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(...) It hasn't been modeled yet because I wanted to get the other parts released without waiting for the oilcan. Then I got distracted. It will be a bit more challenging than the other tools, but now that I've got the LDAO Lathe, and have some (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO eating header comments
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I'll see what I can do to make Rename not mess with non-standard headers. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO eating header comments
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Thanks for reporting this. I'll get it taken care of. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [NEWPART] - 2871 (?) Electric Train Motor Sides
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Hello all, I've started working on decorative bearing mockups you clip on the sides of the 9V Electric Train Motor. I believe the part number is 2871, does someone know it for certain ? I've put an entry in the Tracked Parts List also. (URL) M. (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I asked: (...) Jacob Sparre Andersen answered: (...) ...... (...) What is your reason of excluding the "category -like" words Airport, Boat, Crane, Harbour, Train and Stadium ? I thought the keyword provision was to catch people looking for my part (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Until now, the News-by-Mail gateway to the lugnet newsgroups has only supported instantaneous message delivery: one e-mail message sent to you for each article appearing in your newsgroups. I am pleased to announce that the gateway now supports (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad.dev)
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okay.. time for the first release.. anyone using 3DSMAX to model elements should be able to get some nice use out of this util... (URL) requires the use of a freeware ASCII export plugin which can also be found at the page... check it out... and, as (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Any hope for LDLite and MPD together?
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Yes, MPD will be available for LDLite on the March 31 release (v. 1.7). I've done some behind-the-scenes restructuring of how files get loaded and parsed in support of some other stuff, and the MPD support will happen easily. However, you will need (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD<->DAT conversion in Perl
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(...) Oh. OK, no, it doesn't. Is there a spec somewhere on what characters are legal? There regex there should be m/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.~#]/ to include ~ and #, but any other characters would need to be scrutinized very carefully to look for shell (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD<->DAT conversion in Perl
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(...) Are you sure this handles all the legal LDraw file names? I think both tildes (~) and hashed (#) are legal as well. Sorry if this comment is out of place, as I'm not too familiar with Perl. Other than that, your programs look useful. Fredrik (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | MPD<->DAT conversion in Perl
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I want to make sure I understand this MPD file format. I wrote two Perl programs, one for slurping up a nested tree of DAT's and producing an MPD, and one for splitting up an MPD back into DAT's. I'm not sure how useful these will be in future (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Noting gaps in parts sequences
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I just noticed that the oilcan is missing from the 6246 group: (URL) this because it hasn't been modeled yet (maybe due to its complexity?) or is it just located elsewhere for some historical reason? Anyway, presumably it would go in as 6246F when (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Maintenance Idea
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You are both right I actually meant that, since the date expressed in the example (ISO) was year month day I wasn't carefull enough when I read the other message. I don't know of a country which uses year day month. By the way I so what your talking (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Sorry cancel that I didn't read it carefully enough Japan uses Year Month Day Benoit a écrit dans le message ... (...) are (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO eating header comments
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(...) can (...) I've noticed this too. Updating the parts does the same thing and also tries to force the LDAO header format onto the model, even if there is a different header present. A fix would be great! Thanks. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [PARTS] - Header keyword line
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(...) None that I know of. If we can all agree on a general definition of these two meta-commands, I will add support for them to LDAO. My current definition for the meta-commands are (note: I've violated at least some of these rules): 0 CATEGORY (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [PARTS] - Header keyword line
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(...) I'll try. I haven't looked through my L-CAD archive so the answers will be slightly vague. (...) None that I know of, but I expect it to be added to the parts searcher soon. (...) I think CATEGORY was intended for things that belonged in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDAO eating header comments
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Hey Steve, i've noticed over the last couple of days, while modeling all these wheels/tires that LDAO is doing something evil to my header lines... my max2dat export proggy automatically puts these lines in after the standard part/filename/author (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello all, I'm thinking of adding a keywords line to my (updated) part files, but I don't know much about the functionality of this feature. A look in the FAQ didn't help me either. Could someone answer these questions I have ? 1. What programs use (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Any hope for LDLite and MPD together?
