 | | New Reference Material on LDraw.org - Free-Form Camera Positioning... by Brad Hamilton
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Just uploaded Brad's reference article - Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray to the LDraw.org server. Check it out at: (URL) you like what you see and have a skill you can share, write for the reference section at LDraw.org! (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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Hello, Over a year ago, I mentioned on this list that I was considering making a new Lego CAD program for Windows and Linux, but until now I've been really pressed for time. This weekend I finally resumed the project and got the rendering engine (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Town
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(...) I added "Utensil" specifically so that these will be sorted (when sorted by "Description") next to each other. As a comparison, look at all the "Minifig Tool"[s] there are... Franklin (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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(...) As this piece has been used in town sets as loudspeakers, also add some keywords appropriate keywords. Mabie it would be even better to change the name to Brick 1 x 1 with Plate and Cones? (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Town
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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> I recommend leaving out "utensil" Joe (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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I've also notice I have a few parts that you don't have listed here. #4735 Old: Space Robot Arm (no dimensions) New: No suggestion #3940 Old: Space Stand 2 x 2 x 2 New: Support 2 x 2 x 2 #4741 Old: Space Window 4 x 4 x 6 Outward sloping New: Window (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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In reference to the following... 3963.DAT Old Name: "Space Positioning Rockets" New Name: "Brick 1 x 1 with Plate and Positioning Rockets" I think the size should be either 1 x 2 due to the plate, or 3 x 3 since that is the actual size. The rest it (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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In order to help "get the ball rolling" ;-) I'd like to propose the following name changes as part of the migration away from "theme" categories. These are my _suggestions_ for many of the parts currently listed in the "Space" CATEGORY. (I'm still (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | elimination of theme categories - Town
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In order to help "get the ball rolling" ;-) I'd like to propose the following name changes as part of the migration away from "theme" categories. These are my _suggestions_ for parts currently listed in the "Town" CATEGORY. Note that _all_ new names (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | elimination of theme categories - Castle
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In order to help "get the ball rolling" ;-) I'd like to propose the following name changes as part of the migration away from "theme" categories. These are my _suggestions_ for parts currently listed in the "Castle" CATEGORY. Note that _all_ new (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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I sent them - They are really easy for me to forward to anyone else. Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote in message news:Pine.GSU.4.10.1...0@is-sv... (...) your (...) see (...) it????? (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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Unfortunatelly, only after seeing your post here, can I finally ask you to send me the Dats, since in the MOTM page there is not Link or text with your Email. Thanks, See ya Rui Martins (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Duplo parts?
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Yup... :) (...) There is: Primitive substitution! I found out that we (mis)use stud4.dat by scaling its height by 5 in bricks! (and other factors in other parts) If I add a rounded edge to (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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Here is a copy of the tutorial I'm going to submit on camera angles: Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCAD, L3P, and POV-RAY One of the hardest issues to grasp when starting out with MLCAD, L3P, and POV-RAY is figuring out how to position the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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Yeah - I wasn't sure what to submit either. The long shot shows the overall construction the best (when you bring up the enlarged picture), but its certainly not very impressive for the thumbnail. Any suggestions? By the way, if you have ideas on (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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I submitted something last month but voted for someone else's model as well! Ryan Farrington <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:003e01c07012$9f...dly.com... (...) own (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw MOTM Winner for January 2001
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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