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(...) True. But it's more than nothing. (...) LDraw (and LEdit, I assume) don't cache any files in memory. Read it (line by line), process it, and throw it away. (...) Reducing the number of files may not be important to rendering speed, but it is (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Actually, for rounded elements, it's almost always[1] preferable to use primitives. That way, programs that do primitives substitution can replace the polygonal primitive with a true round object. -- Steve 1) 'almost always' meaning, 'I can't (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) However, when deciding whether or not to in-line sub-parts, reducing polygon count isn't a consideration. Any other advantage, small or not, should be maximised. (...) Whether they do or not, there's still extra time spent identifying the (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) I think it is an extremely small advantage. What programs actually read any file more than once? I mean, Are there programs that actaully open the file and read the part in every time it's referenced? Or are there programs that even if they (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) Just tried, Steve, and x124 is now used by a minifig shield. Could you reserve a block of 10 & email me? Thanks ROSCO (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Sub-parts are handled differently to primitives (from an authoring view point). While primitives are generally not in-lined, sub-parts used during authoring are often in-lined, if it doesn't increase the total file size of the part too much. (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | x483, Hinge Arm Locking with 1 Finger and Peg [DAT]
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This file is one of the new "click hinge" arms from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and/or "Star Wars" sets. It needs one or more of the following subfiles: (URL) Hinge Arm Locking with 1 Finger and Peg 0 Name: x483.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x482, Hinge Arm Locking with 2 Fingers and Axle Hole [DAT]
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This file is one of the new "click hinge" arms from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and/or "Star Wars" sets. It needs one or more of the following subfiles: (URL) Hinge Arm Locking with 2 Fingers and Axle Hole 0 Name: x482.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x481, Hinge Arm Locking with 1 Finger and Axle Hole [DAT]
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This file is one of the new "click hinge" arms from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and/or "Star Wars" sets. It needs one or more of the following subfiles: (URL) Hinge Arm Locking with 1 Finger and Axle Hole 0 Name: x481.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x480, Hinge Arm Locking Double [DAT]
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This file is one of the new "click hinge" arms from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and/or "Star Wars" sets. It needs one or more of the following subfiles: (URL) Hinge Arm Locking Double 0 Name: x480.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x483s01, subfile #5 (of 5) [DAT]
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This is one of several subfiles for a group of new parts I've encoded. These are for the new click-hinge arms (from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and "Star Wars" sets). Thanks, Franklin 0 ~subpart Hinge Arm Locking -- Ridge Segment 0 Name: (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x481s01, subfile #4 (of 5) [DAT]
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This is one of several subfiles for a group of new parts I've encoded. These are for the new click-hinge arms (from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and "Star Wars" sets). Thanks, Franklin 0 ~subpart Hinge Arm Locking -- Axle Hole 0 Name: s\x481s01.dat (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x480s03, subfile #3 (of 5) [DAT]
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This is one of several subfiles for a group of new parts I've encoded. These are for the new click-hinge arms (from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and "Star Wars" sets). Thanks, Franklin 0 ~subpart for s\x480s02.dat (One-Half of Two-Finger End) 0 (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x480s02, subfile #2 (of 5) [DAT]
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This is one of several subfiles for a group of new parts I've encoded. These are for the new click-hinge arms (from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and "Star Wars" sets). Thanks, Franklin 0 ~subpart Hinge Arm Locking -- Two-Finger End (needs work) 0 (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | x480s01, subfile #1 (of 5) [DAT]
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This is one of several subfiles for a group of new parts I've encoded. These are for the new click-hinge arms (from the "Life on Mars", "Studio", and "Star Wars" sets). Thanks, Franklin 0 ~subpart Hinge Arm Locking -- One-Finger End (needs work) 0 (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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(...) I can see how that wouldn't be desirable. (...) Correct me if I'm wrong (please!) But inlining only replaces the type 1 line with the (transformed) lines from the subfile it referenced. Right? It doesn't mean figuring out if 2 polygons could (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) I'm not a mech. eng. major, myself, so my knowledge of this CAD stuff is just from my math. skills. That said... As I understand it, a "primitive" is supposed to be an *atomic* unit, something boiled down to its essentials. A disc/circle (or (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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(...) One thing you should be careful of, though. If you do inline it so that your new sub-part is used and doesn't reference any actual primitives, programs like L3P and LDView can end up displaying things with gaps. Both LDView and L3P perform (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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(...) Urk. I hadn't looked at the hook-hand file yet. I'd forgotten how ... unusual ... the orientation of the hand was. My opinion is, in this case, logic should prevail over continuity, and the hook-hand should be given a rational orientation. (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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Hello, in this case i