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    Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
   There are a few sections on the new LDraw.org website which are not fully operational yet. Please make a note. Model of the Month/Scene of the Month Voting (URL) script which runs this section has not been made fully operational on the new site. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Thomas Garrison
     (...) Okay. I don't think these fall into the categories of known bugs you mentioned. . . On this page: (URL) talks about downloading unofficial parts one-by-one, but only provides a link to download them all at once. This link is broken. Following (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Steve Bliss
      Picking out the bits I'm qualified for replying to... (...) It's not surprising that these two pages are weird/broken - they never existed before this new web layout. For the new /library/unofficial/, we copied the Part Tracker's Download page. For (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
     "TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.SOL.4.30.0...due.edu... (...) Doh! Can't ya tell I'm not a Castle fan? :-) I think I used a gray shield with the printing on it for the model.... it might be a part error? Steve? (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Steve Bliss
     (...) What are you asking me for? You did the rendering. It's part 3846p43. It's one of those special patterned parts, where main color specifies the *pattern* color, not the base part's color. In this case, it's the border color. If it rendered (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
      (...) My mistake. I totally forgot about that when I made the rendering. I chose the shiled color as gray, because all shields are gray, I forgot it was hard-coded. And I gotta get rid of the Red Futuron's yellow hands too ;-) (...) Of course. To my (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Jacob Sparre Andersen
     (...) Basically somebody needs to feel like maintaining such a page. The Linux pages didn't come until I started writing them, so just start writing, if you feel there is a need. (...) Certainly. Has anybody tried to compile LDGLite on Solaris? I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones) —Jeremy H. Sproat
     (...) Okay, I've found a few, just in the tutorial area. I'm replying online as requested, but warning, my item #2 could be a little insensitive. 1: In Brad Hamilton's Freeform Camera position tutorial, (URL) , the POV source code of a camera block (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones) —Tim Courtney
      "Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:GqBIK3.76F@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) all (...) I don't see a problem in my window. I do remember forcing a line break with a <br> a few times with POV code, but I don't see the problem. Maybe I'm (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
     
          Re: A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones) —Jeremy H. Sproat
      (...) Back to boot camp for you, mister. :-, (...) Here's what it appears like: // Camera (Latitude,Longitude,Radius = 0,180,0) camera { #declare PCT = 0; // Percentage further away #declare STEREO = 0; // Normal view file://#declare STEREO = (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones) —Lars C. Hassing
     (...) I don't know when Jonathan Knudsen wrote his tutotial, but the camera angle option -ca has been there since January 1999. (URL) or he just overlooked it. In stead of uncommenting the orthographic keyword, it's better to use e.g. -ca1. The (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones) —Don Heyse
     (...) Please don't get angry, because these are just suggestions, but... Actually what I think this shows is that there really *are* people out there who would like a -co option on the command line to automatically uncomment the orthographic (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones) —Don Heyse
     (...) One such example is if I were creating building instructions for a mecha and wanted to focus on the left foot for a particular step. I think it's pretty well established that a true orthographic projection makes for the easiest to understand (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones) —Lars C. Hassing
     Don Heyse wrote... (...) No, it makes sense. Sorry for not posting (URL) I can tell you are eager :-) But in Jonathan Knudsen's case I think he missed a point. /Lars (22 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Travis Cobbs
     1. I don't know about anyone else, but the Downloads column of each of the various OS download pages (all of which say "Not Yet Available") make it sound like none of the tools can be downloaded yet. Perhaps it should be something like "# of (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
     "Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqBoGq.L5I@lugnet.com... (...) Yeah I was thinking that too. :-) I hope this will be out of the way soon, after the content/link issues are worked out I'll sit down and play with the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Marc Klein
     (...) In the Windows Users download page (URL) Stl2dat is reported to be "STL2DAT BETA 9" It has actually version 1.0 as reported when you follow the link (URL) a bug, but a wish in the part tracker : Could it be possible to see a list of reviews of (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Steve Bliss
     (...) Yes, this is definitely on the list of enhancements for the Parts Tracker. It will either be accomplished when the two part-list pages are combined into a single dynamic, sortable, searchable page, or when we create a "My Parts Tracker" page. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Matthew Gerber
     In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney writes: <snip the known to be broken/missing thigs, most of which have likely been fixed by now> (...) Interestingly, I don't see anywhere in this post where Tim requires anyone to critique the new design of the LDraw.org (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
     "Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GqDKA4.8ur@lugnet.com... (...) we (...) encourage (...) is (...) Thanks Matt. :-) A clarifiacation: I do not want to hear complaints about the website design, the code, or anything of (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Steve Bliss
     (...) Why not? It's not like anyone has said, "I don't like fixed-width pages; they really waste space on my super-duper hi-res monitor". Most of the postings I've read have been useful and to the point. If people have problems with the website, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
     This has been addressed privately. I will deal with the contents publicly later. -Tim (...) [SNIP] (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Steve Bliss
     (...) I'll wait for your public response. Steve (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Thomas Garrison
     (...) I don't think this has been reported yet (I think the page is pretty new). On this page (URL) are asked to select an operating system, and given three choices. Should DOS be there too? (It's in the navigation bar just below, along with the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Jacob Sparre Andersen
     (...) I suppose it should, but until somebody writes a page for it, it doesn't make all that much sense. Jacob (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Thomas Garrison
     (...) Aha. Those three choices are links to instructions, and the links at the bottom are to download areas. I should have actually thought about why they had differently named links. . . ---...--- TWS Garrison tgarriso@math.purdue.edu (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Steve Bliss
     (...) This area is mostly online, but still being checked for errors. Use it with caution. (...) The Part Updates area is all fixed. Steve (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Manfred Moolhuysen
     Hello Team, On Ldraw.org I've found a link that is still broken: On page: (URL) the text body just above the list there is a link named "Certification Report" (behind "Also, view the "). Currently this points incorrectly to: (URL) believe it should (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Steve Bliss
     (...) Thanks, Manfred. This link is now fixed. Steve (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Travis Cobbs
     There is a broken link in the Linux Getting Started section: (URL) link to the LDraw Parts Library in Step 1 is broken. It current is set to the following: (URL) Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Steve Bliss
     (...) (URL) the ldraw027.zip file needs to be copied over from the old site. Steve (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
      "Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:rm115ukq6l1f4jk...4ax.com... (...) set (...) Ok, I'm uploading that file now. It will be done in a few minutes. -Tim (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Travis Cobbs
     (...) So, there is no longer a tar.gz version for Linux users? While unzip is available for Linux, tar and gunzip should come standard in all distributions. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
      "Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqGtr6.7Bv@lugnet.com... (...) distributions. (...) Looked on my hard drive, I don't have a tar.gz copy of the file. Otherwise I'd throw it up now. Jacob will have to fix that problem. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Jacob Sparre Andersen
     (...) Good point. But as long as the LDGLite source code is distributed in a ZIP file it does not make much of a difference. I will keep it in mind and do something about it at some point. Jacob (22 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Philippe Hurbain
     "Tutorials: Introduction to Creating LDraw Parts" contains a missing link to "which primitives are available" (3rd paragraph). Best regards, thanks for your work ! Philo (22 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Manfred Moolhuysen
   Hello Team, On Ldraw.org I've just found another broken link: On the homepage: (URL) the left side/second from top frame that contains links to "Reference", "Download", "Community", "Parts Library" and lots of "smaller" links, a link named "Parts (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones —Tim Courtney
   Hi Manfred - The link is fixed, thanks. -Tim (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 

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