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(...) to (...) Tim, here's some html I threw together for you for the main /reference/ page. --Ryan <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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So, what you're saying (to cad.dev) is you'd like someone to put together a real-time radiosity solution to use semitransparent bricks and multiple light sources? Hmm... might take 2-3 months... Oh wait, it could be done with plastic, like those (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snip> (...) Silly Alex, Optrix is for kids! :^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin -- Mark's Lego Creations (URL) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mlcad works for general modeling too!
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(...) And I was seriously considering recomending LDraw over Autocad to a friend of mine. And It was precisly what L-Draw could be used for other than Lego(R) was why I found Lugnet :-)))! L-Draw could be used for componentised CAD like kitchen or (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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<Warning!! This message contains pure speculation on the part of it's authour> Tripping The Light Fantastic. 'It came from a 'fortunate' encounter with a prism and it sort of devloped' stated a senior Lego designer today. Now not only can you build (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Reference Organization Questions
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:40:25 -0700, Tim Courtney wrote (in message <G730q1.FHo@lugnet.com>): (...) Sounds good to me, Tim. I think it's important to have a good explanation of the differences on your index page, just to avoid causing any confusion. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | New "calculator" for parts authors. ( for windows 95+, nt?)
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Hi, In the past I have made a spreadsheet that would allow you to find the point at which a line will pass through a triangle. I have made a new "calculator" intended for using while working on new/old Ldraw parts files. I have turned this thing (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Configuring the DAT File Format Mime Types with Windows
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I just posted another reference item. Today Bram Lambrecht put together some screenshots of him setting up the MIME types for the LDraw DAT file in Windows. I added a bit of text on a step-by-step lesson which commented on the images. This is very (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org Reference Organization Questions
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I'm working on yet another item for the LDraw.org Reference section at (URL) Seeing that this section has grown a bit recently I want to get it more organized. As this area of the site collects more resources I want it to be easy to navigate and (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ideas for themes and other suggestions.
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Farlie A wrote in message ... (...) old (...) Megabloks have ski/snow sports sets out at the moment, along with skateboard/bike sports sets. They actualy look very cool. Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Ideas for themes and other suggestions.
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Warning: Please note this post contains pure speculation on the part of it authours...!> DB: VIEW SUMMARIES FOR 2005,Lego,Products. 'Welcome to the City! Lego is proud to reintroduce it's oldest theme. The New City range will be availbe from Summer (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Re-publication of Jacob's guide to setting up LDGLite on Linux
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(...) $ wget (URL) this line: $ wget (URL) this never got fixed in the original, but using wget with the geocities mirror will get my account shutdown as it did once before. Once this is changed I'll add a link to it from the ldglite site (and the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re-publication of Jacob's guide to setting up LDGLite on Linux
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LDraw.org has just re-published Jacob Sparre Andersen's guide to setting up LDGLite to run on Linux in the reference section. Check it out at: (URL) the original document at: (URL) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: I need Windscreen 4 x 4 x 1
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Why not look it up here? (URL) send it to you but I don't seem to have it either. Gary Ryan Farrington <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:002301c07bd2$2c...dly.com... (...) someone (...) it? (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | I need Windscreen 4 x 4 x 1
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Somehow I lost the .dat file for the Windscreen 4 x 4 x 1. Could someone please just copy the text of the .dat file into a message so I can have it? Thanks, --Ryan E-mail: ryanjf@ifriendly.com Website: (URL) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: New Reference Material on LDraw.org - Free-Form Camera Positioning... by Brad Hamilton
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Hi Tim, Thanks for posting this. I found a minor error. The first word under the 2nd heading "Background" should be "MLCAD," not "LCAD." Thanks Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G6upCB.2FC@lugnet.com... (...) reference (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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(...) To check the BFC'ness of your file, use L3Lab. While viewing the file, select the Test | mytest6 menu option. This will color-code all the rendered surfaces. Green is the front/outside of correctly wound surfaces, Red is the back/inside, and (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) The problem there is that the inventories at (URL) are pretty much static/dead data at this point. It's an area that's unlikely to get updated. I believe some of the inventories have been converted (with permission obtained from the list (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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I could make a tool to display a part (wireframe view) from any angle. Clicking on a polygon command in the DAT source (displayed below the view pane) would cause the edges of that polygon to appear as arrows, showing the order they were defined in. