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Hi, More than 5 years now since I've discovered the AFOL community. But I'm still incredibly amazed by its generosity and ability to make people collaborate. This post by Mike could look ordinary. But what a huge job from James Jessiman to this (...) (16 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It makes (a lot of) sense. But I am not qualified to write installers... Maybe Mike? There is also the IP issue, some of the tools are neither mine nor Mike. Especially Edger, I tried several time to contact Lee Gaiteri to get the (...) (16 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Mike, Philo, would it be possible to bake a fine prog including all the progs with a GUI, installer, tutorials ... to ease installation, maintanance and such? w. ps. it is known that im not a coder so please let me if I had just asked a stupid (...) (16 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Version 1.1.6 of DATHeader is now available for download at www.michael-heidemann.de. You can now give DATHeader a file with path as a parameter to open. You can now change the category back to nothing if needed. Enjoy mikeheide (16 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have now ready a new tool to give the very good commandline tools a gui. You can find the tool at: (URL) hope you like it. Please come back with your experience, so it can become better. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: LDraw LEGO Ambassadors: Call for nominations
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I'd like to nominate Willy Tschager. Marco (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Many thx Tim for the nomination, I accept. w. (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Philo! Awesome tool, can hardly wait to check it out. I've been waiting for a long, long time for such a prog. w. (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle)
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(...) For unproject MLCad does the job. Symply select everything and set the appropriate matrix row at 0. This is perfect for triangle, quads... If you have primitives you have to later automatically fix the "all zero matrix row" using LDDP. The (...) (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) This is great! Like Tim, I'd been thinking about writing a tool like this for a long time. Thank you very much for making this available. Steve (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) It's a direct parallel projection. I think it's the best since the photo (with a long focal lens) or a scan has the same projection. Philo (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) I was curious if it was a direct projection or an area preserving one. A nice variant might be to write an area preserving variant although that would get quite complex. Tim (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) It should. One interesting aspect is that while photo/scan distorts the pattern, flattening the shape to put it in quad2dat does the same distortion so they compensate each other! Philo (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Here is the response I received via email: (...) If anyone wants to take a look at the code, please do. I'll have some friends look when I have the opportunity. -Tim (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I'd like to nominate Willy Tschager. Tim (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Wow. Awesome. I've been meaning to write something like this for ages so I'm very happy. Would it work on minifig faces too? Tim (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Very nice. I don't author parts, so I won't be trying it out. However, I looked at your tutorial, and I have two suggestions: Add "Un-Project", where it takes a projected shape and flattens it automatically on an axis specified by the user (X, Y, or (...) (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Wow! That is very cool! I'm going to have to find a curved piece in one of my models that needs a pattern and try it out. Thanks! Scott (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Thank you Travis. I accept this nomination. Kevin (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) What a clever tool. That seems like it will be very useful! Jim (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(URL) This new tool allows easy creation of non-flat patterned LDraw parts. Create a flat pattern and stamp it on a 3D former. Program, documentation, source code are available (URL) here>. To show the usefulness of this tool, I created the four (...) (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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(...) Since I already have my name out there in other forums and groups I may as well raise my hand here too. Should people want me I would be willing to run. Tim (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I nominate Kevin Clague. On a side note, I won't accept a nomination myself; I don't feel I spend enough time with non-virtual LEGO. --Travis (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) If there is no other tool with that name - take it. But if your tool is for printing code I would suggest also the letter print in the name like LDPrint or better LDCPrint (LDrawCodePrint). cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Jim, I think it is tradition to name things with LD (LDView, LDLite). I didn't figure this out until after I named LPub and LSynth. Kevin (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I am wrapping up a little utility to pretty-print LDraw code (as a supplement to some things LDDP can do and as a stand-alone tool for other platforms). My working name for it is LDTrim, but I am curious if anyone has better suggestions. In (...) (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Upps! My bad :-( The winning page states clearly that this is your part only - I overlooked it in the paste'n'copy . Sorry about that. w. (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In reference to this post (URL) the LDraw.org Steering Committee hereby calls for the community to nominate/self- nominate individuals as candidates for the LDraw LEGO Ambassador. Please read the official announcement at (URL) post (...) (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I did some more digging on the project homepage and found the name of the creator. I sent him an email directly (vs the prof. over the project). We'll see what happens there. Otherwise, I've been meaning to have a friend or two look into the (...) (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Nothing can be found in that file that helps us. You have to go to the project page and then you have all files for download and there are a lot. As far as I understand the code the file that has the code that we have to change is here, but I (...) (16 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Fixed. -Orion (16 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) it. -Orion (16 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Orion or Willy may be able to. I don't believe I have a local copy of the files and don't know what happened with the article. If all else fails, I hope Bram has an archived copy. -Tim (16 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hey, before this history thread drops completely outta site... Is there any way to restore the historical LDraw and LEdit tutorial that used to be available here? (URL) (16 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Apparently it's not too hard to get it to compile under x64. I had a friend using 64 bit debian fetch the latest code from CVS and build it. He had to install the developer version of libOSMesa to compile, but that was about it. His Direct (...) (16 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's April 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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(...) Philo (16 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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Congratulations to the winners of the April 2008 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Technic Bionicle Claw with Axle by Philippe Hurbain (Philo) and LEGO Universe Team> (URL) POTM – Most Desired Part, (...) (16 years ago, 4-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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(...) Hi Guys, thanks for the feedback, what I've done is basically take both suggestions and merge them. Basically what I've observed so far is that not all parts in the "Parts" folder have the LDRAWORG meta tag (which denotes the type of file, (...) (16 years ago, 4-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Travis! Thanks for the input. I'm yet to fully exploit the meta/header data of the files, I've focused on the winding properties only thus far. This will give me greater cause to look deeper into them! Cheers Shane (16 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thanks Steve! That's really useful! I too thought that ldraw site would have the directory structure more documented then it is, but clarification is always nice. Cheers Shane (16 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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