would agree tp Franklin's opinion regarding using two ring instead of creating a new primitive because if we create a new primitive section for this you will have very big number of possible combinations (ring 1 +ring 2, ring 1 (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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(...) It's all a compromise (just like life!). If you go creating primitives for every little sub-part that's used a few times, you end up with a primitive directory that's unwieldy & lots of parts which inline because they don't know the (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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(...) As a program author, I believe that yes this would result in twice the polygon count. While I aggree that programs should generally do everything they can to make authoring parts easier, I also think that Part Authors ought to keep in mind (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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(...) Wouldn't that result in twice as many polys that have to be rendered? Forgive if that's a dumb question, I ain't much of an author, you know. :-) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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This isn't necessary. Just use a ring3 and a ring-4, both with the same placement and orientation... (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | ring 3 to 5 [DAT]
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Here is a new ring primitive with inner radius 3 and outer radius 5. I'm not sure what to name it, but I guess they should use something along the lines of what is used for the torus primitves. 0 Ring 3 to 5 0 Name: ring3-5.dat 0 Author: Mark (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: new pattern - "Gasganno" face (Star Wars) [DAT]
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Please LMKWYT! ;-) Thanks, Franklin 0 Minifig Head with SW Alien with Large Black Eyes Pattern 0 Name: 3626bpsb.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 CMDLINE -c15 0 KEYWORDS face, big eyes, Star Wars, Episode One, Mos Espa, pod race, (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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If someone does re-orient the minifig hand, please let me know, so that I can update this new file correspondingly: (URL) DAT file for the minifig hook-hand)... Thanks, Franklin (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Question on very old French flag (curved version, from '66)
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According to the following link (URL) French flag seems red-white-blue from the pole and out, and not blue-white-red as it should be. Is this just an error in the booklet? Does anyone have this part so that it can be confirmed? Thanks /Tore (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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(...) Yes, we definitely need a new hand. In addition to the hand to stem angle, we also need to fix the origin to make sense, like being along the axis of wrist rotation. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: is BOX5.DAT really BFC compliant?
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(...) Hi Kyle, Also seems correct to me. Regards, Damien (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: is BOX5.DAT really BFC compliant?
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(...) [snip] (...) No, it's correct. Keep in mind that this polygon forms the *bottom* of the box, so it is facing downward. In the default view, you will actually be looking at the backside of this quad. Imagine being under the primitive, and (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | is BOX5.DAT really BFC compliant?
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I've been working on the BFC code in my application, and well, either I need to go to bed now (which is probably true either way :) or the BOX5.DAT primitive slipped into the last update with wrong-way wound quad. Am I reading this right? (...) This (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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(...) Well, at first glance, using a spear as pointer, it looked like 17 degrees to me also. However, I did the following and came up with 14.5 degrees: 1. Lay a minifig up next to a piece of paper, with the hand in the up position and a spear in (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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(...) I might have talked about it, but I'm not doing anything on it right now. Feel free to run with it. :) (...) I think I measured it at 17 degrees once, but I might have mis-measured (or be misremembering). Or maybe Tore told me that was the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) The "x" is a temporary prefix, indicating that it's a new part for which we don't know the real part number. If we don't find the real number before the new file is made official, the "x" is dropped. There's no point in having an "xnnn" number (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) Is there any reason an "x" number cannot co-exist with a matching "real" number? Surely, if the correct number is subsequently obtained, the "xnnn" can be changed to a "moved-to" stub. Is this just to avoid confusion? (...) OK. Ta. ROSCO (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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Sorry, all, :] I forgot Steve Bliss already briefly mentioned redoing the hand, so ignore anything in my post that sounds like I'm the only one who ever thought of it. :) But since the arm has now gotten attention from Chris Dee (thanks, Chris!), I (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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I wonder if it would be worth it to re-make the minifig hands too. The hand should tilt away from the hand "stem" at an angle of about 15 degrees. Right now, to get the correct angle of the hand to the arm, the hand has to be tilted so the solids (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm
