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Don: (...) Using the "l3" parser: $ time ldglite -ms -i1 -s0.2 -l3 town.mpd ... 281.790u 21.700s 8:48.81 57.3% 0+0k 0+0io 2290pf+0w $ A total of 303.49 seconds. The result: (URL) the "ld" parser: $ time ldglite -ms -i1 -s0.2 -ld town.mpd ... (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Actually, I was hoping to incorporate .DEM files into LDraw. At first glance I thought your utility could do that. It does so, but it generates studs instead of just plain polygons. Now, I can do this just as easily by doing a search over at the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) Cool. Any chance that you might do the K'nex figure? (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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Don: (...) Okay. Doing that now. The errors in the ortographic projection rendering seem to be independent of the parser. You can see an image at: (URL) corresponding command line is: ldglite -ms -i1 -s0.2 -j -l3 ~/Projekter/LEGO/Dat...D/town.mpd (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New version of stl2dat 1.0
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I have made a small improvement that solves many annoying problems in some parts. The program now uses several primitives if the plain primitive does not exist. Example: for a part of cylinder of 5/8, the program will use two primitives 2-4cyli and (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help Needed: Boundary Box Utility
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(...) I don't think I can do this right away since I already have 2 actual bug reports and an enhancement request in for ldglite. (I don't get many of these so I like to give them priority). It shouldn't be too hard to do though. Everything you need (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You should at least try the "-l3" before you recompile. I'm sort of interested in what you get for render times with both parsers. I only have somewhat underpowered PCs to work with, so I'm curious how they compare in the "real world". Don (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Mike: (...) I am not upset. I am just bad at writing English. I might want to make the program do what you want, but I can't if you don't tell me what's missing. Jacob (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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Everything downloaded and unzipped great. Renamed all the parts to start with "K" and updated the mklist. Then I couldn't figure out why some of the parts wouldn't load onto MLcad...had to re-rename the "P" list back to original names. Now all works (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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Sorry to upset you. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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Mike: (...) That may explain some of your problems. I have improved and modified the program a bit since then. (...) What did you expect? "Plain" non-brick landscapes in LDraw format? Or is the program just not your kind of user friendlyness? Jacob (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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Sorry. I guess you did include screenshots of completed files on your website. Sorry, I didn't recognize th *.png format. I've been using the "ready to run DOS package" dated 1999-6-15, available for download on your site. Well, it wasn't really (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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Mike: (...) Wierd. As usual, the first question from the "support hot-line" is: Which version did you use? Have you tried to update to the latest version? (...) You shouldn't, but since I am too lazy to package executable files myself, you have to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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Mike: (...) I see! I have added examples of images generated by my demonstration program to the webpage: (2 URLs) redaktørens opgave på internetnyhedstjenester. (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Mike: (...) Sort of. It is a LEGO landscape, so it is of course made from LEGO pieces. Jacob (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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Don: (...) :-( (...) I'll try this. (...) I just removed all the "STEP" meta-commands. ;-) Jacob (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Am I correct in assuming that the PGM -> DAT converter creates studs in the form of terrain? I saw the rendering of Falling Water and saw that the building was surrounded by lots of studs. Is this the result of using this converter? Mike (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) I don't know if I have the terrain anymore...it's a rather large file, since I think it was 50x50 or even 100x100 studs. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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I couldn't get the terrain in Falling Water to load in MLCad. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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I don't understand the command line. I have a PGM. I typed "pgmtoldr filename.pgm" at the command prompt, and received a bunch of errors. No DAT file. :( Do I need a bunch of Linux stuff to run it? Mike (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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Oh, I didn't know you'd made a DAT file out of that yet. I just visited your site and was looking at that model. Very nice! Would you consider contributing your model to my new village I'm building? I'm trying to make it a screen north of Datsville. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) 1 pixel = 1 stud. I used Jacob's utility to create the terrain for the CAD scenes I did of Fallingwater: (URL) make the scene, I colored in a topographical map of the landscape with white as high and black as low. I saved it as a low quality (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build.arch)
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I was wondering if you knew the pixel/stud ratio offhand. This bit of information might be useful for future reference. Thx, Mike (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No. I mean a screenshot of a finished product. What's the terrain data look like after you've run your app and loaded the DAT file into LDraw/MLCad/etc(choose one)? Thank you. Mike (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Construction Toy In LDraw Format!
