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(...) I told you it was undocumented :-) -c<color> default part color, default color is 7 <color> is an LDraw color or <r>,<g>,<b>. /Lars (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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(...) OK. Umm, a question. Would it serve any useful purpose if I syncronized all the time/date stamps of the files in the updates? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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(...) Jeremy beat me to it with the definition. I don't have a strong objection to "Foundation", but to me it has connotations of a funded organization that contributes monies to various causes. Heck, just read the definition. That somehow, to me at (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) "Consortium" does sound a little highfalutin' if you say out loud. I kind of like the sound of "The LDraw Project" Or try this, said out loud, in an overly dramatic voice (dramatic, but not to Jim Kirk'ish) - and envision a proud title: (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw part library structure
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The shape of things to come......... I have been remiss in posting this. Dang combination of tax-season and my rampant procrastination. :-) Anyway, thanks to Joshua Delahunty and his solution for the file-naming of composite elements, the general (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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there were airport runway plate packs. there is an wentry in pause under town,accessories. (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Charter for newsgroup for ldraw.org
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(...) How does this sound?-- Focused discussion group for ldraw.org: planning, site architecture, legal issues, contributions, maintenance, software distribution methods and formats, feedback, etc. And a quick opinion poll -- a or b: a) (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Fuzzy category cross-referencing would definitely help. (...) Oh. I meant by all of that counter-example-ing that going down that path crumbles because of the immediately arising need for an extra layer, i.e. .domains or equivalent. Because of (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Well, at the risk of sounding like I'm repeating myself, I really like the thought of a special group lugnet.trains.org for people to help plan and talk about how to set up more clubs like PNLTC and GMLTC. The .org. node is forward-expandable (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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(...) Nope, keep LDraw capitalized as-is. That's how James named it, that's how it's copyrighted, that's the trademark, that's how it'll stay. End of story. IMO, "Foundation" conjures up images of a non-profit institution (a plus) which dabbles in (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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(...) which one did you do? can i see something (either a picture or the part itself?) did you do the classic space landing pad one? (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Arg. Good point. (...) Why the .org. then? Why not lugnet.trains.pnltc and lugnet.trains.gmltc ? The name is shorter and easier to remember. They are separated from the lugnet.trains group, yet they're still associated with it. (...) Yes, see (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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(...) Caught a link to this article on Slashdot today. Given that we're almost halfway through April it might be a good idea to wait just a bit on this. (URL) Solutions' monopoly is ending. Prices for domain registration are expected to drop, with (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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I feel it is an appropriate time to register the domain name and take donations for it. I figure I will not waste time contacting Larry via email, but go ahead with handling donations myself since he has been absent (or at least hasn't posted) here (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) Also good thoughts. I put the www in zacktron.com cause I felt like it, but I see where you're coming from on this and agree with you here. (...) Probably the latter, but I would either go all lowercase or all caps, on a font that looks good (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) [...] (...) Well, that description IMO can be easily written. I wanted to have a feeling of what people wanted the title to be so I can start making the images... If no one shows interest in deciding this, I will most likely choose The LDraw (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) But couldn't you add some link between the groups in your newsgroup software so that they are associated? (...) Aah... Could we introduce domain-specific discussion that suppliments the topic discussion of groups like: trains cad.dev (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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(...) Nope. That is the bad boy, AFAIK. Actually, the people to ask about patterns are the ones that do good ones. One name that immediately springs to mind is Chris Dee. And there are many others. It is important to note the a good pattern has many (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part: brick 1 x 2 with arm 2F
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(...) No. I will not ignore them. But I don't look forward to slogging through a bunch of parts finding obvious, glaring errors. Ones that should _NOT_ be there in pieces submitted for voting. And I can only assume that the errors are there because: (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P support of extended metacommands?
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(...) Follow-up. What -c switch? It tells me that option is unknown. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P support of extended metacommands?
