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(...) I just thought of another one: LDraw Foundation (as in the) --Todd (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good ones.. (...) Nah.. (...) Enh.. (...) :) (...) :| (...) :) (...) :( (...) I looked it up a long time ago, I think on dictionary.com, and it gave me 2 definitions - 1 was a group of companies but I recall getting something similar to an (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) How about something like: lugnet.org.ldraw -> www.lugnet.com/org/ldraw lugnet.org.baylug -> www.lugnet.com/org/baylug lugnet.org.pnltc -> www.lugnet.com/org/pnltc lugnet.org.gmltc -> www.lugnet.com/org/gmltc etc... Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree, and you also will have a nice convenient mailing list that way too as a byproduct. Possibilities for the newsgroup name: Newsgroup name: Shows on webpage link as: ===...=== ===...=== lugnet.cad.org ldraw.org lugnet.cad.ldraw-org (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego CAD for Mac?
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(...) I'm planning to start a Unix version of LeoCAD (I've already downloaded aobut half of the files I need to install Linux) but if you can get me a Mac I can work on that first. :) Leonardo (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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(...) Same Part, Different Printing. (...) The original Airport had the one Jonathan is refering to. The other two Airports used crossroads with smaller circles. (...) Only for Space landing plates, I believe. There may have been a European Service (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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Gee, I'm honored :) I could put on my webpage "This scene inspired the lugnet.cad.dat.scenes newsgroup list" :) A little of topic, one thing that would be nice is if on the "new message" section on the web there was a pull-down menu for the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part: brick 1 x 2 w/ pattern, technic pin long w/ bush
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(...) Do you mean they're of-center in the hole? If so, change the movement rate from "Normal" to "Fine" (by pressing "m", I believe). Then the piece will move 1 LDU, and you can center it in the hole. Jeff (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dat posting idea for users of Agent
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(...) I guess it would work for any newsreader that doesn't allow a newsgroup- by-newsgroup line-length setting and does allow multiple installations. (...) Pretty slick, yup. :-) But pretty perverse too. :-) I was thinking of at some point (after I (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Here are some more possibilities, in no particular order (note that some of these could also optionally be prefixed by "The")... LDraw Project LDraw Group LDraw Working Group LDraw Developers Group LDraw Development Team LDraw Society LDraw (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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(...) I used the BMP to Dat converter that is in Steve's LDraw Add-on. Is that acceptable? If not, do you have any suggestions on what I should use? Should I *not* be making the patterns as bitmaps (i.e. use internal shapes instead)? (...) That's (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) Put them all together. Steve (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) of fun if the file sizes didn't get out of control and if there were a nice way to closely associate .dat files with .pov files (maybe allowing both in a single post?). --Todd (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) I would think so...rather than .parts.prim and .parts.bmp -- unless there's a real clear advantage to having these separated. --Todd (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, your Hoth Battle scene is a great example of the types of things that could go in this group. In fact, your battle scene was what inspired the idea for the group. --Todd (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Todd Lehman skrev i meddelandet ... (...) What about renderings, and rendered scenes? Will there be a place for them too? For example: (URL) Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tim Courtney skrev i meddelandet <199904131436.KAA150...et.com>... (...) image (...) the (...) angle for (...) ... What about: camera { location <378,-272,-378> sky -y right -4/3*x look_at <-3,-4,-1> angle 15 } #declare models_slash_test_dot_dat = (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Lars C. Hassing skrev i meddelandet <57F1FE754246D211A98...aarhus>... (...) One could go further down the algorithmic lane, and construct a 'bounding box' or 'convex hull' to get some indication of inside/outside. Not watertight though (think Lego (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dimensions of the parts
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Leonardo Zide skrev i meddelandet <3712B018.76665708@c...com.br>... (...) another (...) If any two corners of a (planar) face, from one brick, is on opposite sides of a (planar) face of the other brick, they must be intersecting (not completely (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <Snipped the Lengthy but interesting Message> What about new Primitives? Would they go into the .parts subcatagory? Also, I'm somewhat talented at making the small bitmaps for new parts. Would they (Dat (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Lego CAD for Mac?
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Is there, or is anyone working on a program akin to LDraw for the Mac? Rob (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) I think that having a cad.dat.creations would be a great idea but I have to agree, What would happen to cad.dat? (...) I think these belong in this subcatagory. (...) I think that these should be considered MOCs, but with the set as a (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] L3P Question
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(...) I also have a great difficulty in trying to make anything out of the L3P view angles and camera positions. Isn't here a gentle soul that would like to make us a wizard for that? :-) Laurentino Martins [mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt] [(URL) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash
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(...) Nah, images are, for the most part, irrelevant fluff. I'd say 95% of the websites I read for information only, not graphics or anything else. (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yep. (...) Dang!! I probably couldn't bear to look at a site without its images, and I only connect at 31kbps! (pathetic performance for a 56k modem, but it comes with the territory of a crappy phone line within my house which needs to be (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [ldraw.org] L3P Question
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Ahhh.... Well, I tried messing with some l3p stuff this morning to generate an image for ldraw.org I would like to use. I would like a red 2x3 brick with the -q3 level with 'Lego' on the studs. I can't get the right camera angle for l3p or in the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) :) But I will work towards getting the best plan I believe will work at this point.. :\ (...) Ok, that is what I need to know. Also, I believe it would be appropriate to seek their permission either through this list or email (depending if (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part: brick 1 x 2 with arm 2F
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(Repost, to fix a lugnetter ID problem I was having yesterday. :-) (...) (I knew I said that I'd stay out of this, but argh argh argh argh fooey.) I like Jacob's suggestion, for him to volunteer to mentor Johnathan for a month on a trial basis. (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You're welcome. Three things to be aware of in this release: 1. The VEC opens really slowly the first time you access it in any session of LDAO. This is because ldraw\parts is being checked to make sure there aren't any part-files newer than (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, 5LDU is not accurate enough, especially for studs. Regular studs are always spaced *exactly* 20LDU apart. The only exceptions are some very odd, small bits. Depending on the part, studs will either be positioned on the even-number (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P support of extended metacommands?
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(...) Cool! Thanks. :) (...) Yep, the 'fixed' version of the 1x1 cone looks much better now. (...) When do you expect that you will be able to release this as a 'real version'? Steve (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That wouldn't work all the time. Imagine that you have 2 parts at the exact same location, if I allow a small margin the program would think that they are not touching each other. (...) That's the only solution I found so far, couldn't think (...) (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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(...) Apparently not. (...) That's not the one I did. (...) There were at least a couple of different accessory packs like this. Steve (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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i am listening to the group. i will do everything i can to accually get some lego to work from. at the monent i have a bag of lego (not mine) that i am looking at, but all the parts that guy had that were not in ldraw are too hard IMHO to model e.g. (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: L3P support of extended metacommands?
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(...) I think that this someone was me! I made the TRANSLATE/ROTATE/SCA.../TRANSFORM support two month ago, but have been very busy at work since then. I need further testing of other new features and the perpetual doc writing. But here you have a (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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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| | Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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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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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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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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| | Dat posting idea for users of Agent
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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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