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| | | I just finished my second plugin: Generate Flexible DAT Elements. You can find it at my website, (URL) . Right now it only supports hoses of the type 73590B.DAT Hose Flexible 8.5L with Tabs or 73590A.DAT Hose Flexible 8.5L without Tabs but I plan to (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | Slight correction to the web address: (URL) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | I've updated my plugin. It now handles ribbed hoses and flexible axles as well. I also added the various values used in curve generation at the bottom of the curve. It can be downloaded at the same spot: (URL) usual, all comments are welcome. -Orion (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | | | | Hello Orion, Your plugin looks promising, but unfortunately doesn't work on my holidays laptop (Pentium 233 under Windows2000). - The name of the plugin is listed as "C:\LDdesignpad\LDde...gnpad.exe" - when I launch it, it bombs with the message (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Are you using version 1.19b of LDDesignPad? That may be your problem. -Orion P.S. I knew it was Bezier but I was too lazy to correct the the file name. (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Oops, sorry for the false alarm, I had an old 0.9 version of this machine. Works fine now, even with 1.19b ! Philo (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Jaco van der Molen
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| | | | | | | | | OK, I created a hose with part 750. With this plugin for LDDP I see no hose, although the secments 754 are there. Emacs created a nice hose for me. The files look the same... What could be wrong here? Greetingz... Sjaacko "Orion Pobursky" (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Can you post or send me the plugin output so I can have a look at it? -Orion (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Jaco van der Molen
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| | | | | | | | | | Here it is: 0 0 Begin Bezier Curve 1 0 -40 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 750.dat 1 0 40 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 750.dat 1 0 -40 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 755.dat 1 0 40 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 755.dat 1 0 -39,971 -6,3 0 0 -0,022 1 0 1 0,022 -1 0 0 754.dat 1 0 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) . . . This might work better if it used decimal points instead of the commas. Don (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) That's really wierd. It uses decimal points on both my machines. The problem may be due to your Windows regional settings if you are in Europe ( I think some European nations used the comma as a decimal separator). -Orion (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Yes, but according to this page you can override the global DecmimalSeparator value in the SysUtils module of Delphi. (URL) might want to do that so European users can keep their Windows regional settings and still use your program. Don (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Jaco van der Molen
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have indead a Dutch operating system and we use commas to separate decimals. Jaco "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:H1IA8u.5ED@lugnet.com... (...) ( (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) It's already implemented in the next version of the Plugin. I just have to finalize a few more thing before release. -Orion (22 years ago, 28-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | "Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H1HL1F.FuK@lugnet.com... (...) ( (...) Delphi, right? In your main unit put the following at the end: ... initialization ... DecimalSeparator := '.'; (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Jaco van der Molen
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| | | | | | | | | | | | "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:H1Gv82.KD3@lugnet.com... (...) I did not notice that! How foolish of me... I have read in the following thread that it is my OS (Win98 SE Dutch) that generates commas to seperate (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) May I ask what kind of relation there is between the code in LDDesignPad and LDraw-Mode? Have you captured my general idea, but implemented it by yourself from scratch? Or have you followed my algorithms more or less step by step? Fredrik (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) This question is directed towards Orion Pobursky, by the way. I'm sorry for the confusion. Fredrik (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Basically I translated the ELisp code into Pascal, simplifying and consolidating where I could. I credited you because I felt that I took too much from your original code. BTW, ELisp is not a very intuitive language to translate. I had to make (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) The source code for LDraw-mode is published under the GNU General Public License. This essentially means that anybody can read and modify the source code at their own will. But if anybody publishes any work derived from my program, they have (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I read the GPL and intend to release the source when I finalize how I want the program to operate. In the mean time, do you think I credit your work sufficently? I hate legalese, such as the GPL, and would prefer a more direct reply on exactly (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Thank you for your offer, but I am not worried by the credits issue at all. In fact, I think that your credits are just fine. What worries me, though, is the apparent violation of the GPL license. To avoid this, I think that you may want to (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) The next release of the plugin will fix this. Thanks for your concern. -Orion (22 years ago, 28-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | | | Really great ! I found two very minor problems: - with Technic ribbed hose, if distance between enpoints is greater than given length, the error message is "lenght of curve longer than the distance between endpoints" instead of the contrary. - with (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | | | (...) Thanks for tips, I'll include them in the next release -Orion (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Damien Guichard
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| | | | | | (...) Hi Orion, Your LDDesignPad plugin for flexible parts is absolutely great! Can precision be limited to 2 digits? Two digits would be more than enough for me. Thanks Orion and Carsten Schmitz, Damien (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | (...) This an easy fix. Consider it done. The perfectionist in me had the precision at 4 digits originally and I grudingly went to 3 but I guess 2 is all that is needed. -Orion (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) I'd rather have three decimals, especially on transform-matrix values (as opposed to XYZ vertex values, where 2 decimals is fine). Maybe this could be a user-defined setting? Steve (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | (...) Actually this is what I was planning to do. I just have to learn a little more about Delphi (The last formal programming class I took was Advanced Pascal using the DOS version of Borland Turbo Pascal). -Orion (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) :) (...) lol. My first experience with a PC was my Pascal class (CS120, maybe?). Turbo Pascal on floppy, using dual floppy IBM PCs (at the time, "IBM PC" was redundant), DOS 2.0. Steve "old man" Bliss (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: New LDDesignPad Plugin —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | I've update my plugin to allow the user to determine decimal accuracy. It can still be found in the same place: (URL) test it out as my knowledge of the usage of Dephi forms is pretty shakey. -Orion (22 years ago, 24-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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