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Wouldn't it be neat if, when you load a model in a CAD program, if a piece in the model is missing, it could automatically download the missing part from ldraw.org for you? Or periodically poll ldraw.org to see if DAT file updates are available, and (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw.org MOTM and SOTM winners for August 2001
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Hi All, This announcement is a *tad* early as I won't be around this evening or on the first. Consider it Karmic balance for the times I was late. :-) Frankly, I was a bit surprised this month. In both categories (Model & Scene), there was an early (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw setp help
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Tim, has any progress been made with the parts library license? It clearly would help if MLCad could be a stand-alone install without the confusion of downloading multiple programs. -gyug (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw setp help
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(...) I can not use DOS or any programming systems because I do not know any computer languages except for a VERY small fraction of BASIC. There has also been a strange message when I downloaded MLCad on to my computer. The message said that it (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Author key in ldraw.ini\[LDraw]
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I have added Author key in the [LDraw] section of ldraw.ini, just because I was tired of filling it in every time I run LDA2001. The value of the ident will be suggested as a default author next time you start an application reading it. Anyone who (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Model & Scene of the Month voting at ldraw.org
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D'Oh! That does it. If John's not happy, I'm gonna have to scrap the whole thing. Not. :-) -- Terry K -- (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Model & Scene of the Month voting at ldraw.org
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Aaakk! This is worse trying to vote for the two categories! Before there was often a well done model in a well done scene that stood out. Now there are a bunch of well done models to choose from, and a bunch of well done scenes to choose from. Great (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Model & Scene of the Month voting at ldraw.org
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Well, Here it is. I think I have this thing working alright - at least my testing works properly. So give it a go. Choose an area (Model and/or Scene) and vote away! (URL) Terry K -- (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Is this part 4459 or part 3673 ?
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If the pin is black it is probably 4459 "Technic Pin with Friction". #3673 "Technic Pin" is grey. (...) -- Calvin Walton (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw setp help
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(...) I did not say try MLCad before LDraw. I said try it *instead*. Here's the skinny: LDraw and the DAT file format are the original developments by James Jessiman. They were made in 1996 or thereabouts, before he died. His original editing tool, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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(...) What do you mean that I should try MLCad first before LDraw? I am not even sure how to download LDraw, let alone MLCad. I am confused and I need help in downloading this program. I do not program computers very well. Jesse Long (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Current OMR entries question
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(...) Good question. I will ask someone. Just FYI, the OMR is not up yet, but it is being worked on by another AFOL. I need to check on the progress for that project, hopefully it will only be a few months before it is online and in working order. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Is this part 4459 or part 3673 ?
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I believe both parts are the same, cad wise... physically, however, the "pin with friction" has small ridges that create the 'friction'. I believe there's 8 small ones on each pin side... 16 total. You're correct, the "pin with friction" has slots, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Is this part 4459 or part 3673 ?
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I have a part which I believe is 4459 "Technic Pin with Friction", but could be 3673 "Technic Pin". From looking at the partsref pictures, I still cannot tell for sure. This pin came from <set:8520> (which I am trying to inventory). The actual part (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: RCX 1.5 and 2.0 Bricks
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The 1.0 had a 9v~12v jack in it, the 1.5 does not. the 1.5 i have in my hand still says 1.0 on it (odd) but it doesn't have the jack. it's serial number is 397451. hope this helps. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: RCX 1.5 and 2.0 Bricks
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I could do this without much trouble, but I don't have an RCX 1.5. It looks to me from the Mindstorms site that the back side is just flat, but the RCX they show says RCX 1.0 on it. Does your RCX 1.5 say "1.5" on it? Are there any other physical (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: OMR?
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Eric, I'm sure the progress is slow, but it is coming. Tim Courtney E-mailed me, Ryan Dennett, and Todd Lehman about some developments... Basically, what's happening right now is that David Jordan is working on writing some sort of code for an (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw and Brickfest: General summary and comments
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Hey all! I am curious about stories and photo's of the fest! Congrats to Steve for getting the The Memorial Award! Greetingz... Sjaacko (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | LDraw and Brickfest: General summary and comments
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Hi everyone!! I'm going to give a general summary of how LDraw happenings went at Brickfest. Right now I'm away from my computer (actually at Bram Lambrecht's in Cleveland) so I can't post pictures and write articles for the site just yet. And (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest) !!
