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(...) Why not an e-book in PDF-format to download for free? All in the true totally-free-of-charge spirit of LDraw. /Tore (18 years ago, 13-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A part authoring book... would be a great idea... if I was a good writer! An other hurdle would be to find an editor for a book so specialized! (...) Maybe I was a bit optimistic in the evaluation of time spent ;) And it certainly took me (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) These guys are too modest to plug a lot of their own work, but I learned the basics of making parts (and of Ldraw too) from Virtual Lego by Tim Courtney, Steve Bliss and Ahui Hearera. I still refer to it all the time and highly recommend it. I (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sure, this part is a good one to start... Some tutorials: (URL) reference stuff: (URL) (mainly (2 URLs) and (URL) overall see how other baseplates were created, for example (URL) and so on... Philo (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Dave, 3404c01 has been modeled, but it is not yet included in the official LDraw library. You can see the part file at (URL) this page>. You could download 3404c01 by itself, but it requires four other unofficial files to make it work. It's (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Bricksmith's "Export Steps" command does not create printable instructions - it saves a separate LDraw file for each step of each submodel. There's no inherent view to these or any other LDraw models (at least as far as Bricksmith is (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I could take some pics of it. How would I learn about modeling parts? dave (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It should be easy to build... would you have a good photo of it, viewed from top? Philo (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You seem to be right. I tried LPub4 on a XP machine with VC++2008, and on a W2k one without it, it works in both cases. Philo (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hey Dave- Welcome to the wonderful world of making any Lego model you want, regardless of what pieces you own. As to your request, I have two answers: The first is a suggestion/reminder to look in the Other Parts/T section of the parts window (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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How do I have one step with a view of the underside (of a car) and the next step with a view of the top of the car. I understand that any view can be chosen for any step, but I am referring to the exported steps (meaning the printed instructions). I (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I was hoping someone could help me with another old part, the 50 x 50 baseplate with the 'Road 3-way Curve with Gray Pattern' This is set 078, part # x1460px1 Keep on bricking, dave (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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I have just downloaded the LDRAW parts library/list and am trying to model an old set that needs the old style turntable, part # 3404c01 Has this part been modeled? Where might I download it from? Thanks for helping an LDRAW newbie, dave (18 years ago, 12-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Please let us know which LDView versions works best once the Mac LPub alpha is available. I haven't had much luck at all with any of the pre-release versions of either program I've tried recently. Jim (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Never mind. I'm pretty sure that the answer is that you do have the VC++ 2008 runtime libraries installed, because when I install them, LPub works. Anyone else that can't get LPub to launch can download the runtime libraries from Microsft here: (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote: Hi Philippe. Do you know if you have any other software installed that was developed using Visual C++ 2008? Or, for that matter, do you have Visual C++ 2008 (Express or otherwise) installed? The reason I ask, (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It won't launch on my machine. I'm not quite sure why, but this is what Dependency Walker says: Error: The Side-by-Side configuration information for "c:\program files\lpub\LPUB.EXE" contains errors. This application has failed to start (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) No, this is not supposed to happen. Are you talking about the menus in the main menu bar, or popup menus? The menu items in the configuration menu in the mail title bar should pup up dialogs to allow you to edit related topics using a larger (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Kevin, (...) I was brave enough to create this ((URL) - based on this set: (URL) in a very short time... But many menus (such as the ones to setup page size or change images scale) are empty. Is it something to be expected for this alpha release? (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi gang, With a tremendous amount from Travis Cobbs, I managed to get a version of LPub 4 ready for an alpha release. I wanted to get something out in time for Brickworld, because I'm presenting it there. I'll need Travis to let you know where to (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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