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"Tutorials: Introduction to Creating LDraw Parts" contains a missing link to "which primitives are available" (3rd paragraph). Best regards, thanks for your work ! Philo (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) And while we/you are thinking about this, the 2 x 2 x 8 column piece (p/n 30646) also needs a name. It has a vertical groove on all four sides and has internal structure on two of four sides. Thanks, Ray (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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This is a new part from the Jack Stone line. It has a part number on the bottom, # 30645. The speciman I have here is black (from 4610). You may have seen it in the set images as a floor piece for the buildings. It is 1 brick high. Is is nominally (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D development announcement
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(...) No, I just am fed up with OS X, that's all. I'd rather crash Mac OS 9 than lock up the debugger on OS X. It's a personal preference. P.S. It was spider poop. P.P.S. Does anybody know why glBegin(GL_LINES) would return GL_INVALID_OPERATION (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Brick builder programs (and some more...)
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(...) (URL) if you can spot the LEGO reference! ROSCO FUT: .off-topic.fun (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Works for me! Have any of the advances James has made in the last few weeks led you to your decision? I was really kinda' hoping that with some more hands involved you might get the help you needed to flesh out BrickDraw, possibly for both 9 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've abandoned BrickDraw3D on Mac OS X. I am going back to the Mac OS 9 codebase to finish support for OpenGL in the core. The OS X version was going nowhere - CodeWarrior, Carbon, and QD3D was a stew of bugs on OS X. It's possible that I will pick (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gr12tJ.9A0@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) style (...) she (...) could, (...) Good point. I suppose I would explain it this way: LDraw.org sticks LEGO on the studs because we are the ones loyal to (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No way! I think it's absolutly necessary that the word LEGO be put on each and every one of those K'Nex pieces that were modelled a few months ago! 8?D I think if you were modelling an element available from a clone manufacturer only, you'd be (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gr0yDp.KIu@lugnet.com... (...) Mega (...) MB (...) studs (...) Uhh, I think I'll take a pass. Thanks for the invite though. ;-) FUT -> o-t.fun -Tim (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Now that I think of it, this kind of bugs me. If I could come up with a low-maintenance way to put "MegaBloks" on every clone.dat brick I would happily do so. How can LEGO imply ownership of a virtual brick that could, frankly, be any of a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Come on over to the Blok Side, Tim! We've been expecting you... 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> wrote in message news:Gr0vun.CpF@lugnet.com... (...) safe (...) I'm ashamed to say I actually know the answer to this question ;-) But, MB doesn't have printing on the studs. They imprint their logo (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) There's some variance on that. Frequently the MegaBloks logo appears on the body of the brick, such as between the four studs of a 2x2 brick, but some newer molds place the MegaBloks logo between the 4 studs at each of the four corners of a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I remember the discussion about that now from way back then. (...) Sounds like "MEGA" would right out! :-) (Just out of curiousity, do Mega Bloks have anything on the studs?) (...) Yep, seen it; it's highly impressive. (...) Yep, I think so. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Any idea where I would find the authentic font used for the logos on the studs? --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LCD - LDraw Connection Database
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Dear all, after we changed the topic to 'LCD - LDraw Connection Database' I modified the logo. Let me say some words about it, what it symbolize. There is the letter "L". Now it means LDraw and subsidiary we can think that it means LEGO too, but we (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry - the filetypesfaq page is still under construction. When I put up the numberfaq page, I thought the filetypesfaq would be available very soon afterward. My bad. Steve (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Only that editors might need to differentiate between 'rotatation' when editing a model, and 'rotation' performed within the physical constraints of a constructed model. Steve (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) please don't say that :) though with Galeon (which is mozilla based) it looks ok, so it passes that test. FUT to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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Tim, The site looks alot better with Internet Explorer and Mac OS 9. Netscape 4.x is still too small. But I think Netscape is dead enough that you don't need to worry about it. I don't even bother with Netscape 6. In Mac OS X it looked fine with (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Stud logos in fan apps
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(...) For trade dress reasons you may want it to be (one of) the authentic fonts. ++Lar (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:Gqzvr4.Jo9@lugnet.com... (...) To an extent, I do. When I was having the website logo redone right before Kidvention, I had a discussion about this with one of LEGO's lawyers. I had the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Does anyone know what the Lego company's stance is on fan applications putting "LEGO" on the tops of studs? As far as I know, both L3P and LGEO allow you to include stud logos in the POV files they generate. Since I haven't heard anything about the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks Tim, that's looking a lot better! Only thing I noticed was the "Do you find the new website..." sentnce is still real small (unreadable) in Netscape 4.6 / Solaris, unless I set the default font size to 24pt. This may just be limited (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LCD - LDraw Connection Database - Proposal [DAT]
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Kyle McDonald made Thursday a point: (...) Well, let's create an example. 0 Untitled 0 Name: sample.dat 0 Author: LAD 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 1 1 14 0 0 -20 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3894.DAT 1 2 -20 24 -40 (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Using Netscape 4.76 on MacOS 8.6, looks pretty good to me. Ray (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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I changed over the fonts on the LDraw.org website to em instead of point sizes. I hope this helps for people who have complained about small fonts, such as on the Mac. Please take a look and let me know if there are any problems. Thanks! (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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The "FAQ for LDraw Part Numbers" ("(URL) has a reference to a "File Types FAQ" ("(URL) but there is no such page! (I get a "page not found" error when using this link.) Franklin ===== Franklin W. Cain Programmer for Hire "fwcain@yahoo.com" "(URL) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LCD - LEGO Connection Database - Proposal
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(...) Good Ideas... Now figure out a way of getting scripting into the toolset as well. (Currently the only tool is the LDS script compiler.. Which I cant find the URL for..:-( ) Of course ultimatly it will be possible thanks to D3D and Quickdraw or (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LCD - Small Update
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I updated the LCD pages to reflect the new name, 'LDraw Connection Database.' I also updated the Reference: Specifications page with a new section, called 'Works in Progress,' which includes a page link to LCD. -Tim (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Brick builder programs (and some more...)
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"Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:fnoi5u0qn6m5r46...4ax.com... (...) seen (...) Well, let's see what I can find (I'm offline while writing, so no internet searches)... - "Gryphon Bricks" - I know it has changed name, but I (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [Parts Tracker] Status, Updates, Etc.
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Here's some brief news about the Parts Tracker. First, everything seems to be running smoothly. At least, as smoothly as it was before the website redesign. There are some fixes needed at the top of some pages, and I still need to figure out where (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) Don't forget the postrequisites![1] Also known as "where do I go from here?" or "What's next?" links. :) Steve 1) Not a real word, AFAIK. (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Dears, thank you for the enthusiasm you are accepting our idea with. In the case you are wondering where did we take it from, here is the explanation. Some months ago I begun to play with Lego CAD softwares, liking to build with them, but I haven't (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A while ago, there was a website about a genetic algorithm which created lego bridges. There was an applet to run through situations you defined. It would create lego models, and test them for fitness. It was very fun, even though it was only (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well I think that would be a good thing, I was under the impression that the goal of LCD was to allow modelling programs to help the user properly *place* the parts, not ness. remembering the connections. But maybe I'm missing something. If (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, distinctly fun, but weird. :-) I would want it to crank through all the possible ways to use a connection type... But please note that this usage is a side path... the main utility is in "snap" behaviour. MLCad snapgrid, for instance, is (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Isn't that what the LCD is all about? The program can tell which piece is connected to what other piece... Now, if we can model gear-teeth meshing, that will be incredibly awesome... Steve (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Can you remember any names or URLs? I'm always interesting in seeing a new brick program. Steve (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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