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(...) Yeah, it sounds like a good idea to me. For a totally separate site, it could be mac.ldraw.org, or we could stuff it in the current nav layout under www.ldraw.org/community/mac/ -Tim (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDMC site moved.
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(...) Why don't you ask about moving the content to ldraw.org? Seems like a reasonable place for it... Don (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | What about another Ldraw CAD tool but in delphi?
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I whould like if possible to make my own CAD software like Ledit but for windows3.x/9x/NT/2K/XP but without using openGL or any hardware or direct X something like the way Ledit draws them and without using mouse but for windows small no power (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P like utility for Mac / Mac OS X
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(...) Hey, I'll give it a look. When I was using MLCad, I wrote an AppleScritpt that alowed me to open a ".dat" file in MLCad from the Finder. Since the it wasn't a portable scrtipt (I have almost no idea what I am doing when I write scripts, but I (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LDMC site moved.
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LDMC has the .mac fatal disease (curable only with money). Unfortunately, I am not going to fork out the money to pay for .mac (Apple is retarded sometimes......). If anyone else is willing to fork out money, instead of paying for .mac, I would like (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P like utility for Mac / Mac OS X
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Chris, I have not been paying attention for a few months, but I am pretty sure that L3P has not been ported. I have emailed the developer quite a bit asking him to do this (or let someone else). He said it is in the queue. However, that was awhile (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Parts tracker sick?
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(...) Looks like the subpart got mis-handled in the rename. It should be OK now. Chris (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Or is it me? when I went to this part (URL) clicked on either (URL) get a dead link... (is this the right group to ask?) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) I believe either LDDesignPad or LDraw Add-On will work for you. In LDAO, I'd open your file in the text editor. The first time you use the editor, you'll want to go into the editor's Options | Viewer Settings menu, and select which viewer to (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) Although I got MLCad to do it for me, this is good advice as I don't like what else it did to the file. Can you recommend a good inliner that runs in Win2K and is suitable for novice use? Thanks! (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) Actually, if you go to the Quad2DAT website you'll find the v0.9.5 executable available for download. (The version number is in the fine print below the download link.) -Orion (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) I guess it depends. Did Chris ask you to keep the file secret? Generally, my feeling is that you should hold onto the file, unless Chris specifically told you it was OK to pass it around. Steve (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) a while back when Chris helped us with quad2dat stuff he gave us (me and george) an early v 0.9.5 its not my decition to let it out, so what does everyone think? i havent seen chris in a while, so shouldthe file be shared? (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released ** [DAT]
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(...) You should be able to fix it by creating another file that references your file using a mirror matrix, and then inline that part with an inliner tool. So, for instance, if your part is x123.dat, you would create a file called mirror.dat with (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) OK, this isn't because of the "rotation" of the parts, it's because MLCad is inserting bogus commands at the top of the file 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 It also is changing the value of the filename (removing the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) Hi Lar, If it's a rotate rather than a mirror, you can use the LDAO editor to quickly rotate it. This actually rotates the matrix rather than adding a ROTATE. LDAO can also do a mirror, but it's a bit more fiddling around IIRC, and I'd have to (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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I like this program a lot. I have a number of features/suggestions to add, is it still in active development. However I have one problem that I need help with from the user community. It seems that there is a rotation being inserted somewhere... I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Portable Ldraw system "Laptop"
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(...) I started with my 3th PC 'desktop' a compaq presario with 32MB of ram with a AMD with 233mhz and man I learn patience it was fun. The idea is to get a laptop and not a powerfull one with a nice price and nice system for ldraw. I'll have to (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Portable Ldraw system "Laptop"
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] Eduardo, That should be more than enough power. I was using a 200MHz laptop w/ 80MB RAM the first year I got into LDraw and was able to do nice renders w/o problems. The key is patience. I've since ended up w/ a 400Mhz (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Portable Ldraw system "Laptop"
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I'll be buying an IBM 7708 Pentium II with 366mhz 128 MB of RAM 12GB of hard disk 14" TFT 'screen I think' CD - ROM disk unit Modem I need to see a screenshot of the IBM 7708 laptop. I believe that is enought for working with ldraw, mlcad, l3p, (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Read and draw .dat files
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Hello, everybody! I am making a program that simulate a robot movement made with Lego (the robot draw is already made in Ldraw format) on a computer screen. And I pretend to use parts in .dat. I tried to learn it from ldglite but it is too complex (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Hollow LDraw models