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(...) Thanks (and thanks to others who commented, too), I'll continue with the more difficult sections. The new arm part is orientated with its axis of rotation at y=0, z=0, so to test in different positions you'll need to rotate the new part about (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Wow- that's beautiful! I'm very glad to see this- I didn't really *want* to do the part myself, but it seemed to need doing. I'll try fiddling with it in various positions. It's great to have a center of rotation that actually works. Are you (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) Yes - that would be good. (...) alphabetic. (...) Yep - that would be good even better. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) Mail me a list of the old parts you mean, and I'll see what I can do. I can't promise a quick response, but I bet that I can find one of just about anything around here. I have a friend in the area who is a very serious collecter of old stuff. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) Hmm. I'm not sure. My first thought is "honorary reviewers" or "era specialists". If you know of people who've got the parts in question, and they are willing to spend some time reviewing them, we can certainly take their input. Even if they (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) FWIW, I didn't take your response to Don as childish. You brought up a very valid point. Some responses to your parts that have been "improved" by others: (...) I believe the same thing happened to *all* 3070 parts. The file was not updated (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm
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(...) Yes it is, because at the monkey you can see it. (...) CU Bernd (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) Hey Ross: sorry I didn't really get the point of your email -- I was in a rush, and didn't look at the parts. Otherwise, I would have said then, what I'm going to say now. Do *not* use the Peeron 'x' numbers as the basis for LDraw parts! The (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Firelogo
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(...) Yes, it would be better if the firelogo was a subpart, so it could be reused. The main problem with 4209p01 is it is coded poorly. As you said, the pattern is setup like a sticker. The files should be modified - the printed area should be (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm
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(...) This looks very promising! :) Any chance you're going to recurve the inner surface around the shoulder? It would really help avoid that "CGI intersecting solids" look that we've had going. :) Also, can I reserve judgement as to whether we (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm
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Congratulations Chris, This is a tremendous improvement. I wonder whether interior is really necessary. Personally I would be satisfied with a better-than-current exterior. May be the cost in display time is negligeable compared to a whole minifig. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm [DAT]
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(...) Repost to fix line-wrapping mess. 0 FILE armtest.dat 0 Name: armtest.DAT 0 Author: Chris Dee (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com) 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 973.DAT 0 rotated 9.782 z 1 15 -15.552 9 0 .9855 -.1699 0 .1699 .9855 0 0 0 1 975b.dat 0 rotated (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Work-in-progress improved minifig arm [DAT]
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(...) concerns. (...) Here is my work so far on improving the minifig arm. It is provided as an MPD file of a torso and arms at two different angles; right - upper arm vertical; left - forearm horizontal. There is still much to do on the inner arm (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) IIRC, part of what I did to these was to add the type 2 line inside the thin pattern rectangles and subjugate the pattern to subfile. These are techniques that proboably did not exist when you made the original part, so there is absolutely no (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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I am very, very sorry for my childish overreaction to your relevant comments. It just happened to be you who brought the last straw... (...) My parts do have problems. Let's have a look at the occurance of my name in the updates lcad0103, 0201, and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Firelogo [DAT]
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Hi, When I took a closer look at existing parts that use the fire logo (the three flames in red, orange and yellow on a black surface) I noticed a gap between the yellow flame and the black surface. I also noticed that two parts 4209p01 and 4346p01 (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176 [DAT]
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(...) Anyway, here's an updated version, that I'll upload to the PT tonight. I just tidied it up a bit, and changed the name & description to match peeron. It looks OK with the 16 seg cylinders, so I'll leave it as is. ROSCO 0 Wheel Centre Thin with (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) yea rosco, try this > (URL) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part x176
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I'm working on this part (URL) and hve the problem that it has 12 spokes, so it's hard to join it up with 16 segment cylinder primitives. I though maybe I could use the 48 segment primitives, but was wondering what people think - whether I should do (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part #32475
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Is anyone working on this part or plan to in the near future? Here's the link showing the part: (URL) Dickinson (URL) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | new pattern - "Gasganno" face (Star Wars)
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(URL) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 973psy (SW senior officer) [DAT]
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Needs this subfile: (URL) Minifig Torso with SW Imp. Senior Officer Pattern 0 Name: 973psy.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 CMDLINE -c7 0 KEYWORDS Star Wars, Classic Trilogy, Imperial, Empire, Death Star, set 7201 0 KEYWORDS (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | s\973psy1.dat (subfile for SW senior officer) [DAT]
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I'll post the main file in just a bit... 0 ~subpart for 973psy (SW Imp. Sr. Officer) - Silver 0 Name: s\973psy1.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 0 comm-link 0 1 16 11.250 4.250 -10 0.25 0 0 0 0 0.25 0 1 0 4-4disc.dat 1 16 11.750 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 973psz (SW jr. officer) [DAT]
