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(...) Hi Reuben! Thank you for hosting my program on your web space, for promoting my program to other part authors and Thanks to J.C. Tchang for writing this great manual! I am still working on the LPC. Here is my TODO-List: - To write a (...) (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC)
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(...) J.C. Tchang has kindly put a manual together for the LDraw-Pattern-Creator. At the moment this is only available in French. I have added some links to the manual on the following page: (URL) can browse the manual online or you can download a (...) (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC)
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Looks impressive. I'll give it a try with a patterned part I want. Jaco (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi everyone, I recently made contact with Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89], and he kindly sent me a copy of the source code for his LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC) program. I've compiled a copy of the code and put some links on my website where you can (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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(...) Great, glad you like them! There are more colouring pictures here: (URL) some phonics worksheets and a maths worksheet. (URL) 3D Lego models and other resources from: (URL) (13 years ago, 30-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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(...) I printed the pirate minifig on my laserprinter at work and it looks perfect. Ready to use as a coloring picture for the kids! Jaco (13 years ago, 30-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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(...) I've been experimenting with generating these type of images for quite a while and so far come up a number of techniques. These are as follows: 1) Convert MLCAD model to DXF file using Rolf Redford's LdrDat2Dxf. Then use PoseRay to create a (...) (13 years ago, 29-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Official LPub manual online
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Thank you both. Saso (13 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Official LPub manual online
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(...) In lugnet.cad, Saso Tomat wrote: (...) Hi Saso, You need to work with submodels and call those out. You should also apply Show submodels as parts in the PLI. Download the LDraw MPD (Multi Part Dat file): (URL) the PDF: (URL) you want to learn (...) (13 years ago, 26-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Official LPub manual online
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(...) --snip-- (...) --snip-- (...) --snip-- (...) There's two ways I can think of. 1) Make the two sections into submodels. Although that will force them onto different pages. But you can always hand edit them back 2) Use buffer exchange to mask (...) (13 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Official LPub manual online [DAT]
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I need a help with Lpub. I just can't get it to work (checked the manual already). I am posting this here so maybe manual could get an update if necessary. 0 Untitled 0 Name: example.ldr 0 Author: MLCad 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 (...) (13 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) (FUT lugnet.cad.dev) I draw everything but the edge lines with glColorMask() set to all false. This updates the depth buffer, but doesn't update the color buffer. Edge lines are drawn with a standard glColorMask(). --Travis (14 years ago, 25-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing [DAT]
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(...) Great! Note that it may be easier to use slant instead of stretch/rotate. It is a bit more difficult to figure out at the beginning, but it avoids calculations and gives simpler coefficients. Here is the result, applied to your file: 0 (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing [DAT]
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(...) That did it! Here's the part I needed... thanks again!!!! 0 ~Technic Flex-System Hose 45 bevel End 0 Name: 76_bevel3.dat 0 Author: Lar with hints from Philo 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 0 WRITE Inner cylinder (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Google translate does a pretty fair job, actually, enough to suss out most of what is being said... Manfred's section of notes in the part authoring "tutorial" (URL) is also helpful (URL) wasn't aware that there was a sliced cylinder primitive (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hey, this is interesting. Is it actually just drawing the visible lines in some final rendering stage? Or is there more going on there with the Stencil and/or Depth buffer? (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Beveled flex tubing
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OK, I think what you miss is the 4-4cyls.dat primitive, add it to a regular 4-4cyli and you basically have what you need. For the tip, you need a slanted primitive (ring and edges). There is a tutorial (unfortunately in French) here (URL) , (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I was looking at trying to use your cutting tool, actually,.. stretch a 4-4cyli.dat to a long enough length (somehow?) and then just use a big quad tilted to 45 degrees as the "blade". But I can't quite suss out how to do it, being somewhat (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Larry, would you have a picture or drawing of what you need exactly? Philo (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Or alternatively, you could use ring/cone/cyl primitives, should be lots easier than doing individual quads. ROSCO (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad)
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