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(...) Trying to pique my interest? You have done so. Now I _have_ to get it to see what -c does. Pretty sneaky. :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) Primitives are a special case. Right now, consideration and approval of any new primitive file is done by consensus of a small group of part authors. Anyone may suggest a primitive to that group. And new members can be added to that group, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Hmm...that has the advantage of being able to rapidly find and scan through all of the associated *.org sites, and a nice clean organization, but it has the disadvantage of the groups being separated from their most logical positions in the ng (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) I would go with ldraw.org over www.ldraw.org. The www takes too long to say :) To avoid capitalization issues, you could go with all caps...as long as you choose a font that looks nice for all caps. so: LDRAW.org LDRAW.ORG (with .ORG in a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) Well...ya know, you've pretty much got all the time in the world to choose the site's title -- compared to registering the domain and coming up with a Registrant name. One consideration is: does www.ldraw.org or ldraw.org make much sense as a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) Which lists do you mean? Messages? Newsgroups? Which "new message" section do you mean? The traffic report page (URL) some new section that doesn't yet exist? What does a pull-down menu give you that a list of hyperlinks doesn't? --Todd (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [ldraw.org] Browsers and CSS(was: Re: Ldraw.org: Organization and look & feel)
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(...) I looked into CSS today and think it would be very useful in keeping the pages clean and allowing a universal across-the-board look and feel. The method I would use would be the one .css file that the html references to and that can be changed (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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(...) I've been reading the Boards, so I understand the problem, and I wasn't planning on sending Jonathan the bitmaps (Nooffense Jonathan). Besides, he didn't e-mail me. ;) (...) Jonathan, For the most part I agree with what the others have been (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash
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(...) Since we've mentioned other Macromedia products, I've used Fireworks for this. It has a cool preview feature that lets you tweak out an image, deciding on quality vs size and it even gives you an estimate of the download time at 28.8. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash
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(...) Which brings up another issue. Does anyone have one of those gif compressors that take several k out of each file so nicely and conveniently? If so, when the ldraw.org images are done, could you run them through it? Or is there a freeware one (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) Don't forget zacktron.com :) Well, lets see here, my votes would go for either: The LDraw Foundation -or- www.ldraw.org For ldraw.org's site title. I like both of em, and though ldraw.org sports that simplistic elegance Terry talked about, The (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego CAD for Mac?
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How do you get JLDraw to display something? I can get it to start up in IE 4, or in the Apple Applet Runner, but what URLs should I use? What should be in the 'LDraw Root' field and what should be in the 'Part Name' field? Rob ---...--- (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lugnet.cad.dat heirarchy
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(...) a (...) L3P output is huge though, usually 300 Kb - 1 Mb. I'm not sure I'd have the patience to wait for those to download. It would also be very slow before you could view the model if there was some way to link them to POV-Ray (like LDLite (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash
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(...) but (...) You're lucky compared to me... I have a 28.8 which never hits more than about 4 Kbps because of the phonelines and other computers everything has to run through. That's probably why I'm so concerned about making the images on my web (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) I like that one too! I also think that "LDraw.org" works well as a title - similar to the titles of other sites, for example, Amazon.com, Adequate.com, barnesandnoble.com, etc (I can't think of any .org ones, though). --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego CAD for Mac?
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(...) Someone is already working on a Java implementation, which IMO would be much better due to that cross-platform thingy. Check out: (URL) - jsproat (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego CAD for Mac?
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Hmm... Well, I'm certainly no programmer, but since the part files (.dat) are really just text, isn't it possible to just move them over to MacOS? As for Ldraw, as far as I know, it isn't forthcoming for the Mac, but...<checking>...yep, the source (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
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(...) Probably better IMO. How soon can a group be set up, Todd? -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 "Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a --it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings
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(...) [...] (...) Nice one... :) Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their sites and read their posts, now see their faces: RTL/LUGNET Legofest 1999: (URL) SP++++c(6973)[ip++++ bt2++++ ex+++ ft+++ sp+++ ut++] (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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