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(...) Oops, sorry. Didn't read your post closely enough... Steve (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Any hope for LDLite and MPD together?
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36cc614e.2128629@lu...et.com>... (...) was (...) Why not Mac users? If LDLite was on the LUGNET server, it could just send the output as a .gif file or such. It would be slower, of course, but wouldn't require a local (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Any hope for LDLite and MPD together?
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(...) Except Mac users... Steve (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Any hope for LDLite and MPD together?
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Paul, do you have plans to make LDLite compatable with the MPD format? I was reminded of this by the tyre posts to lugnet.cad. I think this would be a major improvement as far as the usefulness of lugnet.cad.dat. Of course the other major (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [makelist] - Re: mklist v1.0 ready for testing
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Hello Lars, I've been able to run mklist.exe on my MS-DOS 6.2 based machine at home, and also on a Windows NT 4.00 based machine at work. Your program works fine on both of them. If you are able to make it sub-sort the identical descriptions on (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Maintenance Idea
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(...) I can speak on this. Japan uses either y-d-m or d-m-y in modern forms. Traditionally (and still in some traditional circles) the Year is expressed in reference to the current ruling emperor, so the year that I was there (1996) was actually (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Maintenance Idea
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Benoit: (...) I have always believed that Japan uses a year-month-day date format. Are you sure? Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- LDraw FAQ: <URL:(URL) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: castle parts
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i mean the one used in knights castle where the face grille can't be moved. it has a single plume in the top. and vertical bars over the face area. (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Maintenance Idea
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(...) Here, XXXX was to represent 6645 <blush>. (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: castle parts
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Yes, the spear should be in the next vote. The arrow quiver is in my to do bag, but it's not top priority. -John Van Chris Dee wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Maintenance Idea
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(...) In lugnet.cad.dev, chris_w_dee@hotmail.com (Chris Dee) writes: (...) They are quite different. I didn't know that both had the same number, though. CHRIS: Are you certain that the housing from set XXXX has 2578 molded into it? The original, (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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(...) Duh, yes. 11.25 is just wishful thinking. Never mind. Well one teeny downside to your switch proposal is the new geometries that would result. worth it though, to be free from the tyranny the current geometry imposes. (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Still getting cad.dev through e-mail
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Todd, Last week, I unsubscribed myself from all the groups in favor of getting them via nntp. The e-mail subscription page indicates that I am not subscribed to any groups now. However, I still seem to be getting lugnet.cad.dev by e-mail. What can I (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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(...) No, curves are 22.5 degrees. If you give Track Designer bitmaps at 0, 22.5, 45 and 67.5 degrees it can generate all the other possible rotations. However, the existing registry only has track at all these rotations, road plates, monorail[1] (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: castle parts
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(...) Most of these are on my todo list, esp. helmet, torsos and saddle, but I've resisted bagging them on the parts tracker until I actually start work. There are several non-modelled helmets - do you mean the one with the vertical bars across the (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Maintenance Idea
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(...) Since Japan uses y-d-m, then the TLA month would be better. Steve (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)
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(...) Yep. I'm still (when I have time) playing with this in Wise. Steve (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)
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By the way I took a look of what takes that much space in ldao and it happens that it is mostly the vb6 virtual machine and the comctl.ocx. Since those are already correctly installed in the system of all those who used the previous install you (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Maintenance Idea
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(...) Yes Japan does, However since it is always confusing when numbered dates are used I would suggest 1999-jan-01 which is unmistakable. (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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(...) I forgot to say that Magenta was the color I picked to be the "transparent" color because I did not use any magenta or anything remotely close to Magenta, in my bitmap image. This may well be a "MS Paint" thing, I forget where I was working at (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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(...) Oops. Forgot the bit about the viewpoint. That can be passed to LDraw as well. It's the -a parameter. Steve (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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