 | | Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) ...and... (...) ...and... (...) Sounds like good fodder for a parts-authoring FAQ. Is there one? Other than Q24 in the LDraw FAQ (1), of course... Perhaps Q24 (and Q31 and the primitives reference (2)) should be broken out and re-organized as (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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Here are my repies... --Calvin Walton (...) <snip> (...) I have a Voodoo3 2000 on Windows 98, and fullscreen mode works well. (No crashing, good display, alt-tab works, and I can exit.) (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: File management
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(...) If you've got the files stuffed into an MPD, there's no real need to keep separate copies of them. I do it anyway, but I'm weird. If a file is truly junk, I'll delete it. I move all my completed/inactive projects out of the Models directory, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) What Fredrik said. If the comment is just about the part-name, you can probably just post it in the vote. But if you're commenting about the part itself, it's better to post it here, and/or e-mail the author. (...) Send 'em in! Any fixes I get (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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You can now download LDView v0.7 from: (URL) version contains my inital attempt at fullscreen support. It works on my video card (nVidia TNT-based), but I do not own any other OpenGL-capable video cards on which to test it. If you are worried about (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) If you only comment on the parts in the vote, Steve Bliss will have to mail the comments out to the respective parts authors. I think it is much simpler to post the comments here, so that everyone can read and followup on them. Fredrik (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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Well, I *finally* got to the Vote page! A friend of mine showed me the page for "(URL) think that someone here suggested I use an anonymizer, but it wasn't until my friend actually showed me that page that I understood what this was.) I voted (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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Hello, I may have a dumb question here, but.... I voted on the parts on the voting page. I made several comments in the box below the "needs work" check box, without checking the box. Do those comments get submitted as well? Should I post those (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | File management
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When making official models (and unofficial models for that matter), there are minifigs, submodels, and sub assemblies to deal with. You put them all together in one .mpd file, but then you also have these other files left in the \Models directory. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: September MOTM voting is ready
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(...) Agreed. There are a lot of good ones. Your Welcome Tim - not a big deal once Jacob told me about that cgi script to "register" each entrant. That solved a lot of problems. :-) So thanks to Jacob Sparre Andersen for once again putting on his (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: September MOTM voting is ready
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(...) Yup. VERY tough voting, I'll have to think about where to cast my vote for a long time. Great models this month! And a big thanks goes out to Terry who is filling in for me while I can't update the site for a few days. -Tim (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: September MOTM voting is ready
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(...) All great stuff! That Petrol Station that Jonathan Wilson made is a gem!!! --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | September MOTM voting is ready
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Hi all, The September LDraw.org Model Of The Month voting is up and ready at: (URL) entries to choose from this time. And just a reminder, entries should be submitted WITH a short text about the model and/or scene. And can the entrants for this (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L3P and L3Lab
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(...) The websites helped. I think I'll get L3P, but maybe I'll get both. Thanks, --Ryan ---...--- -- E-mail: Ryanjf2@juno.com -- Amateur Radio call sign: KB1FOB ---...--- (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Don't bother to reply (was Re: LDView full-screen TEST: feedback required)
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At this point, don't bother to reply to the request. Since I didn't get any replies, I have gone forward with my full screen code using information off the net. This produced a number of fundamental changes in my full-screen handling. Conseqently, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Rotating 90-degrees (...) D'oh! I haven't had a chance to verify, but I do believe that I *did* rotate it while I was looking at it in LEdit! Sorry, y'all. Yep, I agree 100% with Tore and Steve on this. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P and L3Lab
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Ryan J Farrington wrote... (...) L3P generates POV files for ray-tracing ((URL) is a DAT file viewer. Read the short descriptions on (URL) follow the links to my pages (URL) detailed info. /Lars PS. I know L3Lab can generate POV code too, but only (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Well, I didn't know it was that smart (or ignorant...) I'm simply using sscanf with the format string "%d %s %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f" Let me carefully re-read the sscanf documentation... "One white-space (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) So that, when R2D2 pattern is finished, front view will be front view and not left view. -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Umm, Jeremy. The holes are currently parallel (and centered on) the Z-axis. Rotating 90-degrees around Y would put the holes parallel to the X-axis. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Rotated? As in on the y-axis? That's pretty much what I was arguing against. Why should it be rotated? Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) This is not the boombox. I know this piece was used in set #6393 Big-Rig Truck Stop (from 1987) as the gas pump displays. --Ryan ---...--- -- E-mail: Ryanjf2@juno.com -- Amateur Radio call sign: KB1FOB ---...--- (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3P and L3Lab
