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The replies I've seen posted seem to have taken a turn away from the topic I had wanted to address: to wit, _when_ we are planning to have a new parts update. If I can do anything to assist in making a new update happen, _please_ let me know. As of (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Error in 2357.dat (or in LDGLite) [DAT]
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(...) This looks like an accidental omission by the (un-named) original author of all the inside faces. Here is a corrected version, which I'll also send in to Steve for the next update. Chris 0 Brick 2 x 2 Corner 0 Name: 2357.DAT 0 Author: ? 0 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: colour
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(...) I use 3. Check the LDraw FAQ at (URL), the colour codes are toward the end. I'd check for you, but I'm in "download messages/disconnect/...ct/upload" mode, and I'm not connected right now. Steve (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Error in 2357.dat (or in LDGLite)
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(...) Well it renders the same way in l3lab so it's a bug in the part. I think the problem is that the inside surface is missing. This lets us see through to the outside surface of the 2357 brick which occupies the exact same space as the outside (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Meeting in New York City, Sun Feb 11
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(...) ^^^^ Um, wow I was tired :^) That should be 'cafe' not 'face.' -Tim (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)
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| | Error in 2357.dat (or in LDGLite) [DAT]
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There seems to be an error in 2357.dat (or in LDGLite). It looks like the winding has been swapped for some of the sides, so the wrong surfaces are drawn. This is only visible in some special cases. When you render the example below with LDGLite (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw.org Meeting in New York City, Sun Feb 11
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In case you are interested, there is a semi-formal LDraw.org meeting this Sunday in New York City. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the formation of the LDraw.org organization, collaborative software efforts among contributors, future (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.pa) !
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| | LCAD for Risc-OS (was LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization)
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Alex Farlie writes: [snip - lots of stuff] (...) Ldglite is distributed as C source code and requires either OpenGL or Mesa. There is information on Mesa for Risc-OS here: (URL) should be similar to the "ldglite for (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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What would be the proper Ldraw colour code for "Teal" (The "Cybermaster colour")? Kind regards John Jensen (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Trying to locate some parts
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Bet I can outdo Sproat on this:) I have ALL the Rockraider sets (except those japaneese ones) and I like it:) I'm trying to locate some parts for a inventory I'm building. The set number is 4940 The legs: in step 6 there's a 1X2 brick with a clip (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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(...) OK but you would need at least a chairman or tresuarer... Also .. "Politics is often about the 'details' " ;-) Quote from a UK MP but cant remember which one.. (...) OK Point taken- Looking at your list it seems you have more of a software (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Question on transparent printed parts
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(...) Yes, you canread about it here: (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question on transparent printed parts
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John: (...) I think Lars has modified l3p, so you can included a POV-Ray version of the part as comments in the DAT file. Something like "0 IFPOV/.../0 ELSEPOV/.../0 ENDPOV", but check Lars' latest l3p announcement. Play well, Jacob -- Where's that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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(...) Echoing and amplifying a bit on Tim's response: Forming an official ldraw.org, and adopting a licensing policy, and establishing a fully automatic Parts Tracker will all directly lead to more parts being authored. Heck, I'd be doing more parts (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Question on transparent printed parts
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(...) Right now, there's nowhere to go with POV-Ray. Well, maybe you could donate them to Lutz Uhlman's LGEO parts library, maybe. What I'd like to see happen is for the permanent l-cad organization setup an LDraw-compatible library of POV-Ray (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Sounds good, however... (from an LDRAW neophyte)
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(...) I think that an installer program would be better, I for one dont like windows scripting host/vbscript, mostly because it has more security holes than a piece of swiss cheese :) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts needed
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(oops, I posted this to the wrong group initially) Hey ya parts authors, I confess that yes, I own a few Town Jr. sets. There. *That's* out of the way. Razz away, but in a separate thread please. ;-) I'm looking for someone to create the following (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Sounds good, however... (from an LDRAW neophyte)
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(...) Serve or sever? I think that was a typo up there :) I honestly don't think a formal org will do either. It will be a way to bring together LCAD people in a more organized/official capacity, and the people involved in the government of the org (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Sounds good, however... (from an LDRAW neophyte)
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I think the idea of a formal organization is really good, provided that it does server it's constituants. I think this is a good start and I encourage you to continue. I agree on the problem of installing/getting all of the necessary tools running. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Question on transparent printed parts
