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Hi, After a long time I decided to pack a new version for you, sorry for the long delay. Several fixes and a few new features, here's the list of changes: · Fixed rotation bug. · Fixed a bug when you insert a piece after a rotated piece wouldn't (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: re-name "patterned" parts?...
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(...) I'm guessing it's so they'll sort in human readable format... ie: brick 1 x 1 brick 1 x 2 brick 2 x 10 brick 2 x 12 would be instead (in computer numeralical order (as i like to call it when i complain to dan)) brick 1 x 1 brick 1 x 10 brick 1 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: re-name "patterned" parts?...
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(...) Because of parts like "baseplate 16 x 16" which need two character spaces? Without the padding you'd get ragged listings in monospace font reports. Just a guess, I am just a gadfly here. ++Lar (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: re-name "patterned" parts?...
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(...) in addition.. something that I've been curious about.. why are the names (descriptions) in this format?: [type] <space> # <space> x <space> <space> # why the second space after the times sign? I've removed it from some of my updated parts, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | re-name "patterned" parts?...
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People, I've noticed a minor problem with the current way of naming/titling "petterned" parts. Here's a brief excerpt from PARTS.LST (sorted by Description): 3070.DAT Tile 1 x 1 2555.DAT Tile 1 x 1 with Clip 3070DISP.DAT Tile 1 x 1 with Computer (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | What Happened to my Primitives?
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Due to my unrivaled computer savvy, I have managed to delete a few primitives from my p directory. Is there an easy way to download all the primitives but nothing else? I'd download just the ones I need, but I'm not sure which ones I've lost, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: someone mention my name?...
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(Notice "follow-up"...) (...) *Sigh*... I *had* to start putting that in my email "sig", 'cuz of the number of in-duh-viduals who, after seeing my name as _Franklin_W._Cain_ (*full* first name, *plus* middle initial), would start off by (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:chls3tksoa478uk...4ax.com... (...) So, what is your position on this, Steve? -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: 23951114 - (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: someone mention my name?... (was "Re: Rubber Black")
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(...) Yeah, you. I included you in because you'd been making comments about Paul's new parts, so you were 'in the vicinity'. BTW, every time I type your name, I have to restrain myself from calling you Frank. That's something I wouldn't have even (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) I'm with James on this one. Keep ldraw.org as the domain name. Call the organization LDraw.org. The parts library should be the LDraw Parts Library. Usually when I say/write "LDraw", I'm using the term as shorthand for "the LDraw family of (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization
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(...) That seems backwards to me. If "LCAD" is the all-encompassing term we want to use, then LDraw would be a subset of LCAD, and the 'proper' subdomain name would be ldraw.lcad.org (to go along with mlcad.lcad.org, etc). But that's working from an (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | ldglite 0.7.2
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Yet another version of ldglite is available. I'm up to version 0.7.2 now. The new version incorporates a few changes suggested here. I forgot exactly what they were though. Sorry. The other major enhancements are as follows: I double buffered the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:001201c06916$c7...dly.com... (...) ;-) (good idea, Ryan - something to think about) (...) Ok, please do. Thanks. -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization
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Regarding a separate LCAD domain, why can't you simply make a sub-domain in ldraw.org like what was done with mlcad.ldraw.org? ((URL) that isn't possible, I heard from someone who said that some place offers domain names for about $15/year. I'll (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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"Leonardo Zide" <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message news:3A3CC2C9.871D75....com.br... (...) I disagree - for now, at least. I don't believe resources should be split up - and splitting off LDraw 'proper' into its own separate site while (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) I think that www.ldraw.org should continue to exist and should focus only on things related to the program LDraw. (...) Lots of people don't read FAQs or other sources of documentation but it's worth to have them to at least help the few (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:G5o9sB.1JI@lugnet.com... (...) If there was, that's Jacob's department. I didn't know about it (thanks Jacob). -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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Tim Courtney wrote in message ... (...) hits, and (...) the (...) unique (...) I wonder... I am now able to get to ldraw.org, which I could not before. If there's been some rearranging of the routes to reach the hosting organisation, more people may (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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"Leonardo Zide" <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message news:3A3B8FF8.95F0A8....com.br... (...) Organization' (...) Ok. Lets figure out if we are going to make the move (LDraw vs LCAD in the name vote) and act on that. This doesn't necessarily (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) There isn't a very formal organization right now, so this shift is not a huge step and should happen as soon as possible. (...) You mean a more formal support ? I think that any questions posted to the lugnet.cad.* groups is very well answered (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | someone mention my name?... (was "Re: Rubber Black")
