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(...) An alternative to open source is to post process l3p output to change things the way you want. This is what I do in LPub. L3P output is simple text and extremely consistant, making it easy to modfiy the contents. Kevin (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I don't know if this is besides the topic, but what I would really like was the ability to edit the "text" with the default settings l3p uses to create the pov-file (after all, it's a program that converts a textfile into another textfile). When (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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(...) Tore, those are parts made on Stratasys and zCorp Rapid Prototyping machines. Rapid Prototyping is a way of using machines to take digital data and create models in an additive fashion, built up layer by layer. zCorp machines build the layers (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Sorry Tore, I thought you read the article. Here's a brief summary: Mike Pique of Scripps Research Institute, Molecular Biology Department, did some LEGO bricks in the rapid prototype machines in his department. He plans on using them to teach (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) My eyes see the most beautiful things, but yet they don't understand. I looked for some text that explained who/where/how this lovely sight is made possible. Please let me have some more information! /Tore (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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(...) Ahem... (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you look up my posts on LUGNET, you'll find that's all I've really ever talked about here. (Damn, I'm boring. Well, OK, I also talk about trucks) You've touched on the critical issues I've found over the years: - LDR/DAT files created by (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Like, wow! Triple wow! Fisrt LCAD, and now LCAM! I wonder how expesive that could be! And I wonder if they are willing to make some custom size Classic style windows and not only train wheels! And I wish that LEGO would offer the same service, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Stefan, yes I believe there would be interest in such a utility. And yes, I believe most people still used text-based programs to edit parts. There are tools that make it a bit easier, like LDDesignPad, but it's still basically just a text (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Are parts authors really using text editors to compose new parts? I find it hard to understand that a text editor is still the tool of choice for this relatively complicated modeling task. I might be wrong and could need an update on what tools (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
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(...) When you really get into POV-Ray, you have to deal with multiple files. If you ever include a graphic as a texture, or a height field, there is nothing you can do. You can't combine an image into a text file and have it work well. If you have (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Lars, I'd prefer that the format is unchanged. Right now LPub post-proceses the one file, greying parts as needed, adjusting camera settings for orthographic, and creating new colors for the greyed pieces.... I'd really rather *not* have to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I am anything but an expert on this area, but will not the parts, 3001_dot_dat and so on, also be defined multiple times? (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) For newbies I think it's nice that the POV file is self-contained and ready-to-render. However, using certain coming options you can exclude camera and lights. Why would you like submodels in separate .inc files ? Only to have a smaller (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Optional, yes that would be nice. But I also see the strength in the fact that all data needed are gathered in the same file. I have downloaded so many pov-files just to discover that they have references to inc files I fail to find on the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Here are the basic components of a POV file, as it is generated by default by L3P. Materials Color declarations Stud-tops Finishes Render-Detail Options Qual SW Bumps etc. Scene-Level Objects Camera Lights Floor Background Parts & Primitives Models (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you go into BrickLink's "Search", then "Find Stores", you can upload an XML file of all the parts you want, and it will find the stores which have all (or most) of those parts. There's a help file on how to build the XML file (URL) here>. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Just to clear up a bit of confusion. This nomination is for the Ldraw.org Steering Committee (SteerCo) and not for the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC). The difference is the SteerCo is responsible for the overall governence of LDraw.org (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Thanks, Ross and Timothy, for this (unexpected) nomination. I must decline though because of lack of time. Maybe next time, having a LeoCAD user at the LSC would be nice... Philo (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Yes. the sheer number of combinations can quickly get ridiculous and it gets hard to evaluate which is "best." I cheated by making a few asumptions. I'll share them when I dig up the code, I don't remember the details off hand. -JSM (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) SNIP (...) Yeah I had to have a look up table for that. It was annoying but not insurmountable : ) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) The coming L3P has also these new options: -ic[<file>] no camera, optional include file -il[<file>] no lights, optional include file So, l3p -ic -il model.ldr model.inc might just do what you want, assuming you still want color and primitive (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The