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can someone please ldraw me the jail cell door? i am ldrawing the frame but the person who i borrowed the frame from does not have one of those door (the frame was for the fabuland type door). i really need it so i can ldraw some castle sets for the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: permission to create monorail and fabuland catogories?
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(...) the track,the wagon plate,the bogie,the motor. that is all i have but there may be more (...) try: the ferris wheel spindle,holders and side pieces, the blue seat piece,the blue clip piece,the red carosel pieces,the mery-go-round piece,the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: permission to create monorail and fabuland catogories?
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(...) wrote: (...) there's only 5 parts in mind for the.. ok maybe more then 5... monorail train plate monorail engine part and the several monorail track pieces (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: permission to create monorail and fabuland catogories?
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(...) I am really not to keen on the idea of a 'Monorail' category. How much would go into it? Are there enough monorail specific pieces to justify an entire category? Or better to place them in an existing category or something like the 'Equipment' (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | can someone please finish the 2 x 2 x 2 shock absorber?
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can someone please finish the 2 x 2 x 2 shock absorber? it is theb only part needed to put the blacktron II subtheme compltely into the omr. (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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(...) Yep! (...) I'm not saying I expect it either, but to make it available and also for the most used ones it would be wonderful. And is there any chance someone could put LDLite and LDAO together with an ledit-like editor and make a Windows (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | has anyone made the 4.5v plug socket (as on the 4.5v and 12v train motors)?
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has anyone made the 4.5v plug socket (as on the 4.5v and 12v train motors)? i remember it being mentioned somewhere. (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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(...) would e.g. the pickaxe part go in equipment or aaccessories? the chainsaw? (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | can someone please help me with the monorail track teeth?
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can someone please help me with the monorail track teeth? i am ldrawing the monorail track and i cant seem to get the teeth right. i can do everything else (i think) if i can get the teeth. (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | permission to create monorail and fabuland catogories?
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permission to create monorail and fabuland catogories? i have several parts that i may ldraw and that is the best place to put them e.g. fabuland carosel top and monorail wagon plate. (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Error in part 71184?
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Is part 71184 Bar 4.5L Straight the right length? All the bars of that shape that I have are about 4LDU under 5L (so about 95 or 96, not 90 LDU long) Could someone please check this and change it if necessary? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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(...) OK, I'll work on that. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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(...) Actually, I just wiped out my system, so my ldraw.ini is a bit bare. I haven't even put in a tool to open an Explorer window on ldraw\. I'll see what I can do in the next day or two. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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(...) Or take all the bricks with alphanumeric printing, along with the Roadsigns, and make a new category called Sign. How about moving the bricks with headlight/taillight patterns to Car? And plane windows to Plane. Hmm, maybe a generic Patterned (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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(...) Whoops! I guess I should've looked before posting. :) Anyways, there are still some electric elements in Technic, including the polarity switch, micromotor, and the fibre-optics element. Jeff - "Mmmm! Creamy Spamcake centering!" (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: #3149 Plate 5x2 Hinge
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Over here, we would call that "talking to yourself". :-) -- Terry K -- (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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(...) The same can be said for other patterned parts as well. But do we want to move them out of their categories? But then again, 'Brick' does have the most patterned pieces in it. (...) Yep. One of those little nagging leftovers that needs moving. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Partsref Updated
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Finally! I've refreshed the parts-reference pages at (URL). The display is slightly reformatted. Just cosmetic changes, it's still frames-based :( Partsref is now current as of the 99-05 parts update. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:378e30c8.129441...net.com... (...) Please, please, please. (...) inline (...) the (...) Maybe this would help. The Tool Manager is very versatile, but not completely intuitive. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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Steve, How about posting your ldraw.ini file? I assume you have most of the common utilities set up, and probably lots of cool views, too. -John Van (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts with odd angles
