 | | What happened to WWW.LDRAW.ORG?... (Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02)
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(...) and I've constantly gotten the "No response - server may be down" message! What's up? Thanks, Franklin (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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Great! I think it would be better to change the words "Created by" to "Author:" at the same time we update the train tracks. -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Found the file anyway, took a guess at 0002.zip instead of 0001.zip, and it worked:) You probably should fix the link anyway though:) Kind regards John Jensen (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Should the download all files link near the top of the page be working? Kind regards John Jensen (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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[FUT lugnet.cad.dev] As the title suggests, the 2000-02 LCAD vote page is up and running. Please read the following, especially if you aren't familiar with the voting procedures. There are some 145 new parts in the update. Wow! This is a big one. My (...) (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: parts authoring question
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(...) There are two or three general rules about this. 1. The origin should be at the top-center (ignoring studs) of the part. This rule works best with mostly-rectangular pieces. 2. Studs and other connection-points should be positioned at (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | parts authoring question
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Hi, When writing a new part, where should the 0,0,0 point be? Is there some rule who say's that this should be somewhere, or could this be any point. The part i'm writing (9V Straight track [2865])has a Y range from -16 to 8 in other words, the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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(...) Ok, I very much understand. Been there this summer as well, except moving. (...) Sounds good! Let me(us) know if and how we can help. Paul (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Partial list of parts for 2000-02 Update
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(...) wrote: (...) avoid confusion with (...) OK. Steve (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L-draw
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"Matt Sekerak" <lowlead@aol.com> wrote in message news:FzG1CE.J7H@lugnet.com... (...) For now, yes. But hopefully not for long. (URL) I believe LDLite has been ported to Mac, and you can use something in conjunction with something to model on a Mac (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L-draw
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I have a Mac...am I screwed if I want to get in on this L-Draw gig? (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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(...) Well, until the voting page is up, I won't say absolutely not. But I've got a bit of a backlog now (after moving/kids to camp/week at the lake/etc.), and I am seriously trying to get to a point where I can post the voting page. So if I get a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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Well guys, it looks like I need to warm up the 'ol inliner... and off to the LDAO world I go. :-) Steve, is there still any room for more parts in the next update? (As single file parts) I think I still have a coulple I haven't sent yet. Paul (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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(...) Oh, you're not going to be happy with the next update... (...) With a good caching strategy, subfiles should make a net improvement in performance. (...) For that part (<part:4186p01 the original soccer field baseplate>), a small grid of studs (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some parts in RIS
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"Zhengrong Zang" <legozang@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:399A4580.E59E81...hoo.com... (...) Just a heads-up FYI... I think your part requests might be more appropriate for lugnet.cad or lugnet.cad.dev versus this group. cad.dev.org.ldraw is (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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(...) I am just a little concerned about the rapidly increasing number of files we produce. It gets harder to overview. I know nothing about rendering program's cacheing and what effect usage of sub-files have. There has to be a balance, sub-parts (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some parts in RIS
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Sorry, I found it in past message, it is 32007.dat and 32007b.dat Zhengrong (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Some parts in RIS
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I want to use the caterpillar with its wheel that includes in RIS, does anyone knew that .dat files? Zhengrong (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Scout and micro-scout dat file
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Thanks, I had submitted in the parts tracker after I sent the first message. Zhengrong (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Scout and micro-scout dat file
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"Zhengrong Zang" <legozang@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3999FEEA.297A4B...hoo.com... (...) Zhengrong, You should submit it to the parts tracker, which I believe still has a link from the news bar (right hand side) on www.ldraw.org. Otherwise, (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Scout and micro-scout dat file
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I want to use scout and micro-scout in my works, but I don't know where I can find their dat file, does anyone help me? Zhengrong (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: eliminating polygons?
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"Michael Horvath" <mikehorvath@juno.com> wrote in message news:Fxq871.3vM@lugnet.com... (...) part- (...) doing it. (...) their (...) a (...) On the contrary, you should feel free to hack away at LDraw parts to optimize them for your own usage. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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(...) Okay, this is the one I was using... Thanks! Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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Jamie Obrien wrote... (...) Thanks, your suggestions sound reasonable, I'll have them in mind. (...) L3P recognizes the light.dat file(s) if you call it with the -l option, see l3p.txt. The spotlite.dat file are, however, not supported: spotlights (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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Sproaticus wrote... (...) Just to clear things up: the above is how I intend it to work in the next release. The newest release is v1.2 20000616. /Lars (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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(...) Oops! I thought I was running the latest... Lemme reinstall and play with the newer one... (...) Personally, I'd remember to switch it on and off, though I do understand that many (most?) users might forget. (...) That would be great! (...) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: Status on 2000-02
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(...) No problem. We're used to waiting :) --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts authoring help wanted
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(...) Let's see ... Y- X- | Z+ \ | / \|/ + /|\ / | \ Z- | X+ Y+ (sorry this isn't to scale) (...) Probably not a bad idea. (...) I did publish an EXCEL file with several utility functions, called rotate.xls. But I'm not sure if that was the file you (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Status on 2000-02
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(...) I've got to tie up a couple of loose ends, and post the voting pages. I just got back from vacation, and my life has been unusually hectic for the last month or so. So the update has been taking longer than expected. Steve (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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Sproaticus wrote... (...) The problem with s\973s01.dat is that it has a color 24 reference to a 2-4cyli.dat, to render the mark on the minifig's neck. (I guess the mark is for automatic optical control of which side of the minifig to print on?) I (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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Sproaticus wrote... (...) Each time L3Lab is invoked with color depth less than last invokation. If you always use 16 bit, you'll get it only once per installation. (You won't even get it, if you install a newer L3Lab!) On the other hand, if you (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Parts authoring help wanted
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ludo soete wrote... (...) Right. (...) Part authors are always very welcome, and your contribution will be much appreciated. I think the FAQ ((URL) has lots of info about the DAT format and description of primitives. (...) Try loading eg. part 3001 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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(...) an (...) I should point out that it's not errors in my models that are triggering this message, but rather errors in parts files from the official parts updates. (1) This usually happens with patterned parts, like 973S01 (a subfile in the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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(...) see (...) Once per session, or once per installation? Once per installation would be keen. Also, it would be keen to be able to turn off and on error-reporting (e.g. missing parts, etc.) I use this feature when I'm creating a model or fixing (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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Sproaticus wrote... (...) OK, I'll only prompt you only once. But I would like to prompt you. Don't you sometimes see unexpected colors? (...) Yeah, it's not really needed... (...) Are you aware that you can drag a file onto an open L3Lab window (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Parts authoring help wanted
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(...) Well, the easy way, to NOT make any mistakes, is to create a .DAT file with a bunch of lines type 1, which include for example the Brick 1x1 -> 3005.dat and then you change their color and their x,y,z position to see the changes. 1 color x y z (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Partial list of parts for 2000-02 Update
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(...) I think 32184 should not be name Technic Axle Joiner Perpendicular Double to avoid confusion with 32291 Technic Axle Joiner Perpendicular w/ Double Peghole. I suggest "Technic Axle Joiner Perpendicular 3L" Marc Klein A Mindstorms fan. (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Parts authoring help wanted
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Hi, First off all i hope that i post this in the right subgroup. I would like to create a new part for the LDRAW library and i do have some questions but can't find an answer for it, nor on Lugnet nor on LDRAW.ORG. 1) In witch direction point the X (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Status on 2000-02
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What's the status of the 2000-02 parts update? (I've been gone for 4 weeks) TIA, --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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