problem with this (and with Briktrak) is that there are a few Bricklink parts whose numbers are not the same as the LDraw parts. There was an attempt a while back to normalize the numbering system across the main part cataloging sites but (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Yeah, it'd be very cool if L3P had an option to generate include files instead of full scenes. That way, people could run all their various model files through L3P to generate the definitions in include files. Then they could use all those (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I beleive that this is the hardest part of the automated 'from-CAD-to-shop' process. There are so many variables, obviously element avaialability but also price and geographical location. Also when using the By Shop sorting feature in (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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There is of course the option on Bricklink of uploading an XML file into your wanted list. If you could make a program that reformats an MLCad parts list into the required XML format you would be halfway there. I have tested this function with a (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I think I mean... I don't remember! (...) Maybe, but that's not really the problem to me. (...) output files) is having to hunt down all the include files! (...) I'd say let's start with camera.dat and lookat.dat. If we make them with lines (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I had no idea that L3Lab had POV output, in spite the fact that I've been using it daily for years! Hmm, very intersting. The alternative approach that comes to my mind is: * LDA creates a static MPD file and runs it through L3P. * The output (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) As an admin I will handle the renumbering of ####.dat to ####b.dat, but only if it is brought to my attention. At present I do not get automatically notified of all holds, but this is an enhancement I am working on. Please indicate (either (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I'd agree with this. But what I do with an L3Lab output (which is how I generate my static images in POV from LDraw files) is immediately strip the camera and viewpoint stuff out and make it into an .inc file, my main file just includes what (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Relatedly... 1) The only part I've uploaded thus far, a ####a, got a hold vote because it'd require moving the existing #### to ####b (with a ~Moved) file. Is this a valid reason to hold, or something the admin would do if it got approved? I'd (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) You mean LD4D and you or POV-Ray and you? (...) You really need to look at how POV-Ray does animation. It has all of this built in. I think one reason why animation is so hard is because L3P's output is overwhelming. It is not good for newbies (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Yes, that's why I also make this little humble program to see if my ideas work put to practice. (...) ... and that program crasches on all of my PC:s, expect the very first beta version he released... :(( (...) Maybe, maybe not. I recall James (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | File queue of hold voted parts?
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hi, would it be possible to add a second queue to the PT, listing just parts with a hold vote to have an overview how long they are already hang around there? it would be easier to sort out the orphans. w. (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I have no idea. Anton always include the ini with the pov file, so perhaps whatever tools come from this can just auto create the ini file as well. (...) Hey! Cool! I know the syntax alone wont be much good. If there aren't tools that use it, (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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---snip--- There are two soultions that I know of. 1) Create a .LDR file with the parts you want to buy 2) Download and install (URL) 3) Upload your .LDR file to briktrak and it will link to bricklink and provide you a list of stores that have your (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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I wrote a utility, for my own use, about two years ago that takes a .dat file and attempts to find "best" way to buy the parts via BrickLink. I'd planned to produce custom sets and source the parts for them this way. It was working well when last I (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I already am. :) I noticed that L3P already marks the beginning of these blocks: // Camera (Latitude,Longitude,Radius = 45,45,0) and // Lights: Now, I've asked Lars to let L3P also mark the ends of these blocks. (...) No it isn't. Btw, I'm (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) In the coming L3P each section is tagged with POV comments like //// ModelObject //// Camera //// Lights exactly to help cutting out the interested POV code. (...) I'm reluctant to adding too much complexity into L3P to suit different special (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Since L3P is released only every four years or so, it shouldn't be a problem :-) /Lars (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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(...) You could try BrikTrak. If I recall, it has a DAT file upload feature and it interfaces with Bricklink. (URL) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I guess we would have to work with Lars on that. Because your app is in Delphi, I would be interested in the syntax you develop. Implementing on different platforms is not as big of a deal in my opinion. I am mostly interested in this because (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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Greetings all, I was discussing some time-saving MOC parts ideas and I came up with an idea for a software utility that could significantly reduce the amount of time spent digging around for loose parts. Currently, to the best of my knowledge, when (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Very small triangle and a quad that thinks its a tri