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(...) Probably. I re-uploaded it in binary mode now, so it should work... (...) Nasty links to local files... Try it now. Thanks, --Ryan (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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BTW - every time I try to cross-post, I must be doing something wrong cause it doesn't go through. Where's the FAQ's on this? Darn it all, someone else DID model the round shield. And here I thought it be a good first project for me (besides just (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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(...) This could be the ldlite large MPD bug again. The ldlite parser has a problem with MPD files if it runs out of cache. I increased the size for ldglite, but it may not be enough for Datsville. You could try increasing it some more and (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: Perspective in LDGLite (Was: About the great datsville)
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(...) POV-Ray uses "up" and "right" to determine the aspect ratio of the viewing window (which results in non-square pixels if the the camera ratio and the render ratio don't match. I believe the use of either "angle" or "direction" is important in (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don: If you try to render Datsville in perspective: ldglite -j -s0.1 town.mpd you will notice some very strange blue lines going from the centre of the window to the blue castle out in the left-side background. They shouldn't be there, and I am (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don: Some times, mostly when rendering large files, LDGLite reports syntax errors in lines with totally unreasonable line numbers. 1) Why? 2) Could you print out the content of the line as well, so I can try to find the offending lines (if there are (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Perspective in LDGLite (Was: About the great datsville)
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Don: (...) Good to know. (...) I think they are called "look_at" and "location" in POV-Ray. (...) It would be fine if you could make something equivalent to: camera { sky <0, 0, 1> up <0, 1, 0> location <0, 0, 528> look_at <0, 0, 0> } in POV-Ray. I (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: About the great datsville
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(...) It looks like both "-j" and "-J" turn on the perspective projection from the command line. Otherwise it defaults to the orthographic projection. However since this is apparently undocumented in the readme.txt file I reserve the right to change (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Ahh. Well I did look around first, but didn't see where anyone had already modeled that piece. Last I looked was still listed on Tracker as being needed. I'm working on 're-creating' my lost (thanks to the ex-wife) LegoLand Castle collection in (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville continuation - more ideas
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(...) And the results are: 16 original ttore.dat's @ 800x600: 3 min 56 sec 16 simplifed ldbox.dat's @ 800x600: 1 min 26 sec I think it's worth keep working on! /Tore (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I don't know. That's why I asked. :o) I will try to render a lot of ttore.dat's in a model and compare the time used to the time used to render the same model with box replacements. (...) Yes, but how do we accomplish that still avoiding bad (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Help Needed: Boundary Box Utility [DAT]
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Could somebody please make a utility that calculates and creates a boundary box for a .dat file? I want it to be able to take a DOS command line like "bbox.exe C:\Ldraw\Models.Mymodel.dat" and it should create 'MyModel.box' in the same directory. An (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Mike: (...) No. PGM is basically a "pure ASCII grey-scale only" version of BMP. You can find information and conversion tools at: (URL) PS - Do you have any screenshots? I noticed there weren't any on your website. "screenshots"?!? It is a command (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville continuation - more ideas
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(...) Doesn't POVray do this inately? After all, at some point POVray has to decide which information it will display, and which information it will not display. Wouldn't it speed up the rendering process even more if all LDraw models were turned (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) The part isn't perfect though. I modeled the concentric rings as flat-topped cylinders instead of half-toruses (tori?) --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Here's a first working version of what I was thinking about: (URL) *.box files have to be in the P, Parts, Models, or LDraw BaseDirectory. The boxes.lst file has to be in the LDraw BaseDirectory. Will it make life easier for the POV-Ray engine? (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) has been done before trying to start it... in this case the part exists already, or so it seems. Mark, take heed. (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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Here's Bram Lambrecht's round shield (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I thought someone had already made one of these. It may not be "official" yet, however. I will look in my MLCAD directories and see if I can find it. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Chittenden" <mdublade@aol.com> (...) series. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Two suggestions 1. Learn how to cross post instead of posting multiple copies of the same post to different groups, it keeps the threads better organized. It is not hard to do and is very very useful. 2. Try to see if you can actually get a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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| | Need info help
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Am working on modeling the Round Shield from the LEGOLAND Castle series. However, since I do not actually own such a piece, I don't know how big it actually is. It looks bigger than a 2x2 round, but I need some more info. Can anyone help? Mark C. (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RFC: New game Legator
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Hi, I baught LEGO Creator some time ago and liked it, mostly. I was surprised by the comfort, speed and fun of building. It was very similar to playing real LEGO. But it had a few major problems, namely: * Cannot tilt bricks * Small array of brick (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.games, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Construction Toy In LDraw Format!
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(...) Nope, sorry. The zip file downloads now, but it's corrupt. Did you forget to upload it in binary mode? The first image of the rubberband also still doesn't work. (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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How do you get the .PGM format? I have converted .DEM to .BMP before. Is it much different? Mike PS - Do you have any screenshots? I noticed there weren't any on your website. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Construction Toy In LDraw Format!
