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(...) they (...) Great! Thanks, Jonathan. I don't have the time, but could someone check these models out like he asks? Also, I have forgotten if someone volunteered to head up this area. I know Todd was helping with the organization as it pertains (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Progress
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i have lots of sets ldrawn... i may/will ldraw more... BUT i need to know if the sets have any of the folowing parts missing are they ok? patterened parts raised baseplates large castle doors jail type door minifig accessories/parts e.g. helment (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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During the last week or so, Jacob and I have worked on the templates for ldraw.org. I feel that they are just about set, and definitely ready to recieve content. I still need to work on the images for the multilanguage support pages in Danish, (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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Tamy (Mookie) wrote on Saturday, May 01, 1999 5:59 PM: (...) (garbled stuff removed) Thanks for the info. I noticed this too, just the other week. And I also got a mail from Terry, but I thought it only affected the Bounding Box comment, so I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unofficial Part: 30357
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(...) The Primitive is done with 16 faces. The curve that makes up the outer edge of 3063 and my part has 32 faces. (8 per quarter). --Karim (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think the cad.dev membership has fallen into a deep sleep, or else everyone is exhausted from panning jw's parts and doesn't want to think about parts for a while. Or maybe they've started a cad.dev.parts group and forgot to tell us :-) I'm (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) to (...) I haven't heard anything about this, so I'm going to go ahead and finish the part with the original curve. (...) this (...) I hope that nobody took this the wrong way.. it was supposed to be a joke. It is a paraphrased quote from (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3PB Problems
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I finally got everything running on my system again... I'm using the new L3Pb version, and I've noticed that on the bounding box line I sometimes get a lot of extranous crap on the line which causes POV to choke... it does a line wrap.. I can delete (...) (26 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT files
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(...) First thing, you have to get LDraw. It is freely available: (URL) is quite a bit to download there, and you will need to make sure you get all required files. If you have a computer *faster* than 200mhz, you will need to run a patch on the (...) (26 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I am new to LDraw, and I would like to know how to use the DAT files posted to these groups. Any response would be greatly appreciated!! D M Garcia (26 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [LDAO] Could a few people test something, please?
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(...) I get: ---...--- Run-time error '5': Invalid procedure call or argument ---...--- Could this be because I don't have a vec directory? I have a P166 with 32RAM. While you're fixig bugs, could you do something about the way LDAO screws up (...) (26 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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(...) One of my talents as a UI-guy is to be able to forget things like that and go into situations fresh. (Maybe I did too much LDS at Berkeley. ;-) (...) True, even with discussions in the .dat groups, there will still be the occasional need, to (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup, I think that's the right idea*. Models can be posted to the groups and links can be made from outside the groups into the data inside the groups, and that's how the true repository can be built. At first glance, that sounds kind of gross, (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: [LDAO] Could a few people test something, please?
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!!Additional Notes!! 1. VECCheck will leave two DOS windows hanging out. You should be able to safely close these. 2. The final two reported items, Outdated Parts and Outdated VEC, will always be reported as true. You can't check these, sorry. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi all LDAO users! I'm working on some new stuff for LDAO (usually true), and I need to know how well it runs on other people's machines (since I'm told not everyone has a PII-450 with 128MB). I've put together small test program for everyone to run (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [Part] 3841.dat Minifig Tool Pickaxe
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(...) improving (...) the (...) lines (...) me (...) of (...) One (...) Thank you, John Van and Terry for the valuable comments. It seems to me that it worths to incorporate your suggestions into the part. I going to resubmit it with the suggested (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have not followed this thread so carefully (either) but I think if we ever move wheel- or tyre file, we should use one x~z direction, prefarably the current most commonly used. I find it quite frustration that wheels don't point the same way. Or (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sure do. I just did not make the mental connection between that idea and inlining parts during an "update parts" process. As I recall, updating of parts was the primary reason not to do this. Steve's idea for inlining the part would solve that (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah..... Now I see your point. That would be a valuable feature, if we moved a part slightly using the ~moved to file. And it would have no affect on a part that has not been re-positioned in the ~moved to file. While an interestion conjecture, (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes. I'm thinking that the safest & quickest (at runtime) approach will be to embed a special header into the NNTP article stream just as it's being injected by the newsserver (similar to the way the default Followup-To field is automatically (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Unofficial Part: 30357
