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After a growing amount of information which I wanted to put on my website, I reorganized the menu structure and made a few new pages. There is a lot of new information on out-of-date pages (like my bio page); almost every page has been updated! My (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Checking 48\1-4ring4.dat
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See (URL) Can someone check the vertices in this file? My calculations are differing on most of the values, but only by 0.0001. I used by Excel (in Windows 2000, on a Intel Pentium) and Perl (in Linux, on an Alpha processor) to calculate the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: When is the next parts release?
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(...) Heh. Well, the biggest we've done with the Parts Tracker. I think the 2000-02 update was the largest ever, with 258 files. BTW, I'm showing 62 files need admin review currently. Including 13 fixes, which we can 99% count as going to certified! (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Numbers Report
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(...) Actually, I'm thinking of the reverse situation - the subfile is certified, but the parent file is not certified. In this case, it would be sloppy to release the subfile before the part file is released. Look at the horse files for an example (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: winding check tool
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(...) To check a file for BFC'ness, see (URL), question "How do I check a file for BFC Compliance?". To make a file BFC compliant, I recommend using LDAO's Editor. It includes a tool to change the winding for the currently selected line(s). My (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.3 Released ***
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(FUT lugnet.cad.dev) (...) Do the models still load and display correctly? If so, you can disable that error message by clicking on the "OpenGL Error" check box in the error window, and you won't be bothered by it. On the other hand, the presence of (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: winding check tool
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As far as I can tell, everyone uses L3Lab with the mytest6 option turned on. -Orion (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | winding check tool
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Stupid question time. What's a recommended tool for checking (and correcting) winding? It's hard to tell if everything you lay down while making parts is CW or CCW and it's even harder if you're trying to review something. Is L3P what everyone uses? (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | numbers report
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I wish the stock market had this rate of growth... :-/ Section Totals 141 certified files. 57 files need admin review. 224 files need more votes. 243 have uncertified subfiles. 94 held files. (Total: 759 files.) (For comparison): (URL) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Numbers Report
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(...) Steve, If I recall correctly, this is not a problem, because the Tracker says that a file has "[x] subfile(s) isn't/aren't certified" if it has *any* subfiles (including primitives) that are *not* fully, totally, 100% certified... Thanks, (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | When is the next parts release?
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Even without Steve going over the 30+ parts ready for him to certify, this looks to be the biggest release ever in terms of total file count. If all the redone primitives get certified, that will at least another 15 files that were already certified (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Implicit face winding (was: [Parts Tracker] More BFC Primitives)
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(...) My bad- I guess I wasn't following the thread closely enough. (...) If I understand correctly, that doesn't really work for a huge percentage of parts. Parts will often have two surfaces in a row that both face away. Look at the breakdown of a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Implicit face winding (was: [Parts Tracker] More BFC Primitives)
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Tony Hafner wrote: > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Kyle McDonald writes: >> >>Well I don't know that I thought it would be 'minimal' effort. I'll >>bet it would be a lot of work for parts that are already done. I >>did think that it wouldn't be that (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Implicit face winding (was: [Parts Tracker] More BFC Primitives)
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(...) I recently went over some old primitives and brought them up to BFC certification. I found it very handy to have the flexibility of doing it whichever way had more "correct" surfaces. It wouldn't be so bad if Notepad had the ability to reverse (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] More BFC Primitives
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Hi Travis, (...) Well I don't know that I thought it would be 'minimal' effort. I'll bet it would be a lot of work for parts that are already done. I did think that it wouldn't be that bad for new parts, because I figured the author knows best what (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] More BFC Primitives
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(...) Despite being the author of a rendering program, I agree with this whole-heartedly. Each rendering program only has to get it right once, during the initial coding. If we make it easier for the program, but harder for part authors, the part (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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(...) Cool! If you can clearly show where you make the changes, I might be able to port this back into the other versions. I've never been all that happy with the rendering speed myself. You can see in the code where I tinkered a bit with display (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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(...) "marking up" would be better done by machine algorithm, and would encompass the Connection Point proposal at the same time. It would indeed yield a separate definition of the parts. A lot of high-end CAD programs read polygons (like we have) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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(...) Maybe I'm missing a technical distinction, but it seems he used bounding boxes *for* collision detection, as opposed to using exact volumes. (...) True. My point was, marking up the LDraw part files for volume decomposition would either: a) Be (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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Upgrading my stock Apple G3/233 with a Radeon 7000 gave BrickDraw3D an 85% speed improvement. In pure OpenGL mode the improvement is 60% over the existing OpenGL advantage. The 2002 ATI Retail Card Update worked on G3/233 with 9.1 but BrickDraw3D (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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