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(...) I believe I fixed the bugs. The image was desigated as a local file, and the zip file was incorrectly titled. And for anyone interested, the .dat file for the rubber-band gun can be found here: (URL) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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Now it appears that not only the link is broken but also the zip file. It is missing a few bits and PKUnzip will not process it. Joseph (...) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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Try going to (URL) then scrolling down to library.zip...click and save. Joseph (...) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: About the great datsville
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(...) [...] (...) I just took a look in the LDGLite documentation, and it mentions using "j" and "J" for selecting parallel and perspective projection, respectively. Can this be done from the command line? How? And how do I set the "camera" and (...) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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It looks really great, but the library link (URL) is broken. /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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(...) Blasphemer! Blasphemer! That's not LEGO! Just kidding. :-) Actually, this is really cool. I've been thinking for a couple of weeks of asking if anyone had made K'Nex pieces for LDraw. I was wanting to draw up some ideas to share with my cousin (...) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | New Construction Toy In LDraw Format!
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K'nex is now available in .dat-file format! Over the past couple of months, I have built a library consisting of 17 parts and 8 primitives with which you can make virtual models of K'nex constructions. And of course it is fully renderable using L3P (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: terrain in LDraw
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I wrote: [...] (...) [...] A slightly cleaned up version of this example can be found in the updated source distribution of my fractal landscape generator. Play well, Jacob -- (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Jaco: (...) pgm_to_ldraw -colour 2 -height 30 < terrain.pgm > terrain.dat (or were you asking for a bit more than that?) Lets try to make a 32 by 32 knob 30 plates high relatively soft all-green landscape: fractal_landscape -width 32 -height 32 -h (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Jacob, Could you give some example command lines please? Gr. Jaco (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Mike: (...) My "fractal landscape" package can do that, if you can figure out how to convert your terrain to Portable Graymap (PGM) format: (URL) "Preserve wildlife, pickle a duck." (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don: (...) There is a quite useful algorithm in my big computer graphics book. It is from 1991 (or before) and I think the title simply is "Computer Graphics". The algorithm is called "space-partitioning tree" or something like that. Jacob (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Strange rendering
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Great, thanks Paul! (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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Ah, simple answer: The last line of the 6558.dat file does not end in a carriage return. Simple add a return at the end of the file and it should display correctly. I'll log the bug. There's quite a few lines of the parser dedicated to handling this (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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Hmmm, I'll look into it. It seems to be skipping a line for some reason. -gyug (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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Hi all, Can anyone tell me why LDLite (2.2) is rendering the #6558 "Technic Pin long with Friction" piece like this: (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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I don't know if anyone's ever thought of this, but it would be cool if you were able to import a terrain file into LDraw, in a way that LDraw could read it. This way, you could place your models on "real world terrain" without having to work in a (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: An interesting CAD image
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(...) produced. (...) top; (...) I uploaded an alternate version of this image, with no parts completely obscured. Go to (URL) and click on Screenshot #8. -Gary (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) magazine (...) callouts (...) The right rear wheel is in fact there, but it doesn't appear in this rendering. That seems to be an artifact of how the rendering was produced. If part #2 comes in front of part #1, it will be drawn transparently (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This was actually a misfeature, but it's a convoluted story to explain. I accidentally accomplished what I at first set out to do. :) It kinda looks like the car is decloaking. :) -Gary (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Niftyness :-) I set the image as my desktop wallpaper. Doesn't help that I run the same scree res and I think I have a window maximized when I look at it ;-) BTW - notice it appears James forgot the back right wheel on the car. I like the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I really like the new Suzuki Transpera. I take it you made that intentionally? I got one by accident when first implementing transparent windshields. -Erik (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | An interesting CAD image
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(URL) image shows James Jessiman's car.dat file with every part marked as "selected" in GWCAD. The result is that the car resembles an auto magazine ad in which parts of the vehicle are displayed semi-translucent so callouts can be drawn to all the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Postscript converter
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(...) Yes, that's where I got stuck. If anyone knows a nice occlusion algorithm that solves this problem in vector space (without converting to raster) I could probably also use it to speed up the rest of ldglite as well. I'm hoping for an (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Author key in ldraw.ini\[LDraw]
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(...) Yes, there is. But the [LDraw Add-On] section should really be for stuff internal to LDAO, so we could discuss putting it somewhere else. Like [LDraw] or [New File Defaults], or something. Steve (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Author key in ldraw.ini\[LDraw]