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(...) Silly question time. Where can I download the latest versions from. My usual place (the zip files on your web site) are still dated sometime in 2001! thanks William (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I've been thinking a lot about that. I think you can find a couple of threads here if you perform a search on "post-processing" or "post-processor". But... What if a futureversion of L3P has some new improvement and changes the syntax of the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a small triangle! Side lengths: 0.0684 0.0671 0.0132 The reason it doesn't show in L3Lab is that you have color coded it in your file! Back in 1998 PovRay would crash if it was given a triangle with collinear vertices and a texture (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) That is what I was going to do too. (...) I guess what I was thinking was exporting a file that could either be povray format, a format that l3p could convert (preserving unions, macros, etc), or a format that I would use with Anton's library (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Thanks for the response. Just a qiuck reply, got to go back to work... LDA outputs both .dat files for the indiviual frames but also one master .dat that has references to the single-frame files, separated by CLEAR and STEP. L3P supports (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Tore, I think I know what you could do that would meet even my needs. Here is my idea. Output one pov-ray file. Have it export valid pov-ray format using unions, macros, clocks, switches, ranges, etc. Then, with that, it will be easy to add (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw.org Contributer Agreement Affirmation
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Hi all, Thanks for all the words of support regarding the LDraw.org Contributer Agreement. We've received quite a few responses but would like to wrap up this issue as quickly as possible. For those who haven't heard of the CA here's the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Reporting on LDView for Mac OS X
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(...) Ok, I am going to start a $500 fund raising effort so we can get a Mac Mini for LDraw Development (MM4LD?). And, as soon as he ports it he will send the box to the next person who needs it to port their LDraw software to the Mac. How many Mac (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Thanks ROSCO. Kevin (20 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Thanks Paul. I accepth the nomination. Kevin (20 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE.
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Hi I’m now working on GLIDE and clicking again. I have moved house and job which is why I have not done any work on GLIDE over the last 6 months or so. Version 0.74 is now available for download. (URL) can now set the background colour of an edit (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Tore Eriksson
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(...) I am very honoured by the nomiation, but I hesitate to accept it. I want to know a little more about what it takes to be member of the SteerCo. So before I can accept or decline, I need to know what you do and how much work it takes. /Tore (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Steve Bliss, second this nomination. (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Tore Eriksson
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(...) I, Jacob Sparre Andersen, second the nomination. Play well, Jacob (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Travis Cobbs
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Travis Cobbs. (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Ahui Herrera
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Ahui Herrera. (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Tore Eriksson
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Tore Eriksson. (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Willy Tschager
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(...) many thx for the nomination, I accept. w. (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Lars C. Hassing
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(...) Oh--very nice :-) -Tim (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Lars C. Hassing
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(...) Thanks, but I decline - too busy preparing the next L3P release :-) /Lars (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Paul Easter
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(...) Thank you, however, I decline. Paul (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Paul Easter
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(...) I second - Chris (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Change to existing policy regarding the subfiling of dithered colors
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(...) many, many thx to the LSC for getting the job done so quickly :-)))) w. (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Dan Boger, nominate Jacob Sparre Andersen. (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Lars C. Hassing
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(...) I, Jacob Sparre Andersen, second the nomination. Play well, Jacob (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Willy Tschager
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(...) I second -Orion (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Lars C. Hassing
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I, Franklin W. Cain, nominate Lars C. Hassing. (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Willy Tschager
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I, Franklin W. Cain, nominate Willy Tschager. (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Paul Easter
