble. Or (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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(...) I'd prefer that the group and website both go by ldraw.org. When refering specifically to the people, it would be 'ldraw.org group'. For the webpages, it would be 'ldraw.org site'. (...) Which updates? The new mklist.exe? Fixed versions of (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line in the Sand
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(...) Yes, it would render correctly, but it would also disable clipping more often than is required, in the case of mixed solid and transparent sections. Think of a submodel where the author used color 16, and the person using the submodel renders (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LMK means Let Me Know. MKM16 is just shorthand for Microfig Kreigmacht #16. (This is why I don't work in marketing! :-) Thanks! This one is my favorite too. It looks ugly enough -- like a dump truck is ugly -- to be real. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) It's an admin role vs. personal role thing. I took it upon myself to write up a spec, I didn't want to imply that it was endorsed by the group at large. (...) Hmmm. You're right. Inversion is no more global than accumulated clipping. They are (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego capable CAD software for the Mac ?
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(...) Actually, I'm interested in getting a standard, OO Perl module for LDraw files. I've been working on one which offers levels of abstraction for line (partline, quadline, etc.), part, file, mpdfile, etc. #Mmmm.... use LDraw qq( :file (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Webpage
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Please reserve the lugnet.cad.dat.* groups for posts with .dat file content (see group charters). I know it's tempting to put a post about a model in a group that has ".model" in the name, or to put questions about parts in a group that has ".parts" (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: New part: Plate 6 x 6 x 2/3 Cross with Dome - 30303.dat [DAT]
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You're getting there Paul. There's still some clean up to be done. First, when referring to subfiles in parts\s\, don't include a leading \: Don't do: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 \s\30303a.dat Do: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\30303a.dat I'm not (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: PentWing Fighter, Version II
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John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote in message news:FMqMHD.8Fz@lugnet.com... (...) Or maybe Pentagonist (rhymes with antagonist). -John Van (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LDraw DAT certification for clones?
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(...) Considered, yes. Done something, no. (...) We try to do that already. (...) How do we do that? (...) I am not sure that the BP7 floating-point format exactly matches the IEEE format, but I will look it up. (...) Yes. Also for easy testing of (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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(...) No. But using the phrase "The LDS" may require some troublesome context switching from anyone familiar with the Mormon church. Kidding ... I think. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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