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(...) I think that either the four-letter abbreviations or the full words would be preferable. The four-letter abbreviations are easier to figure out and learn. Just my 2¢ --Ryan (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Just my two cents on this - I would enjoy seeing the work being discussed here and the project, to be split into two versions (at least). A "version 1" would contain the data necessary to provide the "snap" information for the placing of (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote: > In lugnet.cad.dev, Kyle McDonald wrote: > > >>This would be good. I'd like something that can describe >>joints or pivot points. >> > > Hmm. Interesting. Compare and contrast various types of connections: > cross-axles (can't (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm. Interesting. Compare and contrast various types of connections: cross-axles (can't rotate), click-hinges (rotate freely, but with 'sweet spots'), plate hinges (rotate freely). Steve (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes! A random Lego model generator! That would be distinctly weird, but fun :) Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMO...tninet.se> wrote in message news:GqrtFB.G1E@lugnet.com... (...) I meant LUGNET and the circle of lurkers around it, the AFOL community. Which, perhaps it is not 99% (I admit to an exaggeration for the purpose (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMO...tninet.se> wrote in message news:GqrtF0.G01@lugnet.com... (...) DOH! Sorry about that. I mentioned Anton's library in another post, and slipped here. (...) really (...) Yup. -Tim (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GqqIK0.1rK@lugnet.com... (...) No it's definitely not. Of course, it depends on what you mean with 'the unofficial LEGO CAD universe', but no way I'll accept that figure (99%). BlockCAD is (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GqqIws.2ut@lugnet.com... (...) question) (...) Anton??? Anders!!! No, LCD wouldn't apply to BlockCAD, as it already has it's own 'snap' system: Everything is just a 'block', and can only be (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Wow, for a second there, I thought the authors had really made a 3-D rendering of God from The Brick Testament. @8^) (URL) was amazed that someone had taken the time to model God's hair, which I had hand-carved out of a white helmet because LEGO has (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thank you Steve for inserting the definition that I forgot to include. (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The only pain is updating all the parts at once. But if we collect and format the data, we could use a script to (a) insert the data into the files and (b) report problems: no LCD data for a file, problems inserting the LCD data into a file, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDraw is promoted as LDraw, LUGNET as LUGNET, etc... My concern was this was initially being promoted as LEGO Coordinate Database. If it is promoted as LCD then I agree the issue is not as important. I sent this to Tim in a private email (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Right. That wasn't what I was trying to say at all. I wasn't talking about format. What I was getting at was that the data (wherever it lives) was intended to be used for driving programs to make things snap into place, not just for doing (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well that's kind of my point. LCD is an acronym, just as LUGNET(tm) is. So I don't see LCD standing for "LEGO(r) <mumble> <mumble>" as being bad or wrong per se any more than that LUGNET stands for "LEGO Users Group NETwork" being bad or wrong (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) For anyone who (else) who doesn't know what 'ontology' means, and doesn't want to depend on context to derive the meaning, (...) Steve (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm. I read this as "Larry thinks LAD and KACS meant for the LCD data to go *in* the DAT files". But reading section 1.2, (URL), makes it clear that the data is intended to be position in files outside the DATs. But the bottom line is that (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd say it should be reduced - there are potentials for generalization in the data. (...) I think the current document suffers from confusing connection possibilities with other physical limitations -- for instance, a car base ((URL)) has a (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think you got it just right. The LCD has to be associated with a geometry, or it's meaningless. It would make sense to use LDraw for the LCD, especially if the 'L' is for 'LDraw'. ;) Steve (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Bernd Broich" <bernd.broich@online.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:GqA9pz.MDI@lugnet.com... (...) So now it's not only possible, it's real. On my website you can now view my horse in my applet-viewer. (URL) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks for the link. Shame on me for forgetting! (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqqL5v.9IK@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) programs (...) been (...) jumpstarted (...) it. (...) Good idea! One of my other tasks (this email reminds me) is setting up URLs for the redirect (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Now that ldraw.org has a user-based rating system for software downloads, I think it would be a great idea if everyone here went and rated the programs they have tried out. As a software author, I know I'm curious what people in general think about (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think that the shorthand abbreviations are much less cryptic than the single letters. Jimmy 8(:O)) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I dunno if this could apply or not, depends on how LEGO's format is written. (I don't know details) That's a question for the person who designed their format (and I doubt they'd discuss it here) ;-) (...) I believe its the same library, but a (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would assume BlockCAD. Anton? Though compatibility problems might arise if my assumption is correct about center points on parts - if LCD is (and I believe it most definitely will be) designed around the LDraw library, and that is a factor, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Depends. The issue really is the compatibility between the libraries, if I understand correctly. Different parts libraries have different center points for the parts, and that's the big issue. A conversion table would have to be made between (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's how the site works now, minus the <h1-6> tags. And, once a few other things get addressed - like the Download section updating, Variable-width tables on certain pages, etc, I'll address the <h1-6> issue of making headers. That will go (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'm not entirely sure. It's actually a line segment with an emplied endpoint of <0,0,0>. I tried to duplicate the math that went into that vector, got stumped (I think there's at least one more assumption that POVRay makes with vaxis_rotate() (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) easier to follow than redefining L3Location in terms of itself. That made my head spin until I worked it out on paper. Perhaps if l3p put a comment before these lines it might be easier to follow: // Set the camera location. #declare (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Gah, my previous attempt didn't get through due to slashdot... (...) Thanks! (...) Again, thanks! (...) Okay, that's like 6 for, and 0 against. It's in there. :-, Thanks, - jsproat (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I shouldn't really second-guess Lars Hassing, but judging from a recent post he might be doing just that. (URL)My only suggestion for improvement would be to move the "How can I (...) I've been thinking on that, actually. I initially put it in (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, you could just use regular old HTML the way it was meant to be used: <H1-6></H1-6> for headers, and <p></p> for paragraphs and then use CSS and includes to make it fit the LDraw design... Or you could add an FTX interpretter to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That'd be Karim Nassar's "Artemis" project (URL) but I don't think it covers connectors. ROSCO (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That'd be Karim Nassar's "Artemis" project (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a good idea. I think I'll do that. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Not sure. LEGO(r)'s own internal format? There IS one but few know details. The LEGO Creator(tm) format? In fact one would speculate that a "good" Creator-like program would need this info to be workable. LEOCad(tm) uses same/different format? (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, I see where you're at on that. Yes... it would be nice to just put it in the DAT file itself. Huge advantage to that is that it's there. No need for clunky lookaside files to correlate against. Huge disadvantage of course is that the DAT (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) How about Related Information? Jimmy 8(:O)) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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