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(...) To be honest, I suspect that if you aren't a hard-core reviewer, you're probably not holding anything due to dithering. Maybe I'm just being cynical, though. --Travis Cobbs (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hard core reviewers know this already, of course, but those of us who don't review as much can use this link (URL) to find reviews they've done, including all the holds, so they can see if they are holding anything for dithering... (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) See? Wasn't that easy? :) Steve (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'll resubmit the part unchanged, if your hold vote is not deleted by midnight CET... (URL) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Just to be clear - you do not have to make a subpart of the pattern; that's the change in policy. Steve (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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yes, mine: (URL) I guess I'll have to go through the hassle of re-submitting this and on the way make a subpart of the pattern.... *sigh* :) thx! (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Resubmitting (unchanged) files to simply clear away holds is *not* an approved practice for the PT. I'm not saying it isn't justified in this case, but it's not generally the way to operate - it undermines the the system. The more appropriate (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Flexible axles with lsynth
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(...) My experience with lsynth is limited, so I'l defer to Kevin Clague on the above. (...) You could try LDraw Design Pad's flexible object generator. You can find LDDP at: (URL) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Change to existing policy regarding the subfiling of dithered colors
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(...) Are there any holds based on this? Presumably we can just resubmit these parts to reset the votes. -Orion (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It's a change to the acceptance criteria for the official library, which is somewhat stricter than the file spec. For example, 0 WRITE meta commands are legal in regular LDraw files but not in official library parts. -Orion (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Question: what to do with 'hold' votes based upon the old policy? Good work! Jan Folkersma (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Flexible axles with lsynth [DAT]
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Hello, I am currently unable to create flexible axles using lsynth and end piece LS40. I was wondering if anyone has been able to achieve this. This is the code that will not work with end part LS40 – 0 Untitled 0 Name: flex_axle.ldr 0 Author: MLCad (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Change to existing policy regarding the subfiling of dithered colors
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(...) I'm confused. Is this a change to the current LDraw.org file specifications (which I thought was 0.23) or part of the next LDraw.org file spec (which I thought was going to be 1.0)? The spec published on LDraw.org (URL) is not numbered at all) (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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LSC has decided to do away with the requirement to transfer dithered color elements to dedicated subfiles. This was required due to a limitation in the original LDRAW.EXE. Due to the belief that James would have eventually fixed this problem and the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I hate to say that the MPD Update feature has some bugs. It works but it leaves orphan files. -Orion (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've updated my MPD program. Thanks for the feedback so far. Most notable is the MPD update feature. This feature strips an MPD of unoffical files made official (based on user input if prompting is selected). I also updated the interface a (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah I though about that after the fact. I probably would have GPL'd the source anyway. -Orion (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I hesitate to even mention it, but I thought it was only fair. Thanks for GPL'ing MPD Wizard, but if you are the original author of the LDDP code, I'm 99% sure you didn't have to do so. Even after you release something under GPL, you still own (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a great suggestion. It gives me something to work on when I fly back home on Thursday. -Orion (20 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, as I didn't try to change it on the fly ;o) An optimisation that could be done would be to remove one of the two spaces before subfile names. To make MPDWizard the Swiss army knife of MPD, you could add a "Test MPD" function that would (...) (20 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Cool, thanks. I've been programming in Delphi for 3 years now but my knowledge is all self taught and I learn something new just about everytime I set down to code. (...) It was in FormCreate, I forget why I moved it. I think I'll move it (...) (20 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not entirely. The program may still do wrong when the Windows settings are changed while the program is running. I recommend the following at the end of Main.pas (not in FormActivate): ... initialization Application.UpdateFo...atSettings := (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm curious, did I fix the decimal separator issue? -Orion (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks Orion, works fine now! Philo (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) And here's the fixed .exe: (URL) since I used some source code that I GPL'd for the LDDP project, I've GPL's and released the source for this project. -Orion (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yikes! I'll fix this straight away. -Orion (20 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD Wizard 1.0b [DAT]
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(...) Hello Orion, There is a big problem with quads in included parts, they lose their last 6 coordinates: 4 16 7 -5.412 -9 7 -5.412 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 is changed to 4 16 7 -5.412 -9 7 -5.412 9 7 -11 9 7 -11 -9 Similar problem with conditional lines: 5 (...) (20 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Here's the next incarnation of my MPD program: (URL) you test it out please send feedback, suggestions, or bug reports. -Orion (20 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks, but I have a simple iterative solution that works well. Kevin (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe it is indeed the best to add some features to Lsynth, for I and many with me don't have a clue what to do with the sourcecode and formulas, the only thing I might be useful to is in saying what would be a good userinterface... (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hey I know a spiffy little recursive algorithm that'd probably do a nice job of that. I used to use it in 2D to reduce the size of vectorized scanned image files, but it should extend nicely to 3D. You start with the end points of a curve. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi All, Happy holidays. I made LSynth's source code open from the beginning, in case someone better at math than I might take a swing at it. It has never really made it past the proof of concept stage. Feel free to make additions.... I just (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (URL) (...) I agree with Don. I think Kevin has stated publicly in these very threads he is very open to integrating enhancements from others as long as it is easy to do and doesn't break things or make loads more work for him. He might not (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) There are plenty of other hose generators. Mlcad, LDDP, ldglite, and LEDIT mode for emacs all have them. And I think some of them do support fixed length hoses. But I think the right thing to do is adapt lsynth to do what you want. The source (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) MODEL is relatively easy to crack but since they use a bit different coordinate system and their part have different rotation/center points, the conversion between LXF <-> LDR would be a pain which would need a compatibility layer library with (...) (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Has anyone tried to decipher the binary .CHUNK or .MODEL files? In this message from last year (URL), Jake McKee wrote "LXF is an open, (and soon to be) well documented format" but I've never seen any details on this, and can't find any (...) (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: ldraw programs for PDAs? (was MLCAD for PALM)
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(...) Yeah I know, at first it sounds like a neat idea. I felt that way about the DOS version of ldglite, for a while... Let's see. The parts library is about 30MB (5MB compressed) and your average PDA sized image might be 100K. You could fit 50 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldraw programs for PDAs? (was MLCAD for PALM)
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My idea was indeed to be able to up or download (however you would like to call it) LDR and MPD files to the PDA via PC connection, infrared, wireless, etc. Next you should load the files into the VIEWER to show off to anyone who would like to see (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldraw programs for PDAs? (was MLCAD for PALM)
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(...) I believe LDLite was originally written with the Pocket PC in mind as a possiblity, so it shouldn't be difficult to build a version for that target. I can't do it because I don't have a Pocket PC to test it on, or the development environment (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldraw programs for PDAs? (was MLCAD for PALM)
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What I really ment was to be able to run a program like LDLite on PPC so you can view LDR and MPD files. There would be no need to be able to produce images, just view (IMHO)... (...) No need to do that then. Jaco (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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