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In case anyone is interested, my other CAD stuff is here: (URL) I'm happy to answer any questions regarding the construction of this or other models. Brad Terry K <legoverse@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G6ML35.Izo@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Lions face cornice/facade piece ?
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Has anyone done the Lions face cornice/facade piece from the 2000 Castle series ? In any case, I was able to determine the part number. Its stamped deep within one of the two bottom channels... 30274 Ray l#124 (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw MOTM Winner for January 2001
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Hey all, Sorry for being a few days late.... This months winner - by a *very* large margin - is Brad Hamilton and his beautiful Cathedral of Ice: (URL) architectural design and detail - good job, Brad. -- Terry K -- (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | 8880 wheels and tires
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Hi, Have these been done? Where can I get them? Thanks for any help! Gary (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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Well.... I'm making AutoCAD blocks of all the pieces, so that if it has been "created in memory" from before, I just insert it at the apropriate place (x y and z from the dat file). So far, so good. Now... I need to Rotate/Scale it.... To do this in (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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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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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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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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| | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Patterned parts authoring
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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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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Special tools used to build/design parts?
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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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