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Ray, Check to see if there is a preference file for macLDGLite in your preferences folder. If there is, delete it and relaunch macLDGLite. It should aks where the ldraw folder is. James (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: A comprehensive LDraw object model
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How about an LDraw DAT model reducer - something that hacks out the insides and leaves nothing but a hollow shell? This way you could port it to platforms that can't handle so many polygons, and also render in realtime. It would kind of be like (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mac OS 8.6
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(...) I'm having problems getting macLDGLite .5 to run on ... iMac 333Mhz / MacOS 8.6 / 160MB It launches, but whenever I try to render anything, I get a long rapidly scrolling list of files that are not found. I think it doesn't see the LDRAW (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | ldglite .94 on Mac OS X quirk
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I am playing with ldglite on Mac OS X. One question I have for Don is the save path. I opened a file in the models folder. I saved the file and it saved it where I have ldglite located (my home directory). Is this suppose to happen? James (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: A comprehensive LDraw object model
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(...) Aren't all of these classes Abstract? I mean this is only a template for implementing a Class Library right? Are you planning on actually filling in the code also? or just defining the interfaces? (...) So far you've got a few more levels in (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) > (Maybe not too much, let's keep it lean and mean.) At the least, I > think we should make the object model workable in C++, Java, Perl and > Python. (...) This is interesting. I wonder what we can do as far as making it both comprehensive (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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While we wait to find out why there isn't a new button, anyone can post using the "Reply" button. (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Mac OS 8.6
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(...) I am not sure, but it should. Easiest way to find out is to try macLDGLite .5. Get instructions for that here: (URL) it doesn't work, you may need to install the OpenGL extensions. There is a link to the installer on the webpage. If it still (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: A comprehensive LDraw object model
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(...) Here's my first contribution, a rough outline of a class structure. *** LDRAW LINE TYPE CLASSES *** abstract class LineType - ancestor class for all line-type objects + class LineType0 - comment line-type + class LineTypeCommand - command (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hey folks, I think we need to figure out a comprehensive LDraw object model. Something that can be presented simply, and easily ported to various modern programming languages. A comprehensive class diagram would be a great start, and some code to (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
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Hi Manfred - The link is fixed, thanks. -Tim (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
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Hello Team, On Ldraw.org I've just found another broken link: On the homepage: (URL) the left side/second from top frame that contains links to "Reference", "Download", "Community", "Parts Library" and lots of "smaller" links, a link named "Parts (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:Gr99Iy.2DF@lugnet.com... (...) Good idea! I already felt the need for it with the few tutorials up there. (...) I agree. I am going to write a guide to the LDraw.org HTML format, citing certain (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDMC News Digest (To Get The Ball Rolling)
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(...) Wow...we're struggling just to get something to run on X or 9.x...now we have to support legacy systems too?!? 8?) Maybe we need a new tagline- "LDMC: Legacy-Free LEGO Modelling For The Mac". Seriously, I don't know how hard it would be for (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDMC News Digest (To Get The Ball Rolling)
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This is all great news!! Do you guys know if this will/could run on Mac OS 8.6?? Gary (...) <snip> (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDMC News Digest (To Get The Ball Rolling)
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Matt, thanks for posting that. I was too busy to get anything out earlier. In addition, I just wanted to add the following. Don has gotten ldglite to compile on Mac OS X and I tested it and it works. The steps to compile it are in Matt's email (the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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Okay, responding to my own post here... AND quite late, to boot... Here's my wish list for tutorial categorization: 1. Each tutorial should get its own directory. This prevents everyone clashing namespaces and working with ungainly filenames -- and (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Broken FAQ item -- #27 (colors)
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Heya, just a quickie, The color table on LDraw.org (1) is kinda broken, it seems to be missing the edge-color info. Compare this with the end of the old LDraw FAQ item #27 (2). It would also be cool if the color list were to list the LDraw colors in (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDMC News Digest (To Get The Ball Rolling)
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Greetings everybody! As a way to launch this new newsgroup with a bang, I'm going to digest some of the curent behind-the-scenes news from LDMC (LDraw for the Macintosh Campaign - (URL) ). James Reynolds and I have still held out hope for this (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Two new CAD development newsgroups: LCD (LEGO Connection Database) and Macintosh
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(...) Todd (Admin team), The icon in the web interface to post a new message in lugnet.cad.dev.mac is missing! Matt (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LCD -- Calling for work
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(...) OK, ladies, gentlemen and minifigs, so everybody is agreeing it is a good idea, what is more, it is already a group of good ideas, including LCD itself (by the way, LCD could stand for Lugnet.Cad.Dev, too! :) and the LMPL language, and so on. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Re: LCD - Calling for work