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| | Re: LDraw
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(...) What????? You don't use vi for carpentry????!!!!??? What about when you're building a bookshelf?? You just make one shelf, use shift "Y" & shift "P" to copy it as many times as you like!! It always saves me heaps of time!!! ROSCO (23 years ago, 15-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | RCX 1.5 and 2.0 Bricks
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Just wondering if anyone has made an RCX 1.5 brick yet? The only model I saw was the 1.0 brick, which has an A/C adapter on the back. The 1.5 is missing this, along with actually saying "1.5" on the side. Also, I'd be interested in a 2.0 brick once (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | OMR?
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Just curious... anyone know how soon an Official Model Repository page will be up? I've been putting together some DATs of sets I have (and submitting them) and it'd be nice to know I'm not duplicating someone else's efforts. Eric (23 years ago, 14-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw
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Hi Brian, (...) I don't deserve much of the credit, but thanks on behalf of everybody involved in the project. (...) At some point, there was talk about introducing a "part[1] editor" mode in one of the programs, but I don't know if it was done[2]. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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[ XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek ] Erik: (...) I can't tell you for sure, but isn't it called "File::Spec"? (URL) "Alle telnet-dæmoner bør aflives" (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LDraw syntax check in Perl
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(...) The return values from the check routines indicate what kind of syntax was detected. Even values - bad syntax was found Odd values - no bad syntax More specifically, the following values are added together to get the complete return value: 1 - (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw syntax check in Perl
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Hi Steve, When I run it, with i.e. NEW.DAT I get: ---...--- Checking 'c:\ldraw\models\new.dat' Check results: 1 Short Check : 1 done. ---...--- When I test it with a rather large MPD file I get: ---...--- Checking 'c:\ldraw\models\bbss\bbss.mpd' (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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(...) The full idea implementation would have both a before and an after file, so you could surround the file with a transform of some sort. (...) Yeah, it should search the whole LDRAW path and include all the files it finds. Also, now we need a (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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(...) 2. The document's directory (the directory of the main model) 3. %LDRAWDIR%\P 4. %LDRAWDIR%\PARTS 5. %LDRAWDIR%\MODELS This search strategy seems reasonable for a DAT file, but I thought this was more along the lines of a resource file where (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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Don Heyse wrote to Paul Gyugyi... (...) Please see (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Erik Olson wrote... (...) Yeah, it was mainly to ensure that you remember to support the full range of LDraw colors, i.e. also 0x2000000-0x7FFFFFF, but I guess you already did :-) Models built in MLCad may use these colors, and L3P+L3Lab support (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw syntax check in Perl
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Hey all: I've written a Perl script/program to check a file for LDraw'ish syntax. I'd like to get feedback on it, as I'm an absolute beginner with Perl. The main purpose of the script is to check files being submitted to the Parts Tracker. So it's (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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(...) Better yet, grab the whole source tree at once. If you have CVS, you can use a batch file (or script) like this. @echo PRESS Enter when asked for a password. cvs -d:pserver:anonymous...oot/ldlite login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous...oot/ldlite (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDLite 2.2 Released
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I've released LDLite 2.2, available at: (URL) release fixes a problem with weird file names (with spaces or foreign characters). In doing so, it also now allows you add double-quotes around the filename in Type-1 lines, in case you want to use weird (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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I think much of the use of dithered colors in LDRAW really paid off when the dithering was used to imply a different texture, such as shiny gold, diffuse rubber, or flourescent colors. I'm currently concerned about what happens to the dithered (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDLite 2.1 released
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LDLite 2.1 has been released. LDLite is now hosted on sourceforge.net, and can be downloaded from (URL) full source tree is browsable, and you can leave feature requests and bug reports. The 2.1 release has several improvements over the last public (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Sorry about the delay, I was 'on vacation' for the past couple of days. (...) Yes. Yes it does. (...) Only because I have a tendancy to jump on things - and being a bit on large side don't help either. :) Really though, thanks. (...) Concatenate? (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Erik, you can test LeoCAD and see how it perform that. I like its way of rotating quite much and find it convenient. Selçuk (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) You've also got stud3 and stud4 placements to go by (sometimes). stud3 is the skinny stud used under 1x bricks and plates. stud4 is the tube. (...) I don't remember anything about that. ;) Did he mention the minifig legs to bicycle connection? (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Tough question. No, not fully able to detect that. What the program does know is the brick rests on top of another bounding box. For bricks, that's usually a connection. Bounding boxes ignore studs, actually any DAT file named stud*.dat is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) The clicking isn't a bad idea. It wouldn't be hard to provide an option to turn it off. The real problem is knowing *when* to make the sound. Erik's done some cool stuff (last time I saw a demo of BrickDraw3D[1]), but I don't know if he's able (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Next parts update?