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(...) Here's another list, just for Technic, and including the second word in each part's name: Category Parts New Category Technic Angle 11 Connector Technic Axle 17 Axle Technic Ball 1 Gear Technic Brick 11 Beam Technic Bush 4 ? Gear, Connector, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts with odd angles
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(...) Gotcha. (...) Sure, but there are several non-hinged pieces that do have an axis of rotation (or pivoting, anyway), the ones coming to mind are: 2904.DAT Technic Motorcycle Pivot 2342.DAT Space Control Panel (needs work) Also, tons of pieces, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) c /hinged/rotating/ (...) Not really, just trying to clarify. (...) What's the axis of rotation for a 2x4 brick? (expected answer: "it doesn't have one") Steve (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:378e19fb.710642...net.com... (...) Patterned bricks could be put in BrickPatterned. It's nice to have all those 1x1 bricks with lettern & numbers, but it's a pain getting past them to the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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(...) Yes. Or I could just add the functions to LDAO as a set of internal tools (like the inliner and outliner are). (...) That would be sad. (...) Would it help to replace (or enhance) the Tool Manager with a Tool Wizard, to walk people through the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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It wouldn't be too hard for utility writers to write code to add their tool to LDAO. They just need to add a few settings to c:\windows\ldraw.ini. Let's see here... First, they need to create a new section for their tool: [My LDraw Tool] (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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(...) Umm, the battery boxes and such *are* in electric. Are you looking at LDAO's VEC? You might want to hit the "restore default categories" option to capture the recent part-moves. It's a good idea to look at the Technic category and maybe move (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This is a troll, right? It's for every piece whose axis of rotation is not located at <0,0,0>. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's for hinged pieces where the hinge's axis is not located at <0,0,0>, right? Steve (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Note that the angle and axis of rotation can be wrapped up nicely in a LDraw matrix -- suppose we supply this data as a preformatted matrix? Thus, a Technic Motorcycle Pivot Rotation Guide would be an LDraw line with the proper rotation matrix (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Okay. In order to pivot a piece, you need two pieces of information: the *angle* of rotation, and the *axis* of rotation. Given one, it's a little work to figure out the other. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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LDAO actually is quite good for adding utilities. It's not that hard a process, but it is an additional barrier. Having some of the most important utilities come "standard" with LDAO would be great. For example: I know that setting up L3P to work (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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(...) Good point John. What about making LDAO plugin-based so people can write utilities for it and install them as plugins? This would allow for more than just MPD being integrated - people could use whatever util written in plugin format in LDAO. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Could MPeedy be integrated into LDAO?
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Steve (and authors of .MPD utilities), Could a utility to build and unpack .mpd files be integrated into LDAO? I fear that unless we make it as easy to create an .mpd file as it is to inline submodels, the .mpd format will not reach (almost) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: #3149 Plate 5x2 Hinge
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How about that. Reply to your own mail :-) Jaco van der Molen <jmolen@globalxs.nl> wrote in message news:FEwsno.G15@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts with odd angles
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(...) It makes sense on some parts, not on others. It would fit in well with the Technic Angle Connectors, not so well with the minifig drill. Speaking of the drill, something should be done with the minifig hand, which has an incorrect angle at the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts with odd angles
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(...) What about removing some items from "Technic"? Like make some new categories, such as axles, beams, and gears? Personally I think the "Technic" category is to big and varied. Motors and battery boxes and such could go into electric, and misc. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Parts Update 9905
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(...) Well, I got to it this morning, although it was really slow. I could also access it at home. Jeff (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) In my opinion, adding "15Deg" or whatever to the end of the description sounds standardized enough for me. But I'm probably not experienced enough with LDraw to tell. (...) Personally, I don't like it. I don't think the conversion from (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts with odd angles
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(...) Well, I wasn't going to compile an "über-list" of all the oddly angled parts available, just the ones I've had some problems with determining the angle of. In fact, I think I'll post the list here, as it isn't too long: 2904 Pivot angle: 15 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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