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A fun use of L3P: this weekend I made some pretty Mac icons from DAT files using POV-Ray. Two of them became the new "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons in BrickDraw3D. -Erik (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Flat Panel 23" Monitor
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(...) limits of your video card. If you do indeed have an All In Wonder Radeon (the original, not the 8500, 9700, etc), then your DVI connector only supports up to 1280x1024, according to the specs page on ATI's web site. If you do go with the Sony, (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Flat Panel 23" Monitor
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(...) same 16:10 widescreen size (23"), and has the same native resulution (1920x1200) as the 23" Cinema Display. Plus, it lists for $500 less and natively supports DVI-D and HD15. DVI-D appears to be a digital-only connectotion. I'm not 100% sure, (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Flat Panel 23" Monitor
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Allthough these montors can be used with adapters (most, maybe not all of these mac displays are NOT regular DVI) the contrast/brightness CANNOT be adjusted with windows. This is done by the mac, but with windows you'd have controls on the monitor, (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Flat Panel 23" Monitor
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(...) Thanks, I got a ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON ATI CARD and according to the specs it can handle this: Digital Flat Panel (DVI-I) support (AGP version only) DVI-I Interface lets you connect ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON™ to new DVI-I Digital Flat Panels Enjoy (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Flat Panel 23" Monitor
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I have a Mac Cinema Display 22" on my machine, being driven by an ATI9000 Pro graphics card. Both this and the 23" display are digital monitors. The ATI card has two monitor output ports (to drive two monitors at once if necessary). One port is a (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac LDView possibility
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Binary is (for the next few days/weeks) available at: (URL) will probably need a video card better than a Rage 128. This doesn't work on my iBook 466 at all (but it does work on my G4/1.25). I'm just going to paste the read me: ---...--- LDView (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Flat Panel 23" Monitor
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I don't know anything about Windows drivers except I can't ever get them to install right. But otherwise, sure. You need to buy a bunch of extra stuff though. You can either get Dr. Bott's DVIator with a video card with a DVI port. Dr. Bott's (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Flat Panel 23" Monitor
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(...) You probably can, but you would need a DVI to ADC adapter (and be using a video card with a DVI port). Even then, I can't guarantee it would work since I never tried it and don't have one to try it with. Plus I know some versions of Windows (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Flat Panel 23" Monitor
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Mac users is it possible to connect this monitor or another other MAC flat monitors to a PC? Here is the link: (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Don't worry, neither do I. ;-) (...) The OS 9 script should compile and work on OS X too. I haven't been paying attention to AppleScript changes for OS X since May, but back then the scripts pretty much did the same thing they did in OS 9. (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) If, IF I get it working. I have no idea what I am doing most of the time, but sometimes get it to work anyway. With OS 9 I could create a drag-and-drop capable scriptlet/applet, but with OS X I cannot figure it out :( (...) It seems that there (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: requesting new feature for tracker
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(...) That shouldn't be too hard... (...) Yeah, that's basically it. (...) Right. It would be really nice if we could list "files I've reviewed, but were resubmitted, so I needed to re-review them". But that would be more challenging.... Steve (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) I wondered that too. I would think that it wouldn't matter. If it tried to open a binary file, I don't think it would be any worse than openning a SimpleText or some other "TEXT" file. POV-Ray still has to check the file for proper POV-Ray (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Ldraw Viewer Update (v 0.3)
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(...) Give me a couple of days, and I'll give it a try. Chris (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) I agree. It seems like a step backwards. (...) Ahh.... so it is a 10.2 thing. Thanks, Chris (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) I suspected that POV-Ray was just being difficult, especially when simply adding (I didn't know if it was adding or changing the file type) the text file type. (...) Actually, that makes sense. But do you think that they are doing the "text (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) I found the sample code that loads the System.framework from a CFM carbon app and runs a unix process with popen... (URL) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) These might not be the cleanest solution. I want the same binary to launch on OS 8.6 or 9. But I think you can still try to bring in a Cocoa framework at runtime to a CFM process though. CFM is required on OS 9. Mixing Cocoa and Carbon is (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | requesting new feature for tracker
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I'd like to see a new feature for the Parts Tracker, one that is literally the exact opposite of "myreviews.cgi", one that lists all files that the user has *NOT* yet reviewed (i.e., currently does not have a review from user; I acknowledge that (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Numbers Report - 5 Dec. 2002
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Section Totals 028 certified files. 184 files need admin review. 193 files need more votes. 244 have uncertified subfiles. 136 held files. 785 files total. For comparison: 2002-12-05 - 028 / 184 / 193 / 244 / 136 (785) 2002-10-21 - 159 / 153 / 221 / (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Ldraw Viewer Update (v 0.3)
