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(...) Hi Willy, Nice explanation about naming. The issue of 8.3 nomenclature falls under the purvue of the Standards Committee. Before they can remove that constraint, they will have to work with the community of tool developers to understand the (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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guys, I'm currently working on 004219b.dat - Sticker System with Australia Flag Pattern. unfortunately there is no rule for subparts in the sticker standard: (URL) to the PT references: (URL) are subparts numbered? A: Subparts, which are stored in (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Moscow in the 80s - diorama
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Uh, oh, you may have an argument to model the underside of baseplates in LDraw: (URL) (It may not be obvious, but I'm being at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek here.) --Travis (18 years ago, 26-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: instructions needed
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Orion Pobursky schrieb: (...) Thanks Orion, but I need not the instructions for the sets itself because I own all of them. I need the instructions for the extra models (combinations) that are shown on that picture. Those instructions are not in the (...) (18 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.znap, lugnet.technic.roboriders, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) (URL) (18 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.znap, lugnet.technic.roboriders, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Does anybody has instructions for these models of the roborider series? (URL) help is welcome. mikeheide (18 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.znap, lugnet.technic.roboriders, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Underside stud groups
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Mark Kennedy schrieb: (...) I think this is not necessary. The other stud groups are created mainly for the baseplates and there are no underside studs. mikeheide (18 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Does anybody think that there should be stud groups for the undersides of plates made up of STUD4 type studs? Was wondering how much support there is for such primitives before submitting any to the tracker. (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Tyre 30.4x14 VR
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ludo soete schrieb: (...) This part is already an official part. Please download the the actual parts updates to install it on your system. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | LDraw file for wheel 55981?
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Is there an existing LDraw version of the 55981 "Wheel 30.4 x 14 with Holes on Both Sides" ((URL) I can't seem to find it in the parts tracker. On the other hand, LDD does have this wheel. Is it possible to convert LDD parts to LDraw format (not (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions
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(...) Yes, that's true, but in such cases there are generally lines separating the polygons (parts), and people expect to see those in the render. The problem we're talking about here is artifacts showing up on the faces of individual parts where (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions [DAT]
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Something else to consider is that T junctions will often appear in model files themselves between two parts as shown in this simple example. 0 Model exported from LeoCAD 0 Original name: 1 4 20.00 -24.00 30.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) No there's not. I'm a physicist... not an engineer ;) Tim (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) blah, blah, blah, snip Oops, I was trying to be all ironical in a geeky math sorta way. But apparently I failed. Guess I shoulda used more winkies... Do people still use winkies? Or have they gone obsolete like ASCII art? Anyhow, sorry about (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) There is, however, such a thing as an impractical problem ;) ROSCO (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Well actually what txt2dat does is a slightly different problem - it has a few simple closed loops and has to triangulate the complex polygons bounded by them (it uses the excellent (URL) triangle library> to do that). Renderers on the other (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) OK, I stand corrected. Technically a program can fix things a load time. However, you might be surprised at how long it takes. It's "only" O(n^2), but each iteration is slow. You have to search the current line segment against all other line (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Well... Technically it is true. The rendering program ought to be able to scan all the points in each part and look for intersections with every edge in the part. Then break up the offensive T-joins automagically and render it perfectly. (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Arguably it's probably the algorithms and/or numerical proccessing that are at fault. Certainly when you design scientific code algorithms they should usually be created in such a way that it minimises numerical error. Of course I don't expect (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) I'd really appreciate it if you didn't blame it on the rendering programs. There's really nothing that they can do to fix the problem. I can understand why you might feel that they are at fault, but it really isn't true. As such, you might (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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