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(...) * Official part library update on Dec 28. --Travis (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) The LSC summary page that the above entries were taken from is in reverse chronological order. You'll want to put them back in chronological order to avoid confusion. Same thing for the 2007 LSC activity. --Travis (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I believe that Mac Brick CAD also preceded it, but that project's home page is now gone, so it's difficult to get a history. Also, ldglite was probably compiled on the Mac prior to BrickSmith's release, but I'm not sure how many people use (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's not actually true. BrickDraw3D ((URL) it. However, BrickDraw3D was last updated on Nov 23, 2002, so it seems to be a project that's no longer in development. --Travis (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Here are the LDView highlights for that time period (two of which are already on your list). It's up to you what level of detail to take from them: 2005-12-13: LDView 3.0 released with whole new rendering engine that is generally faster than LDView (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi folks, as you might know LDraw's history: (URL) been updated for a long time. With permission from BrickJournal publisher Joe Meno I'm going to mirror an article published in BrickJournal, Spring 2006, Volume #1, Issue 4, which covers also the (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Your toolbar checked/unchecked states are messed up (for mutually exclusive color mode buttons and the various other toggle buttons). Explode in English doesn't have an accent over the final e. On a Mac, you should really use Command+Drag (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) You're missing a slash at the beginning. --Travis (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hmmm .. looks cool. I followed the Readme and substituted my locations, but I get this error: LDrawDir 'Users/Tim/Applicati...ith/LDraw' is not a valid directory. I'm scratching my head, cause it is, and I checked capitalization. -Tim (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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I have been involved in a Carbon project at work, and when I recently got myself a very nice 24" iMac I couldn't resist making an L3Lab for the Mac. So here is the first shot: (URL) (17 years ago, 27-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Actually, I just checked, and you can in Cocoa. Just uncheck all the modifiers in IB, and the menu will just show the letter (capitalized). Check the Shift modifier, and the menu will show that along with the letter. Furthermore, the keys (...) (17 years ago, 26-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Oh, it's widely recognized that a disproportionate number of Mac users are insufferably smug and prone to making grating, snarky remarks. What seems far less understood is that most Mac zealots are really very nice people who try not to annoy (...) (17 years ago, 26-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) lol--listening to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell"-- (URL) of the very funniest shows anywhere-- and lo and behold they reported a survey of 7500 mac an pc users and concluded that mac users were arrogant, felt superior in every way, and were much (...) (17 years ago, 24-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Mike, Travis, thx for the nomination, I accept. w. (17 years ago, 24-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) LOL you're basing your Windoze "standards" off a Micro$oft program???? And here I thought you were bright. Interesting that PP2003 doesn't behave like PP2000 LOL. Anyway, the "standard" behaviour for mutiple selection is - shift-click usually (...) (17 years ago, 23-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) You got me so curious I found a Windows machine and investigated PowerPoint 2003. At the least it is widely known; tragically, it's even probably the #1 drawing program on Windows. Both shift and control are used to select multiple (...) (17 years ago, 23-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Thank you for the nomination. I decline. Jim (17 years ago, 22-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) for the 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee election will close in a week, at 11:59 PM GMT on 29 February 2008 and elections will start the 1st of March. Only those candidates that have been nominated, seconded, (...) (17 years ago, 22-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Actually, I think it should use color 16 and 24 for the canvas portion. LDraw is partially about allowing people to build computer models of real world creations, but it's also definitely about allowing them to build computer models that will (...) (17 years ago, 19-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Nice. (...) Doesn't part 522 (URL) the first official part from this family? Should it stand as an example for future such parts, or does it need to be revised after the LSC adopts some guidelines? (17 years ago, 19-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think as follow: As the "Canvas" is only useful in the fold version like the design of the part, it should not be modifyable like stickers (colors). Also we do not need an unfold version (mostly useless). Unpatterned versions are only (...) (17 years ago, 17-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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Hi folks, I'm