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onyx <onyx@flash.net> wrote in message news:FBJEHG.E04@lugnet.com... (...) you (...) Yup, undoubtedly more than my attempt at explaination. I think if you gave us correctly scaled coils at 100 LDU, 80 LDU, 60 LDU, and 50 LDU, we could use (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jeff Boen writes: one last addition on this subject from me... the only drawback to my method of custom building a spring of X length, made from the existing subparts, is that no matter how "compressed" the spring was in your (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) i'm not sure if you and steve are completely clear on what terry and i are concerned about... and even if the two of you are, i'll lay it out for everyone else that might be hazy on why this "compression" "no compression" "scaling" etc etc etc (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Pentium 166 with 32 RAM, nothing in the VEC directory (I use LDList) (without a VEC directory, VECCheck crashes): 5/10/99 5:39:40 PM VEC.Initialize - csStart 5/10/99 5:39:42 PM VEC.Initialize - csPartProfileWait 5/10/99 5:39:42 PM VEC.Initialize - (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) i *am* reading (although i've been out of the loop for a couple of weeks, had to go off and be "best man" at my best friend's wedding)... i *like* karim's idea... but... i don't know if that would just be complicating a process that we could (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The inputs for such a program should be the x,y,z coordinates of both end points of the shock. That way, since you are using a seperate proggy to generate the shock, it might as well generate the whole shock, including rotation. It would be (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I just realized the 1-4con3.dat and 1-4con4.dat don't have optional lines in them. Is there a reason for this, or is it just an oversight? -John Van (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes there is at least one other Train minifig who be classed as a "worker" - he has a red jerkin with a zip front and dots. Chris (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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So, Terry, since John's going to send them to you, are you going to make a quick update and ask everyone to vote again??? I don't think I could stand waiting more than another month for those parts. :-) Ryan "Build or build not. There is no try." - (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It took me a while to bend my mind around this one, but now I see Terry's point. Think of a cross-section of the metal of the spring itself what you would see if you snipped it with wire-cutters (perish the thought). You would see a circle on (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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So much for trying to be funny without reading all previous posts. -John Van Adviesbureau Noord/Zuidlijn <nzlijn@euronet.nl> wrote in message news:004901be9ae4$32...0@n0079... (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:3736dc07.459525...net.com... (...) The (...) center (...) The (...) Maybe I could work up a spreadsheet to calculate (based on the total length of the spring) the correct compression of (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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The harpoon, knife, and 9V motor were in the last vote but either needed changes or we were waiting on the chrome numbering discusion. I did make the fixes and sent them to Terry. The knife should be the only one to require voting, as the others (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Sorry, but I blew it! I've been creating parts and posting them on Lugnet, but not sending them to Terry. Time to get out the wiffle bats, everyone! I'll get these into Terry today. -John Van SCOTT R DENNETT <dennett@agate.net> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Oh, come on. That's not funny :( Seriously, what happened, I thought that he had made the neceassary changes right after he got the sets?? I really need them. Could someone possibly send me the dats that they have of them so I can use them as a (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why would it appear oval? The scaling would be along the Y axis. The only difference in appearance would be that the windings would not be as steeply spiralled. Which is a correct appearance. Of course, my opinion is that the most-correct (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Interesting. At least one or two of these are parts that I sent to you, but must not have arrived. I will resend. Steve (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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-----Original message----- From: Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Date: maandag 10 mei 1999 13:09 Subject: Re: Discussion-Large Technic Shock 2909c01.dat (...) Terry answered: (...) If we (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Ouch! 30 seconds for the whole thing? Wow. Good thing there's room for improved performance in the algorithms. BTW, have you (or anyone) converted the VEC image files to 256-colors? (this would only affect the "csLoadPictures" steps) Steve (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Another negative thing I see with this method is that the dat file _must_ be manually edited to affect the scaling change. It can't be done from LEdit. This is what makes it difficult - at least for the casual user. Karim's method can be done (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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