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(...) This would be my bet too. Allow for a small margin/overlap caused by rounding errors. Since you cannot tell anything about inside/outside of a part but only have a bunch of faces (triangles and quads), the idea of comparing every face in one (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snipped details> Wow. Lots of little things fixed. Big THANKS. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Agreed. Ditto. What Todd said. I second that. In spades. Jonathan, you have been reading these types of comments for quite a while now. Has _any_ of it sunk in? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snipped "summary"> <following not to be taken seriously in any way> Summarize? I started to read that "summary" and quickly sensed something amiss. Glancing up at the subject header, I noted the length of the post - 186 lines. Whoa! That is (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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I just had a good idea for simplifying posting of .dat files to cad.dat. - at least for users of Forte's Agent. Maybe this could work for other newsreaders? As most of you are aware, when posting .dat files you should increase your line length in (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Bram Lambrecht (braml@juno.com) wrote: [...] (...) Could be. (...) It implements all of HTML 4.0, including the Link element which Netscape and MSIE just ignores. I haven't noticed any use of CSS. HTML documents are presented as plain text and (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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are we talking about the same part? i am talking about the part that comes with the airport sets (i forget which ones) and has 2 white circles on it. it came in green in all the airport sets it was used in. i think that there was also a set (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was planning on carefully documenting the image-making process, yes. I was hoping to talk to someone who was experienced in documenting things like this as well. I will keep the Photoshop .psd files complete, yes. I have a 12.1 GB hard drive (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Just a quick note--I've got the programming & testing done for LDAO 2.0.4. But some niceties are tying me up, so for now, I've made a stealth upload to (URL). Nothing has been updated, except the program itself. Readme is unchanged. I'll try to (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:22:17 GMT, Tim Courtney <tcourtney@avenew.com> wrote: Tim, It looks to me you have a pretty good start. Keep in mind that no matter how much forethought you put into it, changes will occur. So don't beat yourself up trying (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I did the one like the space-pad. In which set(s) did it come in green? Steve (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a good idea, maybe I'll add it too ! You could also add another function to align the pieces. Leonardo (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you turn snapping off, it's 0.01 cm or 1 degree but you can set any value using a dialog box. Leonardo (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That doesn't work because if you have for example 2 1x1 bricks above each other, you would change the diameter of the stud and the hole in the brick by the same amount. Leonardo (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But how can the program know if a face from a piece is inside another piece ? I've been only testing for intersections between faces. Leonardo (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) heya, Jeff. :-) Not any formal document. (1) But I do have one _very_ important suggestion: Do NOT use BMP2DAT for transforming bitmaps to ldraw code. It was a nifty little tool when first introduced, but it does not produce acceptable (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Jeff -- Please don't send anything to Jonathan Wilson. He has proven time and time again here that he is unwilling to create quality LDraw parts. You can peruse the history of this newsgroup, particularly in the past week, to draw your own (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Jonathan wilson: (...) I mean that you should not have referenced ARM1.DAT in a file purporting to represent part #30014. Granted, ARM1.DAT is the least incorrect of all subparts that you could have referenced, but it is still incorrect. (...) No. (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I like those. I think "sets" is a lot clearer than anything containing the letters "tlg", especially when placed alongside "parts" or "elements" and "creations." It's also nice and short, easy to type. :) OK, let's summarize all of the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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I think that this would be a good idea, just like it would be good to have a lugnet.cad.dat.part newsgroup so that people only wanting to see models wouldn't have to get part posts on cad.dat. I am NOT speaking of myself. There are a million(well (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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