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(...) Generally, yes, but if you are viewing the DAT files on lugnet with a browser, the file name will be some long temporary name. -gyug (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD spec [DAT]
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(...) I understand your proposal, but it has the bad side effect of requiring a double-pass through all the files. For example, if the first line of your file is: 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 foo.dat and foo.dat is not found in the search path, the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 0 Un-official part...
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----- Original Message ----- From: Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 7:30 AM Subject: 0 Un-official part... (...) part description. Why? This is my way to mark (...) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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As some of you may have noticed, I put an @-sign at the beginning of the part description. Why? This is my way to mark un-official parts or elements so I can both use them and easily list all un-official parts. See, Mklist puts them first in the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD spec
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Rui: (...) It's "Ada", not "ADA"! Neither does everybody have MS-Windows installed (and I am one of them). I don't mind distributing binaries for DOS and MS-Windows, but somebody else has to compile them. [...] There is a very good reason that I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | March MOTM Winner
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Greetings I'm proud to announce this month's winner for the ldraw.org MOTM is Pat Justison. Check it out at: (URL) sorry for the delay. -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: MPD spec [DAT]
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(...) OK, I saw it after asking, but what about the Win/DOS X86 version. NOTE: Not every one uses ADA, i.e. has an ADA Compiler Installed. (...) The following proposition may may seem awkward, but bare with me. This is My proposition for changing (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD spec
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Rui: (...) The first. (...) You can't trust that the MPD file and the first file in the MPD file has the same name, but it will generally be the case. (...) There is a Linux binary at <URL: (URL) >. (...) No. (...) If the interpreter is aware that (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | I apologize for the delay...
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Greetings I'm sorry for the delay in getting the ldraw.org MOTM page for March online. I've had a TON to do recently and haven't had the chance to get at it. I'll try as hard as I possibly can to get it online by tomorrow afternoon. Also, would (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Sorry to only get back now. I have the following questions: - Which (inline) file in the (.mpd) file is considered the root of the model - First (would be my obvious choice) ? - Last ? - we have to find out which ? The previous question raises (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I just came across this - (URL) know nothing about it other than what the page says, but it *appears* to be what's being sought here. If it is, great. If it isn't, I deny ever having been here. I didn't leave this message. I don't exist. :-) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw extended colors
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(...) I will have to find a way how to define such colors in MLCad but I think I will provide an option where the user can define if he/she likes 24bit or 12bit colors. Generally no problem :-) Michael (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I would if I could, but it's hard for me to imagine how this can be supported by LDS... /Tore (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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The LDraw colors are 0-15, 32-47, 256-511 (and of course 16 and 24). Paul Gyugyi defined some more colors for LDLite, 17-23, 25, 57 and "Direct Colors" in the range 0x04000000-0x07FFFFFF. As MLCad supports these colors, I'm going to add support for (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: oops. i'm new at this
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jonathan Gevaryahu writes: [snip] (...) Jonathan, make sure you understand how to use the predefined subparts, we also call them primitives. If the shape of the part you intend to do isn't too compicated, there is a lot to gain (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MOTM page link
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(...) sounds like a job for Perl. then again, what isn't? :-) -Steven (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I don't know of any general utility to do this. That certainly doesn't mean one doesn't exist. Maybe direct this question to lugnet.publish? Steve (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Yeah... Any suggestions? Would there be a utility that could do a replace of a text block on a batch of files? Another option would be SSI (I believe), but that would kill the submenus on the subpages. I'd really appreciate some advice on how (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I suggest doing a global search and replace across files using Editpad... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) You need a way to regenerate *all* the pages in one go. Steve (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts update
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(...) I've been tied up lately, so I've been falling behind on checking parts into the process. I've got 86 files (new parts, fixed parts, subparts, and primitives) ready to be voted on. There are at least 60 more to look at before I can consider (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST)
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(...) It's looking good! (...) Model first, get part numbers later... :) Steve (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST)
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(...) How about whining? Tooooooodd, will you pretty pretty please have someone make the samurai minifigs/armour/equipment for me, pwease!!! (Honestly, I can't be the only Lugnetter to like the Ninja (now called Samurai by me) theme)). *sighs* I'm (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST)
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----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin B <kevinb01@netfocus.net> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 8:56 PM Subject: Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST) (...) (URL) about that! Kevin B (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST)
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----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Gevaryahu <Jgevaryahu@hotmail.com (remove)> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 7:42 PM Subject: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST) (...) Check this out: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Parts update
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When is the next Parts update running? Is there a voting page up? T Burger (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST)
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(...) Jonathan G: Take the above advice with a very large grain of salt. :-) Asking for parts to be made isn't actually a bad idea, inherently speaking. Since the entire L-CAD/LDraw parts effort is a spare-time endeavor for people, it all depends on (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: oops. i'm new at this
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(...) No, your tone was fine. There is a *big* difference between ... [parts] which I would like to know the status of... and ... I need these parts made soon ... My preference for authoring is LDAO (with LDLite for real-time preview), but your (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: oops. i'm new at this
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(...) Anybody are free to model any parts they feel like doing, but it is in their own interest to see if anybody else are working on the same part already. Without the part tracker working, I see no better solution than to post a query here. Also (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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oops. sorry if I insulted anyone. I intended no harm by that post. (i'm very new to this newsgroup, and i haven't yet found out what is looked down upon) uh, actually, if I could, *I* would like to try at modeling some of the parts on that list! I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST)
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(...) 4589.DAT ?? (...) I've started some design work - but its in the early stages (...) This is done as 3068p81 and submitted for the next voting (see (URL)#2549-1-01 Pirate Bridge (...) A mock-up was done recently bt Tore Eriksson (see (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST)
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One other thing. In future, you should know that asking for parts to be made is not a good idea and most of the people here frown uopn it, especially for such a large list (I should know, I have had it happen to me numerous times) -- Jonathan Wilson (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts done/in progress (BIG POST)
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(...) That would be the cone 1` x 1 (...) Both awaiting voting (...) Also awaiting voting (...) If this is the hand axe, then no it is not done. The pickaxe has been done as has the small castle axe. The large castle axe also has not been done. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I, an avid lego user in earlier years, was amazed to see the amount of progress and programs, particularly ldraw, that were created for lego use on computers. However, I couldn't help but notice that several of ldraw's parts are missing, and as the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDS ver 0.29
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(...) Ahh! Fantastic! Now, that was a great example, wasn't it? Best thing with it was that the "Eternal loop" error check works... :) Should of course be: i=1 while i<=5 gosub :hello i=i+1 wend end (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | LDS ver 0.29
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(...) Done. WHILE-WEND done, too. (URL) a sample script that shows usage of WHILE and GOSUB: i=1 while i<=5 gosub :hello wend end :hello print 0 "Hello"; gosub world return :WORLD print "World." return /Tore (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM page link
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(...) Well, I would, but that would take about an hour of work updating EVERY page on the server with that link. -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I think that it would be a good idea to put a link to the motm page from the bar at the side (the one with the studs following the mouse.) Currently, from the main page the only way to get to the motm page is to click on the picture after scrolling (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDS ver 0.28
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(...) I thought that WHILE-WEND was easy to code, but I'm having great problems with it... :( And yes, GOSUB and RETURN have crossed my mind. Could be wrong again, but it sounds almost as easy as GOTO. (...) Oh dear! *sigh* If I get the time then I (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDS ver 0.28
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(...) Double-:) (...) Right! Any chance of getting GOSUB and RETURN? (...) Hmm. It's your program, and you should definitely use it the way your want. But I've always preferred DO ... LOOP over WHILE ... WEND. It's partly because DO ... LOOP can be (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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