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Oh, is there already an Author key in the [LDraw Add-On] section? (I'm on holiday for the moment and can't check myself) If so, I can use that one instead. /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> wrote in message news:004f01c11ffb$c6...1DMNJ01... (...) Thanks for your kind words. :) (...) I never truly understood those transformation matrices until recently myself. When I was a high school student I (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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<whew> Wow. Downloaded all three of your "proof of concept" executables... Beautiful work. I'll try to figure out something else to say later... I'm kind of speechless. I had toyed with the idea of writing a Lego Cad application in Delphi a while (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) them). If anybody is interested, a demo of how this particular feature will work can be downloaded from (URL) proof-of-concept executable #3. -Gary (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Author key in ldraw.ini\[LDraw]
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson wrote: I have added Author key in the [LDraw] section of ldraw.ini, just (...) That works for me. If I ever update LDAO again, I'll modify it to look for an author in the [LDraw] section, as well as the [LDraw (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Postscript converter
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Don: (...) Looks good, but I think it would be useful to reduce the file to the visible surfaces before saving it. Jacob (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hmmm. Looks odd, but it is something Photoshop could not parse it as an EPS (Generic nor Photoshop) Freehand or Illustrator did not create the picture. Acrobat distiller however created a PDF file of which I posted a picture at (URL) and a good (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Postscript converter
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Hey, with all this talk about PostScript converters I wonder if anyone would like to take a shot at completing the EPS output in ldglite? I started it once upon a time using the opengl feedback buffer to produce the transformed geometry. However the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: GWCAD
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(...) Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, you noticed the default application icon :) I also have the desktop edition of Kylix so porting it to GNU/Linux at some point is a very likely option. At the moment you can pick from six orthographic and eight isometric views, but only one (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Woo-hoo! A Lego Cad Program written in DELPHI!!!! Can't wait to see it! Looks good so far! :-) -Andy Lynch -Another Delphi Developer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Williams" <gwlego@gw.ro> (...) site with (...) months. (...) built (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ha, you said it your self; in 3D it is not a question of what you place when but where, in PostScript it is the other way around. I afraid you'll get very Dali/Picasso like postscript-files. You even have to mind the part-dat-files and (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Not much to see yet, but I've uploaded an early screenshot and a very preliminary command reference (with lots of gaps yet): (URL) the next few weeks as development progresses I'll update this site with more screenshots. My tentative schedule is to (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Jeroen: (...) That's the easy part (sort of). You just multiply all points with an apropriate rotation matrix and ignores one coordinate. (okay - and then there is a lot of "what's on top" questions) (...) The only solution I have been able to come (...) (23 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why don't you take a look at the LEdit keyboard shortcuts and perhaps give them a try. They're listed here and many of them work in Move mode in MLCAD. (URL) make some specific suggestions like in these old threads. (2 URLs) what would be (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a neat idea. It's doable. (...) I really like that idea. It had never occured to me to make the main menu invisible, but it's trivial to accomplish. (...) What if all the commands can be renamed by the user? :) My goal is to make this (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> wrote in message news:GHGxC8.5yn@lugnet.com... (...) Well, the current LEdit key commands I still use consist of the arrow keys, page up, page down, home, end, I, and A. The ones beginning with the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Gary, this sounds great! The best CAD keyboard interface I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot!) was that of the VersaCAD package of the late 80's. Every single possible command (I think) in the system was accessible by a single keystroke. And (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would prefer developers of new CAD programs use key interfaces that make sense, and not ones hamstrung by idiosyncrasies of pre-existing software. I'm not saying LEdit's commands are good or bad (I wouldn't know, I've only used MLCAD). I'm (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) pitch (...) I could have 'rotate <axis> <angle>' as an alias for roll, pitch, and yaw <angle>, as appropriate. No problem. (...) That's not what I had intended. Imagine a clockwise helix (spring). "flip y" would turn it into a counterclockwise (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Please, oh please make it "rotate x 90" (like "offset" command below). (...) I assume this is equivalent to "rotate y 180". (...) I think these probably need to be "snap [x|y|z] 20" as well, unless you're gonna implement them separately for (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Gary Williams" <gwlego@gw.ro> wrote in message news:GHG3q1.Hyy@lugnet.com... (...) It has been, off an on. Good idea though. Part of what we're doing now with the parts stuff will lead towards a system which will allow that. We'll probably have our (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Cool, I love keyboard interfaces. Keep in mind that we already have a something of standard keyboard convention in place. The LEdit key commands. They may not be the best, but they're short and they're built into several of the CAD programs (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Jennifer L. Boger" <jenn@peeron.com> wrote in message news:3B6973C4.201000...ron.com... (...) menus (...) up to (...) he (...) :) ) (...) Ok, I guess it wouldn't be much harder to allow meta keys and function keys too. :) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (wow, dan, i'm actually going to agree with you on something like this :) ) yes, don't limit them - i'm still mad that diablo 2 doesn't allow more than a few hot keys. (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ooohhh... that I like :) (...) why just 26 commands? if you just allow two meta keys (say, alt and ctrl), you get 26*2^2=104 shortcuts... and if you allow shift as well, 208! not saying anyone could remember them all, but why limit the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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For the CAD system I'm developing, I'm planning to have multiple ways of issuing commands: Drop-down and pop-up menus Speedbuttons Keyboard shortcuts (configurable to user preferences) and... Command line interface (like in AutoCAD) In AutoCAD I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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