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(...) We're working on it. Really. As you read this, linux gnomes are working with perl dwarves, creating a finely honed and highly polished automated parts release system. Or something like that. Seriously, there is a light at the end of the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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(...) Looking at part 979.DAT, Minifig (Complete Figure Shortcut), it appears the hands are turned at a 45-degree angle. Steve Christopher! have you backed up your data? (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Wow, Lars, that was a lot of code to support r = (r1+r2)/2. The obvious hypothesis would say that the eye performs spatial integration on the pixels, so therefore values are averaged. I guess I can try it on my eyes with L3Lab then. I looked in (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Wow. LUGNET rocks. Actually, people like you, Garrett, make it rock. Can you also tell me the Perl package that implements pathname concatenate in a platform-independent way? (I'm a Perl Pounder too, by day.) I'm going to write the code to detect (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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(...) On the 'typical' aircraft: Pitch is the angle (from horizontal) along the of the centerline of the aircraft. Roll is the rotation around the centerline axis Yaw is the rotation of the centerline around the 'altitude' axis So your 'Rotate' (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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(...) Couldn't you just specify "rotate X axis" "rotate Y axis" rotate Z axis"? Something a'la most 3D apps, with an XYZ key visible in the model window would help with this (could be toggled on/off). Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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What verbs are better for describing rotation about the standard axes? Rotate is usually understood as spinning about the vertical axis. There are aeronautical terms for the other two, pitch and yaw, and I can't remember which is which, so I'm using (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Having never been able to use the DOS/Windows editors, do any of them do this? Whould it be a 'horrible' idea, to get confirmation of sorts via audible feedback? It might be a unique option at that. Just thinking out loud though... (...) Got (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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I should have said, I know of several bugs in 0.2: On the Edit menu: Group has weird side effects. Ungroup does nothing. The rotate commands got all screwed up. Line colors are still absent in several places. Also new: click-drag always moves a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Oh! Oh! Oh! I am SOOOOOO excited! This looks great Erik...you are definately on the right track. No bugs or crashes yet...every open feature seems to be working great. BTW, is this the same build you e-mailed me on the 30th? Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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I went ahead and released a version. Piece dragging in 3D is more developed. There is a parts list window. All sorts of functions are here like cut, paste, color, rotate, background color. It has baseplates. Loading parts and models is faster. It is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: there is a problem with the classic space landing pad baseplates
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(...) Sometime back I discussed this with Steve Bliss (in the context of authoring the two other varients of the landing pad baseplate) and offered to fix this probelm at the same time. I'll try and push it up the priority list. Chris Dee (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | there is an error in the 9v train motor
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Some of the type 2 lines incorctly use color #241 instead of color 24, resulting in a small amount of blue lines in the part (in ledit) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | there is a problem with the classic space landing pad baseplates [DAT]
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basicly, the problem is that the yellow lines on the t-junction landing pad plate dont match properly with the yellow lines on the circle landing pad plate. these 2 lines of ldraw dat file show a circle next to a t-junction. 1 7 -320 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Erik Olson wrote... (...) I use the average of the two colors' RGB. Try it out in L3Lab by toggling the "Dither or blend colord 256-511" button in the toolbar. Here is the code I use for color decoding: /* Return -1 on invalid LDraw color. rgb may (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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Upon seeing the differences in the minifig arms (975.dat & 976.dat) and comparing the old files with their updates, it is obvious that changes have been made. However, for those of us who are more technical than their own good, please give us a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Winner of the MOTM for July 2001
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Hi all, The winner this month, by a wide margin, is "The Beast" by Anthony J. Sava III. Deservedly so, I might add. Outstanding job of modelling, Anthony. See it at: (URL) remember, next month the voting will for both Model and Scene categories. See (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Hi, I'm wondering how to treat dithered colors (LDRAW 0x0100 to 0x01ff, see FAQ). Short of implementing a dithered texture--which would preserve that old-timey look--I'm seeking a conversion function. My first guess is that the perceptual equivalent (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Next parts update?