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(...) I've actually given this some thought too, and has considered now that I have time again to do some legos to make a povray version for each lcad version I make. But what to do with it? Kind regards John Jensen (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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(...) We haven't gotten that specific, yet. We're thinking along the lines of a 'town council' approach, where the elected officers are equal peers (as opposed to having offices of president, vice president, etc). As I mentioned before, we're (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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(...) Plus the fact an informal group would have difficulty enforcing such a licence agrement... Even the FSF (ie GNU's managment group) is an 'organisation'. (...) Yes. Agree (...) What model where you thinking of using? (...) Not Todd ? (...) (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Let's Do It
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(...) Much appreciated -- it pays bills better than majoring in history would have. (...) I'm ready -- just tell me where to go to get started and a list of specific essays, opening paragraphs, descriptions you want. Since I am not an HTML expert I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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"Burkhard Schloemer" <BuS1503@muenster.de> wrote in message news:G8B1DI.DBo@lugnet.com... (...) possible. Hi Burkhard - There will always be parts authors and official additions as long as there is a desire to create new parts. We're just laying (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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Do whatever you want, but please return to creating new parts. Except for a couple of decorated elements there wasn't much new worth mentioning in the past weeks. Thanks to all who spend time for creating DAT-parts, making my "work" possible. Primus (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Excellent Discussion, Well Met
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G8ALC8.CMF@lugnet.com... (...) Well put Lar. Pat - since you are experienced in technical writing, how would you like to help the site in the area of Reference and Get Started? We (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Excellent Discussion, Well Met
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(...) I have no official standing to delegate anything but if someone doesn't jump up and latch on to you I will be very surprised, as there are a number of areas within the site and elsewhere, where either word smithing, or worse, out and out (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Excellent Discussion, Well Met
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When I wrote the original reply to the proposal last Friday, I knew what I was letting myself in for and braced very hard this morning for the onslaught of Pandora's Box. However, after reading every followup in the thread, I must say that I am (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Question on transparent printed parts
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(...) Yah, that'd be the way to go. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw MOTM winner for February 2001
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(...) I just stuck them in as something motor-like. I didn't come up with any way to actually rig them. (...) Thanks! My .dat file looks pretty crummy, however. The models are worked out just enough for the scene, and they are pretty sketchy on the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Sounds good, however... (from an LDRAW neophyte)
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:26:05AM +0000, Pat Hough wrote: First, I'd like to thank those who will be forming this group. The licenses are of course my biggest personal issue. So, thanks and good luck :) [snip] (...) Well, I am packaging leocad for (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Sounds good, however... (from an LDRAW neophyte)
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Tim and Steve answered a lot, I will try to fill in a few additional items and additional perspective. (...) While this is a laudable goal, it is not the first goal of the group. The first goal of the group is to solve some specific problems around (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Sounds good, however... (from an LDRAW neophyte)
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Hi Pat - I will attempt to expound upon our ideas and answer your questions below. (revisit.... Steve beat me! Well, I'll take out what I feel Steve addressed well enough and add comments where I want to be a blabbermouth) ;-) "Pat Hough" (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Sounds good, however... (from an LDRAW neophyte)
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(...) OK. Actually, there has been a good bit of discussion around these topics. But it would be a good idea to address them again. I'm going to snip/quote your message pretty heavily (and respond to things out of order). Y'all can assume that (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Sounds good, however... (from an LDRAW neophyte)
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FORWARD: Please accept my comments in the civil spirit in which they were intended, and not an attempt to start some sort of conflict. I asked some very tough questions because the proposal seemed to advocate it. This is also a somewhat long (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Question on transparent printed parts
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Earlier today, I posted a 1x6 brick with the text "Shell" printed on it. I also have a version of this piece that is printed on a clear 1x6. And I'm trying to figure out how to model that in LDraw. Is there any way to control the alpha level of a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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(...) Yes! -Chuck (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Question on (unneeded?) lines in printed parts
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(...) Type 2 lines should not be used to outline the decorated areas on printed parts, so their use in 3010p06 is incorrect. To improve the look of the part when rendered by some of the older LCAD software, it is acceptable to define type 2 lines (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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There's been occasional discussion about formalizing the LEGO-style CAD fan organization. Although an informal organization usually serves us pretty well, there are some things an informal group can not do, such as deal well with keeping a treasury, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: LDraw MOTM winner for February 2001
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(...) Amnon, First of all congatulations! I have a couple of questions about your model: 1. Are the 9V motors in it functional or did you use them solely for easthetic purpose? 2. I really like the hot-rod cars and would like to build one. Any (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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