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Right. So who is to change the name then? Peeron or LDraw? (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Slope Brick 1x1
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(...) But if you use the part properly* it's 31 degrees. The 45 slope is named for its face slope rather than its total slope. Tim * And by properly I, of course, mean use a heap of offsetting to make them all line up ;) (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LPub4.0.0.1 available
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(...) Jaco, Thanks for your detailed analysis complete with MPD to allow recreation. I will take if rom here and fix the LPub bugs. Kevin (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK, while testing and playing around with LPub 4 I tried some new techniques I've come up with. I've recreated the "exact" instructions for set 4491. (URL) the same file in LPub 4.0.0.0 and 4.0.0.1 gives different outputs. I've uploaded the (...) (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Slope Brick 1x1
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(...) Why does the follow-up go to the Robotics group? This is a CAD / LDraw issue, so it should be lugnet.cad.dat.parts. (My mistake in the first place to post it to lugnet.cad ;-) (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Slope Brick 1x1
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(...) Hmm. Is there some reason you couldn't just jump right to using Tan? Tan(theta) = opposite/adjacent (18 years ago, 27-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Slope Brick 1x1
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(...) The part file has the dimensions needed to answer this question. The triangles on the sides tell you the width and height of the end. From there you can calculate the length of the hypotenuse. h = sqrt(w*w+h*h) the sin of the angle is (...) (18 years ago, 27-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Slope Brick 1x1
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Part 50746 is called Slope Brick 33 1 x 1 x 2/3 on Peeron, but this one and and 54200 are called Slope Brick 45 1 x 1 x 2/3 in LDraw and in the unofficial parts. What should it be? 33 of 45 degrees? (18 years ago, 26-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Cool idea for a collaboration/contest
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I think it would be cool if people collaborated to create a desktop theme using LDraw/POVRay. Here's one for Disney that kind of gives an idea of what could be done: (URL) (18 years ago, 25-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Color Dithering Chart
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In working on getting the new colors into LDConfig.ldr, I thought it helpful to see a visual reference of the color dithering, and I thought that I'd share it for those that are interested: (URL) W. (18 years ago, 24-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Electric Wire [DAT]
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Hi all, Using LSynth I am trying to create this wire: 0 Wire 0 Name: wire.ldr 0 Author: Jaco van der Molen 0 Unofficial Model 0 SYNTH BEGIN ELECTRIC_CABLE 0 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 1 0 60 -88 40 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 (...) (18 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) Hi Willy, I don't want to make my approach too simplistic, but if you try using my program, it automatically creates a file called Parts00.lst in lDraw folder. If anyone can translate it in any language and we choose a SIMPLE naming Convention (...) (18 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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In lugnet.cad, Sergio Reano wrote: Hi Sergio, (...) This has been on the LSCs laundry list for a very long time: (URL) they even have a draft written by Jacob: (URL) if I remember correctly all the 1.0.0 and header stuff got into the way. w. (18 years ago, 20-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Wow! Nice feature. Haven't tested it yet but this is definitely going to be very useful. I also updated my betatest page. w. (18 years ago, 20-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Looks like it is _something_ on my W2k machine. I tried an another computer with XP and it works fine (...) ...or maybe it is something wrong in the registry: on the XP machine I get a nice grid toolbar that I don't see on the W2k one! (though (...) (18 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 50th anniversary of the Smurfs
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Hi all, LEGO is not the only one who celebrates a 50th anniversary. (URL) (click pic) Larger images in my (URL), once moderated. Hope you like it. Play well, Maarten (18 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Without adding options, it would be best to have all transformations operations centered on main file origin. An extension would be to allow transformations centered on on user defined point (cf. MLCad). And to go further, transformations (...) (18 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | SR 3D Builder 0.3.2.1 Released
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New version of my CAD application has just been released as always you can find it at (URL) building Sergio (18 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) The suggestion that fixes to already released official parts should not be in the unofficial library download ((URL)) seems reasonable at first reading, but we need to consider the wider implications. For example, consider the following (...) (18 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) And they may come back on Tracker as a new version when an author improves an already certified part. So often you have to deal with two version of the same part, one official and one (improved) on PT. Philo (18 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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