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When will the next parts update be ready? It's been over half a year and as a person who has authored a few parts I am anxious to know if they were acceptable or not. I don't know what the current policy regarding new parts is, but it seams that any (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Updated: More Lego wallpaper, please!
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One more update, a minor quickie one really, but I'll be out for a couple weeks. Maybe eventually I'll even get a real webpage up with this info! ;-) And if I missed yours and you want to add it to this list, then please let me know. Hey LDRAW.ORG (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | James Jessiman Memorial Award to be presented at Brickfest 2001
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Hi everyone - More LDraw at Brickfest news - the Jessiman family is sponsoring an award in James' memory for an individual contribution to the LDraw community and to his memory. Read for more info: (URL) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: July MOTM is ready to go!
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(...) Another good point. I will add a provision about signing your work for sure. Many people do that and there is no problem with doing so. Thanks Anders for bringing that up, -- Terry K -- (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: July MOTM is ready to go!
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"Terry K" <legoverse@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GFItLI.9zy@lugnet.com... (...) I think labels should be allowed - it can make it harder for someone else to use the picture in other circumstances, and you might want to sign your work. -- (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: July MOTM is ready to go!
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(...) It's not just that. It was more of a fairness issue. Some people have sites with pictures up. Some don't. Some may not even have multiple images of what they entered to put on a site. So I thought it fairer if the voting was based just on the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: July MOTM is ready to go!
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Terry, Regarding the new rules, I like them, except for the part about not specifying a web address and not providing multiple views. All of my renderings would fit into the "model" category except for this. I like to provide a web link to multiple (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: July MOTM is ready to go!
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Hi Shiri, If there is any thought of voting for mine, then vote for one of the others. I've already won twice. I just wanted to enter this to show off some more models. I don't really care about winning. There are plenty of really strong entries (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: July MOTM is ready to go!
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(...) Such big decisions! Silly castle people, can't you take turns? The vote'll be split among you all! Who do I vote for? I'm torn, Brad's cathedral is cool but Tamy and Elin and the dragon... ugh!! -Shiri (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.castle)
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| | July MOTM is ready to go!
