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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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