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(...) OK, ladies, gentlemen and minifigs, so everybody is agreeing it is a good idea, what is more, it is already a group of good ideas, including LCD itself (by the way, LCD could stand for Lugnet.Cad.Dev, too! :) and the LMPL language, and so on. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Two new CAD development newsgroups: LCD (LEGO Connection Database) and Macintosh
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Two new CAD (Computer Aided Design) software development newsgroups have just been created for the discussion of new CAD software projects. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.cad.dev.lcd (group): LDraw Connection Database forum: in-depth technical (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | ------( Welcome to lugnet.cad.dev.mac )------
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Welcome to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.cad.dev (group and hierarchy): CAD developers forum: in-depth technical discussions, software architecture, interoperability, tools, parts planning & tracking, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | ------( Welcome to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd )------
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Welcome to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.cad.dev (group and hierarchy): CAD developers forum: in-depth technical discussions, software architecture, interoperability, tools, parts planning & tracking, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Re: LCD - LDraw Connection Database - Proposal
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(...) I think the idea of having an LMPL separate from the LCD is definitely a good idea. Not everyone is going to want to do animation or whatnot - I know that I'm personally more interested in just having a good way to connect the parts together. (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker - Using L3P-check to scan submitted files
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I finally formatted the material about L3P messages vs. part files and put it under the reference area of the Parts Tracker. (URL) If you don't have L3P installed on your computer, you can check your part files at: (URL) This script must upload your (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Is there a moved-to utility?
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(...) There's two programs I know of that do this: MLCad and a Perl script I wrote over three (!) years ago. It wrote the changes back to the original file, and all the little things (like the LDraw path) had to be hard-coded into the script. I (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a moved-to utility?
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(...) That would be very handy, and nice to have. I seem to remember there was a program around that performed this job, but I don't remember the details now. LDAO has a "Mover" function, but it only cleans up one file at a time. Steve (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Is there a moved-to utility?
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While working with old model files like Datsville, I used to get countless moved-to-messages. I am pretty sure that ML-Cad prompts the user if he/she wants the program to change the references, but that could still be quite a time-consuming thing to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stud logos in fan apps
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(...) I have no real intent of including any logo on the clone.dat bricks for a number of reasons; nearly every brand has a 2x4 brick, so I'd need to make a different file for each brand's 2x4 brick I wanted to model! Better to sidestep the whole (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: need help w/ name (minifig legs from set #4817)
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(...) For what it's worth, I interpret the straps in the pattern as being part of a complete skirt of straps. I emailed LFB about it, I figured if anyone would know the technical term for that piece/type of armor, he would. He said the straps are (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lighting(Was Re: ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for January 2002)
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(...) Nope the're just plain point lights with an RGB value of 1,1,1. There are five lights in my scene. (URL) first four are used for the torches one being just out of the picture to the right. I placed one light inside each 1x1 round brick. The (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Stud logos in fan apps
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(...) Well, it should be noted that any programs that add a LEGO logo to the tops of studs are going to add the same logo to the studs on clone bricks unless the clones use their own (separate) stud primitives. There's not currently any way (that I (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stud logos in fan apps
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(...) Another reason why; The LDraw library of parts is specifically modelling the copyrighted/trademar...d/patented inventory of Lego brand building toys. We know it, they know it. And they have graciously allowed us to do so. Even supported our (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Limits on participation in MOTM/SOTM? (Was: ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for January 2002)
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(...) One of those "me too" replies. But I have to agree with Jacob and Steve. At this point, limiting seems counter-productive to me. Notwithstanding this months avalanche of entries, we usually have a small number of entries. Setting furthur (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: MLCading (Was Re: ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for January 2002)
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(...) Good point. But not even counting the ease of making backgrounds, Space, or "Science Fiction" in general, has always been a popular topic for rendering. Just take a look at the IRTC entries.(1) Even though that competition has clearly defined (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Stud logos in fan apps
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Steve Bliss (...) Cool! And thanks Tim for being willing to do that. In case anyone is wondering, here's a link to the K'nex parts library page: (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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