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Many months ago I posted a question regarding making hollow shells or mesh objects out of LDraw models. In the POVray links section, under the macro subheading, is a listing for something called 'Tristan Macro for MegaPOV'. Anyone test this to see (...) (22 years ago, 28-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Segmented parts (ie hoses and flex tubes)
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(...) [snip] (...) I agree, I did that with the hoses on my loco (URL) and it seems the best solution. ROSCO (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Segmented parts (ie hoses and flex tubes)
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(...) No, moving the hose segments to parts/s/ would NOT prevent the shrinkage problem. It doesn't matter whether a part is located in PARTS or PARTS/S, it is still considered as a part. Whenever a (sub-)part is referenced from another part, it is (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part 3650a
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Is anyone opposed to my moving 3650a.dat to 3650.dat? If someone later makes a file for one of the other versions of this part, we can do another move at that time. Steve (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Segmented parts (ie hoses and flex tubes)
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(...) Actually, by the guidelines for parts I posted, the flex-axle subparts should be in the parts directory. Moving the hose segments to parts/s/ would prevent the shrinkage problem, but I think there are better solutions. Steve (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Segmented parts (ie hoses and flex tubes)
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(...) Oh, I meant the first one *I* mentioned, not the 751.dat :-) (...) Well, after second thoughts and various comments from you guys, I think we should keep segments in PARTS. (...) Yup, I agree, that is the solution. The curve generator should (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) Good idea! My biggest problem, though, is in trying to figure out how to join many line segments into one long line; for example, in Jacob's rendering the wings look *too* broken up, where one jagged line would have served better. That, and (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New Minifig
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Since all the new Minifig parts (hand, left/right arms) are now available on the LDraw.org Parts Tracker, I though I'd make a minifig using them. The render can be found here: (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) illustration, however, be careful not to over-use it! Perhaps it would be even better if you, at random, split some of the lines in two, and then jittered their end points as well. You could possibly even do this recursively, so that a line (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Portable ldraw system
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I just noticed that we need also a program like TD "a.k.a Track desingner" but for all these tools they must not use or need: No Visual Basic DLL "why because they don't work in all my 3 PC only in my good one" No run time stuff like I said above or (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Segmented parts (ie hoses and flex tubes)
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(...) Can the hose segments go in the S folder with the flex-axle subparts? Would that solve the shrinkage problem? Don (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part 3650a
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Hmm, interesting. Thanks for digging into this, Clark. It's hard to judge from the Technica pictures, but I'm guessing that for LDraw, we probably won't want separate files for 3650 and 3650a (if we did want separate files, we'd call them 3650a and (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Segmented parts (ie hoses and flex tubes)
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(...) These files don't work as primitives. A primitive file should be either a geometric construction (like an arc, disc, cylinder, etc) or a lego-centric feature that is likely to be reused among a large number of different files (like studs, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite sketch feature
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(...) Beats me. I'd probably grep for the render_*() functions in the lex and yacc sources files. But then you'd need to grab some lex and yacc executables for the PC to build it. You can look in the lex/yacc output files lex.yy.c and y.tab.c but (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite sketch feature
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(...) Ahhh. And as I showed in my example, I didn't use "-l3". When I do, I get nice pictures like this one: (URL) of it. :-) Play well, Jacob -- Bregnerod (a LEGO town): (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite sketch feature
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(...) Thanks, Don. :-, That's the trick, it seems. Using -l3 turns it on for me, -ld turns it off. Where do I make changes so that this will still work when using the ldlite parser? Cheers, - jsproat (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite sketch feature
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(...) Don't be silly. You're probably just making some simple mistake that'll seem so obvious you'll wonder why you didn't think of it yourself. For example, L3View.cpp is only used by the l3 parser. If you don't use -l3 on the command line, you (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite sketch feature
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(...) Fixed that, cleaned out all the ".o" files, rebuilt and tried again. With the same result. :-( I hope this isn't because the Linux and Win32 versions of LDGLite actually use different source code. The make file doesn't look like it. Play well, (...) (22 years ago, 25-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite sketch feature (Was: Ldglite bug report)
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(...) Whoops! I forgot to change one item before I uploaded the cpp! Change the line (around line #67), const int jitter_num = 0; to use some positive number, e.g. const int jitter_num = 2; Cheers, - jsproat (22 years ago, 25-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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