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(...) True. But mirroring is an advanced technique. Well, maybe intermediate-level. Anyway, it's not for beginners. (...) True. Allowing mirroring/inversion for parts authors allows them to use a single set of primitives, while keeping part-files (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You could not find it with that loose and sloppy description! :-) (URL) Sorry about that! (...) You're right, slots are a better name than notches for the openings. However I would say that "tabs" are a better name for the part on the sleeper (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've got a zillion bug reports about mpds to sort through. Hopefully it will handle them better than 1.6 :). -gyug (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Great! Out of curiousity, how well does the upcoming version of LDlite (1.7 isn't it?) handle MPDs? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'm so happy! I have to post this list. From the online LEGO community, we have some great representation signed up for MindFest at MIT. Names marked with a (*) are guest speakers. NELUG will have an exhibit table and a welcoming evening. LDraw (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <37f8c4a9.238320530@...et.com>... (...) Well, I have nothing against anticlockwise, but it's redundant. Seeing ACW where one expects CW or CCW may confuse some people. I checked the dictionary because I honestly didn't (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Paul Gyugyi: [ kind of announced the next LDLite version ] Cool. Jacob (who should try to get LDLite to run on Linux) ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Track names (was Re: To Tore Eriksson)
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(...) 4555? (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) Actually, I count three ideas. (...) messy. (...) when (...) the (...) to (...) only (...) have (...) in (...) CW (...) slightly (...) for (...) The third option, which I believe would be best, is similar (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <37f8c86b.239282689@...et.com>... (...) But more often than not, when mirroring an element or subassembly, it's not the intent of the author to turn it inside out. Typical model builders shouldn't concern themselves (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Paul Gyugyi wrote in message <37F8CE0C.13D582C9@g...yi.com>... (...) Cool! This could be very handy. I'll add it to the DAT format page I'm writing. -Gary (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Lars C. Hassing wrote in message <939050465.592693@ns.cci.dk>... (...) True. But when manually examining a file, if you come across a 0 INVERT you wouldn't know whether this was the beginning or the end of the inverted references, without a bit of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex [DAT]
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It seems to me that there are two major "camps" in the CW/CCW debate. A. Face-by-Face Method This method suggests that CW-ness be ultimately evaluated on a face-by-face basis. Each quad in a primitive or part would hold a value of CW,CCW, or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) True. '0 INVERT END' may be allowed as a syntactic convenience to authors. Or 0 INVERT could be rewritten as 0 INVERT [ON|OFF|TOGGLE] where TOGGLE would be the default action. (...) [example snipped] 0 INVERT is different from 0 FACE [CW|CCW] (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hooray! :) (...) Hooray! :) Steve (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Jacob: (...) Steve: (...) Jacob: (...) It happens every once in awhile. Actually, which approach *would* be better? Examining the transformation matrix to determine the state of inversion, and adjusting the CW/CCW setting to correct for it, would (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Recognizing multiple forms of the command shouldn't add much to rendering. Each file can be parsed once, and then the post-parsing results cached, for later re-reference. The FACE meta-command would be stored as an opcode and a single (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Forgot the footnote: 1- There's an interesting distinction between 'valid' and 'well-formed' contructions. LDraw will allow line-breaks as whitespace in commands, so: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3001.dat is valid, but it's not well-formed. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve: (...) Yes. (...) Yes. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm curious Chris, in what sets was that the case ? And do these gray ones have those "negative" tapered ends, just like the old blue track had ? In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes: (...) Gimme a set number for "the wildwest miningish" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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