 | | [ldraw.org] Thank You
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I would like to thank the following people on their contributions to the ldraw.org project: First and foremost, the biggest thanks goes to Jacob Sparre Andersen. Jacob donated the server space for ldraw.org and has played a HUGE role behind the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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| | [ldraw.org] Site Release!
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I am pleased to announce the ldraw.org website is now online and open to the public! Please visit and enjoy. :) (URL) no means is the site or the project complete. I have done all I can to present the site neat and tidy with placeholders where (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 3
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Interesting idea. I will add to my ToDo file. But I think I'll mull it over for awhile before acting on it. I also like John's suggestion. Steve (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) I hope not. That would limit the site to serving up images in predefined colors. Two bad results: the list of predefined colors could become outdated, and some people might have a reason for making up their own color values for parts. I'd (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) How about a 0 IMAGE meta-command, for those parts which are not-yet coded? That way, we could supply a URL for all parts, and the image could come from any source. Of course, it might make more sense to have that particular item as a column in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) OK. I agree with you. The idea behind my site was to help people who are trying to locate hard-to-describe pieces, and need to visually browse through the catalog. (...) Again, I agree. I was just brainstorming ideas on how to reduce the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) Creating shell .DAT files is a simple way to record information for parts which haven't been created for LDraw. I wouldn't include these shell files in the L-CAD parts updates, but they would be useful for building a parts-base. (...) That (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) Definitely don't forget LDList! It's a great tool for finding parts. :) Steve (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: can parts authors try to finish what they have started?
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(...) So why should it be on the Parts Tracker? I made a *mockup* file. That's different from working on a file worth including in a parts update. (Those studs inside the inverted slope are killers) Steve (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) One neat thing that can be done if the pictures are served up by a cgi script is to store only a single image, but go in and modify the color before shipping it out. Of course you would need a standard set of color names, and a syntax for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) Slightly better might be: 1x2 45 degree slope, end cap 2x2 45 degree slope, peak junction The way I have put my inventories in is to have the size be in a separate cell from the rest of the description, as a result, an alpha sort would put (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) I think that the word slope should be in there, along with the degrees of the slope. Those two slopes would then be "1x2 45 degree end cap slope" and "2x2 45 degree peak slope junction". Although, "half-pyramid" fits the "end cap" best, as (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Cover Model
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(...) Should we go the voting route and let the visitors choose the model of the week/month from the pile? Or should we do that ourselves and rotate them some? And what should it be, week or month? Week would be more variety, but month would be less (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Cover Model
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(...) Yes, good idea, Terry. I think we should go that route. Right now I'm awaiting the delivery of a rendering of a truck for the first image. We can proceed to collect images for this slot at this time. A good 10 or 15 of them would be nice. I (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 3
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I just keep a 0view.dat file in my /models directory ("0" so it's always at the top), and when I want to view .dats from the newsreader I launch the 0view.dat into LDAO's Editor, then with one cut-and-paste I can view a model. One more cut-and-paste (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) [DAT]
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Ah, yet another promising database variant! This is great, and fast! I only see one problem with it is it only includes official LDraw elements. Isn't there any way we could make .DAT files for not yet rendered parts, too? Just for database (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) Why not add some new meta-commands? Either: 0 DEAFULTS COLOUR=15 ZOOM=150 (or 1.5) Or: 0 DEFAULT COLOUR 15 0 DEFAULT ZOOM 1.5 ... In fact, parts of the database could be hosted in the parts' .DAT files (to be continued in my posting subjected (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Cover Model
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Steve: (...) Well, who wants to do the work? I wouldn't mind helping with the infrastructure to limit the amount of work that actually has to be done. - Adding new models to the collection - Showing random models from the collection - "Voting" on (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Cover Model
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Terry: (...) Sounds like a nice idea. I could set something like that up - if somebody just collects and organises the images. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) Would the plan be to include images for each part in each known colour? For the decorated parts, at least, I would prefer that the image uses a real life background colour rather than the default grey. As a reference for parts sales, etc it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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