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(...) And just to keep it broad I created a Flickr group too (URL) (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw users Facebook group
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(...) This is a great idea! Spotlighted. Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw users Facebook group
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Hi all, I took the liberty of creating a Facebook group for LDraw users. It should provide another means for those of us interested in LDraw to keep in touch. Link: (URL) for checking it out and I hope to see some of you joining. Tim (as an LDraw (...) (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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Reading your tutorial made me wonder whether scans of the orignal parts could be vectorized using Inkscape (Inkscape includes an automatic raster-to-vector converter). The resultant SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file could then maybe be converted (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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(...) Thanks guys. Tim (16 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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(...) Congratulations Tim! Kevin (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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(...) For those of you who didn't see the announcment, Tim Gould was chosen as one of the new ambassadors. See here: (URL) Tim. --Travis (16 years ago, 4-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's May 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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(...) This time I don't feel bad voting for myself ;o) Philo (16 years ago, 4-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I'm going to use my amazing powers of prognostication and predict a win by Philo for the June POTM contest. --Travis (16 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's May 2008 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the May 2008 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Door 1 x 8 x 6 Frame by Willy Tschager (Holly-Wood) and LEGO Universe Team> (URL) POTM – Most Desired Part, Window 1 x 4 (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: Parts requests? (re: x136 and 50944px1)
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(...) Excellent... Thank you Philippe! Ryan (16 years ago, 26-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) Maybe you could email me your working plist because I'm at the "just making things worse" stage. I tried cloning the L3Lab plist file and that made ldglite disappear from the list of choices for ldraw files. I was kinda hoping lsregister with (...) (16 years ago, 25-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) Well, I tried that, and all it did was make it so that LDView couldn't be chosen as the app to open LDraw files at all. Comparing to L3Lab's Info.plist, I haven't the foggiest why. The L3Lab one seems to work. However, when I carefully cleaned (...) (16 years ago, 24-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I don't either, but I think the problem is that ldglite uses a really, really old version of the info.plist settings, probably obsolete. I have to read up a bit on the new keys to see what they do. According to these notes, things changed a (...) (16 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) [...] (...) Mmmm... I like swiss cheese too (...) Oops sorry. I shouldn't have assumed that you forgot those conversations. It would be cool if you could get Safari to do it. (...) It would allow the user to select which things to be (...) (16 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hi Chris, it's like swiss cheese, but let's keep that a secret. (...) Yeah I remember, but now I actually have a junky used Mac of my own to play with, so I want to learn as much as I can before it dies. I was sorta assuming Mozilla still (...) (16 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) OK, long time Mac users here. In the days of long ago, most/all browsers could be configured so that when the browser didn't know what to do with a file, a helper application, specified by the user, could jump in to open the file for you. (I (...) (16 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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(...) Kevin, Tim, please answer to these via email by tomorrow: * Name and age of the nominee. * Where is the nominee from? * Which Group does this nominee represent? * Key interests of the nominee (themes, building styles, and some examples of (...) (16 years ago, 22-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Retrieving tabular/csv inventories of individual sets
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Does Peeron provide downloadable tab-delimited inventories for individual sets? I am aware of the "Export My Parts" feature, but as far as I can see that provides an aggregate list of parts from all sets in a user's collection. Is there a way to (...) (16 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) So I installed the Mac version of L3Lab last night, and wouldn't you know, it took over control of .dat files from ldglite, like I expected. Double click a dat file on the desktop or click on one in safari and it pops up in L3Lab now. However (...) (16 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election result
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The winners of the 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Kevin Clague Tim Gould Willy Tschager As stated in the announcement (URL) at least 3 testimonials from members of nominating group are required. (...) (16 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Excellent! I forgot about L3Lab for the Mac. I'll have to try that out. It's too bad there isn't a category between LSRiskCategoryNeutral and LSRiskCategorySafe that lets you decide right then if you want to open it, or just save it (like in (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) OK, I'll update it. (Actually I already updated it to have both types in the array, but there's no point if x-application/ldraw never gets used.) Note that the Cocoa LDView hasn't been released yet. The one you're looking at is the QT LDView (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) Select a file in the Finder and select "Get Info" from the "File" menu (or press Command-I). Under the "Open With:" section of the little window that appears, choose an application to open the selected file when double-clicked. Click "Change (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) ever used is application/x-ldraw. I'm pretty sure it works for mpd files as well as ordinary dat files, but maybe the file has to have a .dat extension? (...) I'll have to look into "Get Info". Being new to the Mac, I don't know what it means. (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) For what it's worth there is a guide to this topic on LDraw.org: (URL) confirms application/x-ldraw (and application/x-multi-part-ldraw for MPDs). Can't the user just use "Get Info" to assign an application of their choice to open files of a (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) Yeah, it's been application/x-ldraw since like forever. Hopefully you're setting up the Bundle tags in your Info.plist and not the Risk assessment keys from the safari prefs file. But I could swear I saw only a few bits inserted by QT and a (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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(...) My Cocoa LDView info.plist has this information, but it uses x-application/ldraw. Is application/x-ldraw the correct thing to use instead? --Travis (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Making the DAT links work in safari.
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So the other day I was browsing the Most Desired Part entries on ldraw.org with my junky used eMac and I noticed a new curved slope that doesn't seem to have the tiger striping problem. Naturally I wanted to see how it was done. But no, I'm on a (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LETGUI (update) / LDFlat (NEW TOOL)
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Now the first update for LETGUI is ready. Changes: Added support for the tool LDFlat You can find the current version (0.1.0.8) at: (URL) hope you like it. Please come back with your experience, so it can become better. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help writing LDraw's history
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(...) Jean-Marc came back to me today with an interesting solution I think might work. See (URL) Click on MLCad's ball, then "Details" within the window. The specific versions will appear in the large band below. What does everyone think about this? (...) (16 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador Election is open
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In reference to this post (URL) the 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador 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 (...) (16 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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To keep moving this forward, I asked a LinkedIn question on the topic seeking help from a JS developer. This gentleman was kind enough to put a few cycles into it. Here are the results. I'm posting the question/answer thread in reverse chronological (...) (16 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw LEGO Ambassadors: Call for nominations
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(...) Willy & All, I'd also like to throw my hat in the ring for an LDraw ambassador position. I've re-ignited an interest in encouraging development of LDraw tools. I believe it's in LEGO's interest to help the LDraw community, and would enjoy (...) (16 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: DATHeader UPDATE
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Hi Mikeheide, (...) That's perfect, thanks a lot! Philo (16 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DATHeader UPDATE
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(...) I just have to announce the next version of DATHeader with your wishes build in. It was not so complicated I expected ;-) cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I still don't understand ;o) (...) Ah - you're right, it works if you d&d on the icon. But I tried to d&d on the opened program window - and that doesn't work. Philo (16 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have just tested with drag and drop and it works on my machine. Hopefully on your too. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have never done this in my progs, but I will try to implement. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DATHeader UPDATE
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Hi Mike, (...) I'm not sure to understand what you mean... Would it be difficuld to implement drag and drop of file to Datheader? that's a feature I often miss... Philo (16 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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