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(...) Except me. ;) Seriously, this is why I butt into animation discussions. I care so much I want other people to at least come up with something that will survive time. I don't want someone to create something that will be incompatible with what (...) (19 years ago, 29-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, why not. :) (19 years ago, 28-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is it OK if we share? ;^) Kev (19 years ago, 28-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hey you, don't steal my philosophy! :) (19 years ago, 28-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Anders Isaksson wrote: <snip> (...) Ah, yes.... but only if you leave it to a committee! LOL! As the who has, invented the most meta-commands (I know, no LPub experience), I just create what I need, and tell people about them. No (...) (19 years ago, 28-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, but you can give the 'files' any name you want inside the MPD. They don't *have* to match the part name outside of the MPD. So you *can* get named parts inside an MPD (with the help of a suitable 'post-processing' program). I certainly (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, hair goes under the category "Hat". It may sound a little strange, but that's the way it has to be. Like I said: 0 FILE Head 0 Name: Head 0 [This Object] 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3626bp01.dat 0 [Child Objects] 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, this is what Anders was trying to get me to understand. The MPD framework provides a name visibility barrier (scope). I still say that LDraw type 1 lines are used to specify hierarchy. The <file> names within the MPD can be used to (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a very good idea I didn't think of! The approach I was thinking of is unnecessarily complicated. Looks like there will be no need for the tags I mentioned earlier. No pain at all. I think all current minifig generators can be easily (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Um, I'm not sure this has been worked out... I think James was saying that the subfiles in an MPD can be treated as the 'name'. This is true, as long as you also require that each subfile only be used once. So a file like: 0 FILE test1.mpd 1 (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oh, I... don't use MLCad ether... :) (...) Yes, Templates is a word I was looking for! :) (...) Lunch break is too short to give an example of how I mean. I will try to explain later this evening/night (CET) /Tore (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Could you please expalin why this is so? I guess I just don't get it. (...) Groups are an invention in MLCad. (...) Ah, we are talking the same thing. "983.dat" is no good. Yes, the tags give you metion give you a unique name (within the scope (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's correct, but irrelevant. The hieriarchy is communicated with one single MPD in a way that would be impossible using one single DAT/LDR - if you put it together correctly, of course. (...) I have never used LPub so I'm not familiar with (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ha, ha, ha.... I had this long winded response argument all typed out, and then Mozilla died. Probably divine intervention. Let me try and see if I can get this one out with less energy. According to this specification: (URL) provides two (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But as I said, if you put all instances, that need to be named, in a subfile of its own you *have* named instances. It wouldn't be too difficult to write a helper program (or add-on) that does this folding for you (creating a subfile of (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I guess I was not even considering STEP, ROTSTEP or CLEAR as meaningful for animation. I was only really considering type 1 lines as useful, just to describe the models components, so we agree. I was thinking about a higher level scripting (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I really should write a part 2.... Basically, it involves converting the model to povray (or whatever, blender even). If the conversion process retains the parent-child hierarchy, then you don't have to go into the converted code and 1) add (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) animations. I don't see how these ideas help us script anything. Can you explain what I'm missing? (...) Yes, and I was talking about trying to get to the second half of what you list.... scripting language.... without talking about GUIs for (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDraw mixes part type and part name........ For library parts, we specify its part type (filename). For sub-models we specify its filename (same thing in both cases). In C++ we have classes, and instance of classes. In LDraw the names of the (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No. I've said this before and don't understand why others don't understand this yet. See my article: (URL) whole animation issue makes me dizzy. It is one big circle: (URL) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Isn't that more or less an MPD? By *not* reusing sub-models you get a unique name for every group, sub-group etc. Or am I misunderstanding something? (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Can LPub show part pages with part name and number?
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(...) Hi Andrew, LPub cannot currently do this, but I'll add it to the wish list. If I concatenate the part-name and its description it should be easy to use in place of the instance count. The name is going to make things sparse, because the name (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Can LPub make a BOM or CSI image with the part number and name shown instead of "1x"? I am interested in dense pages that help me identify parts that I have. (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This is the way LDA2001/2005 already works on the inside. Here's a temporary object file, created by LDA2005, before it is inlined into its parent and grandparent files and, after that, deleted: 0 Project=MyAn; Frame #000; (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Too true! (...) How about 3d modeling Parent->Child relationships When the Parent part moves, All children move in relation to it, including rotation (Unless they are Tracking to another (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snip> (...) One of the weaknesses of the LDraw file format is that part instances do not have names. This makes it impossible to modify attributes about the part instance. The closest thing we have to date is named groups provided by MLCad. (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LSC - current status?
