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[Added lugnet.cad.dev to newsgroups list] (...) A little bit, yes, but not a lot. Since you bring it up, now a good time to give it a second round of consideration. Here are some of my thoughts: One thing that would work out nicely in the .parts (...) (26 years ago, 3-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New guidelines on parts and numbers (long)
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***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) Sounds good to me. The part number for that piece is the same as any other 2x4 brick, 3001. I didn't read through the whole original message, but I assume you are planning to have a totally new category for (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: clean up the parts tracker!
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(...) Yes, I am. Sometime. I've got a bunch of other half-done pieces which are more important. Steve (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How big is your VEC dir?
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(...) I believe it's actually on Gyug's list to do, but he doesn't yet have the routines to reduce a 24-bit image before saving as an 8-bit bmp. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: clean up the parts tracker!
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by abandoned i mean like steves canoe :) are you ever going to finish it steve? (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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How big is my what!? Oh.... Right now, mine is 14 mb. Yep, 14,722,692. But I have it rendered at 50% *and* I used a batch conversion to reduce the LDLite output to 8 bits.(1) Sure it took a while, but the savings were significant. If I remember (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New guidelines on parts and numbers (long)
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(...) Quite possibly a good idea. Somebody with authoring skills and freetime to maintain it would be needed. (...) That would probably be the best idea. We will occasionally have pieces that require special handling. That is unavoidable. Steve's (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New guidelines on parts and numbers (long)
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(...) It would more likely be that we use 3-digit numbers with some kind of modifier. As 3-digits are already established as being temporary. I believe that using any four digit numbers, with or without some modifier, would not be wise. -- Terry K (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I really see no way out of doing it. An existing 8xxxx will, by definition, most likely have to go into a '_' category as a hard-coded piece. That would leave us without a corresponding #16 piece to use. So if we want that piece in #16, it (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Part Request: 30200
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I asked about this part a while back, and ended up making a crude mock-up for it. I'm using it in a new Pallas Spaceworks vessel, but in such a way that my mock-up looks horrible. Is anyone working on this or willing to work on it? I'll mail you the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: clean up the parts tracker!
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(...) Thanks for the reminder. Let's go, people! Just remember, there's 'abandoned', and there's 'abandoned'. Steve (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO suggestions
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(...) That's why I have a 21" monitor. <eg> (...) Plans, thoughts, dreams. I should rewrite the whole schmear in a different language. It would be nice if the code-window and the view-window could be connected. I'll work on that. Steve (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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could all parts authors clean up the parts tracker? if the part made it into the vote then indicate as such. if the part has been abandoned then indicate as such. (thinks of chris dees ice planet torso and steve blisses canoe). if the part has been (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Interpolation Worksheet
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I think so. You know what else would be great from one of you programer types: a little program to calculate the intersections of cylinders with spheres or other cylinders. Maybe something for LDScript, which I still haven't found time to learn. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO suggestions
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(...) Steve, First I've got to say Thanks for this great program. We all appreciate your work greatly! Having said that, I've got a nit to pick also about LDAO Modeler. I'm running v 2.02, and when I have the Modeler running, I can't get the Render (...) (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO suggestions
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(...) I was thinking more along the lines of using two areas each with all sixteen boxes, each in a different color. More visual. :-, Is there any way VB5 can put colored boxes into a drop-down list? Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I really want to do *something* with the color chart. This is definitely an idea. Having to type color numbers is unfriendly, especially in the Modeller. Maybe instead of (or in addition to) the type-in box, there could be the two drop-downs, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How big is your VEC dir?
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(...) Yes, doing this automatically is one of the items on the request list for LDAO. (...) I've done this. It is *much* slower. 3x or worse. I'm thinking it was much worse, but I don't remember now. Steve (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Interpolation Worksheet
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I've got an Excel file I use to do simple math operations, mostly to interpolate and find line intersections. Would anyone be interested in this? Steve (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDAO suggestions
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Steve, I have a couple of thoughts for LDAO: 1) How about an extension to the color chart which allows the user to pick two arbitrary colors and dither them? It could have a dialog box with two 16-color choosers in it, and that also displays the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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