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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Thanks everyone for your helpful information. I believe that I can now properly model curves manually (as opposed to just using cylinder primitives). I'll be trying it out on the "coarse" version of the Duplo bottom stud. As for BFC statements, I (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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"Joseph Cardana" <jcardanas@home.com> wrote in message news:G6xJvM.JIv@lugnet.com... (...) allow (...) have (...) to (...) the (...) Conditional lines are used to show the outer boundary of a curved _surface_. Consider a cylinder. Between each quad (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) Will Do. (...) I meant being able to get visual apperance of peices in the Lugnet Inventories which do not currently include Ldraw/TLG Part Numbers on inventory entries AFAIK. But I will check again.. Thanks!! Alex (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Planned downtime January 23rd 2001
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Due to a rebuilding of the power systems at Risø National Laboratory, www.ldraw.org (and hugin.ldraw.org) will be off-line January 23rd 2001 from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC. Play well, Jacob -- "The current state of knowledge can be summarised thus: In the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) It's a fake. (If I had a copy of Visio I'd have used that.) I'd previously fooled around with the idea of making something real like this for my own collection but the back-and-forth crossreferencing of parts and sets threw me for a loop. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | New version of BrickDraw3D (Mac)
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I've been releasing new versions of BrickDraw3D in the past few days. Tonight's build has a lot more than the last advertised version. First, the location has moved. New home page with more pretty pictures: (URL) It's still just a viewer. But now it (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Franklin W. Cain writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Franklin, Your quite a humorus man. What the hell did you just say! Please allow me to explain why I'm laughing. I didn't graduate high school, I don't have a GED but even (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Franklin W. Cain" <fwcain@yahoo.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dat.part...gnet.com>; <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Question about generating curves (...) Back faces are (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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(Note: Please follow-up to ".cad.dev".) (...) OK, first you need to bear in mind that LDraw does _NOT_ draw true curves, it draws _angles_. If you have enough angles in a line, from a sufficient distance, this angled line will _appear_ to be a true (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) going on. (...) Is that a real database, or did you just make that to show how all these projects are related? I've been kicking around an idea for the past few month or so (I'll post details later this week, I hope) that requires some way to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) The plan is slowly coming together. The inventories at Peeron ((URL) have most of the parts linked to Partsref (if the part is LDrawn) or sometimes a photo taken by Dan and Jen, as well as a list of the sets in the Peeron database containing (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) That's already being done in many cases. (...) Go for it. Use the parts tracker to avoid duplication of effort. (...) Which inventories? Partsref already links to several inventory sites. Steve (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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"Michael Heinich" <mheinich@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:G6usvx.Cuu@lugnet.com... (...) You can use my LDList program to locate LDRAW parts. It lets you search both the Description and all Keywords that are noted on the parts, and shows all (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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(...) Me too! I was just about to say he could get a copy of the function from the L3 parser code in ldglite but it wasn't there. Even worse, it turns out I just commented out the call to Color2RGB() in L3Input.cpp when I couldn't find a copy of (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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I would find this useful in that I would be able to obtain a visual appearance for more obscurly named parts. In additon it would help to idenfity gaps in the LCAD part library. (LoM has at least 5 new mouldings in the set I bought..- Will start (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:32 PM Subject: Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program (...) Hmmm. How's this? (URL) simple and it (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program (...) (URL) (...) Thanks, Suz's page came to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:32 PM Subject: Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program (...) and (...) 5). (...) can (...) Thanks, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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Gary Williams wrote... (...) You may have a look in this L3Lab generated table: (URL) has colors 0..63 for LDraw, LDLite+MLCad and L3P. I'm working on adding more colors and more color schemes. LDraw draws transparent colors (32 + 0..15) by (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Also, esp. for those times when you don't have a fast/cheap connection to the internet, use Anders' LDList program. It provides the same search function as Partsref, but it's all on your harddrive. Steve (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Keywords... ;-) When looking for a part, and you don't know what it's called, but you *do* know a set it's used in and/or what purpose it serves, hop over to the PartsRef ("(URL) use the Keyword search. I have used this numerous times to find parts (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Out of morbid curiosity and the never ending pursuit of opening myself up for attacks, I would like to pose/offer a question or idea. I will state up front that my only experience with finding parts is via the MLCAD interface. So anything I saw can (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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(...) The LDraw FAQ is the definitive list. (...) Way cool. We can never have too many Lego CAD programs. (...) (oops-the RGB for #5 is in the list) I'd look to Suzanne's excellent chart at (URL) for RGB values that aren't listed in the LDraw FAQ. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Castle