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(...) We have a motion on the table to approve this. It is in discussion now. (...) I'll have to defer to Steve and Chris on these two. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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One more thing I forgot to mention: I am a lowsy programmer, so don't judge the LDA project by looking at its interface. It it primarly for testing my theories to see if they work. Just like I don't think anyone uses original LDraw anymore, I really (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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dear LSC members, could you please keep me updated about the status of the following topics: * approval of the ldraw spec 1.0.0 * internationalization and localization of the part library * request for new offical meta command called INFO or HELP (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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1. .DAT Praises The DAT file and the possibility to use Type 1 lines in DAT files to call on other DAT files is so versatile, so brilliant, so LEGO. It's the foundation that has made LDraw The standard for virtual LEGO. There are details that (...) (19 years ago, 23-Oct-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 'Virtual' Preservation Project for CKS
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(...) Meccano is best known as Erector in the states. Something the more purile Uk-AFOLS find somewhat amusing. Although that may preclude the A in AFOL. Rokenbok is an amusing little system - it reminds me of the Fraggle rock doozer constructions. (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just measure the 2 gable pieces, (of the originals) see elsewhere in the thread, the rest of the original pieces are done already... (...) Indeed. Many of these systems don't have that many different parts either, The original Tinkertoy has (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes. I've been thinking the same thing for a while now. Let's do it! I started on construx primitives a while back and someone already has a good library for knex. I bought some Lincoln Logs for my two year old son so I could measure them : ) (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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At 02:50 PM 10/16/2005 +0000, Farlie A wrote: [snip] (...) I have never heard of Meccano or Rokenbok or those others you mentioned. But if they're construction toys, they can be made for the computer! I know nothing about setting up or working on a (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Unfortunately not with AnkerCAD :-( The parts in BlockCAD and AnkerCAD are not in LDRAW format, but one of my own. BlockCAD can export a model in LDRAW format, as it's just a question of generating the right LDRAW parts (in the right position (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks for your comments. The Brick Wiki looks like it's a specific Lego(R) brick wiki, whereas a Wiki or Construction kit systems would need to cover things like Meccano, Rokenbok as well.. Alex (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Although its not quite what you sound like you want, we already have a wikified LDraw section over on BrickWiki ((URL)). You can find the category at (URL) although it's fairly empty at the moment. There is even a section on the wiki for clone (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Looks like my idea is already happening :-) Suggestions: * Create a WikiCity? * AnchorStones - AnkerCad? See: (URL) Systems list? I can think of several systems not mentioned by yourself. *Major Systems (not yet mentioned): + Mecanno + (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDA2005 Progress Report
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October 15, 2005 Not much work done the last two weeks. But at least I've added ldr support, and set .ldr extension as default in most cases. I've changed my mind again. Now I think MDPs can be a great idea when defining objects and their properties (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Alex, I think that's a great idea! :) A couple of years ago I was thinking that any construction toy could be modeled in L-Cad, and I was quite excited to release the most basic parts of K'nex in the LDraw file format. (URL) you can see on that (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'd like some comments on the following Idea.. Full Project Name : 'Virtual' Prservation of Construction Kit systems through the use of L-Cad type software Proposal : To contruct and mantain a series of 'part' libraries for L-Cad type software. Such (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) October 2, 2005 Dear Diary, Most of this weekend, I've worked on the L3P Options panel instead of playing around with the program as planned. The new features make a much nicer output, so it has been worth the delay. Progress in my todo-list (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [ANN] Re: CaroML development (the end)
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After a tentative private contact with Dan Boger, i announce my CaroML project (formerly Peeroml) has come to a dead end. I take this opportunity to apologize: * because i have tentatively stolen other people work * because when told i was not (...) (19 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Matthew J. Chiles wrote: I'll go home and release it. I have an LPub with fixes too. Kevin (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) this will give me something to start with... -Matt :) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Kevin- Is this enhanced LSynth program available for download anywhere yet? All I can find so far is 2.0 on your web site here (URL) I'm looking forward to things like string! -Matt :) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rag Hat?
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Several years ago, I posted this rather crude mock-up: (URL) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello, would any enterprising soul be interested in authoring the Scorpion? It is the final part needed for a set of instructions I am working on. Drop me a note. Eric Sophie Biomechanical Bricks (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Anyone working on the Rag Hat?
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Is anyone working on the rag hat piece, commonly used in pirate sets and as a hat for the Santa minifigure? (URL) :) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: CaroML development
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One learns things everyday! I got curious why i have more than 3000 Classic Space parts but Peerom.com says i can't build a simple 20 parts classic space MOC. The MOC is basically 4 Balloon wheels, a Black Plate 6 x 2, a Yellow space minifig, a (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Dan, Thanks for these clarifications, as i said i am not a native english speaker, i usually use english when writing technical documents, i am a terrible diplomate and things get even worse if i have to negociate in a foreign language. So i (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What mailing list for Peeroml ?
