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(...) Could you? That would help get a good idea of what people want. Include options: www.ldraw.org ldraw.org LDraw LDraw Organization The LDraw Project (and the other one that people liked...plus any you feel will be appropriate) Thanks!! Keep (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ugh. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I could very easily set up an informal poll for you, if you want something like that to help gather information on opinions. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You're welcome, Terry. A labor of love, it was. <big snip> (...) Don't even worry about this, Terry. Either we're going to have a 5-digit code for the entire assembly that we can use, or we're going to know the 4-digit codes even if they're (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) good (...) I thought of that too. I have a photograph of the brick and it got just enough detail to make out that there is texture there implying the word LEGO, but it is not clear enough to show it. It is probably better this way, just like (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Possibility. I wonder how the people who have expressed like for the name 'ldraw.org' feel about The LDraw Organization? Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their sites and read their posts, now see their faces: (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Right. Personally, I use IE5 for browsing, but own a copy of Netscape 4.5 or something for checking browser compatibility. -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 "Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a good argument for waiting, but I don't think there's any way that it possibly hurts things to register it now. Acting as quickly as possible eliminates any possible shred of risk that some other organization or entrepreneur might (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, either the radiation or the blast (sorry, I'm no nuclear physicist) incinerated just about everything in the one mile radius of the explosion... so that would melt a fig :( Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Lars, I didn't intend for this to be a "fix" of any type. And the latitude/longitude method is a good one to use. If I sit there thinking about it enough, I can do it. And the automatic centering of the model is a fantastic feature that I (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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That is what I was thinking. I was looking for a good multi-file find and replace (got one) and came across a utility to set times and dates. I thought it might be useful in some way to be able to do that. Maybe set the time to reflect the update (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, because Todd volunteered generously to front the bill until donations can be collected, I sent a message on to Jacob to have his ISP register it to work with his server. I am the billing contact and will handle the money to pay InterNIC (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm... it sounds like you are subtly insulting us. :-) -- Terry K -- Overlord, Office of Ridiculously Anal Procedures. (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Depends. What kind of radiation? Most of what your thinking of would pass right through. Of course, "radiation" in the infrared band would melt it. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Whoops. So right. My mistake. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK. I concede that is a valid use. As long as the part author has the intention and the skill to "do the right thing" and not just use the output to slap on a part. (...) Again, OK. You are right. I was pretty much expressing my knee-jerk (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Otherwise known as TBOML The Bane Of My Life. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, to be honest, the biggie I had was with the "software" <?> "star wars" anomoly. I personally can't stand to be in a Star Wars discussion, and I would be pretty aggrivated when twice a week some newbie enters the software group just to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Days, weeks, months, or years? (...) Not necessarily disagreeing, but isn't it likely that a developer who cares about these issues would read the other groups, and that a developer who does not care about these issues would ignore the issues (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) But abbreviations are good -- and important things for newsgroup hierarchies and URLs, especially where future growth is possible. Abbreviated, you have lugnet.cad lugnet.cad.dev lugnet.cad.ld lugnet.cad.ld.ideas lugnet.cad.ld.models (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) How *some* browsers work, that is. I only have two data points: - Netscape Navigator 4.51 for Win95 colors the links wrong. - Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 for Win95 colors the links right. Netscape Navigator represents a big enough share (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ldraw.org. It seems we all missed the most obvious name (and a good one, I think): The LDraw Organization Like Todd said, "organization" is ambiguous, so it makes a great name! --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hmm. It may take a while for me to warm up to this setup. I actually like having the discussion of models/parts separate from the cad.dat group. When I hear people raving about a model I might find interesting, then I'm motivated to check it out on (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hrmmm, inherently cheap bastard that I am, I can't agree. This has been discussed for _months_. What's another couple of weeks? Wasn't there some mention at one point of taking the extra funds and buying software or development tools or (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm no economist, but I don't think that you could call what the govt is doing here "sticking its hand into free enterprise". Network Solutions has, at this moment, a legal monopoly, so there is NO free enterprise. This might be considered an (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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At 09:01 PM 4/14/99 +0000, Todd Lehman wrote: [...] (...) Seems like the best choice for me. It spawned off of cad.dev, and CAD / LDraw / ldraw.org would be a little redundant, but not too much. I don't mind it being cad.ld.ldraw-org or cad.ld.org (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Again, I would keep filenames all lowercase since issues with operating systems could come up. Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their sites and read their posts, now see their faces: RTL/LUGNET Legofest 1999: (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) [...] Ok, I do get it. But I did make a mistake in my original post that caused Sproat to jump on it... I meant to say that I would keep the domain name 'ldraw.org' in lower case not change it all to 'ldraw' or refuse to capitalize certain (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, to me it looks like there are more interested in seeing the site named ldraw.org than The Ldraw Project....so that is what I will plan on calling it when I begin constructing images. My stipulation was backed by Todd's technical (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wait...radiation would melt a minifig, wouldn't it? -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 "Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a --it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It is not case sensitive, you are correct. But it is a BIG pet peeve of me. There's this car that is in my area with www.ArsisRecords.Com printed on it -- its annoying seeing capitals in domains. The web should be IMO a media that carries its (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thumbs-up from me, except: There's no need to use "ld" when "ldraw" will suffice. Ditto for "sw"<->"software", etc. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (An aside -- lugnet.trains.org might become lugnet.trains.clubs -- see the discussion in lugnet.trains for more info.) (...) OK, I've got it! Figured this out after resetting my brain last night. Forget everything so far (except the local (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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Bram Lambrecht skrev i meddelandet <19990413.165205.509...no.com>... (...) have (...) I was thinking more in the line of thumbs and links. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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(...) Yup, I have that one, too. The original 6392 Airport had a green one with two concentric circles. You can see most of it here: < (URL) > Jeff (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I wonder what kind of latitude we have here with filenames? I am thinking of what Larry Wall says about capitalization of Perl, something like "Perl" is the name of the language, "perl" is the utility you use for that language. In using LDraw (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Some additional data points, for the record: 1) The LDraw FAQ document and Bram's LDraw & LEdit tutorial, (2 URLs) both say LDraw and LEdit everywhere, except when mentioning executable filenames. 2) The ldraw.doc file that came with the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If money is the issue, then count me in for whatever it takes to make it happen right now rather than later. I don't think it pays to delay registration of something this important. --Todd (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good idea, yes! If not in the storage, at least in the acceptance of the messages. --Todd (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yea, fer sure. The only reason would be to standardize/correct posting problems. --Todd (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) In theory it is, but in practice it's not always, unfortunately. Make a little web page that has links to www.WhiteHouse.gov and www.whitehouse.gov and see if your browser colors them the same. (...) In theory, yes. In practice, using caps in (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's great! --Todd p.s. Using capital letters in the URL on the homepage graphics might accidentally cause people to link to the site that way. Capital letters in domain names are dangerous in URLs because Netscape Navigator doesn't properly (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) At one time in fact there was a clubs.* hierarchy -- I'd mistaken what someone at PNLTC had said; I thought they said they wanted a focused PNLTC discussion group, but they didn't, so we deleted the group (and the hierarchy). (URL) nice thing (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What would be problematic, though, is alphabetization issues in newsreaders. Some newsreaders, like trn and Microplanet Gravity, allow you to reorder your newsgroup subscriptions to group things better the way you want to read them. But the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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Me too. Sproaticus wrote in message <3714CCDF.AA445842@g...es.com>... (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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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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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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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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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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| | Re: L3P support of extended metacommands?
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(...) D'Oh! I had forgotten all about that! Thanks. Your easy. You mind adding a switch that makes all my models look good? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Ok, I see your point. Didn't think of that I guess... who would want to move their local-oriented discussion to a generic domain group anywyas? :) Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their sites and read their (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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At 09:35 AM 4/14/99 +0000, Todd Lehman wrote: 8< [...] The mother of all snippage. (...) I like this idea for the heirarchy. However, my choice for group name is *.org.ldraw Whether just cad. or cad.dev. goes before it. But it is good tucked away (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] L3P Question
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(...) Two comments here. It might not be too good an idea to go high profile with the use of the word "LEGO" in the site. James did not name the program "legodraw", and for a good reason. Starting up a slick websight presence as ldraw.org, and then (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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(...) Ok, read the article. I agree, its a good time to wait. However, this all depends on the completion timeframe for ldraw.org versus how the government is on its latest venture sticking its hand into free enterprise. (not so upset here though, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Charter for newsgroup for ldraw.org
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(...) Excellent! :) (...) Most decidedly A. Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their sites and read their posts, now see their faces: RTL/LUGNET Legofest 1999: (URL) SP++++c(6973)[ip++++ bt2++++ ex+++ ft+++ sp+++ (...) (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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(...) Ohh...wait :) I was going to keep 'The LDraw Foundation' capatilzed that way, yes. Oops :) Um, my comment on that was if the site was called ldraw.org, it would be either all uppercase or all lowercase. Sorry about the confusion. (...) Hmmm... (...) (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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(...) Arghh! You mean to undermine my perverse, er, clever idea! Yeah, I guess if it would make everything works smoother, that would be OK. But you could still reply to cad.dat posts from a newsreader, right? Cause I don't really care for using the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: L3P support of extended metacommands?