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(...) Fair 'nuff. Anything I can do to help with that? (...) Agreed. (...) I can't afford to do that, I don't have the hair to spare. ;-) (...) OK. Franklin (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Castle
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Franklin, Thanks for looking into this, but I want to put off making major changes in the library organization until *after* we've got a good tracking system implemented on the server. These kind of changes are important. I spend a lot of time (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 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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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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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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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) Dissagree... (...) Or you use a Revison Control type system.... (...) Alternativly If anyone here can talk CORBA it might be worthwile considering using an app written with that to allow for distribution from various sites according to an (...) (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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(...) Well I'm not positive anything I wrote works correctly, but I'm not sure it got to the functions mentioned above in this case. There seemed to be a bunch of special case checks for files like light.dat and primitives where the determinant is (...) (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... (...) I don't understand why that should be necessary. FixDatName() should handle case-sensitivity. Are you sure platform_fixcase(Sub...tDatName); // Should NOT do this for model files. localize_path(SubPartDatName); work (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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LdGLite version 0.7.3 in now available. With all the talk about line widths and antialiasing around here lately I decided to add it to ldglite. Heck, it only took about an hour to make the changes. As Lars recently proclaimed, "Hooray for OpenGL"! (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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I mean the front page picture for the competition. The internal shots and stuff are fantastic! (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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Cathedral of Ice is nice, but the rendering doesn't show it off very well. It doesn't look very much like a Lego construction, and it looks tiny when it is shot from the high viewpoint. If it were rendered from a mini-figs-eye view, it would look (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Patterned parts authoring
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Here's how I got started: Using the *text* editor of your choice (I use Notepad), open up the DAT file of the corresponding blank/un-patterned part (973.dat forthe minifig torso; 3626b.dat for the minifig head; (etc.)). Look at the code inside this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: January LDraw MOTM Competition
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(...) that (...) Several good models, but I found the voting easy. I voted for Brad Hamilton's Cathedral of Ice! I couldn't in good conscience vote for my own when there's one I like better. Nice work, Brad! ;-) --Ryan (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Patterned parts authoring
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Recently I bought #7134 A-Wing Fighter and succumbed to the urge to build it in MLCad. When I got to doing the pilot, however, I found once again that I had to substitute the patterned head, torso, and helmet for other patterned parts because not (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT file for 'Adventurer' wheel
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(...) Thanks, I'm glad you found the model interesting! It has to be my most unplayable model ever, though. The front wheel doesn't even turn! I have to agree with you that tuk-tuk rides are pretty unforgettable. I mostly ended up using the river (...) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was planning to hold the submission until the parts library terms of use license was finished. (...) Yeah, I can do that! Fredrik (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, for shure. The hand work is generally adding keywords, sometime I do only portion of the part and I add other primitives (like the spheric primitive in Technic Liftarm 1 x 7 with 2 ball joints - 32173.dat) Sometimes, I only modelise a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | January LDraw MOTM Competition
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Wow. That time of month (and year!) again. Sneaks up on a person. Some really excellent entries this month. This ones gonna be tough: (URL) the entries that included them, I have added page links to the model names. Adds a little to the fun, I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Rubber Black (was: New Part - 30187 Minifig Motorcycle with 3 Wheels Body)
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Paul Easter wrote... (...) Yes, just look at LDView... ((URL) One problem with 256 is that MLCad does not have it available. It only (...) You apparently cannot select colors 256-511 using the mouse. You'll have to type in the number. The number is (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Special tools used to build/design parts?
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(...) Salut Marc, et merci pour ta reponse. I visited your website and read your tips about using SolidWorks. I undestand what you mean now for the primitive detection, making the objects in CAD using polygons instead of circles. That makes things a (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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