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(...) On the other hand, "The Foundation" at Cal Poly is the main controlling agency on campus. People tend to say "Foundation" with a very negative tone, mainly due to thier ridiculusly anal procedures and policies; despite the fact that they pay (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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(...) I'll cast my vote on LDraw.org first, the LDraw Project second. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why? Isn't DNS resolution case-insensitive? To me, it seems that that would grant a lot of freedom when it comes to bicapitalization. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Yes, okay. A point you made in an earlier post is that lugnet.org and lugnet.com are potentially confusing to the starting user. Perhaps if you used .club. instead of .org. ? It breaks the domain-mapping paradigm, but it's a little more (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) Bitmaps that have been run through a BMP2DAT tool. Steve (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw Script v 0.15 (Was: Part creating Tutorial)
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You can have some aid from my little utility program, the LDraw Script compiler. (URL) is sparely documentated, what you have is at: (URL) yet undocumented features: LINE [POINT] P1 P2 ... Pn LINE END gives: 2 24 x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 2 24 x2 y2 z2 x3 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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If it wouldn't be much trouble, that would be nice. It would help us part authors distinguish between the version released in the update and any version we have floating around our hard-drive. I just had a situation where I accidently unziped the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not from a minifigs point of view ;-) -John Van (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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I can tell you how I've done patterns, such as the 2582p68. I always create the pattern in 2-D, even if I eventually will rotate it onto a sloped surface (though obviously this wouldn't work for rounded patterns). I lay out the pattern on a large (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dat posting idea for users of Agent
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(...) I agree. Perhaps this is one spot where MIME attachments make sense. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: [ldraw.org] L3P Question
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(...) I agree on that. I really was in doubt whether or not to add the logo, but after looking at many renderings I found it to increase realism very much (as do textures in general, compared to "flat" faces). I also considered writing e.g. "LARS" (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: [ldraw.org] L3P Question
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(...) The proper command line (for the beta (1) with -c option) is: l3p -q3 -c4 3002 (2) If you then render 3002.pov, you should have similar 3d view. Otherwise you will have to explain in which way it differs. If you think it has too much 3D (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Primitives are handled by the primitives group, and should be sent to the group. I see no purpose in having them in the cad.dat.parts. What do you mean by "Dat versions of bitmaps"? -John Van Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... <snip> (...) This would be quite inconvenient, especially for times when web access is limited. -John Van (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hey, I like the sound of "LDraw Syndicate" :-) -John Van Tim Courtney wrote in message <199904132109.RAA131...et.com>... (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not for this situation. It would make the parts directory a bit cleaner. Not really worth worrying about. Steve (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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(...) Two things: 1. I would *recommend* using BMP2DAT (or any similar tool) only to generate a starting point. Get an initial DAT with the pattern, and then replace the pixel-commands with fewer, cleaner triangles and quads. 2. Some patterns are (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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Just to be really clear, I made a part-file for a 32x32 landingpadplate where the corner studs were laid out like this: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o The plate (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You're right on the consortium. Um, I like project too. (...) I'd go with project over www.ldraw.org. (...) Yep... then again, Manhattan project had a *much* bigger impact on the world than any LDraw Project could ;) Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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(...) connotations (...) just (...) And (...) And (...) I agree. If 'Foundation' is going to throw people off and possibly be misleading, than I wouldn't want the site to be called that. (...) Ok, yep, if we use it in the context of a title or (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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