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(...) OK, then before I finish this part, could we have a quick discussion on this among the Parts Authors? (1) (...) Big help. I get it now. Thanks :) --Karim [1] "I was not elected to watch my pieces suffer and DIE while you discuss this (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:MPG.11916e86f5f...net.com... (...) Once the LDLite/web interface thing got going, I stopped viewing models from the newsreader. The other day, I decided that was kinda dumb because it only (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: [Part] 3841.dat Minifig Tool Pickaxe
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(...) This is a line-wrap problem with the posting. When the lines are "unwrapped," the part is complete. Paul, is there any chance a future version of LDLite could accomodate this problem the way LDraw can? -John Van (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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This is an interesting discussion. I think it points out both the many different technologies and interfaces people are using to access the newsgroups, and the different viewing habits we have developed based on the interfaces we use and our (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: [Part] 3841.dat Minifig Tool Pickaxe
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(...) Hmmm. Someone didn't view in Ldlite or else my file is messed up because in Ldlite I only get color on the center of the handle. But other than that it is great. The shape looks perfect. Ryan "Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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(...) Netscape has this feature. In the header section of a ng message window, there is a line called References, which has a comma-delimited list of links to messages previous to the current one. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Pretty strong. I have given up for now looking for real content on news://news.povray.o...cene-files because 95%+ of the messages are nothing but discussion, requests, and flames (not the POVRay kind, unfortunately). (...) Nope. Murphey's Law (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Netscape Communicator 4.5 handles it pretty well. (...) I open up .cad in a new window. (...) Good point. If I want instant gratification, I use the Web interface. Can you implement a way to make the messages with DAT content stand out on the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Working on Part 30357
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(...) The password is "modeling" (or "modeler", I get confused sometimes). Fortunately, MSIE5 stores the password for my, so I don't have to remember or type it anymore :-) -John Van (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unofficial Part: 30357
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Karim <knassar@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3727B914.45C2B8...ing.com... (...) See discussion of optional lines below. (...) I think that as long as it accomodates studs where they need to go, which it appears to, and looks close enough, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [Part] 3841.dat Minifig Tool Pickaxe [DAT]
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Alright! A new talent! Your part is well done and complete, congratulations. This part would easily be voted in, so my furthur suggestions are just that, suggestions for improving your "craft" as a part author. First, when posting you parts to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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(...) Because then .cad.dat would become too clogged with multiple types of discussions -- models, parts, primitives, ideas, etc. And people have different interests. There is great utility in having focused groups for each of these, which people (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just as a side note, when I encounter the same situation, I just press "^" to see the original article, even if it is in a different newsgroup. Some readers (software) may not support this feature, which probably makes this practice annoying, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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Sproaticus skrev i meddelandet <372473FF.4BCB8A59@g...es.com>... (...) That is, (...) namely (...) frustrating (...) threads, (...) find the (...) ng. (...) OTOH, it would be easier to follow the discussion, if the model _and_ discussion is in the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | RE: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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(...) ---...--- Imre Papp Geometria GIS Systems House email: ipapp@geometria.hu ---...--- (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) How do you follow the threads across groups? What newsreader do you use? What do you do when you're in the .cad.dat group and you want to see if there are any followups yet to the post you're reading? When you do find a model in the .cad.dat (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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(...) Well, that would kind of bring things full-circle then, huh? :) The reason for dividing up .cad.dat, BTW, is (a) to help organize [at a very superficial first-order layer] postings about parts, models, ideas, etc., and (b) to help focus the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) How strongly do you really feel about that? It seems to me that all one has to do to find the source is to climb to the top of the thread tree, which can be done by looking for the absence of "Re:" in the Subject line, or by clicking the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Working on Part 30357
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I just had a sudden urge to do some part authoring again and decided to do 30357, the 3x3 plate w/ round corner that is in the SW Landspeeder set. I checked the parts tracker and its not there, but I can't remember the password to add it myself. (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "~moved to" files and parts.lst [DAT]
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(...) Part #30079 is mis-positioned. It is not aligned for easy placement. I don't remember the exact numbers, maybe you have to move the piece up by -3LDU to 'click' it into a model, I don't remember. There was discussion about correcting the part, (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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