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Damien, I would appreciate if you don't put words in my mouth. (...) In my email to you I asked 3 things: - Rename the program to something else - from what I understand, there is nothing in your program that is Peeron specific - it's much more (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi again, People e-mail me questions about Peeroml. Considering i don't send the program and it can't be downloaded anywhere, politeness invites me to answer these questions here (as people privately asking are certainly reading this forum). (...) (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Tim, Thanks for your comments. (...) I don't expect OCaml to spread like a virus, or being a popular scripting language. All that i have asked is a single homepage where people (eventually nobody) could have downloaded the whole thing. I didn't (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Damien, I fear that even with Dan and Jennifer Bogers cooperation this project may not spread too far as most people are unlikely to learn a new language (especially one with such strange syntax as OCaml) just for database enquiries for (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Clark Stephens, Thanks for your comments. You have well anticipated what has happened to me yesterday. At first i thought cooperation means: * function and datas should not be separated but available at a unique repository site (Peeron.com (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Damien, Please change the name of your program. Peeron is a trademark of Dan and Jennifer Boger. Your program is not associated with the Peeron site. The name you chose above has obvious similarities to the Peeron trademark, and may cause (...) (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | What mailing list for Peeroml ?
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Hi lego fans, I have finished the package and documentation for Peeroml, a scripting tool and programming framework for lego inventories. Its scripting language is OCaml (URL) Of course questions about Peeroml are off-topic on existing OCaml mailing (...) (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inv)
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| | LDraw to LDD conversion chain
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Please see this post on LEGOFan.org (URL) addressed a lot of the technical issues with importing LDraw format files into LDD at the file conversion level. I think there are things to think about at other levels (like, how to constrain models to use (...) (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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(...) (* off-topic discussion *) To create a matrix the OCaml code is: let x = Array.make_matrix nrow ncol 0.0 I acknowledge: * OCaml is not widely used * even more esoteric than Perl would be a complete turn off * popular is not a word I would (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
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(...) (URL) Dean Earley, Dee (dean@earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: (URL) +44 (0)780 8369596 (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
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(...) The above link is bad, can you provide a better one? -Orion (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
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(...) news://www.lugnet.co...lugnet.com Thanks (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
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LDraw Design Pad (LDDP) is a tool for editing and handling LDraw files in a very comfortable way. The new version can be downloaded here: (URL) are: -Fully customizable editor with syntax highlighting -Open multiple files at the same time -Unlimited (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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(...) I think you may need to explain you choices further. Python supports variable numbers of function arguments, as does Perl. In Python it is relatively easy to check the types of the arguments, and implement overloading and type checking inside (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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I wonder if anyone remembers the 80s game "Story Machine" from Spinnaker Software (publishers of "Face Maker" and other silly products.) This program acted out the sentences you typed in. It was a kind of self-illustrating text adventure. For (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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Why not develop something abstract. If you come up with a way to notate an animation in any langauge, perhaps it will catch on. James (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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(...) (* off-topic discussion *) Design and implementation are not as independant as i wish. As part of the design requirements, i pointed moves should be functions and be as composable as functions are. Practically that means the language must (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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(...) It's always nice to see new stuff like this. Especially with the source code available in CVS on the sourceforge site. Cool! (...) Hmm, I don't know, the file looks OK to me. I don't remember any limit on nested MPD subfiles. And I also don't (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | 2005 LDraw.org Standards Committee Vote Results
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The 2005 LSC voting has come to an end. The 2005 LDraw.org Standards Committee is: Steve Bliss Kevin Clague Tore Eriksson Lars Hassing Orion Pobursky There were a total of 13 respondents. (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Making easier to reinstall ldraw
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(FUT lugnet.cad.dev, which is where this reply really belongs.) (...) isn't in the LDView 3 Beta 1 release, but all the unnoficial test releases I've made since then (Beta 1A through Beta 1E) use his code. And if you build LDView yourself from its (...) (19 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the LSC. Blanks in file names legal?
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(...) Travis, I have done the same in LPub. Easier to implement it than explain it every time someone gets burned. Kevin (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question for the LSC. Blanks in file names legal?
