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(...) Why don't we just define filenames are case-sensitive, and allow for an option to treat them differently (case-insensitive) if someone requires it ? we should look in to the future, every OS will tend to be case-sensitive, windows hasn't made (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) Sure, no problem. I prefer to inline and find the true coordinates of the polygons in the primitives, though. There may be some small rounding errors both in your sine calculations and in LEdit's, and if they don't match, you'll get small (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: OMR Filenaming Standard Change?
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Hi, (...) I agreee. (...) Maybe I don't remember correctly, but until now I assumed that the term 'alternate model' refers to those models in the instruction booklet that can be built from the same set of parts. Just to clear my understanding, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2951 (not quite finished)
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(...) The primitive .dat files invert the colour internally, so if you code 1 16 ..... it ends up correct. If you code 1 24 .... you end up inverting the inverse colour which is not correct. Chris (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) hmm okay, I simply calculated the coordinates, sine and cosine relations are our friends:) (...) Yes I will really have to look in to that, I might require some help setting it up, the only time I touched my .emacs file was when installing (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) I think what Steve Bliss meant was to use inlining as a tool _only_ to find out where to put the polygon spanning the final 7° of the curve. You only need to temporarily inline the last curve segment and check the coordinates of the polygon on (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) Uhhh I see:) Well that explains my problems then. (...) Hmm Why to the segment? Or is the vague idea I have about inlining completely wrong? I think of it as a tool to put an unofficial primitive into the part file, e.g. by replacing a type 1 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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Don Heyse: (...) I think we should decide how the files should be stored (upper, lower, or mixed case), and then append that to the DAT format specification. My personal preference is lower case. Mixed case should be allowed in DAT files no matter (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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does anyone know where i can find fabuland parts thanks (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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(...) all (...) tending (...) Actually the problem with mixed case inside the files is easily fixed by one line of code in the program that either UPPERCASES or lowercases the filename (and directory: P, PARTS, or MODELS) before attempting to open (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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(...) Looks like everything is upper-case in the distribution files. Unfortunately, the case of the names on the files is only a small part of the battle. The real problem is all the references to various DAT files inside all the other various DAT (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) Fredrick was suggesting that you can use the low-res version of primitive in your file, rotate the primitive to the proper orientation, and then (using a text editor) change the filename to include the 48\. LEdit does not choke on parts which (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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John Jensen <skurt@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote in message news:FoJ43u.Gu@lugnet.com... (...) LEdit will load the primitive, it just chokes on the filename being in its editor. When you use the part, the primitive's filename won't be in LEdit's editor. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making LDraw Parts
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@cats.nbi.dk> wrote in message news:Pine.OSF.3.95.1....nbi.dk... (...) same side of the line defined by the last two points. (...) on the same side of that line. (...) Nice job, guys, on correcting this long-standing (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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(...) Yeah, I used GLUT and it seems fairly portable. So far I've compiled it with gcc for linux/mesa, the mingw32 port of gcc for windows, and Visual C++ for windows. I've already started looking for better menus than GLUT. So far FLTK and GLUI (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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(...) Yes, they were. You could use DD or simiar to edit them to lowercase, in which case "DIR" would show them lower, but command.com and the fileopen-type calls all treated everything case-insenitively and could see them. -Steven (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I haven't looked at your port of the source, but I would like to mention that you should use GLUT, to make your effort available to other platforms, other than linux, eventually have the same version for windows/Linux. I should warn you that (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) Ahh yes, but I also need to use the part that uses that primitive, and if LEdit won't load the primitive, then I can't use the part. Has noone ever used the \48\*.dat primitives? I count three in my directory, and if the policy is not to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) No, sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Perhaps I misunderstood the original question? You needed to rotate a part with name 48\1-4cyli.dat in LEdit, right, and LEdit choked on the filename? The rotation matrix should be the same no (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: OMR Filenaming Standard Change?
