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it's too big to post to CAD.DAT... but it's finished... Terry said a great many people had been requesting it... so mail me and i'll shoot a copy to anyone who requests it J (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Our Modeling Future. (Was:Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2)
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Don't confuse your names; I did not write the DAT2DXF program, I think that might have been Paul Evans Bauch (spelling?). I don't have ACAD, but I use DXF files as a common file format. The registered version of AC3D includes source for a DXF (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD format
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(...) I'm thinking of the case where foo.dat only appears in the MPD file fooarchive.dat, such as would happen if someone replaced the whole P directory with a single MPD file to save disk space, or if I chose to distribute my unofficial Throwbot (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 1.7 suggestions
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(...) That's what I would think... Since it is already checking for Z-ordering, I could Force a backwards redraw by manually re-ordering the lines in the DAT file... and then I could nip off and shoot me-self :) But I don't see why LDLite couldn't (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 1.7 suggestions
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(...) You could draw using the normal algorithms, right? You'd just have to step through the main file backwards, one line at a time. BTW, great idea, Karim! --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: small ufo saucer hulls
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36ee61f9.2510929@lu...et.com>... (...) all (...) and (...) Oh, well, I can certainly understand that. I can't help you find them, but if you want to dump them to me I JUST LOVE to organize things. Hey I've got a whole (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36ee613a.2319642@lu...et.com>... (...) ACAD comes in several flavors. The industrial strength ACAD is a monster, but it can handle just about anything you can think of in a CAD. For those who may not need all the bells (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2
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(...) Going back to the question of new line-types in LDraw2, if we had all the curved-surface types, there would be little or no use for the Type-5 line, as long as we could specify that a specific object should be outlined/edged. Or have separate (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | OpenGL/Perl Modeller
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Okay, this is my second posting (the first was to lugnet.cad) about PerlLD which is my little Perl/Tk/OpenGL modeller. You can use it for creating & viewing complete models but my intent is to use it to make parts (loading gets slower as the size of (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Our Modeling Future (Was: Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2)
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(...) i see the good *and* the bad in the .DAT format... i like the idea that the same parsing routines handle everything from the model down to the line type... all transformations can be uniformly applied to every sub element, element, part, and (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD format
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:24:08 GMT, Paul Gyugyi <paul@gyugyi.com> wrote: [snip] Just a short post, to say "I agree!" Steve (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: small ufo saucer hulls
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(...) I have way to much stuff, in various stages of abandonment, to just dump it all on the 'net. Even if that 'net is lugnet. Besides, I'd have to both find and organize it first. ;) Steve (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Technic "Throwbot" or "Slizer"?
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In Australia, I have some sets in the 1998 LEGO catalogue - I haven't received this year's catalogue yet - that are in a category known as Competition. In this catalogue, are listed numbers 8223, 8202, 8266, 8257, and 8245. All of these throw either (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2
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(to jump in, or to stay out. Decisions, decisions. Oh, what the heck.) Why wait for LDraw2 to come up with better ways to produce part-files? It would be *great* if LDraw2 can handle multiple source-file formats, but that's a different issue. I (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2
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(...) Yes. (...) And you still need a simple representation of a POV part to be able to use it in an modeler. /Lars (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Technic Cam 6575
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(...) it "Catch Cross" in LDraw. How about: "Technic Connector with Axlehole" And how about the number? Do anybody know what it is? Fredrik (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD format
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(...) Yes, I agree. But MPD is not very parser-friendly. You read the file and half-way down it says: "Oh, by the way, I'm an MPD!" How are you supposed to avoid complaining about garbage lines before the first "0 FILE" without parsing each file (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 1.7 suggestions
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(...) Great! I just ran into another problem. The "Continuous" checkbox in the Options does not work. I wanted to view Karim's AT-AT and have it auto-rotate, but quickly found that the continuous feature wouldn't work. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD format
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(...) While I appreciate the LDAO modeler, I find it awkward to use. It is a good effort at making an ad-hoc modelling tool, but leaves a lot to be desired. So I use it only occasionally. For large models, I prefer LEdit, imperfect as it is. -- (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problems with LDAO, L3PAO
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(...) If you are using LDAO 1.4..5 try this: Make a backup copy of your ldraw.ini file in /windows. Then open the primary ldraw.ini file and find the [Categories] section. Delete all entries in that section. Save the file and try running Make (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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