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(...) (Note FUT lugnet.cad.dev) I realize that spaces are officially a no-no, but since I've also seen files that contain references to sub-models with spaces in the filenames, I'm adding support for this to the next LDView release. It will generate (...) (19 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) You can find it (URL) here>. ROSCO PS: Does anyone want the brick.ttf font? It's not really very useful because of the limited characters, but if anyone wants it, I'll make a separate download page for it. (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Well I worked out the scale factor, and imported the DATs into an Access db (some had to have some stuff inlined first) then manually went through the polygons working out all the verteces and entered them directly using Font Creator. (...) (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) coerce it into TrueType format? Always one to push my luck, I do have two little quibbles. I liked the way version 1.4 printed the usage info when running txt2dat with no args. Now it prints a weird error message. Also, the internal default (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Your wish is my command... well almost. (URL) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) Maybe it's a language thing. I've seen hints that some of the desktop.ini bits behave differently when you're set up for a different language. Or perhaps the OEMs package Windows differently for other countries and skip the desktop.ini file in (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat - Create LDraw files from text
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(...) If you make a program that accepts drag and drop, you can drag the font file onto the program, and it will get the full path. I don't know what's up with Anders' system either. Mine behaves just like yours. Oh, and the UICLSID in the (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's odd. I always set explorer that way myself, but I have the same desktop.ini file and the same behavior in the fonts directory on both XP and 95. Apparently you can modify all sorts of folder behavior with these magic options in (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, apart from the difficulty of converting a Windows face name to a filename as identified here, I always intended it to be relatively easy to port to other platforms. And the most non-platform specific way I could think to do that was to (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Or... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\S...ft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts This brought to my attention that not all the files listed are "single font" files (look for ttc files). Is there any reason that txt2dat can't handle font face names? (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ?? I have WinXP, SP2 and don't see this. But I have set Explorer to not hide anything and show all extensions. I haven't done anything special to the Fonts directory (as I remember), and it shows just like any other. (...) I have a nice little (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, I figured it out. XP seems to come with a special Hidden System desktop.ini file in the font directory with this in it. [.ShellClassInfo] UICLSID={BD84B380-8C...00948F534} It makes the standard Windows open file dialog behave in a way that (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ?? I don't understand exactly what you're saying here. Are you trying to copy the full file path to the Clipboard? If so, don't try in the dialog, select a file instead and copy the full path from the input field 'Font file' on the main screen (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but in both the (URL) GUItxt2d app> and (URL) my cheesy tcl app> I can't get the font file directly from the file open dialog in XP. Instead, when I double click on a font, I get a large (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) It probably doesn't matter. Either way, the rendered image should look the same. Speedwise, most renderers won't care. In fact, I believe that some programs will split the quads back into triangles in order to render them. In terms of file (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I seem to recall this being discussed here before, but I can't find it. My question is, if I have a surface covered with a large number of triangles (eg output from txt2dat), is it better to leave it as triangles, or attempt to consolidate as many (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was trying to knock something up in VB, but came across the problem of getting the file from the font. I couldn't find anything suitable in the registry either. (19 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wow! Thanks Anders, I will add a link from my page next time I update it! (...) I see what you mean. I never realised it would be so hard to get that information, good ol' windoze. I think your way is the easiest workaround. (...) Works great (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Quick hack: (URL) (Exe + Delphi 5 source, 270 kB) (...) I googled for it (going from font name to font file) and could only find the advice to enumerate all font files and read the info in them. Sounds like loads of work :-( I did it the other (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually, looking at the brick 1x1s with letters in LDraw, it should be possible to generate glyphs straight from the DAT files. Then it's just a matter of packaging them up nicely in a font file, saves having to convert it to a bitmap & back. (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's not too hard to find. (URL) like a wrapper for autotrace and some other stuff. (...) Yeah, you got me there. I think I've got a couple a numbers from the harry potter house sets, and that's about it. Yer more likely to get the whole (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) All we need to generate the cheesy LEGO font file is an output-truetype module for autotrace, and a ready supply of lettered tiles ;) ROSCO (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Err... yeah, lsynth. That's why I couldn't find it. So now that I found it it looks a bit more than 10 lines. Oops. Anyhow, substitute txt2dat for lsynth, make a few little additions and ya get a cheesy GUI for txt2dat that sorta works. Enjoy, (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snip> (...) ahhh..... ummm.... LSynth? LPub has its own built in cheezy little GUI! (...) K (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, I was gonna suggest you convert the "font" from the ldraw lettered tiles into a cheesy builtin internal font, which would be used by default. Then add a -f before the font if you can find a better one somewhere. That way you could make (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Nuthin like a good ol' command line utility ;) though I wouldn't be adverse to someone creating a nice graphical interface - working out which font file to use is a bit of a pain sometimes... ROSCO (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Version 0.1.4 now available at the same page. Changes in v0.1.4 are: Use “LDraw inverse colour” for lines. Fixed non-ansi definition of add_char() and add_string(). Implemented better algorithm for choosing the number of segments in splines. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) The base patternless version would be 65432 and the pattern would be 65423pXX where XX is a number-letter code for the pattern. Even if the part has never existed without a pattern, a non-patterned version is always created and given the base (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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