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I, Franklin W. Cain, nominate Paul Easter. (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Very small triangle and a quad that thinks its a tri
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(...) I'll send you the whole file (its not complete yet), but the values for the tri are A (0.989107, -1, 0) B (0.997785, -0.98677, 0.06652) C (0.997785, -1, 0.06652) William (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: *** SPAM *** Re: Very small triangle and a quad that thinks its a tri
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(...) Only at 5dp (ie -det/-dist of 0.00001), but then as the values are only to 5dp this is not surprising! The co-linear vertices are reported for any -det/dist values from 1 to 0.00001 William (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Very small triangle and a quad that thinks its a tri
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(...) I think so too. William, could you please e-mail me the actual coordinates of A, B, etc., and perhaps the whole file. (...) Good question! (...) The colinearity test currently has a hardcoded threshold of 0.01. The colinearity test is carried (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw.org's December Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the December Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, Pratt and Whitney R-2800 radial engine, Jorgen Andersson> (URL) SOTM, The long journey home, Tom Beattie> The voting for the January Model of the Month and (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I'm guessing this is a limitation of the accuracy of the l3p -check, so probably ignorable. Does the -dist option affect this test too, or just the coplanar quad test? Maybe there could be another option in l3p to adjust the accuracy of the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Whilst working out the non-right-angled cylinder intersection sub-parts for the Boat Rigging pieces I have run into two related problems 1) I have a triangle A-B-C that is so tiny that L3P reports it as co-linear and L3Lab doesn't render it (it (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Lars. Hey, I've got an idea. Stop adding new features (for a little while) and just release it. ;^) Pretty please with extra sugar? (...) Nifty solution, but what if someone looks down the hose and sees it's all blocked up with spheres so (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Thanks guys, I accept. -Orion (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Thanks, Ross and Tim. I heartily accept this nomination. Steve (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Mathematical assistance please
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(...) (snip) (...) I'll add 4-4cyls.dat, so that shouldn't hold you back. Also, in the coming version you can add primitives yourself. (...) Another way to achieve no overlap is the method I used in 30093.dat "Plant See Grass": I simply placed (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Thanks. I graciously accept the nomination and would be happy to continue to serve the LDraw community in this way. Chris (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Thanks, guys. I accept the nomination. -Tim (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org 2005 Steering Committee Candidates - A summary
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Hi all. Just as I did (URL) last year> I have (1) put together a summary of the Steering Committee candidates for your reference. You can find it (URL) here>. Right now the nominations, seconds, and acceptances (as followups to (URL) this post>) are (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Thank you very much, Paul and Leonard. I accept the nomination with gratitude and would be pleased to serve again if elected. A post will follow separately with a backgrounder and position statement. Larry Pieniazek (from Tampa FL today) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Seconded. (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I second the nomination. -Tim (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Ross Crawford, nominate Philippe Hurbain (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Ross Crawford, nominate Steve Bliss (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I second the nomination of Chris Dee ROSCO (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I second the nomination of Kevin Clague ROSCO (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I second the nomination of Orion Pobursky ROSCO (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Mathematical assistance please
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(...) OK, here's my VERY LAST word on the subject: Transforming both 4-4cyls S0-S1 and vector S1-S2: Rotate about Y by beta until S0-S1 lies in the YZ plane Rotate about X by gamma until S0-S1 coincides with +Z Rotate about Z by delta until S1-S2 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I think he's done an excellent job, I will second your nomination. -Leonard Hoffman (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I think he's done an excellent job, I will second your nomination. -Leonard Hoffman (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Since they’ve done a decent job (IMO), I’d like to re-nominate the current members, including... Chris Dee -gyug (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Since they've done a decent job (IMO), I'd like to re-nominate the current members, including... Kevin Clague -gyug (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Since they've done a decent job (IMO), I'd like to re-nominate the current members, including... Larry Pieniazek -gyug (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Since they've done a decent job (IMO), I'd like to re-nominate the current members, including... Orion Pobursky -gyug (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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