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Fredrik Glöckner skrev i meddelandet ... (...) This question has been on my mind too a bit, as I have thought of the possibility to 'import' LDRAW parts to BlockCAD (with a lot of manual massaging of course, but still using the work done on the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You forgot that there's a DOS emulator for Unix and you don't need to run the .EXE files, they are ARJ self extracting archives so running "arj x file.exe" will extract the files as well (and arj can be easily found for Linux systems, it's (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I forgot to add that you can have a file that is 'certified', but due to its nature (the lego part/sub-part) no clipping is applicable, but it can have correct point order (no bowties) and a defined winding (the default, or some expecifically (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Actually, I was thinking of CERTIFY, like a enable of the specific new metacommands. Example: If you have a 0 CERTIFY BFC would mean Enable or take into account the GFC related commands. besides the fact that it certifies that file has beeing (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problems with Ldraw related sites
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Manfred: (...) [...] It is my fault. I tried to optimise the web server, and forgot to check if everything worked after the change. It should have been fixed now. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hello all, Somehow I can't get into www.ldraw.org anymore. when I try I recieve an error message like: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /contact.html on this server. When I use the link from the lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw newsgroup page, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I know that the LDraw software remains the intellectual property of James Jessiman's immediate family. But what about the parts (primitives, parts) database as a whole? Is it the property of James Jessiman's immediate family as well? Or is it free (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ... (...) I think it is nice to have the winding state expressed explicitly. IMO part authors should be allowed to whatever winding they find most natural to work with (though you say CCW is desirable). It is perfectly (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 0 WINDING (CW|CCW) as the 'certify statement', rather than 0 CLIPPING ON ? Winding is local. Certification is sort-of local -- only the local file is certified, but the local setting affects whether subfiles (in the same reference branch) are (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Argh. You are correct, sir. Serves me right, trying to post quickly. Here's a correction: (...) Steve (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ... (...) No, WINDING is local! It does not affect subfiles, this is the very reason why we have invented the CLIPPING command. /Lars (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Oops! Forget a few important details in the psuedo-code! (...) The last line above should be: (AccumClip and LocalClip and (Winding != UNKNOWN) and Certified), (...) And the line above should be: If AccumClip and LocalClip And Certified Then (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) But it's not used! (...) But it's not used! (...) But it's not used! Why would future extensions use the CERTIFY statement if we don't have a use for it today? I agree WINDING may not directly make you think about BFC, but (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote ... (...) I think your pseudo-code delivers a fine evidence why the CERTIFY is unnecessary ;-) /Lars (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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[ Still discussing (URL) ] Steve: (...) You=anyone (kind of - English is a very imprecise language - "on" in French, "man" in Danish, ...) (...) That depends on how the program is written. You could imagine that the variable "local_clipping" isn't (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve: (...) I _don't_ think CERTIFY should be dropped, but we might want to change it to "EXTENSIONS", since it is intended for listing which extensions to the LDraw language the file contains. (...) Yes. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Did you mean you=Steve or you=anyone? (...) I agree, the sequence should be illegal. My point was, does CERTIFY BFC change the value of the internal local_clipping variable, or not? My intention was that it does not. From a practical (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd like to hear from other people about this before deciding to keep it or drop it. I'll give my reasons to keep CERTIFY below. But first ... (...) Why not use: 0 CLIPPING (YES|NO) CLIPPING addresses the core issue (can the current file be (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, I'll change this in the document. Changes from the last few days will be uploaded to GeoCities in the next hour or so. Steve (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve: (...) [...] (...) ...with the inversion status. (...) Yes. You might want to change "INVERT" to "INVERTNEXT". Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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