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Andrew Allan writes: Another quick note, today, I posted another update to Ldraw Viewer on my .Mac site. homepage.mac.com/aal...GLite.html This takes the development verion to 0.3 New features include full model editing (well (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) I think ldglite has this same problem. Remember when we had the discussion about using the linux parts vs. the parts that Erik has for download? I could not get Erik's parts to work with l3p either. (...) You can mix Cocoa and Carbon, can't (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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This is more of an issue with POV-Ray. It has everything to do with Macintosh Meta data. l3p creates files with no meta data. If you type: /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -c /path/to/.pov /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -t /path/to/.pov You get: "" Which (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Interesting idea. Unfortunately either way fopen creates a file with no Mac type or creator code at all. Because I told the Finder once to open a .pov file with BBEdit, it knows to do that for me. But I still get a blank icon because it has no (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Essentially the \r make it one big line. L3P says it has the wrong number of fields. Maybe it reads the buffer limit and tries again because there is a variety of error messages per file. Now that you ask I don't know how one can use fgets for (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for November 2002
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"Allister McLaren" <allistermclaren@bigpond.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H6HDAr.Kn0@lugnet.com... (...) particular (...) around (...) Well, I just fiddled with info I got thanks to Lars Hassing, and the PovRay forums, so *that's* where ground (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) I wonder if this could be solved with something as simple as doing an fopen() with "wt" instead of just "w"? And... And... I just can't help myself here, sorry Lars... If the code were available you might get better, more helpful or accurate (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Well, I don't really know. As I said, James said to do this at the command line /Developer/Tools/SetFile -c "POV3" -t "TEXT" /Users/yourname/yourfile.pov and after doing that, the POV-Ray programs processed the files normally. I don't know why (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Sure, if you tell me what exactly what you want... /Lars (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) How does it behave badly? Does it fail to read some lines? L3P uses fgets and then removes trailing \n and \r, but perhaps this fails on "old" mac files, which I believe use the CR ending. On MacOSX, \n is mapped to LF, so how do you read CR (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Erik, How did you render the POV files produced by l3p. Neither POV-Ray 3.1 (Classic) nor POV-Ray 3.5 (OS X) liked the file that l3p produced. When I dropped the file onto the applications incons in the Dock, the applications just ignored the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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Lars, I used L3P this weekend. Since this is my first time using it, I tested only very simple uses. No problems found, unless you consider it a bug that it behaves badly with CR line endings. It's hard to tell which input file it is complaining (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: True Type fonts and LDraw files
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Niels, I'm not sure what to do about arrows that are hidden because the view angle hides it. Do you have any ideas? It seems to me that it is just like any other part that is hidden from view. You can't see it. Do you have ideas how to work around (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: True Type fonts and LDraw files
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Thanks Jeroen, I guess there are multiple issues here. My original thoughts were primarily restricted to my LPub centric perspective, where we create step by step building instructions with a fixed view angle, and use rotation steps to virtually (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: True Type fonts and LDraw files
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Hmm, you could use the IFPOV and ENDPOV statements: 0 IFPOV 0 text { ttf "arial.ttf" // check your fonts directory for the proper names 0 "place your text here" // well, place your text there 0 1, // thickness of text (text will be 3D, dunno what (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: True Type fonts and LDraw files
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(...) MLCAD indeed has a BACKGROUND meta commmand that places an image as a background. This image always faces the "camera", indepedently of the view angle. It will not work in al instances (it might get obscured by the model), but it is the only (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: True Type fonts and LDraw files
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It is not only about adding text to a 3D world or a 2D render of it, but also about arrows. Arrows are (can be) used to point to a specific part or a group of parts. What about when this (these) part(s) are not visible in a different camera (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 24-tooth Technic gear confusion - Part(s) 3648, 3648a, x187
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Thanks all. For now, I guess I will use just 3648 and indicate the appropriate version in the notes column. Hmm...maybe I need to add "learn how to create LDraw parts" to my ever-growing LEGO ToDo List (although I somehow suspect that 3648 might not (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: True Type fonts and LDraw files
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I was assuming that the user knows the view angle as well as any MLCad rotation steps that are in place when laying out the building instructions, but maybe this is too much work. If I do it as a post processing step, then the user is going to have (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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