 | | Updating the LDD tutorial at the wiki - any volunteers?
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Hi folks, reading through the "LDraw to LDD conversion" tutorial at the wiki: (URL) appears that it is not only vague but also incorrect (LDraw files for example should be imported/exported via the File->Import/File->Export model menus). Is there a (...) (17 years ago, 23-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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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 contest: (URL) currently have 4 entries for the MOTM, 3 for the SOTM and many for the POTM. As you might know we will run these contests only if there are a minimum of five entries. Please (...) (17 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Thanks a lot for your answers. But you are right. In Windows System it is not easy to do something like this. But I will think of it. mikeheide (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) search for sets instead of (or in addition to) parts. I had part identification in mind when I wrote the services, but I suppose similar set searches would be useful for collectors, too. Jim (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Sorry I didn't respond sooner, Mike. Anyway, Travis is right. It's especially easy to make services out of simple little scripts with a utility called ThiService ((URL) what it's worth, the scripts are extremely trivial - they simply open the (...) (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Services are an integrated part of Mac OS X that aren't present on other OSes (except NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, which aren't available any more). They make it fairly easy to do what Jim did here. While similar functionality could probably be (...) (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Does this also work on a Windows PC? mikeheide (17 years ago, 9-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE.
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Daniel Bennett schrieb: (...) Are there any improvements from that time? It would be interesting. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 5-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Is this also available for PC user? Sounds great, I want to give it a try. mikeheide (17 years ago, 12-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Part Reference Search Services
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(...) Wow, that is some handy tool. Pitty I do not have a Mac. Wouldn't it be great if this feature would be available for Windows? (or Linux :-) (17 years ago, 8-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Part Reference Search Services
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I've made a handful of little services that help you look up information about a selected part by name or number from nearly any application. Bricklink, the LDraw parts tracker, Lugnet partsref, and Peeron part searches are supported. Each database (...) (17 years ago, 8-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.4
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(...) I've posted a Mac "Service" version, too. You put it in ~/Library/Services/, and then you can process any selected LDraw text by selecting "PreL3P" from the Services submenu of the current application menu. I haven't tested it much. Although (...) (17 years ago, 6-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LDraw.org's October 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the October 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb by Matija Puzar> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Electric Power Functions 9V Battery Box (...) (17 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | 2007/2008 LDraw Standard Committee (LSC) election result
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The winners of the 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Travis Cobbs Mike Heidemann William Howard Philippe Hurbain Orion Pobursky Congratulations to the new LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) (...) (17 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: LSculpt update - Mac version available!
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(...) Incidentally, the (URL) PLY Tools> do build on Mac OS X with make all. These utilities might be useful for preparing PLY files for LSculpt. I have not tested the Mac version extensively, so please report any problems you encounter. Jim (17 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing tomorrow
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) election will close tomorrow, at 23:59 EDT (GMT -0500), October 31, 2007. Willy Tschager On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee (17 years ago, 30-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing in a week
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(...) Thank you. Whatever magic you did made it work and I was able to vote. I feel so democratic now! :) Rob (17 years ago, 26-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing in a week
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(...) hi rob, please try again - should work now. w. (17 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) Ah, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I was not aware of the difference. My addition currently understands multiple arguments with this syntax: prel3p 1.ldr 2.ldr 3.ldr Each ldr file is processed in place and the originals are copied (...) (17 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing in a week
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(...) Well I have tried 3 times now to get access so I can vote, but nothing has worked so far. Can someone help me? I've created an account on ldraw.org. I've also become a "member" by filling out the form. I have responded to the email that was (...) (17 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election closing in a week
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) election will close in a week, at 23:59 EDT (GMT -0500), October 31, 2007. Willy Tschager On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee (17 years ago, 24-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Track Designer and Wine/Darwine
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(...) Bad form replying to my own post, but I figured out a way to make Track Designer work. I can ctrl click an object to select it (light it up blue). and then I ctrl+arrow to switch to the blinking cursor. It's not perfect, but it's better than (...) (17 years ago, 21-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Track Designer and Wine/Darwine
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So, I installed Darwine on my MBP, and I was excited, at first, to see that TD.exe worked. I've tried using it a bit, and I've discovered that using the mouse to select things doesn't quite work right. Ctrl Clicking selects multiple objects, and (...) (17 years ago, 21-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Thoughts sought on final newlines
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(...) FWIW I'm pretty sure ldglite saves with a newline (of some sort) after every line. And my opinion is that all programs that *create* ldraw data should do that. It's just common courtesy. After all, we have no control over third party (...) (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Thoughts sought on final newlines
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(...) I echo Mike. This is a programmers issue (is it honestly that hard to check? I would say no) and not something that should be put into the spec. -Orion (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Thoughts sought on final newlines
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(...) I agree fully on this. A text line is not complete until you have specified the end of it (with EOLN). A LDRAW model consists of text lines, and should IMO end with EOLN. Windows expects 'text' files to end with EOLN, and mistreats them if (...) (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Thoughts sought on final newlines
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(...) We had a discussion about this item some times ago. I can not find the thread right now. The conclusion was: The user should not mind about that, the programer should. So if you write a prog for LDraw compatible files, you should check for (...) (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Thoughts sought on final newlines
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A (URL) recent discussion> lead me to observe that Bricksmith saves models without a final newline (ie, CRLF - no "line ending"): (...) Since one line that ended differently from others lead to complications here, I wondered if it might elsewhere. I (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) The intent was for it to be a announcement vehicle but this was neglected for 2 reasons: - There's a problem with automatic subscription to the list when you sign up as an org member that I haven't ferreted out yet. - 99% of the active org (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) I think I should point out here that while LUGNET and LDraw.org are very complementary to each other, they are two completely separate organizations. That being said, it's understandable to assume that having an ldraw.org site login (for (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Yeah, I saw that. I just didn't realize there were so many distinct layers on the LDraw onion. I figured since it's being discussed on Lugnet instead of some internal LDraw mailing list, it fell into the same "members" category as the (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Jim, I just checked your status. You only have user rights, you're not an .org-member: "Only LDraw organization members may vote..." If you are not registered as a member of the LDraw organization and would like to join, follow the (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Ha, nope. In Safari, Firefox, Camino and Opera, I can see all four ballots listed when I'm not logged in, but once I log in to vote the LSC ballot is no longer listed. I guess I just misunderstood the eligibility for voting. Sorry. Jim (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Right. Well, maybe I've found some sort of caching bug in Safari 3 - it only displays the first three polls, even after resetting the browser. Everything comes up fine in FireFox, though, so no worries. Thanks, Jim (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Elections on LDraw.org are driven by Orion's MOTM postnuke module. You should actually see 4 polls: the MOTM, POTM - Best part, POTM - Most desired part and finally the LSC election. (URL) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) That's really a page of active ballots, the LSC ballot is at the bottom of the list (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Is that ballot link correct? It just takes me to the model of the month ballot. Jim (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Bricksmith patches
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(...) I have given Jim access to submit this change directly into Bricksmith's source code. Thanks, Jim, for wanting to improve my software. If a good, well-integrated, well-presented (and already coded) idea comes along, there's no reason for it (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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The 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee[1] election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the ballot page on LDraw.org here: (URL) LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to five (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC)
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(...) Thanks to Travis for nominating me and to Orion for bringing the nomination to my attention. Unfortunately I gather that the deadline to formally accept or decline has passed. However, as I just explained to Orion, "since I'm not very familiar (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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