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(...) Thanks for this, and I agree with Orion that the status of these positions are not a matter of public record. Personally, I have the upmost respect for the current SteerCo and Standards committees, and the members there in. I think they are (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well maybe, maybe not. One thing I do know is that there isn't anything in the Bylaws that says we have to announce these positions publicly, that they are permanent once set, or that the same person can't be all 3. Therefore, as we have (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I think it more than meets the spirit although I agree it may be outside the letter. I'll try to think of a better solution for next year. Tim (16 years ago, 30-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) This solution seems to be outside the spirit of the bylaws, and probably outside the letter as well. The bylaws state "Once elected, the Steering Committee Members shall vote amongst themselves to determine a chairperson, secretary, and (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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In order to adhere to the LDraw.org Bylaws the LDraw SteerCo have voted unanimously to share each of the positions of Treasurer, Secretary and Chairperson equally between all LDraw SteerCo members for the duration of the current term. Any questions (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: License questions
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(...) Strictly speaking you should include each part author's names and information about the license in the POV file. I believe that is part of the conditions in the license for each part. That said I doubt anyone will be enforcing the policy for (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi, (...) Its a tough problem ! The problem is, that stl2dat does not recalculate or modify the triangles that are in the stl file. The only thing stl2dat makes is to bind the triangles into ldraw primitives or quadrangle. To solve your problem (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have finished the documentation. You can find it direct on (URL) or the german translation (URL) would be happy to get some feedback. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 28-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have found the solution for that with help of Philo. I will prepare a "How To" later on (URL) for all interested people. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I believe that POV's FOV is the horizontal field of view, while OpenGL's is vertical field of view. So you have to convert from one to the other (which I do in LDView). Set your rendering window in both the OpenGL view and the POV rendering to (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I also think it should be enough to place a disclaimer and preserve (part of) the comments to identify and credit the original authors. But with all the commotion around the license (library is on hold for years etc) It would be nice to have (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually I was planning to support both to see which approach renders faster. Having the vertex and index data in memory, the mesh2 approach was the easiest step to begin with. I only had to correct for quad -> triangle conversion to get (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's right. L3P also passes comment lines (line type 0) on to the POV code, but there's currently no disclaimer at the top. The coming release has this line at the top: // LDraw.org: (URL) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't know about an official answer, but it's worth considering that L3P has been providing POV exports of LDraw models for over 9 years now, and as far as I know, nobody has complained. --Travis (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A few things. First of all, both the LDraw file format and the POV file format support hierarchical compositions, so I think it's a good idea to leave things in their original hierarchy. So, instead of having a POV object for each part that is (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Anybody... ? An alfa version of a pov export you'll find here: (URL) would really like to get an 'official' answer to this. (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello all, I have been busy with POV-Ray export for LD4DStudio now and then for about two weeks now. It comes along quite nicely, but the results can be better. I am no POV-Ray expert so I'm looking for some tips from experienced users. An example (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) Thanks for the update. Shouldn't the bylaws be updated to reflect the changed operations? Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's quite a bind you're in. Who does the help desk call when they need help? (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hi Richie, the LDraw Steering Committee's summary can at any time found at: (URL) learn that the SteerCo has decided to not elect any of the above positions - same as last year. As for the activities we are still engaged with the CA and other (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It's been a few months now: are you able to advise which Steerco members have been elected Chairperson, Treasurer and Secretary? It'd be good to be able to follow up the quarterly report of activities and progress and financial reports with (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2007 awarded to Kevin Clague
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(...) With an OK from Orion, who regrettably couldn't attend, I presented the award to Kevin at the closing ceremonies yesterday. LDraw is core to how we communicate and share with each other in the hobby; so I'm glad when a recipient is able to be (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It was a great honor to receive the 2007 James Jessiman Award at Brickworld. It was unfortunate the current SteerCo members were unable to attend, but you were there in my mind. I was especially honored to receive the award from Tim Courtney. (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I am confused. Maybe someone can help me. If I have a file that is CW and I have a subfile that is CCW. I want to inline that subfile without having additional BFC statements. As far as I have understand BFC I have to rewind the lines in the (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) be sure I've tried all sorts of combinations but I get the triangles simulating the ndis primitives only in one corner, while it looks like that the other corners get merged: (URL) there something I haven't taken in consideration? BTW I use (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Willy (...) There already exists such an option : -o4 : no merge to quadrangles All the options are listed here (URL) Would it further be possible to mirror all points on the y-axes right away with (...) Have you considered using a subpart the (...) (16 years ago, 22-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Because I like to build alternate models, I realized that I often look for the same bunch of parts in Bricksmith's part browser - the parts from the original set. I worked out a way to add new categories to the browser and to automatically get the (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Hi Marc, authoring this part (URL) tried to simulate LDraw's "ndis" primitives to ease the substitution once the part is in dat shape. The STL preview showed the triangles at the corners of the various cylinders but it looks like STL2DAT merges (...) (16 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I should be more clear with VB. I am talking about VBExpress that is a NET Framework language. As far as I understand with the NET Framework it is possible to use a DLL that is written in VB also with the other Framework languages. So maybe it (...) (16 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I really should have responded to your original message before posting my message about LDView's parser. As far as I'm concerned, having a public VB parser for LDraw files would be great. I won't use it, but if others find it useful, that's (...) (16 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I know that LDView is a very good tool. And I know also that the code is under GPL. But there are people out there (me too) that do not know about C or C++. So it would be great to have a DLL to handle the core methods (and maybe objects) for (...) (16 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I forgot to mention something fairly important (which may be obvious). LDLoader is a library for loading LDraw files into an internal memory format that is easy to deal with. It handle parsing, error checking (and reporting, via callbacks), and some (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) For what it's worth, LDView is Open Source (GPL v2), and all of its LDraw file loading code is kept in a separate library (which I call LDLoader). This library depends on one other of my libraries (which I call TCFoundation, short for Travis (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I like the idea, I had some head breakers while trying to read LDraw files correctly the first time (especially regarding to reading recursive winding information). But I think, if there was going to be an 'official' LDraw api it should be (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello All, I'm starting work on POV-Ray export for my LD4DStudio project and was wondering about the LDraw license. I'm planning to generate POV-Ray files/objects per highlevel LDraw part. In the resulting source I will include all '0' lines from (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I like the idea. Naturally, I would like a portable LDraw library even better. How useful would a VB library be to Linux or Mac LDraw users? (There are at least a few!) In any case, a generic API could certainly make it easier to create new (...) (16 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Is there anybody that it interested in an dll that comes with objects and methods to handle ldraw related files? It would not be for showing the parts but could be base to develop that. Any comments are welcome. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wow. I'm impressed by the number of us on these social networking sites. Already 41 people in the facebook group (one of the largest LEGO related groups) and a further 27 on flickr. And best of all some new faces and de-lurkers. Tim (16 years ago, 17-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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(...) Hi Mike, Yes, I considered this possibility in the beginning, but I was not convinced by the vectorization process. One key issue is that silk-screened parts are far from perfect (misprints, color registration problems...). I found that (...) (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Another great idea. Spotlighted. Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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