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(...) I told you it was undocumented :-) -c<color> default part color, default color is 7 <color> is an LDraw color or <r>,<g>,<b>. /Lars (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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(...) OK. Umm, a question. Would it serve any useful purpose if I syncronized all the time/date stamps of the files in the updates? -- Terry K -- (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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(...) Jeremy beat me to it with the definition. I don't have a strong objection to "Foundation", but to me it has connotations of a funded organization that contributes monies to various causes. Heck, just read the definition. That somehow, to me at (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) "Consortium" does sound a little highfalutin' if you say out loud. I kind of like the sound of "The LDraw Project" Or try this, said out loud, in an overly dramatic voice (dramatic, but not to Jim Kirk'ish) - and envision a proud title: (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw part library structure
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The shape of things to come......... I have been remiss in posting this. Dang combination of tax-season and my rampant procrastination. :-) Anyway, thanks to Joshua Delahunty and his solution for the file-naming of composite elements, the general (...) (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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there were airport runway plate packs. there is an wentry in pause under town,accessories. (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Charter for newsgroup for ldraw.org
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(...) How does this sound?-- Focused discussion group for ldraw.org: planning, site architecture, legal issues, contributions, maintenance, software distribution methods and formats, feedback, etc. And a quick opinion poll -- a or b: a) (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Fuzzy category cross-referencing would definitely help. (...) Oh. I meant by all of that counter-example-ing that going down that path crumbles because of the immediately arising need for an extra layer, i.e. .domains or equivalent. Because of (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Well, at the risk of sounding like I'm repeating myself, I really like the thought of a special group lugnet.trains.org for people to help plan and talk about how to set up more clubs like PNLTC and GMLTC. The .org. node is forward-expandable (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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(...) Nope, keep LDraw capitalized as-is. That's how James named it, that's how it's copyrighted, that's the trademark, that's how it'll stay. End of story. IMO, "Foundation" conjures up images of a non-profit institution (a plus) which dabbles in (...) (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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(...) which one did you do? can i see something (either a picture or the part itself?) did you do the classic space landing pad one? (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Arg. Good point. (...) Why the .org. then? Why not lugnet.trains.pnltc and lugnet.trains.gmltc ? The name is shorter and easier to remember. They are separated from the lugnet.trains group, yet they're still associated with it. (...) Yes, see (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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(...) Caught a link to this article on Slashdot today. Given that we're almost halfway through April it might be a good idea to wait just a bit on this. (URL) Solutions' monopoly is ending. Prices for domain registration are expected to drop, with (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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I feel it is an appropriate time to register the domain name and take donations for it. I figure I will not waste time contacting Larry via email, but go ahead with handling donations myself since he has been absent (or at least hasn't posted) here (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) Also good thoughts. I put the www in zacktron.com cause I felt like it, but I see where you're coming from on this and agree with you here. (...) Probably the latter, but I would either go all lowercase or all caps, on a font that looks good (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) [...] (...) Well, that description IMO can be easily written. I wanted to have a feeling of what people wanted the title to be so I can start making the images... If no one shows interest in deciding this, I will most likely choose The LDraw (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) But couldn't you add some link between the groups in your newsgroup software so that they are associated? (...) Aah... Could we introduce domain-specific discussion that suppliments the topic discussion of groups like: trains cad.dev (...) (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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(...) Nope. That is the bad boy, AFAIK. Actually, the people to ask about patterns are the ones that do good ones. One name that immediately springs to mind is Chris Dee. And there are many others. It is important to note the a good pattern has many (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part: brick 1 x 2 with arm 2F
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(...) No. I will not ignore them. But I don't look forward to slogging through a bunch of parts finding obvious, glaring errors. Ones that should _NOT_ be there in pieces submitted for voting. And I can only assume that the errors are there because: (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P support of extended metacommands?
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(...) Follow-up. What -c switch? It tells me that option is unknown. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P support of extended metacommands?
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(...) Trying to pique my interest? You have done so. Now I _have_ to get it to see what -c does. Pretty sneaky. :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) Primitives are a special case. Right now, consideration and approval of any new primitive file is done by consensus of a small group of part authors. Anyone may suggest a primitive to that group. And new members can be added to that group, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Hmm...that has the advantage of being able to rapidly find and scan through all of the associated *.org sites, and a nice clean organization, but it has the disadvantage of the groups being separated from their most logical positions in the ng (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) I would go with ldraw.org over www.ldraw.org. The www takes too long to say :) To avoid capitalization issues, you could go with all caps...as long as you choose a font that looks nice for all caps. so: LDRAW.org LDRAW.ORG (with .ORG in a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) Well...ya know, you've pretty much got all the time in the world to choose the site's title -- compared to registering the domain and coming up with a Registrant name. One consideration is: does www.ldraw.org or ldraw.org make much sense as a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) Which lists do you mean? Messages? Newsgroups? Which "new message" section do you mean? The traffic report page (URL) some new section that doesn't yet exist? What does a pull-down menu give you that a list of hyperlinks doesn't? --Todd (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [ldraw.org] Browsers and CSS(was: Re: Ldraw.org: Organization and look & feel)
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(...) I looked into CSS today and think it would be very useful in keeping the pages clean and allowing a universal across-the-board look and feel. The method I would use would be the one .css file that the html references to and that can be changed (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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