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i can understand that some of the parts i am constructing are crap. several things: 1. i am lousy at coordinate geometry especially in a 3d plane like ldraw. 2. i have no lego and the only person i know who has lego does not have most of the parts (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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i have a large quantity of parts that as they stand there are no known problems with. all of them i will be sending to terry. the raised baseplate part is only the tip of the iceberg. i have lots of parts on my site that appear to have no known (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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how accurate should the raised baseplate be? it is accurate to about 2-3 LDU in most cases. also i notice that the big part authors (steve bliss,chris dee, john vanzwietsen etc) are staying out of this discussion. is there a reason for this? what do (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I know from experience that it takes a lot of concentration to figure out exactly where everything needs to go. However, I think I'm pretty good at visualizing things in three dimensions, so I'm not that lousy. If you are lousy at 3-D (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe the viewing portion of your internal feedback cycle (edit -> view -> re-touch -> re-view -> re-touch -> re-view...) is different from other people viewing the parts. That is, what sorts of tools are you using to view the work as it (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Jonathan, Please try not to take this personally -- and realize that this is only one opinion -- but if you are unable to get parts right even *with* real LEGO elements in hand, then IMHO you really should consider giving up on LDraw, or at (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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usually what i do is have ledit open on the part as well as a text editor. i edit the part mostly using a text editor. some things like studs are easier positioning using ledit. i have checked the parts in ldlite as well. i even looked at with (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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when i said i was lousy. i ment at the formulae, not the basic math. i do not know enough to write a renderer or anything but i know enough to be able to figure out the right sizes of quads to put in to my parts. (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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when i said i was lousy. i ment at the formulae, not the basic math. i do not know enough to write a renderer or anything but i know enough to be able to figure out the right sizes of quads to put in to my parts. i did get an A in maths for my TEE (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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i think my brothers friend has a raised baseplate... i will possibly try and borow that. (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, I also agree here. But do try with Lego in hand! Just don't push it on the group if it doesn't pan out for you. (...) Yes, truthfully, your public math class isn't gaining you many friends here. (...) Correct.... (...) Sounds like a good (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tim Courtney wrote in message (...) Oh, GIVE me a break. "Absolutely PERFECT". Ya gotta be kiddin'! No one, NO PART, is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT! Sheezz........ (...) Got me here. Ya gotta to earn it and there's a few here who need to step back and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) this line concerns me very *very* much. (...) as a matter of fact.. yes.... while you *should* be able to enjoy modeling things using the existing library of LDraw elements, if i had known all along that you are 100% sans lego i would have (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) sorry roy, but i have to disagree with you here... take a look at the 1x2 tile (3068)... simple, elegant, and as far as i'm concerned (especially after i went back and personally put in the bottom groove) it is *perfect*.. true, there isn't (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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onyx wrote in message ... (...) tile (...) went (...) RL (...) LDraw (...) to be Onyx, You may disagree, but you restate my own objection perfectly. Your example of 3068 is "perfect" "as far as I'm concerned". It shows your personal standards and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd say the bar should be set at whatever level that the majority of the part authors and other longtime users think it should be set. If that is an unreasonable level... well, tough. (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I can't speak for anyone else, but I know when to duck. ;) Seriously, I think I was one of the first to point out problems with part-files you had submitted. At least, I was the first during a part-voting review cycle. As for the most-recent (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Mike, you "absolutely" missed the point. Everything you wrote is reasonable, except for the last two, but to my knowledge there is not a consensus on what is reasonable. If I'm to believe that all parts in (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, I had no desire to play semantics with you and debate whether or not any part needs to be "absolutely perfect". I never used those words. What I meant to make clear, and what I think anyone with two neurons to rub together would have (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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to all the people who are criticising me. i will try and get a baseplate 32 x 32 raised with ramp from someone i know who might have one. if i can do that i will dig out my bits and pieces and measure the god damn part. will that make you hapy. (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But your horse doesn't poop all over the public parks. --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <sarcasm on> You know, that's the kind of drive for excellence we knew you could find in yourself if you only looked hard enough. (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you get it right, it will certainly make us all very happy. --Todd (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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