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(...) You're right, it doesn't save a file, but it only seems to be a problem with the ldlite parser. Try copying the executable to l3glite.exe and running it, or add -l3 to the commandline to use the l3 parser for now whenever you want to use the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Michael Heinich <mheinich@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G6LG5t.LM5@lugnet.com... (...) There usually aren't enough models to have any real competition in the categories. I really like a lot of the models this month, and the cathedral *is* the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Yes, more details would help. For instance, which direction is the offset: Forward, Up, Down, left, right? I'll have to try it out myself some more. If I remember correctly, I think I may have gotten better results with non-whole number (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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New to this forum, this is my first chance to vote for MOTM. It's too bad you don't have catagories because there are a couple of strong models here. Both the tractor and train are excellent models as well as the Patrol set of space ships. But the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G6K5vr.IFK@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) Good point. Follow-up posts don't bother me as much, since I use a newsreader, but they would muddy the .dat waters for web browsers. We (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) There's been quite a bit written about the transformation matrix, in the LDraw FAQ and on this newsgroup. Can you be more specific about the problem you're having? Steve (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks for the reminder... I *always* forget that. (...) Which you forgot to do! <zing> :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Very cool! I noticed two things, which could be considered problems. One is straight-forward, the other is not so. The first thing is that using the -ms commandline option doesn't save any images if there are no 0 STEP commands in the file. I was (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I understand the problems related to this. It is not a major issue with me, as I will use LdGLite (is the the correct capitalization?) mostly for explorative viewing of a complete model, not for step-by-step viewing. It may be a problem when (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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I am now able to author some patterned parts, though not in the manner that Franklin does (it sounded rather complicated!) I remembered something said awhile back about a Bmp2dat converter, for which I did a search and downloaded. It took about ten (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Well.. actually... I've almost finished an AutoCAD VBA-macro for importing DAT-files (into Acad 2000(i)). Just having touble with the transformation matrix thingy... I get the objects placed correctly, but not rotated/scaled properly. so... if (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don Heyse wrote... (...) Ah, I think I understand now... You require all DAT files in Linux to be in uppercase? If you let FixDatName convert to lower case (like I do), you could modify OpenDatFile to use upper case, (if that's what you require) and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK I confess, I took the cheap and easy fix rather than digging deeper to find the root of the problem. After further consideration I suppose the correct solution would be to run FixDatName() on all the hardcoded lowercase filenames when the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, it's been that way for a while. Perhaps forever. I've fiddled with various ways to fix it, but haven't yet come up with anything that made me happy. You can see the remnants of one such attempt inside the #ifdef IGNORE_DIRTY sections of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That address changed awhile ago. It's now partsref@home.com. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've tested LdGLite 0.7.3 on Linux, and the line width option worked fine! Thanks! While rendering a model with steps, I noticed that the whole image is rerendered at each step. Is this normal? I don't remember right now if the same thing happened (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) "Premature optimization is the root of all evil". Especially don't optimize away functionality! Seriously all stricmp needs to do is pass each character through the toupper() macro which uses a look-up table. I've just re-written all the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) stricmp is slower, though the difference is most likely immeasurable in the big picture. No, it is more a matter of principle, to know what you are dealing with, to be in control of of your data - in stead of not really knowing whether it is (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing writes: [snip] (a bunch of stuff about (...) It was on a linux system where I had copied all the DAT files from a smbmounted Windows filesystem and somehow ended up with them all in UPPERCASE. This is probably not (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don Heyse wrote... (...) I really would like to find the cause of the problem, because L3P relies on the same routines, and it does work for L3P. All filenames are internally made lowercase (FixDatName), so I don't have to worry about any following (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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