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Hey all, Time to vote. (URL) luck to the entrants. And notice that there is a link to an additional rules page. I've decided to try a split format. A model-only contest and a scene contest. The rules are spelled out on how and what to enter. (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: MOTM Parameters question
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(...) Short answer: Yes A parts "unofficial" status should not be a hindrance to its use. Similar to the use of a "mock-up" part to fill in where no official piece yet exists. If it does the job in place of a part that is not yet available, use it. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Unofficial Parts Update
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Steve: (...) You create a file named "<filename>.meta" for each file named "<filename>", and put the line Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 in it (and ask me to activate the CERN meta module for the directory the files are located in). (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Unofficial Parts Update
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(...) OK, fine. So how do I mark the files as HTML, besides giving them an .html extension (which I've now done)? Steve (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Unofficial Parts Update
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(...) FYI: more files have been relisted, including a primitive file. Which immediately revealed a minor-ish bug in the code. Anyway, things are rolling along... Steve (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Unofficial Parts Update
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message news:Pine.OSF.4.21.0....nbi.dk... (...) Ah, I see it's working now. I didn't check it after Chris had mentioned that it was now working. Dan (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Unofficial Parts Update
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Daniel: (...) Since the "Content-Type" field in the HTTP header is set correctly, it is only defect browsers, which use extensions to determine file types, that will get in trouble. (...) That was because the files on the server were marked as not (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message news:Pine.OSF.4.21.0....nbi.dk... (...) But this breaks handling of HTML for browsers that only rely on the extension or the content-type header (Netscape being the biggest one!). Maybe adding (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve: (...) Yes. Or to be exact: If you ask for (URL).html it will redirect you to (URL) (which in general will identify the same document) (...) Yes (as far as I remember your message). Jacob (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) OK, we've got that (now). (...) Are you saying that the server is removing the ".html" from the response? So what I'm seeing in IE is expected behavior? Steve (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's much better - it works now. Thanks, Chris (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That sounds cool and reasonable, except that (AFAIK) the files *do* have .html extensions, there are no redirects involved. See, I'll just login to the server, and cd to the unofficial/parts dir, and do an ls -l, and you'll see that all the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New ldraw.org Feature Article - BFC Extensions
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"Daniel Staudt" <dstaudt@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns90C6586501B2....63.236... (...) That was moved a _long_ time ago (I suppose we could put a sym-link up there). The new location for Feature Articles is www.ldraw.org/news/ - which (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve: (...) www.ldraw.org is configured, so only files whoose names end with ".html" (basically) will be treated as HTML documents. At the same time the server is configured to insist that requests for documents should not contain ".html". This is (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) (snip) (...) For the record, Opera 5.11 views everything just fine. Cheers, Heather -- Heather Patey Pirate Wench / Brick Detective LUGNET Member #490 (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Chris Dee" <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GF9qKG.9Ln@lugnet.com... (...) not (...) Netscape is really picky about the HTTP content-type headers when read from a server, and IE tends to ignore the content-type headers if there is (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Nope - still just shows me the HTML source - and the .html extension is not included in the URL box. Same problem in Netscape 4.7 from different PC. If I cut an paste that HTML to a file, then I can open that file OK in Netscape. Chris (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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*peer* at what time will ldraw.org/feature stop returning a unfound resource page? "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in news:FnFFHt.J7A@lugnet.com: (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) OK. I'm guessing that's because the detail pages have names like parts.3001.html. I noticed that IE 5.5 displays the page correctly, but the '.html' is cut off in the URL box. I'll get back in, and change the names to parts_3001.html. OK, try (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) In Netscape 4.5 I just see raw HTML when I follow the links (IE 4.0 seems to work though, but it's not my browser of choice). Chris (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) And conversation with Dan & Jennifer has reminded of a third: 3. The part names (actually, all the data) should be cleansed for HTML. Specifically, the ampersands should be coded as &. Steve (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In another minor lurch toward an automated parts system, the Unofficial Parts page has been updated. You can see it at: (URL). There are about a dozen files listed, and the file-details have been moved off to separate pages. If you look at the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi everyone - Don & Robyn Jessiman informed me recently that their email address has changed. They can be contacted at rivtron@dingoblue.net.au from now on. -Tim (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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i was wondering if anyone had modeled 9v straight track (the other 4 also but i ned straight) if so i would be greatly interested in gettint a copy. 'Offical' ldraw version or not (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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This is an advance notice: sometime in the next day or so, I'm going to remove the current files from the unofficial page on ldraw.org. I'm doing this so that I can repost the files without the funky "Unofficial" mark ups that they've got right now. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) back) (...) Thanks, Manfred. This is more along the lines of what I'm looking for. :) Now if only I could solve my Tow Truck element problem.... -- James J. (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) It depents on your scale, but maybe jou can make someting out of these technical parts: 2823 Technic Forklift Fork, length 7 studs (seen it used in pairs back to back) see (URL) Technic Wing Back, length 5 studs (use it upside down) see (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Ryan, I was refering to elements that are slightly flat, such as Helicopter runners, but somewhat wider and "taller" (or "thicker"). At any rate, I want to thank you for trying to help out. James J. (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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