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Needs this subfile: (URL) Minifig Torso with SW Imp. Junior Officer Pattern 0 Name: 973psz.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 CMDLINE -c0 0 KEYWORDS Star Wars, Classic Trilogy, Imperial, Empire, Death Star 0 KEYWORDS set 7166, (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | s\973psz1.dat (subfile for SW jr. officer) [DAT]
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I'll post the main file in just a second... 0 ~subpart for 973psz (SW Imp. Jr. Officer) - Silver 0 Name: s\973psz1.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 4 16 11 4 -10 13 4 -10 13 6 -10 11 6 -10 4 16 12 6 -10 13 6 -10 13 8 -10 12 8 -10 0 1 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Updated 3648, technic 24 tooth gear [DAT]
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And hear is an updated version of the 24 tooth gear using the tooth primitve. Unfortunately there isn't a hi-res ring12 primitive released yet :/ 0 Technic Gear 24 Tooth 0 Name: 3648.dat 0 Author: Mark Kennedy, original Remco Braak 1997 (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Updated 3647, technic 8 tooth gear. [DAT]
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And here is the updated 3647 which I have incorporated it into. If somebody who works at the part tracker can add this to the list I would be very thankful. 0 Technic Gear 8 Tooth 0 Name: 3647.dat 0 Author: Mark Kennedy 0 Original by unknown author, (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | technic gear tooth primitive [DAT]
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Okay. Here is a primitive version of the tooth for all those technic gears. So far I've incorporated it into part 3647 and am working on putting it in 3648. 0 technic gear tooth 0 Name: cog.dat 0 Author: Mark Kennedy 1 16 1.50 1 0 -0.50 0 0 1 0 0 0 (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: new axle hole (part two)
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(...) Oops. Thanks. It's fixed now. Steve (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: new axlehole (part1)
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(...) Sorry, I didn't see that in the tracker. I also submitted a new version of the magnet 73092 under the name of MAG.DAT since 73092 was taken. (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Baseplates with pattern
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(...) I suppose that would be a problem. It would be more of a problem, if stud-logos were part of LDraw. It would also be more of a problem, if this were a smaller part. By the time people get to using 32x32 baseplates, they aren't usually looking (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Baseplates with pattern
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(...) Not unless the subparts would be used multiple times within the part file. Just put the code for the painted studs in the part file. Steve (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: new axle hole (part two)
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(...) Yes, yes you do. I believe you have the descriptions for 4 and 5 reversed. :-) 2 - (and so do I) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: new axle hole (part two)
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(...) Lack of planning, I think. ;) Seriously, the axleholes are more complex than most other types of primitives, and presented in different ways in LEGO bricks. So there's a need for more variations. Just for fun,[1] I put together a gallery of (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: new axlehole (part1)
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(...) [snipped DAT code] Mark, Is this primitive supposed to be a substantially different profile than axleho11.dat? Other than splitting it into two different files. (URL) Steve (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | new axle hole (part two) [DAT]
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and the second part. If people think I should I would be willing to combine them into a single file. Why so many axle hole primitives anyway? 0 4 16 2 0 2 5.58 0 2 5.52 0 2.28 4.26 0 4.26 4 16 2 0 2 4.26 0 4.26 2.28 0 5.52 2 0 5.58 4 16 -2 0 -2 (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | new axlehole (part1) [DAT]
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Plus a new type of axlehole 0 4 16 0 -0.00 -6 -2 -0.00 -5.66 -2 -1.00 -5.66 0 -1.00 -6 2 24 -2 -0.00 -5.66 -2 -1.00 -5.66 4 16 -2 -1.00 -5.66 -2 -0.00 -5.66 -2 -0.00 -2 -2 -1.00 -2 2 24 -2 -0.00 -2 -2 -1.00 -2 4 16 -2 -1.00 -2 -2 -0.00 -2 -5.66 (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | double bevel gear tooth [DAT]
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Here is a new primitive for those double beveled technich gears. 0 Double Bevel Technic Gear Tooth 0 Name: bevcog.dat 0 Author: Mark Kennedy 0 taken out of 32270.dat by Marc Klein 0 3 16 0 3 -10 1.31 -0.09 -10 -1.31 -0.09 -10 2 24 0 3 -10 1.31 -0.09 (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Baseplates with pattern
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That would work but... what if you want to render the base with the Lego logo on the studs? L3P and LDView use the stud primitve to determine Lego logo placement. I could live with no Lego logo on some studs but for those who insist on perfection (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Baseplates with pattern
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(...) So, what do you think we should do? Several subparts for every new pattern? CU Bernd (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Baseplates with pattern
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(...) First, make a plain version of the part, and call it 6092.dat. For LDraw, we always include a plain version of parts, even if LEGO never released the part without a pattern. (...) Once you've got a plain 6092.dat, copy the file to 6092p01.dat. (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Female Ldraw Parts
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(...) In general, save the files to C:\ldraw\parts\, with the extension .DAT. In MLCAD, use File | Scan Parts to make sure MLCAD knows about the file(s) you downloaded. For other programs, run the utility c:\ldraw\mklist.exe to rebuild the parts (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Baseplates with pattern
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(...) Unless the color makes up 95%+ of the stud, I don't think this would be a good approach. (...) I don't think LEGO's pattern will cooperate with us to make neat sections of studs. So I don't think this approach would really work. Also, thinking (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Baseplates with pattern
