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I first replied almost three hours ago, but for some reason e-mail authentication never got this posted. I had to send it again and authenticate on the web page to get the message to appear?? FUT: lugnet.admin.general (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Bug in current version of LDList
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(...) I think this newsgroup is a good place. (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Portable MPD Submodel Names
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Bricksmith and LDView accept descriptive submodel names containing spaces, punctuation, and no file extension. However, I have been given the impression that MPD files containing submodel names like these can be problematic for MLCad and other tools (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Bug in current version of LDList
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(...) I would report bugs to the developer. I see an email address at the bottom of the page at (URL) and on the LDraw.org listing at (URL) the other hand, if your bug report contains any interim solutions for working around the bug, I would (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Bug in current version of LDList
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Where should I report a bug in LDList v4.1? Or is there a database of existing bugs for any of the LDraw family of apps? Rob (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New rule for SOTM/MOTM
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(...) That sounds like an excellent change! Spotlighted. Cheers Richie Dulin (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | New rule for SOTM/MOTM
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Dear all, We have decided to introduce an additional rule to the MOTM and SOTM contests on LDraw.org in order to make them a little more interesting. We will now only run these contests if there are a minimum of five entries. The current situation (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: "Building with Bricksmith" screencast video
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(...) It looks good, though, doesn't it? But you're right, if LDView 3.2 is a beta, this is, what, pre-alpha? I can change the caption. Hope you don't mind the "pre-release publicity." Jim (17 years ago, 19-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: "Building with Bricksmith" screencast video
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I hardly think something that's not even close to feature complete (LDView Cocoa) qualifies as "Beta" ;-). --Travis (17 years ago, 19-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | "Building with Bricksmith" screencast video
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I have recorded a silent video "screencast" of the creation of my most recent (URL) LDraw model> (yet another B-Wing variant). It is not a short video, but it shows the whole process from start to finish. Watching it has already given me a few ideas (...) (17 years ago, 19-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Polar - changeover day
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--snip-- (...) For future ones I'll try to include them but I simply didn't have time for this one. Sorry. Tim (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Polar - changeover day
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(...) Wow that is huge. I was wondering when we do have RACHAL if it would also be possible to include a .zip of the unofficial parts used in the .mpd file? Thanks. Looking forward to try it. Have some ideas. Zach Best (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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(...) I'll take this back to the SteerCo and see if we can come up with something working better. Sorry for the mess. w. (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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(...) I believe I switched to the GPL for version 3.0. (3.1 is definitely under GPL.) I think I could still release the Windows version under a different license if I chose, since it doesn't use any GPL software (probably; I'd have to check to see (...) (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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(...) I take it the latest version of LDVIEW is under the GPL? Ahui (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Upload Utility
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I have released a rudimentary Mac OS X version of Brickshelver: (URL) It is only partially complete, but I don't expect to invest much more time in it anytime soon unless I receive substantial feedback expressing interest in that effort. I do, (...) (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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I can't legally agree to that, and it's likely that a large percentage of the other authors can't either. The thing is, I'm not the sole author of LDView, and never have been. LDView has always included code written by friends of mine from college, (...) (17 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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Dear contributor to the LDraw System Of Tools, We would like to include your program files listed below (the “Product”) in our new LDraw.org All-In-One-Installer, (the “Work”) to be published by LDraw.org: ___...___ Program The purpose of this (...) (17 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's July 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to the other winners! Unfortunately I wasn't able to get an entry done in time for this month, however I suspect this wouldn't have made any difference as there are two incredible entries! (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's July 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the July 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Prinoth Leitwolf Snowgroomer by Han Crielaard> (URL) SOTM, Valley of the Dark Lords by Philip Heinrich> (URL) POTM - Best Part, (...) (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) For comparison, I rendered m6459.png (picture posted in earlier post) at 640x480, and the times were as follows (all on an original MacBook 2GHz). Intel (command line-only) compile: Time For Trace: 0 hours 0 minutes 2.0 seconds (2 seconds) (...) (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) Sorry. I used the command line unzip (on my Macbook) to unzip the file, and that toasted the contents. Apparently the resource fork didn't extract properly. Using a different unzipper solved the problem. --Travis (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) The version I posted does not require Classic. It's an old CFM Carbon program (not Mach-O) that can run natively under both OS 8/9 and OS X. It is PowerPC though, so on an Intel Mac, it gets emulated via Rosetta. (But I suspect it runs faster (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Brickshelf Upload Utility