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(...) Eh? Who, me? Or, another Franklin? Just wondering... To the best of my recollection, none of the pieces I've encoded as DAT files have been rubber or included any rubber parts. Thanks, Franklin (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: License - again
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(...) James didn't want me to distribute the library in the original format, because he wanted to have the original library available only from his page but after I told him that I was using a modified format he said there were no problems. If you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) Well, I suppose nothing says that the URL and the title need match. If it's possible maybe try to dissociate the name Ldraw from the tool Ldraw? What I mean is newcomers to LCAD (like myself a few months ago) will want to go to that site as a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: License - again
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(...) My only source of information about this is: (URL) haven't found any of the other 100 places where Leonardo Zide has talked about this. Fredrik (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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For the past week, I have been working with Michael Lachmann and Jacob Sparre Andersen to give LDraw.org a more MLCad focus. We are proud to announce the new subdomain at LDraw.org: (URL) notice there's not much there yet. Because of some unforseen (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:G5Mt7q.3vr@lugnet.com... (...) Organization' (...) would (...) Point taken. Any other opinions on this? -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) No. Although I am -not- one of the CADheads, my vote would be to keep the organization name/URL to be LDraw.org, because it honors James Jessman. Yes, the focus of it _will_ change to LCAD programs (I'm one of the people who would like to see (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rubber Black (was: New Part - 30187...) [DAT]
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I cwould suggest something like this: 0 TEXTURE RUBBER <or matt, or whatever> < rubber parts in their colours > 0 TEXTURE END Don't forget that black is not the only colour of Lego rubber parts. THis can also be used for sloped parts textures: 0 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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"Leonardo Zide" <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message news:3A3A7869.6F41C7....com.br... (...) That's true. There should be a gradual shift in naming to 'LCAD Organization' rather than LDraw.org, etc [1]. Eventually LCAD *will* change to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: License revision 1
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(...) If you mean the "ask for another license" clause, it's not unusual. I got this idea from GPL: 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) This is something that confuses me, sometimes you say ldraw.org and sometimes LCAD organization. I'd rather see things going in the direction of an "LCAD organization", I know that currently LDraw accounts for most of what we call LCAD but I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: License - again
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:m3vgsm23c1.fsf@...ldomain... (...) It certainly should be given weight in any discussion of LeoCAD, and might help set precedent. Was giving credit to LDraw and part authors on (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: License revision 1
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:htlk3tcv9idsvff...4ax.com... (...) thing (...) final (...) ROFL. :D Well, it was all ready to go last night, but some other unavoidable issues have come up, that we have worked out (Michael (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: License revision 1
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(...) All the rest of you are exceptions, who have to be listed out, because you haven't written any parts. Actually, I should double-check that Jacob and Terry *don't* have their names in any part files. Anyway, I think I'm leaning against that (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rubber Black (was: New Part - 30187 Minifig Motorcycle with 3 Wheels Body)
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(...) Personally I feel that just using color codes to establish color/texture is the best move. We have 512 (and we could use more if necessary) currently and how many of those are actually valid and in use? Using a separate statement for texture (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) I think it would be sufficient if we officially accept our somewhat anarchic approach. Basically, we could have (appoint, elect) specific officer positions, such as 'server admin', 'primary evangelist', 'parts library administrator', 'innocent (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Rubber Black (was: New Part - 30187 Minifig Motorcycle with 3 Wheels Body)
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This is a separate reply, because this stuff needed to be XFUT lugnet.cad.dev. (...) Or we (that's an inclusive we, not just Paul, Steve and Franklin) should make a decision on what we want to do with "rubber black". There's definitely precedent for (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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(...) LeoCAD can import LDraw files and exports 3DS and Wavefront files. Leonardo (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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(...) I have no knowledge of writing scripts for converting files between CAD packages but I would be interested to know if anyone has or could write a converter from MLCAD to AutoCAD. AutoCAD like Microstation and 3DSMAX has a built in rendering (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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(...) One of the main reasons I wrote my 3DSMAX to DAT converter was to use the boolean ops modelling abilities of 3DSMAX. When I created the technic wheels and tires that were basically a dish with holes bored through them, I couldn't imagine doing (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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