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(...) Like I mentioned in my reply to Tim, giving the .dat the same name as the .mpd gives even more consistency. The .mpd is named xxxxa-yy.mpd so if we name the .dat the same way, it has all the basic information(#, modifier, year) and the user (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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If anyone is interested, I've started a port of Ldlite to OPenGl and linux. So far I've only gotten the rendering part working, and only with a fixed viewpoint, but the images look pretty close to ldlite for windows. I suppose the next step is to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: OMR Filenaming Standard Change?
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Hi, (...) My opinion is that it is better idea to use ?xxxx??.mpd or ?xxxx??.dat as main filenames, than main.dat. My pros: This is the first level file of a set and this should at once orient the viewer what set he/she is viewing. It does not waste (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) (or (...) Hmmm wouldn't that be postponing the problems? If LEdit doesn't want to load it from a regular dat file, why should it load it from a dat file within a dat file? (hopefully you know what I mean) (...) Awaiting others opinion then:) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done)
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(...) You could just replace 48\1-4cyli.dat with 1-4cyli.dat before doing the rotation, and then replace back again afterwards. That should work, shouldn't it? (...) This sounds ok to me. But then agian, I've been wrong before! ;-) (The technic seat (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | part 2717 - technichs seat.
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Has anyone done the technics seat (part 2717) as this is my next most wanted piece? If not, I'll get right at it after finishing 2951. Sincerely John Jensen. (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Using parts in p\48\ (was: part 2951, more questions, nearly done) [DAT]
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: --snip snip-- (...) the (...) -snip- (...) (I (...) exist (...) -snipalot- Hmmm I feared that much:) So I've just finished the calculations, and are about to punch numbers again:) BUT, there's one large problem (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: OMR Filenaming Standard Change?
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(...) before we decided for sure to go to MPD and the submodel names we decided to go with. Like Todd said, that format easily crumbles, but we are now talking about the name for only the complete set's file. (...) What I'd really like to see is it (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would like to know if anyone agrees that this part is number 70770. I found this description on Lutz's list, "70770 Aquazone Crystal Chrome". (URL) Easter (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | OMR Filenaming Standard Change?
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In some recent discussion with Ryan Dennett on creating some resources for the OMR, he brought up what he felt was a discrepancy in the file naming convention. We discussed this and felt it appropriate to approach the group to see if 1) we should go (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Looking for James Jessiman Photo
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(...) Good suggestion. I think its one that I've tried before, but I didn't get a reply back. But last I heard, Steve Bliss was having contact with them and they were having trouble getting a picture of him scanned. So we may have some luck here. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Making LDraw Parts
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Lars: (...) Done. (...) You too. Jacob (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw - Future Plans?
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Hi, Sorry if multiple postings appear- Netscape on college meachine is screwed.. Spec :(Topic Ideas) - In no particular order. Cordinate Model Poloygon Model Clipping, Winding Color Model L-Draw Langauge Drawing commands Meta commands File formats. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making LDraw Parts
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Jacob, you forgot to correct item 5: (...) into 5: Draws a line between the first two points, if the last two points are on the same side of that line. Have a nice week-end ;-) /Lars (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part 2951 [Off topic word usage]
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(...) I too think it's hexadecagon or something like that, but had similar difficulty confirming it. I do know, however, that if you write or say "16-gon" in front of a typical group of mathematicians, not only will they know exactly what you mean, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making LDraw Parts
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Lars: [ reminded me of an old correction to the LDraw FAW ] Thanks. I have (finally) changed it. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making LDraw Parts
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote... (...) Well, I think the FAQ is still wrong: (...) Draws a line between the first two points, if the projections of the LAST TWO points onto the screen are on the same side of an imaginary line THROUGH the projections (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw - Future Plans?
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Alex Farlie: (...) Yes. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making LDraw Parts
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(...) I personally prefer "line defined by" instead of "line between" in that particular paragraph, but it's ok. If you changed anythink else in the FAQ, I haven't reread it to check. See ya. Rui Martins (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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