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(...) SNIP (...) *Very* interesting, Philo! I just wish I had the white axle 16. :-( Is it just me, or is the page 4 of the building instructions messed up? (16 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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(...) These tools look very useful! Thanks for sharing the idea and design, Philo. Jim (16 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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It is common practice to prefix parts that compose assembled parts with a ~. This prevent using them needlessly (they are not listed with regular parts), encouraging the use of assembled shortcuts. But this practice is not ratified by any official (...) (16 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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This time, it is not a software utility, but physical measuring tools... a set of do-it-yourself measuring instruments to get parts dimensions directly in LDraw units. (URL) Acrobat document to print your own rulers and scales, and building (...) (16 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, FTX) !
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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(...) I would have correct that parts if I would own them. As you know as an author you need to have the part, as a reviewer you don't need to have the part. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 23-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | DATHeader version 2.0.3 for LINUX and MAC
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I am proud to announce the release of DATHeader for the use on Linux and Mac machines. Windows machines are supported anyway. New feature in this version is the reviewer mode. You do not need to save the file to get the informations that DATHeader (...) (16 years ago, 23-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) Hi Dave, check out the LDraw Specs 1.0.0 at: (URL) easy way to convert mm in LDUs is Mike Heidemann's prog LDCalc: (URL) miss Marc Klein's website for modeling tips in SW as well as converting SW data into .dat: (URL) this helps. w. (16 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello all, I have been playing around some Cad software called SolidWorks and would like to model LEGO bricks. Is there a resource for accurate dimensions of LEGO parts? Dave (16 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Part naming and hard colored parts
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(...) Hi Chris, thanks for the informations. I missed the first article (often I'm immersed in programming and don't take care of news). With the information on line 4 I got all I need (expecially for hard colored parts) and will be implemented in (...) (16 years ago, 20-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LSynth 3.0 setup tutorial updated
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Hi folks, I have updated the LSynth 3.0 setup tutorial at: (URL) also moved it from the betatest section to its permanent location. Furthermore I added more examples to: (URL) revised the troubleshooting page: (URL) In the updated tutorial you will (...) (16 years ago, 20-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part naming for technic liftarms vs. beams
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(...) <snip> (...) Hi Chris, Thanks for the news. I should not be surprised that you are on top of this. I understand the drawing the line in the sand. 2009-02 sounds great. Thanks, Kevin (16 years ago, 19-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Part naming for technic liftarms vs. beams
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(...) Many of the Technic "beams" got re-cycled through the Parts Tracker in 2009-01 for primitive optimisation and BFC reasons. I took the opportunity to implement something that we had been talking about for some time - to name these types of (...) (16 years ago, 19-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi gang, I want to start by saying thanks to all those involved in creating parts and managing the parts library. We toolsmiths would not have a job if it were'nt for the LDraw parts library. I have a question about naming conventions with respect (...) (16 years ago, 19-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Part naming and hard colored parts
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(...) Sergio From the complete library update that was 2008-01, the !LDRAW_ORG line (line 4 of every file) should tell you what you need to know. Full details are in the header specification at (URL) Generic colour parts have an identifier of "Part" (...) (16 years ago, 19-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi everybody, as many of you already know, I'm the programmer of SR 3D Builder. Using the lDraw prebuild library has been for me the starting point for developing my application, but as things become complex I have to assume some convention in my (...) (16 years ago, 19-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | DATHeader NEW as .NET application (version 2.0.1)
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Version 2.0.1 of DATHeader is now available for download at www.michael-heidemann.de as my other webspace is down :-( in the moment. There are now more tests performed. For example: - check for coplanarity (based on Philo's code) - check for double (...) (16 years ago, 17-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: DATHeader next release as DOTNET application
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(...) As it seems that nobody needs a version of DATHeader that run under W98 I will close the version that I have developed with Visual Basic 5. The new version is on the way and I hope to release it this weekend. I am testing it currently against (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2009-01 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Sure, just use the complete zip format version: (URL) - (URL) (16 years ago, 15-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2009-01 Parts Update Now Available
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Can it be installed without having Ldraw 2008 parts ? Im a mac user Thx in advance (16 years ago, 15-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | DATHeader next release as DOTNET application
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As I am going to switch DATHeader from Visual Basic 5 to Visual Basic Express 2005 I want to know if somebody that uses currently DATHeader has not the possibility to use the new coming version! The new version requires the .NET-Framework 2.0 or (...) (16 years ago, 14-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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