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I just saw the thread "MPD to LDR converter?" ((URL) and thought about what Joel Hoornbeek wrote. If I have an MPD File with many of submodels that are used in the main model, I only have to 1) export that main model 2) open that new file with MLCad (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth rubber band question
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(...) That's OK. Thank you for the explanation of LSynth's current development. Reading the relevant part descriptions from an external file sounds like a great idea. That should make it easier to add support for new parts in the future. I wish (...) (19 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: MPD to LDR converter?
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(...) OK, I got it. I forgot about the Export function and was looking for it under the Multipart > export menu. -Duane (19 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth rubber band question
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(...) Hi Jim, There is a new LSynth in the works. You can see the updates on sourceforge. Willy has been doing a great job testing, and driving change based on his experience. Don Heyse has been taking care of the code, and hammering out the bad (...) (19 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: MPD to LDR converter?
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(...) Hi Duane, You should be able to use the File > Export function within MLcad to do what you want. You only need to select the base model within the MPD, and it'll spit out an LDR file with all of the sub-models in-lined. Please let me know if (...) (19 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | MPD to LDR converter?
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I'll post this here in the main group... Is there a utility that can convert an MPD file to a consolidated LDR file? -Duane (19 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LSynth rubber band question
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I built a model containing a rubber band I'd like to model with LSynth and LDraw: (URL) The real rubber band>> So I want to stretch the rubber band between the 1x1 round plates, but it also needs to be pinched together and pushed down slightly (...) (19 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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Dear contributor to the LDraw System Of Tools, We would like to include your program files listed below (the “Product”) in our new LDraw.org All-In-One-Installer, (the “Work”) to be published by LDraw.org: ___...___ Program The purpose of this (...) (19 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Set 6636 different part shown in instruction
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Has anybody an idea which part is showing on the box of the set 6636 that looks like 2486 (Bar 1 x 8 x 2)? From the picture it has to be "Bar 1 x 8 x 3" but the set containted in real part 2486. Or was it only a mistake by TLC when they changed the (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.db.scans, lugnet.parts, lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org's July 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the July 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Prinoth Leitwolf Snowgroomer by Han Crielaard> (URL) SOTM, Valley of the Dark Lords by Philip Heinrich> (URL) POTM - Best Part, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) There is C code for a point in polygon implementation here: (URL) only 8 lines of code for the whole thing, but it supports arbitrary polygons, including ones with holes. UNDERSTANDING the algorithm might take a little work, but the page (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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Sorry that it has taken me so long. In fact, I am still working on creating quadrilaterals and triangles to fill the largest spaces possible. My main hang-ups are: reducing processing time a working point-in-polygon test I have found two different (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) If you can work out regions of identical colour I believe there is a theory that says you can fill it with no more than 2N (where N is the number of corners) triangles. This is probably a good way of doing it for complex shapes. If I ever get (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) Keep in mind that doing it both ways is probably a lot more difficult than just doing it one way. For example, if you have a 1-pixel thick plus sign, you need at least 3 quads (to avoid overlap), and your algorithm needs to deal nicely with (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) Sorry, long quads is really what I meant by a line. So, that's exactly what the program does. I should have an update out later today or tomorrow that combines pixels vertically as well. Thanks, Scott (19 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) Hi Scott, It will be better if you put adjacent horizontal pixels into a long quad rather than a line. The renderer POV-Ray does not support the concept of lines, so they are tossed when L3P converts you LDraw file to a POV file. Kevin (19 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) Almost...I combine pixels of the same color that are on the same horizontal line. So, if pixels 1 through 5 are the same color, they become a line that ocupies 1 through 5. Most of my stickers have been about 1MB. I wasn't aware of the other (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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&tIn lugnet.cad, Michael Heidemann wrote: It seems to me that you put for every pixel one quad. This produces an (...) This is the approach also used by Bitsticker. It is certainly not optimal. (...) Tim Gould's (URL) img2sticker> script uses a (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) So, I know of at least four tools to convert images to LDraw stickers: (URL) BMP2DAT> (URL) img2sticker> ((URL) *>) (URL) Bitsticker> (URL) Sticker Generator> Plus you can make stickers from text with (URL) txt2dat>. I think this is a case of (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) Both of these applications are very cool, and I intend to begin using them immediately. Do you guys mind if I ask a dumb question? That is, another dumb question after these two? Are these applications an evolution of the various BMP2DAT (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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