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hi folks, we still seek some entries for the MOTM/SOTM/POTM contest: (URL) consider submitting your work. deadline is 27.05.2007. beside all this please don't forget about RACHAL - The RAytraching CHALlange: (URL) Contest Coordinator (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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--snip-- (...) I think we're not talking about the same proccess. For me 'making an MPD file' is something you do at edit time. Editing a bunch of files, then calling LPub to join them is not as easy as editing them in MLCAD using the MPD menu to (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Well, because MLCad's process is so manual, it is very easy to create MPD files that are incomplete or not in the right order. One of MPD's rules is that the first FILE is the top level model. I've gotten plenty of letters from people who say (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LSynth Service
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Dear Jim, Thank-you so much for this service! LSynth was the program I missed the most from Windows, but your version works flawlessly. Now I can get back to work! Thanks again! (17 years ago, 13-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Becuase sadly when I was creating tutorials/articles for the site I only focused on the WINDOWS side of the house since I have zero MAC experience. =( MLCAD is the dominate GUI that users use when using LDraw. (...) Yes the pages were (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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--snip-- (...) There's discussions. I really think it's the optimal solution overall. Let's anyone with expertise create, improve or fix articles where they can and for an ldraw audience I think that wiki markup should be easy enough. Tim (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Maybe it could just explain the theory without including instructions how to do it, then show the "easy way". James (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I hate to bring this up, but I've noticed some of the Mac related questions I get may be because the tutorials are all MLCad specific. Is it possible to include information on that page how to do it on Mac with Bricksmith? There is something (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) I wouldn't call loading LPub to make an MPD the easy way. The easy way is to use the menus in MLCad. The article is most certainly out of date. (...) But we don't learn how an MS Word document is formatted before using a word processor. (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) It does show the "easy" way as well: (URL) reason the EASY way is not shown first is becuase users should learn the THEORY behind what they are doing rather than just learning how to do it. Eg. You can use a calculator to do multiplication. (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Any reason why we'd want that instead of just wiki.ldraw.org, or ldraw.org/wiki/? Dan (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Inline POV code in official parts?
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(...) Well, maybe others don't care about visible polys when it should be smooth, but it makes all the difference in the world to me. (...) Well, yeah. But that is better than everyone inventing their own POV- Ray code to make their own parts. How (...) (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Strike that. We can add you as an article editor. You simple need to email us with your LDraw User ID. -Orion (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) The LDraw POV project ((URL) was created with the intention of someday becoming the de-facto, if not the actual, official LDraw compatible POV repository. I'll admit that it has languished for sometime (it's been almost 4 years sine I (...) (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It doesn't really gain you much if you are just converting the LDraw parts directly - l3p does that just fine, and fairly fast. The only advantage of a POV-ray library is when you start adding POV-ray specific stuff, eg: replace the curve (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) I'd see it as a side-wiki probably. Move as much content as people are willing to open source across but keep the best articles fixed on ldraw.org. Would mean anyone could edit tutorials etc. but we'd have fixed versions. Tim (not speaking as (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hmm - an ldraw wiki? That's a good idea, and it's not hard. For example you could sign up for a wiki on pbwiki.com (ldraw.pbwiki.com is available) and we can transfer the existing content there and move the links on the existing site to point (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Why not make official POV-Ray Lego bricks and skip the whole LDraw to POV-Ray conversion? Use the same names, scale, and coordinates and all you need is a small script to convert the LDraw lines into POV- Ray lines using the same translations. Or (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) More than three years have passed, the only thing that has happened is that the SteerCo and/or the Standard Committee has decided not to allow EmbPOV in the official Parts folder. A vauge discussion on creting yet another folder for Ldraw POV (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Hi William, At the moment I think it's only the webmasters who can edit articles (might be nice to have an ldraw wiki one day but...) so if you email us (webmaster@ldraw.org) with a list of things you've noticed and/or suggested improvements (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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I was looking through some of the articles on ldraw.org and found some to be out of date or to have errors. I'd be happy to help clean this up but I don't know what the process is to get access or to submit changes...? For example (URL) has a long (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org's April 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the April 2007 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, USS-Wolfram by Emory Dunn> (URL) Part, Minifig Torso with Telephone Pattern by Michael Heidemann (mikeheide)> (URL) Desired Part, Minifig (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: Very hard to find ldconfig.ldr
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(...) Thanks and done. Tim (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Oooo, no they are not. The one on LDraw.org contains a bottom subsection of newer colors—such as flesh and Maersk blue but not Trans Orange—which are not part of the standard distribution. I had no idea there were official color codes for (...) (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Personally, I'd have used the one from the official library download. IIRC, the one you linked to is the same. (17 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Very hard to find ldconfig.ldr
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Before I found the direct link to (URL) here on a lugnet discusion, I searched for ldconfig.ldr at ldraw.org for quite a long time without succeess. I tried the Search function, entering ldconfig.ldr. It came up with: "Downloads: no downloads (...) (17 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LSynth Service
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Hi, all. I've taken the liberty of fiddling around with the LSynth 2 source code a little bit more to create an LSynth Service, a text-processing extension for Mac OS X that lets you run LSynth just about anywhere you can edit text. The service (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) And it was really worth the effort! A funny story/scenery with a different use of the model. Hopefully the two guys succeeded without getting two wet. And thanks for the links. I will dive through it and will see, what I can learn next... (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) At last, it's finished! It can be found here: (URL) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Which may or may not be an issue. It's irrelevant if you're just editing existing lines, but if you add new ones, vi will add them in the file-native format (CRLF for a DOS file), while emacs will add them in the machine-native format. Dan (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) You have my pity ;) (...) I think it leaves them alone. Certainly I've never had any troubles with it converting one way or the other before. If you edit a Windows text file on a UNIX emacs it will show the extra ^R (or whichever is unused on (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Being a vi user, I'm drawn to the natural conclusion that emacs must be the culprit ;-). (On a more serious note, I actually don't know what emacs does with line endings. I know that vi leaves them alone unless you specifically tell it to (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well from your two reports it sounds very much like the files are uploading and downloading correctly. I guess we write the RACHAL one off as a strange quirk and I'll use NoteTab to ensure all future ones are DOS formatted before upload and (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Same results here. L3LAB: In addition to this info, I wish to add that with DOS, UNIX, and Willy the bricks showed up fine in L3Lab, but from the Mac file, L3Lab just showed an empty window. NOTETAB: All four look idential and correct in (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) no just MLCad and LDDP on win2000+SP4 (...) it is. the only problem I had with linefeed was when Allen Smith fixed some entries in der MLCad.ini file. w. (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) The upload is via an html form so I'm pretty sure it's not ftp (unless there's a way for this to be automated from a form?). Willy made the original file in MLCad by the looks of it, I then edited in MLCad and emacs for WinXP, Willy then (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Maybe it's a downloading problem. On windows .mpd files are associated with microsoft project by default. Perhaps because of this, some sort of translation occurred on downloading the file? Or more likely it's an uploading problem. If you used (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) hi folks, since no Mac or UNIX was involved in the creation of the mpd file we are trying to understand what has messed up the end line character. we uploaded four files and would like to know how they turn out in notepad. please screenshot: (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Windows expects it (CRLF). unix mostly (always?) use just LF, Apple use CR. Get a free text editor that can handle such lines. I have used EditPad ever since I found it - never looked back for Notpad: (URL) Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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(...) Well, I can't remember the name of the first guy who started it I think back in 1999. I promptly took it over and he disappeared from the web. Then Matt Gerber pitched in but I haven't seen him in a long time. Here is a blast from the past: (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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