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Lars, I currently have LEdit and MLCad on my computer, but I was thinking of downloading another program, maybe L3P or L3Lab. However, I am not sure what the difference is between these two. Could you give me the features/pros/cons on them? Thanks, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gears (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Hmm. I may be confused. The DACTA gears (see (URL)) may all be DUPLO scale. (...) About the same time as the rest of us. Once we get one standard figured out, some other issue arises. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Alrighty. And truly decorative parts can still be labeled as decorative. But I'm not retro-labeling *anything*. So, should 32166.dat, Technic Connector Block 3 x 6 x 1 & 2/3 Gearbox, be renamed to Technic Gearbox 3 x 6 x 1 & 2/3 Gearbox (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Ditto. I suggest it should be rotated 90 degrees before officializatoin. (btw, I made a little mockup of R2's body with orna... sorry, pattern) -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Gears (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) I think I've done all except for the largest. (...) DSCTS gears? Are they the same as Classic European Pre-Technic gears? (URL) is there yet another kind? The euro gears are not at all compatible with Samsonite gears. Where can a picture of (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: [snip] (...) O.K. Ornamented it will be then. By the way, Steve, Did you already notice that I've started to send "suggested update revisions" to your adress "partsref@worldnet.att.net" ? (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: cannot connect to site / lack of support from MediaOne.net - DAY THREE (KMM78820C0KM) [lego]
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I have no idea if this is of any help but, I also use mediaone for web access and I can go to www.ldraw.org fine... I have no idea about all the proxy stuff so I cant help you there. HTH (...) [4.24.144.73] (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: cannot connect to site / lack of support from MediaOne.net - DAY THREE (KMM78820C0KM) [lego]
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(...) [snip] (...) Didn't someone suggest using an anonymous proxy that might be located a few hops closer to ldraw.org? There's a list of proxy sites here: (URL) don't work. The proxy at webcache worked for me. YMMV... Or you could sample the free (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Right. As I understand, this brick appeared with several different colors of printing, but always on the same color brick. This approach (hard-coding the brick color, but allowing the pattern color to 'float') has been done in a few other (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Stages, woo-hoo! (Was: The Artemis Project)
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(...) The single greatest contribution (IMO) that the Artemis Project has to offer is the concept of Stages, its OO approach to model and submodel storage. Essentially, a model can be associated with a Stage or a set of attributes -- origin offset, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | cannot connect to site / lack of support from MediaOne.net - DAY THREE (KMM78820C0KM) [lego]
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This is the *third* day I have been trying to access "www.ldraw.org" without success. I have *yet* to receive a response from a human being at Media One. No phone calls, no email (other than the original email from some anonymous techie at Media One (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) This is by design then? (...) No preference here; I just think that (for consistency) the origin should be between two studs (if possible), and visible when the model is viewed from the front or back or the sides (if possible). This one is (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) I considered posting the L3P -check output as a link on the voting page. (...) How about a parrot w/o decorative printing? ;) (...) It would be very nice if L3Lab had a menu command for L3P-check'ing the current file. A little dialog to set (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Note to everyone (repeating myself from just a few minutes ago): the one thing that practically *can't* be changed after a part is released is the orientation and positioning! So it may seem picayune to argue about these things, but it is very (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Oh, right. Good point. (...) Right. The parts in question *are* useful, and do have some mirrors and beads on them (so to speak). (...) I feel just the opposite. "Decorated" is a common description for parts with printed patterns on them. I've (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org unreachable
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(...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Change of part-submission address
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Dear Y'all: I've changed ISPs, and so the address for parts-submission has changed as well. From now on, please direct all parts submissions to: partsref@home.com That's not too hard, is it? I will continue to check the old partsref@worldnet.att.net (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Yes, 226 files! Thank you for your effort. (...) Well, I did - or rather L3P went nuts spitting out 1500+ lines! It seems that 63 files slipped through the Quality Control: 980 bow-ties ("Bad vertex sequence") 487 (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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