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(...) Sounds good. One thing that would be nice is to leave a small gap between pieces so that 2 2x2's don't look like a 2x4... Charles (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program
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Gary Williams: (...) [...] It looks like there are lots of people writing LDraw renderers and editors at the moment. I would like to suggest that they also start releasing the source code[1] so we can get a bit of code reuse. I suppose I should show (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program
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David Eaton wrote in message ... (...) for a (...) off to (...) exists, (...) I'll include options so the user can define how he/she wants the mouse to behave when dragging parts around. Then nobody will be able to complain. :) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program
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(...) Of course, I really shouldn't post this because I haven't used anything other than LeoCad... I'm not sure how other CAD programs handle it, but here goes... For manual piece manipulation (I.E. with the mouse): -- For a left-button-mouse-drag, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | new Windows-based Lego CAD program
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I'm developing a new Windows-based Lego CAD program to overcome some of the shortcomings of similar programs, with emphasis being placed on ease of use while allowing a great deal of flexibility. Details are available at (URL) I welcome (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
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It is the previous version of ML-Cad that has this presentation of zero when a part has been rotated. In version 1.4, the problem has been fixed. I did point out the problem from version 1.3 in the message: (URL) suggest all upgrade to version 1.4, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT line parsing (was: Re: Datsville: crane2 (exponents?))
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(...) <Snipped Regex stuff> (...) Those numbers weren't generated by Turbo Pascal (LEdit). They were generated by MLCad, the recent Windows LDraw program. This is one of the reasons I haven't used it very extensively. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
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(...) Not in and of themselves, they don't. Only where there's a bug in interpreting them, which there was. (...) Did you read the "p.s."? :-) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
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(...) I haven't had any problem with MLcad in this respect. Possibly LeoCAD? Duane (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
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They do hurt things. When viewing dat's in ldlite via the web interface parts with exponents do not render. They do render when you load them from a local file however. I think MLcad is generating them. KL (...) -3.33067e-015 1.10441e-029 32014.DAT (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Do any of the command-line DAT tools do cleanups on floating-point numbers? I've noticed lot of lines lately with very-near-zero floating-point numbers, like these lines, for example... (...) ...which certainly don't hurt anything, but they could (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | DAT line parsing (was: Re: Datsville: crane2 (exponents?))
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(...) My bad. 'Twas a bug in the code in the ldraw.cgi script on the server which recognized DAT content. It wasn't expecting 'e' exponents in numbers. The old regex (just the non-type-0 portion): /^ \s* [1-5] (?: \s+ [0-9]+ ) (?: \s+ \-? [0-9]* \.? (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: minifig ax
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(...) The pickaxe has been made but not the hand axe (that I know of) -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting page for 9906
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I have re-aligned it so that the origin is level with the bottom surface, and re-submitted it to Terry. Chris (...) - (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I redownloaded all of the Ldraw files from Ldraw.org last week and installed them, but I can't find the minifig ax(hatchet), and I know that I had it before. Has this part been made or not. If so why don't I have it now?? Thanks Ryan (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV render times etc.
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_Technically_, an acronym _is_ a word, so Steve was right in the first place. Since that's true, then technically, TLA is _not_ an acronym. :-) -- joshua (...) (25 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | anyone else notice this?
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acording to the parts tracker manfred is working on the curved train track. did anyone else notive this and does anyone know any thing more about it? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville
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(...) Well, my plans on the MOC archive on ldraw.org are pretty loose and open-ended. I have no set pattern for what should go up there, except maybe a say in the way it is laid out on the page itself. I was planning to base everything in the MOC (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: POV render times etc.
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Yes, I agree too, but my dad doesn't want my stuff on the newer family computer(I do have Lego cad stuff on though so I don't have to copy to disk and transfer to my computer stuff I get from LUGNET). That should change this weekend though as we are (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV render times etc.
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(...) Technically, that's either 4 words, or 1 word and one acronym. :-) But who's counting? I agree. RAM solves a lot of problems surprisingly well. (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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