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Wow! That is very cool! I'm going to have to find a curved piece in one of my models that needs a pattern and try it out. Thanks! Scott (17 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) What a clever tool. That seems like it will be very useful! Jim (17 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(URL) This new tool allows easy creation of non-flat patterned LDraw parts. Create a flat pattern and stamp it on a 3D former. Program, documentation, source code are available (URL) here>. To show the usefulness of this tool, I created the four (...) (17 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | Re: Program naming conventions?
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(...) If there is no other tool with that name - take it. But if your tool is for printing code I would suggest also the letter print in the name like LDPrint or better LDCPrint (LDrawCodePrint). cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Program naming conventions?
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(...) Hi Jim, I think it is tradition to name things with LD (LDView, LDLite). I didn't figure this out until after I named LPub and LSynth. Kevin (17 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I am wrapping up a little utility to pretty-print LDraw code (as a supplement to some things LDDP can do and as a stand-alone tool for other platforms). My working name for it is LDTrim, but I am curious if anyone has better suggestions. In (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) Apparently it's not too hard to get it to compile under x64. I had a friend using 64 bit debian fetch the latest code from CVS and build it. He had to install the developer version of libOSMesa to compile, but that was about it. His Direct (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: 3ds Max Import Script
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(...) Hi Guys, thanks for the feedback, what I've done is basically take both suggestions and merge them. Basically what I've observed so far is that not all parts in the "Parts" folder have the LDRAWORG meta tag (which denotes the type of file, (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Travis! Thanks for the input. I'm yet to fully exploit the meta/header data of the files, I've focused on the winding properties only thus far. This will give me greater cause to look deeper into them! Cheers Shane (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thanks Steve! That's really useful! I too thought that ldraw site would have the directory structure more documented then it is, but clarification is always nice. Cheers Shane (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Note that in addition to the directory structure, official parts should all have a comment line in them that starts with one of the following prefixes: 0 !LDRAW_ORG PART 0 LDRAW_ORG PART 0 LDRAW_ORG ELEMENT 0 OFFICIAL LCAD UPDATE 0 Original (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Status
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(...) --Travis (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) A six year old version doesn't sound all that great. How hard would it be to get the current version to compile under x64? Failing that, how hard would it be to get the 32 bit version running under x64? With commands like linux32 and such I'm (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: 3ds Max Import Script
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(...) Hi Shane, This sounds like an interesting project. And useful. :) (...) I think any user of autodesk tools has cursed their name at some time or another. ;) (...) And, if you wanted, you could replace some of the imported "primitive bricks" (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, but the hint helped me. With the side mounted dock I was able to reproduce the problem (or a problem at least) on the G4. I cleaned up some of the buffer swapping and window reshaping code, and it seems to work better for me now. Of (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've been working on a script to import ldraw data into 3ds max with some moderate success. I've been able to build primitive data and apply color/texture to the objects. I did find an issue between max 9 and 10 this morning which has me cursing (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) I would definitely appreciate the help! I don't know which method would be best, as I said I'm not a coder, but I can follow directions well enough. Thanks, Tim (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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(...) Well, I pulled the window out from under the dock, and that didn't help. On an unrelated note, why will it only open models in the current directory? If I give the full path to a model in a different directory, it fails to load it. --Travis (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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Sorry, I missed your bug report. LeoCAD used to compile on 64 bit computers but it's been a long time since I last tried and I don't have access to one anymore. From your bug report it looks like 'make config' is failing. You can either manually (...) (17 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) A 32-bit build of LDView should work fine as long as you have the 32-bit shared libraries installed that it needs. If you want, I can work with you to get it up and running. As it happens, I have successfully built a 32-bit version of the (...) (17 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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