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(...) Hi Allan, Weird, weird... stu211 and stu213 are low resolution version of (official) primitives stud11 and stud13. They are not strictly required, but MLCad does complain if you use a part that contain stud11 or stud13 (but everything works (...) (14 years ago, 16-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-03 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) I’m always happy to see new additions to the LDraw library. However, having just installed the newest version, something seems to be terribly wrong. When I started MLCad I got the report that stu213.dat and stu.211.dat were missing. Using the (...) (14 years ago, 16-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDView and snapshots (Windows 7 64bit)
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(...) There are number of things that might cause LDView to be slow in rendering snapshots. None of them that I can think of seems to really fit your description, but I'll list them here anyway. Don't use Pixel Buffer is enabled. This causes LDView (...) (14 years ago, 14-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Has anyone else experienced LDView being extremely slow making snapshots in Win7 (64bit)? The main problem is when run from LPub - then LDView is called quite often, and that's when I first noticed that something was terribly wrong compared to (...) (14 years ago, 13-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4.0.0.10 Available
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(...) Hi Megan and others, Kevin's website is unreachable for some time now. For the time being I am hosting the latest installer of LPub 4.1.1.10 on my site here: www.binarybricks.nl/..._setup.exe If you have any questions related to working with (...) (14 years ago, 12-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2552px2
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(...) If there were ever a "perfect" example of a good use of texture mapping, I'd say this is it. 5 well-placed photos of the top, front, back, left and right, and you'd be set. The beauty of such an approach is that angles are already taken care (...) (14 years ago, 12-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4.0.0.10 Available
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(...) Hi Kevin, Is LPub 4 still available to download? I have tired to access www.kclague.net (all links lead to your site, but it seems to be down -Feb. 11th 2011) Is it available anywhere else, do you have your site still? thanks for you help- (...) (14 years ago, 11-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2552px2
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(...) All right, I will try to find some pics of this part. I've already did some patterns for myself, but I had some problems to correctly integrate it on the parts. I mean, it was bad enough not be shareable to the community. If you would like to (...) (14 years ago, 8-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Damien, (...) I have already prepared a "modernized" (mainly BFCed) version of this part ((URL) If you manage to get good photos of the part, we could share the work of patterns creation and integration to the part. Philo (14 years ago, 8-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi all, While trying to make LEGO renders as realistic as possible, I'm wondering what would be the best, easiest and fastest way to create the 2552px2 which doesn't exist in the part tracker (none of the patterned 2552 actually). The problem is (...) (14 years ago, 6-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDConfig Manager Update (1.0.3.0)
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I just released another update on LDConfig Manager. Now I feel that the LDConfig Manager is nearly finished and can be used to generate exact the same LDconfig as it has been done by hand so far. LDConfig.ldr will be saved with 'UTF-8 without BOM' (...) (14 years ago, 4-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: New version of SketchUp-to-LDraw script
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(...) Hi Philo, Good question. In fact, Jim Foltz's su2ldraw plugin does include LDraw-to-SketchUp import and treatment of type 1 lines as SketchUp components (subparts). Unfortunately, I was not able to get su2ldraw to work (SketchUp 8 on Mac OS X (...) (14 years ago, 2-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker background color (request to Standards Committee)
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(...) That is why we should stick to the 8.3 length parts file name convention :-) I'm able to run ldraw fully native, on a still operational PC with MS-DOS operating system. (14 years ago, 2-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New version of SketchUp-to-LDraw script
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(...) Very interesting... one question before I commit myself to learn Sketchup, is it possible to import LDraw primitives, and build more complex shapes on them? Lack of proper integration of primitives is always what plagues advanced CAD tools (...) (14 years ago, 2-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker background color (request to Standards Committee)
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(...) That's impressive retro computing :D Philo (14 years ago, 2-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello, To assist my recent foray into the world of LDraw part authoring, I created a simplified version of Jim Foltz' su2ldraw script ((URL) which has been discussed here previously. I just posted my version of the script (a Ruby plugin for Google (...) (14 years ago, 2-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I did not know that, I always thought the cmdline is more aimed at the model level, cause they are basically ldraw.exe parameters? But looking at an old ldraw release, the -c param isn't mentioned so additional documentation on the !CMDLINE (...) (14 years ago, 1-Feb-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This is already in the files but no one really needs it so far: it is the !CMDLINE metacommand that is also nowhere explained in detail. cu mikeheide (14 years ago, 31-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I agree usage of color 16 for the box should be left to the part author. But the thing I'm thinking of is in daily use this will cause the sticker to be used in a non 'real' way. I mean you would like to have the option but by default it (...) (14 years ago, 31-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sticker background color (request to Standards Committee)
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(...) Our current spec ((URL) says: "The pattern is on the top face; the other (five) sides of the box correspond to main background color of the sticker pattern (i.e. the predominant color of the pattern at its edges). If there isn't a predominant (...) (14 years ago, 31-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
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