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"Johannes Keukelaar" <johannes@nada.kth.se> wrote... (...) Yes. (...) It is known as a bow-tie quad, and is found many places! (...) Yes, this is sadly the way they are ordered in many files. Another problem is that the four points may not be (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You are correct that the co-ordinates _should_ define a simple loop without crossing. The rendering algorithm in the original LDraw program was not sensitive to this, so errors crept into the parts files. There was a move some time back to (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi all, I've read the LDraw FAQ relating to the .dat file format. Specifically: --BEGIN-FAQ-- Quadrilateral command. Draws a four-sided, filled shape between four points. Line format: 4 colour x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 x3 y3 z3 x4 y4 z4 where colour is a (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldraw.org General Update, Added Press & Awards
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(...) Replying to my own post, ugg.... Just forgot to mention that Tom Burger is to thank for the minifig images. Thanks Tom!! -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | ldraw.org General Update, Added Press & Awards
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I just finished doing some general housekeeping updates to ldraw.org, as well as adding a new Press & Awards section. This section will feature press articles which have been written about LDraw/ldraw.org and awards the site has won (only one of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | new/unofficial part - 4x6 flag [DAT]
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Hi! I dunno if anyone's already done this part or not, but it wasn't in the latest, greatest version of LDraw when I downloaded LDraw, so I thought I'd try my hand at it. This part is the large flag from the old Pirates theme. The three versions (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: parts.lst and mklst(?).exe.
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"LZ" == Leonardo Zide <leonardo@centroin.com.br> writes: LZ> The default behavior is to be case insensitive but you can set an LZ> option to make it case sensitive, take a look at the man page for LZ> mount. Ah. Thanks for the tip, that would be (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts.lst and mklst(?).exe.
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(...) The default behavior is to be case insensitive but you can set an option to make it case sensitive, take a look at the man page for mount. Leonardo (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line in the Sand
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(...) I do, it's because of those cases like an hollow cylindir DAT file is referenced by another DAT file. Since the cylinder is supposed to be define outwards, but you can use it to make the inside/outside of a stud (for example) and the if the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line in the Sand
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) :-) Jean-Pierre's analyzer is not a "simple analysis" and may not work 100% correctly without human intervention. /Lars (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote ... (...) Is this a joke? You argue very well in "Inversion" in "Language Extension Functionality" about the 3D tube ;-) /Lars Sorry if I missed a pun. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts.lst and mklst(?).exe.
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Johannes Keukelaar wrote... (...) It does work, you can open either 1234a.dat or 1234A.DAT, or even 1234a.DaT. The fat/vfat/msdos filesystem in Linux is case-insensitive. Try it! (...) Pure MSDOS programs see all files in uppercase. /Lars (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts.lst and mklst(?).exe.
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(...) I believe that straight-DOS programs don't have mixed-case filename information. A pure DOS hard-drive actually stores all filenames on the harddrive in upper case, and MSDOS under Windows maintains upper-case-only for compatibility with older (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: General Comments to MLCad
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(...) Yep. LDLite does things like 0 COLOR <color definition information> along with other stuff, and the HTML instruction generator in LDAO recognizes a subassembly statement: 0 SUB <file> <layout options> and in lugnet.cad.dev, we're proposing to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line in the Sand
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(...) In that case, why are we wiggling about with this BFC extension stuff? Rendering programs can figure out what order vertices should be put in, and they can figure out which way a polygon is facing. They don't need all this extra effort from us (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Matrix-inversions are not evil. But for some reason, using them to actually invert subfiles is evil (as opposed to using INVERTNEXT to invert subfiles). If I reallly needed an answer to this, I'd go read past messages. But I *do* remember: a) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Student Researching CAD/CADD systems for modular building Consturction
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HI, I first apologise if this is annoying to anyone. I am an Undergraduate student doing a project on CAD/CAAD systems for modular building design and construction. As Lego is a modular building constrcution system (albiet) on a small scale I was (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ldraw.org parts refernce list..
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(...) LOL, gosh Tommie [1], just cause I said 'it doesn't phase me' on AIM regarding different (diminutive) spellings of my name, doesn't mean you have to go public and address me as that ;) [1] <ducks, runs> :) -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | parts.lst and mklst(?).exe.
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Hi all! The other day I was working a bit on a program that can parse dat files under linux. Now, I have my dat files, along with ldraw and mlcad installed on a Windows partition. All the dat files that come with the ldraw package and updates there (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: trouble uploading *.mpd's
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(...) Geocities only accepts a few extensions, you'll have to rename it (you could use a name like "myfile.mpd.txt") or zip it. Leonardo (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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