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I've been working on a Brickshelf upload utility similar to (URL) Flickr Uploadr>. It helps streamline the process of zipping a bunch of files and navigating to or creating the appropriate folder to upload them. These screenshots are of a scruffy (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) I dusted off my old G3, now a bone stock 10.4 system, and it runs fine (as it does on my MacBook). Jim (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) For reference, here is a script that builds a static univeral libpng library, and then copies it into /usr/local/lib with a u appended to the filename (libpng12u.a): (URL) In order for it to work, png.h has to be modified. In 1.2.18, line 497 (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) Thanks. I eventually figured out how to get it to build. The trick was to build the two versions separately (ppc and i386), and then use lipo to join them. Building for both architectures at once just gave an error that some of the gcc command (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) I see there is universal build of libpng 1.2.17 (URL) here>, but I have not tested it. From the installer notes: "Installs static (.a) and dynamic (.dylib) universal binaries of libpng, as provided by the official libpng reference release: (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) Actually, I need a Universal binary version of the static libpng library, since I don't want to have to distribute libpng along with the executable. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure the megapov executable I already posted is (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) You're welcome. I think we need to get both my Intel-only version and your PPC-only version put together somewhere. It also might be good to do a Mac OSX PPC build, since I believe that yours requires Classic, which isn't exactly optimal. Mine (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: l2rib and LDraw.org Mac Downloads Review
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(...) And thanks to you for updating the LDraw site. Jim (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) Travis, This is a valuable resource to have. I'm glad to see this software isn't doomed to the dustbin of history. Thank you! Allen (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: l2rib and LDraw.org Mac Downloads Review
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(...) thx for the updates. (...) I added the icons. (...) this has to be added as separate link 'cos PN doesn't allow more than one URL per download. (...) I deleted the entry for LDView for Mac OSX 1.0 and added the icons for linux and mac (though (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2001 Photos of Jessimans?
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(...) I totally forgot that the old version of the site was still online. That's pretty cool :-) I seem to recall a photo taken with me and the Jessimans, maybe I'm misremembering. I think what's there might be it, thanks, Travis! -Tim (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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| | l2rib and LDraw.org Mac Downloads Review
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A few notes based on a browse through the (URL) Downloads> page: (URL) l2rib>, a utility that converts LDraw files to RenderMan format, builds and runs on Mac OS X (make -f Makefile.unix). I do not have a RenderMan compliant renderer (there are a (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2001 Photos of Jessimans?
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(...) Well, there's a photo here: (URL) course, since you wrote that article, you probably already know about that one. Note that there's another version of the same article in the "new" part of the site, but it's not formatted nearly as nicely.) (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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| | BrickFest 2001 Photos of Jessimans?
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I'm trying to track down a few photos taken in 2001 of Don and Robyn Jessiman and some LDraw-folk while they were in DC for the fest. I've checked the obvious BrickShelf folders -- Bram, Lar, Steve Bliss, etc. -- to no avail. Does anyone either have (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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| | Submission for MOTM/SOTM/POTM closes in a week
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hi folks, we still seek some entries for the MOTM/SOTM/POTM contest: (URL) consider submitting your work. deadline is 27.07.2007. beside all this please don't forget about "RACHAL - The RAytraching CHALlange": (URL) the "Commemoration of the 10th (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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I realized that in my previous message, I never actually mentioned that I built the executable that I link to. I built it from the MegaPOV 0.7 source using (mostly) the Unix settings from the regular POV source. I set it to output PNG files by (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) You can find a command-line Intel Mac compile of MegaPOV 0.7 here: (URL) I tested it with the following command line: megapov +IBRICKS.pov I used BRICKS.pov from the above zip, and it generated the following two PNG files in under 2 seconds: (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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