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(...) Hi all, I know this problem and I think the solutions could be: 1) You take the color which covers the most of the stud. 2) We need to make a half (resp. quarter) stud that could be colored in different colors. Let me know, what you think (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Patterned tiles
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(...) There is useful reference material on ldraw.org. How we allocate part numbers - (URL) detail on patterned parts, in particular - (URL) LUGNET posting gives some general advice on patterned parts (URL) be happy to allocate the Ax pattern range (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Baseplates with pattern
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Dear All, Next my question to you reffers to part I've already started. It is baseplate from the set 5978. It is similar to part 6092px1 I found in peeron.com ((URL) Form is the same, but color and pattern are different. It is rather complicated and (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Patterned tiles
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Dear All, I've just started my adventure with creating of LDraw parts. I plan to send you my first parts for your evaluation. However I have some questions now. I send them in successive e-mails. My plans are to create some parts from the set 5978 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Female Ldraw Parts
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(...) I'm not sure what it's like when downloading only one DAT file from Lugnet, but perhaps because there were some other non-code lines in the code area, the server didn't do what is normally done. I don't know. BUT, I do know that when you're in (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Female Ldraw Parts
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(...) I know, I know... but the file I download is not an LDraw part. Under properties its listed as just 'file' under file trpe. Any suggestions? Also, how do you modify subparts? John Kruer (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) Tore- please don't stop submitting to the tracker. You consistently crank out great work, and I for one appreciate it. I'll happily take the trailer and ramp. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) Hi Tore, I'm not sure what to make of this. I think your parts are fantastic and I'm sure many people (myself included) enjoy them even with these insignificant flaws. I'd have thought your parts would have no problems with the official (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) I know, I know, but I couldn't care much less. The parts I make are good enough for making instructions and overqualified for animations, but never good enough for the authorizing crew. It's no use, I won't even try to submit any more parts to (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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Hi Tore, This one could use some edge lines at the tips of the "thumbs" It also has that problem with the optional line where the cylinder meets the flat surface that we talked about before. (URL) only mention that one because I don't think we (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp [DAT]
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0 Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp 0 Name: 727.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Element 1 16 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 4 0 0 2-4edge.dat 1 16 -32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 4 0 0 2-4edge.dat 1 16 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 4 0 0 2-4edge.dat 1 16 -36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 4 0 0 (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Horse parts in the parts tracker
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(...) See for yourself: (URL) (seriously, go look) :) Actually, here's some extra break-down: There are 27 horse files. There are also a couple of unofficial primitives that the horse files depend on; these primitives are not considered in this (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part: x699.dat - Duplo Horse Fence [DAT]
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0 Duplo Horse Fence 0 Name: x699.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Element 1 16 80 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 4-4edge.dat 1 16 -80 0 0 -6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 4-4edge.dat 1 16 80 -20 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 4-4edge.dat 1 16 -80 -20 0 -6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part: x726.dat - Trailer 4 x 16 [DAT]
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Now where on earth did I put that ramp??? 0 Trailer 4 x 16 0 Name: x726.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Element 0 KEYWORDS Legoland 1 16 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4-4edge.dat 1 16 0 6 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4-4edge.dat 1 16 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Female Ldraw Parts
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(...) John, You can save any part you download in the Parts directory, then either run Mklist.exe or File>Scan Parts in MLCad to add it to the parts list and use it in a model. To make those parts I actually had to modify the subpart 971s01 to what (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Female Ldraw Parts
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(...) <snip LDraw part> Errrr,I know I'm ignorent, but... How do you use the downloaded MPD part files and regular parts in general? John Kruer (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Microscout part?
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"Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:GuIJED.1CJ@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Female Ldraw Parts [DAT]
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Well, it's surprising how motivation can be obtained! Make something public and then feel like you *have* to get out the good version the same day! Here are the new improved unofficial files of Minifig Legs Left and Right Feminine. Enjoy! --Ryan The (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Bead torsos
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Clark, The short answer is, I goofed. I didn't double-check the DAT code. The files should be fixed now. (I just re-posted the three that required fixing.) Sorry for the confusion. :-/ Franklin (...) (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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