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(...) Thanks! I did not know about this. Presuming that I have already synthesized the axles, can I just change the Synth command to what you have above, or do I need to re-synthesize? Does LSynth take the length into account when synthesizing and (...) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) LSynth 3.0 comes with PLI_TECHNIC_AXLE_FLEXIBLE_x meta commands. If your Synthesis is not supported use this workaround: (URL) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub questions
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(...) I solved the problem by re-installing LDView and removing all PrefSets from the registry before the re-install. The odd thing is, though I changed the settings in the <Default> prefset LPub didn't copy them but showed the lighting (...) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Ronald, it did the trick but only for landscape - portrait is still messed up and also a resolution bigger than 150 DPI or a different size doesn't work either. Ideas? w. (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There are some programs available to create mirrored subparts without using a mirror matrix. (URL) don't know how well they work with all the new parts since they were developed, but it can't hurt to try them. Enjoy, Don (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK, good tip for other users too, to not use dots in filenames. (...) I believe you have to create the submodels individually indead. That is what I always do anyway. (...) I'm afraid I do not have the exact answer to that, but I believe LPub (...) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks Jaco. Through the process of doing it manually and a lot of other trial and error, I discovered the problem. My submodels had a dot (.) in the title. This seemed to confuse LPub and result in the problems I saw. I converted all the dots (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I guess you could use any tool that can produce images from LDraw models, but for print LDView would be the best choice. You can add text to the picture in the way Phile suggested, but any photo editing tool or DTP program can do that. I think (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts
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(...) Eric, I do not experience any problems in creating callouts. Positioning them is sometimes a bit tricky. Adding them manually is always a good thing to try. The syntax is this: 0 !LPUB CALLOUT BEGIN 1 x x x x x x submodel.ldr 0 !LPUB CALLOUT (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm trying out LPub 4 for the first time and am having some trouble. (Note that I am a veteran of LPub 3). Every time I attempt to make a submodel into a callout, the program simply crashes. Has anyone else used the callout function successfully or (...) (15 years ago, 25-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) One possibility is to add the text as a postprocessing step with an image editing program. Or you may embed the text as LDraw stickers, created with txt2dat ((URL) See for example the color chart I created: (URL) 3) printing of part lists etc (...) (15 years ago, 23-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello A friend of mine is doing training for production management & quality & stuff. She had found lego and realised that Ldraw is good and easy to use, and lego is easy to play with. But 2 questions: 1) is is possible to print drawings, for (...) (15 years ago, 23-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 4721 - Tyre Minifig Bicycle has wrong part number
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Folks, Going through the L(EGO)Draw parts at picture 3 (URL) came across 2807. The LEGO database says: MINI CYCLE, TYRE 14 X 2 [1996-01] Use Design: 2807 which is also the number on BL. Peeron and LDdraw uses 4721 instead: (URL) a shrunken 70162 - (...) (15 years ago, 23-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Heh, that was it. Thanks for reminding me :-) In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote: (...) Maybe, but this is Tcl in which case the right answer is to use [fconfigure $fp -translation auto crlf] and remove the \r from the output string (it makes (...) (15 years ago, 20-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You're spot-on Santeri. And the reason I said one might technically stick to the "correct" numbers is two-fold: on the off-off-off chance some renderer were to ever render based on the type of plastic (ABS versus polycarbonate), and also (...) (15 years ago, 20-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Sorry, found a small bug in the program. The custom edge colors had their second alpha value set to 0, so they looked fuzzy. Version 3.1... Download page: (URL) W. (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If there's a Linux version, the best thing to do is to open the file as a binary file and continue using \r\n as the line ending in the source code. In other words, leave your text output code alone, but change the file open call to use binary (...) (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe you need the extra \r to get DOS file endings when running the linux version of ldlister? (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) :-) (...) Now that I look at the code, it does have a "\r" at the end of the string where it puts the part into the parts list... I wonder what was I thinking at the moment. On the (bit further away) works is a feature which lets primitives (...) (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Nope, 50746.dat is merely an alias to 54200.dat and as such the parts appear identical in MLCad (and in any other editor one might use). If I recall correctly, it was something to do with the plastic used to mold the parts but don't trust me. (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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