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(...) Thanks for the encouragement! Multiple meshes in a single 3DS or ASE file is now supported. I came across a nasty bug in the 3DS export from 3dsmax that took me a whole day to straighten out. It turs out that if any of the mesh objects (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Your best bet to get a quick result would probably be to look in some 3D graphics libraries for OpenGL and find working code to get a TT glyph out into a mesh model. Exporting a flat mesh model to LDraw format yourself is not very difficult, (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Does anyone know of a utility to convert TT font glyphs to LDraw DATs? I would be interested in looking at writing such a beast, if it hasn't already been done. I'm looking at this to be able to create LDraw representations of custom stickers. And (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Go Stefan Go! (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I noticed they were offset somewhat because of pivot point issues, and that took some time to resolve. The 3DS file format is actually very badly documented in public sources, but now it works the way it should. Now that I have the absolute (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) And thanks for pointing it out to me, who didn't have a clue. :) Stefan G (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) hi kevin, it's because I'm allergic to manuals and I’m usually in trail’n’error mode ;-)) but seriously, the problem I had with the flexible axle (and some others who contacted me because of the MLCad/Lsynth tutorial) is the fact that the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Willy, Hah! RTFM! *The book* "LEGO Software Power Tools" makes it clear that LS00.DAT is the only constraint associated with hoses. Sorry, just in a good mood, because I just finished up rewriting the band synthesis code and made it much (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It looks like 1058 files are BFC-compliant, out of 2945 official part files. (...) It doesn't look like you'll be able to make that assumption. Steve (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well I'm now official embarassed. I knew that; really; honest. It's always fun when your users can tell you why your program is behaving in the way it is. Thanks, Orion, for pointing out what I of all people should have seen as obvious. (Just (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) In order for smoothing to work on parts outside the PARTS and P directories, you need to add the following to the header: 0 Unofficial Part This "turns on" smoothing in LDView. (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm puzzled, too. Should I follow some convention regarding the order of primitives in the file? My optional lines *are* correct, I have verified that, but even a simple smooth cylinder converted with my program shows up faceted in LDView. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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My converter has undergone a considerable update during the weekend. It is now called "max2dat", because it now handles the 3DS file format as well, and supports the two main export formats from 3dsmax. (The previous "max2dat" utility written in (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) hi kevin, IMHO the main problem is that there is some confusion about the LS00.dat constrain an the rest like the flex-axle-end. my understanding now is that the ONLY constrain for all tubes is LS00.dat while the rest is used in the synthesis (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think 2 is sufficient, but 3 "feels" safer. Once there was an extreme case where 3 wasn't enough. I had to rotate train tracks and a train from a radius of... I think it was 750, 800, and 850 LDU. Using 3 decimals on the sin and cos values (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) How far 'percent wise' is the standard library bfc? In about 2 months i'm starting work on a rendering engine for LD4DModeler 2. I was hoping to 'assume' all parts are BFC so I can implement simple lighting. (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't have a compelling argument for more or less but I think that if you can build the capability for more decimals then you probably should. In my experience if you think that users will get by with less, one will invariably come along (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello, I've been working on LD4DModeler 2 (on paper) tonight and i have a question regarding precision. The question is what is 'normal' to use for the amount of decimals that can be set by user interface controls. I was thinking 2 myself but if (...) (20 years ago, 18-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Stefan, don't get discouraged! I for one tried your converter (on a BBB part) here: (URL) I'd be interested to hear what the parts authors have to say, since we can directly compare the original DAT (converted with ?) and the "new" DAT (...) (20 years ago, 18-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Most of them have a comment indicating that they are for lsynth. Willy says a few of the parts to do not. I'll update them. (...) LS10.dat is not an electrical connector. Instead it is a small cross section of the electrical cable that is used (...) (20 years ago, 18-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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