 | | 2006 LSC: Call for Nominations
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It has been a year since the last election of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC). Nominations are now open. All nominations must be received and recorded by July 15. Elections will be held from July 20 'til July 25. The LDraw.org Standards (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Bricksmith 1.4.1
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 1.4.1> fixes the following bugs: Lines are colored much more consistently Fixed crash when referenced models had missing pieces Fixed problem with decorated elements getting incorrect coloring Fixed bug where typed-in part names (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | MBC 3 (At very long last)
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MBC 3 finally after several years of development is available. Actually I've just been so busy at work that I haven't had time to write any code (the new tunnel is nearly complete now), so the application was initially started in 2004 and now in (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Updating LDraw's History
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Bricksmith for Mac is a pretty big landmark for Mac users. Aug 2005 The first ldraw/povray animation rendered with Xgrid was made in Feb 2004... ;) ((URL) povray_lan.mp4) And there was the G4 Screensavers presentation by Tim in Oct 2004. James (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Updating LDraw's History
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hi folks, reading the new brickjournal Ldraw's history ends in 2003. 2003! ... hang on ... the history at the site even stops in 2001!!! (URL) down ... "Note: The LDraw History document is far from complete. If you recall anything of significance (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) Googling his name I found fredrikg(AT)ifi.uio.no Tim (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) You might try fredrigl as the username instead of glockner. I'm assuming you've tried fredrigl at math.uio.no, since that's the email address that he posted here under. You might also try folk.uio.no, www.math.uio.no, mail.uio.no and uio.no as (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) tanks to many helping hands we made substantial progress in shorting the list (did you notice that Steffen with his incredible number of 234 authored parts is no longer on the list?). I updated the chart accordingly. please have a look and (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Unable to compile LDGLite 1.0.7 from Source on SuSe Linux
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I'd use the "daily snapshot". It should match the latest Windows and Mac releases. I just never got around to testing linux build of of version 1.1.8, as you can see. Anyhow, main.c should include the bumpy case "StdAfx.h". I stuck a few linux stubs (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) I asked the same question in the the ldraw.org steerco discussion and I was told the following: "the concept of the CA-affirmed library is that we can advertise it as re-distributable, subject to the conditions of the CCLA. To publish (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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(...) Why? (...) This guy didn't even make any parts. (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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We (LDraw.org) are still trying to contact all the authors who have contributed to the Parts Library over the years but have not yet affirmed the current version of the Contributor Agreement (URL) Below you will find a list of all the authors (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX) !
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| | Re: Unable to compile LDGLite 1.0.7 from Source on SuSe Linux
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I could compile on Fedora Core4 with this patch: --- ../ldglite/main.c 2003-08-15 03:26:15.000...000 +0200 +++ main.c 2006-01-09 19:22:08.000...000 +0100 @@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ int lineheight = 14.0; int charwidth = 9.0; - extern void (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Unable to compile LDGLite 1.0.7 from Source on SuSe Linux
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Having downloaded and unzipped the 1.0.7 source from SourceForge (and having had similar errors trying the version recommended on the LDraw getting started guide), I am having difficulty getting it to build. At first, when I was building, it was (...) (18 years ago, 27-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Yeah, that makes sense. LDView will notify the server that it accepts gzipped content, but will work fine either way. It will just work faster when the response is gzipped. At this point, I'm not sure when the next version of LDView will be (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) I'll either do that, or just start mirroring the entire ldraw library to media.peeron.com. How soon will you need this? I guess your script should work transparently either case though - gzipping shouldn't be required, just accepted. Make (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) OK, I got it working. Feel free to delete the file whenever you want. So, do you plan to turn gzip support on for the ldraw.org server? It would make a really big difference for unofficial part downloads. --Travis (18 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) that file there for a while while I get my gunzipping to work? I'll post another message here once I get it working. Thanks. --Travis (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDList stud count feature (Was: LSC - current status?)
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Tore Eriksson schrieb: (...) Is it possible to include a separate directory where the unofficial files are? cu MikeHeide (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Right - apparently I don't have it enabled on peeron/ldraw's server, but try it on this: (URL) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Just as an experiment, I added the above header to my request, and still got back plain-text. --Travis (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) It's assumed - at least, firefox doesn't mention it explicitly. (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDList stud count feature (Was: LSC - current status?)
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(...) Yes, and now I know what the problem was: the scan takes 56 minutes on my computer, with no sign of life from LDList, so I assumed that LDList must have had crashed. But of course, it takes some time to count the studs from some 5 000 files. (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) I don't do this now, but I think I can do so fairly easily. Just to check, if I add the following header to my request, ldraw.org will gzip automatically? Accept-Encoding: gzip If I do that, do I need to add another accepted encoding to let (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) The HTTP header can say when a particular file has been modified last - but not a bunch of files in one request. Again, it's already included in the tar format, as well as each file size (which can be useful to make sure your request didn't (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) If the client supports it, yes. But unless LDView specifically says it does, the server will assume it can't. (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDList stud count feature (Was: LSC - current status?)
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Do you have the latest version? 'Search by stud count' wasn't there until 4.0 (I think). Check the version in the caption bar (top of the window). Get 4.1 from: (URL) installing, you must also do a 'Scan' again, to rebuild the index. (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) MPD would work for any text files, as long as they don't include /\n0 FILE /. One thing MPD would not provide is the mod-timestamp for each file. That could be listed at the top of the response (before the first file) or maybe in the HTTP (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Wont most servers (and clients) automatically use gzip or similar if they both support it? (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDList stud count feature (Was: LSC - current status?)
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(...) /Tore (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Right - it could only do so when asked by the client, and the client is always free to ignore data it doesn't need. (...) Could do that, or tar (which would work for non-DAT files, if needed). I'd be tempted to add a zip compression (as an (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LSC - current status?
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(...) That's where LDList (my LDRAW Part search program) comes in - you can even search on the number of studs :-) (URL) Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) I'd say it wouldn't *have* to return the dependent files. LDView can turn around, and make an additional request. (...) Well, the server can support multiple files per request, and client programs can use it as well as they can. (...) Use MPD (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) That starts getting more difficult for a few reasons. First of all, the tracker would have to return all the dependent files on the tracker in addition to the requested files. Many of these files could well be already present on the end-user's (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LSC - current status?
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(...) Could the translation not be managed at the user end? For example we could make a program "partstranslate" which reads in one or more translation table(s) (just Swedish in this case) and goes through all parts adding a new line something like (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LSC - current status?
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(...) Actually, I don't have a problem with changing part header information with an admin edit without destroying the existing votes, and have done this many times. I would draw the line at changing data which affects the integrity of the part - (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LSC - current status?
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(...) the aim is to lower the bar for newbies and people who don't speak any english. assuming that you are not fluent in italian or german, just try to match the following words with their german and italian counterparts: brick plate tile slope (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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(...) Shouldn't be a problem at all. If it's anything significant, I'll just start mirroring the DAT files to media.peeron.com, and have you use that. Then it certainly wouldn't be an issue. (...) Sounds reasonable. Perhaps it might be more (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LSC - current status?
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(...) LDList creates a file similar to what you describe, called ldrawlist.txt. I'm not sure how well the format would work for translations... Alternately, how about something more like this? (URL) only does a few parts right now) (...) Very true. (...) (18 years ago, 16-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LSC - current status?
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(...) I'm not Willy, but I think I can still provide a pretty good answer to all your localization questions. (...) Allow non-English speakers to be able to search for things in their own language when using a modeling program (presumably MLCad). I (...) (18 years ago, 16-May-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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