currently working on the "Canvas Wagon Cover with Oval and Two Crossed Cutlasses Pattern" (URL) and before I start cleaning the part for PT-fitness I'd like to ask the LSC for some guidelines, since this is the first canvas part ever (...) (17 years ago, 17-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I, Orion Pobursky, second this nomination (17 years ago, 15-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) for the 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee election will close in 2 weeks, at 11:59 PM GMT on 29 February 2008 and elections will start the 1st of March. Only those candidates that have been nominated, seconded, (...) (17 years ago, 15-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) As Travis remarked, many people install a program and then forget about the Read Me, myself included. (...) None what so ever. I often install open source (and even some commercial) programs that have less documentation than yours. (...) No, (...) (17 years ago, 15-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) No, but I have had thoughts about a very similar tool. One that lists all (or at least the first one hundred) points mentioned in a dat-file. It shouldn't take that many minutes to rush together such a utility. But so far, I haven't taken the (...) (17 years ago, 14-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello Tore, You are right, I should look more closely at LDraw script. Certainly a flexible tool... Would you already have a utility that converts a ldraw file (say with a path of lines) into a set of points coordinates usable by LDS? Philo (17 years ago, 14-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) thx for pointing. I'll add it. (...) Upps! Wasn't aware of this. Please do so and let me know. As a side note we also haven't got permission form Steve ... well ... I've got an email telling that he is fine with us using LDAdd On in the (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'd suggest moving the Readme into the app wrapper and adding an item to the help menu that uses [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:] to show it. I installed Bricksmith a long time ago, and had completely forgotten that it came with a (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Sigh...Nobody ever reads the Read Me. Though those tidbits are indeed documented, I admit documentation is not my strong suit. I generally hope that users will explore menu items and find them to be fairly self-explanatory. (...) I'm curious (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Congratulations, Orion. That's nice to hear. (...) Thanks for at least trying it out. It is unfortunate you were unsatisfied, and you raise several valid points below. But you also lament about the "absence" of several features which are (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I'm a little rusty with all these but I do believe you are MISSING POV-RAY 3.1g which is the ONLY one that will work with MEGAPOV 0.7 which is the way we get the "black" edge lines for making BIs. Does the current AIOI not include 3.1g? The (...) (17 years ago, 3-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Since we all have different tastes and different ways to approach problems, the more the alternatives the better. But are you aware of that tasks like this can be taken on using LDraw Script? (URL) example, You define the first, top, line (...) (17 years ago, 31-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Moving things manually a long distance is cumbersome, even with the coarse grid. The inspector does show the coordinates of the selected part or submodel, although I'm not sure if that's what you mean by cursor coordinates. Note that if you do (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yes, this is very annoying as using the arrow keys to move a part/assembly all the way across the model can be slow and painful, especially since Bricksmith doesn't seem to display cursor coordinates. (...) Ok, I see. I'd like functionality to (...) (17 years ago, 4-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Bricksmith is certainly unlike MLCad, which is indeed a fine program. However, I'd like to humbly correct a few inaccuracies I perceive in your list of drawbacks. (...) True. That is a definite difference. (...) False. Keyboard controls for (...) (17 years ago, 4-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm going to have to disagree. As a long time MLCad user and a recent Mac convert (Nov 2007), I feel that while Bricksmith is a very good program, it has some very definite drawbacks that makes it difficult to use. Here's a list from off the (...) (17 years ago, 3-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LDraw.org's January 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the January 2008 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Hooklift Truck with Crane by Norbert Taxberger> (URL) SOTM, Performance by Owen Dive> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Minifig Accessory (...) (17 years ago, 3-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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(...) I second that. I'm quite novice at virtual building, but Bricksmith has proven very straightforward to use (it's event better with two screens, too), and very convivial. MLcad is good to, of course, but I don't see why you'd go through all the (...) (17 years ago, 2-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I would recommend (URL) Bricksmith> in either case. Jim (17 years ago, 1-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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