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(...) $100 to ship 650 cds (even with pouches) sounds high. I ordered 500 blank CDs with jewel cases that I guarantee weighed more and took up just as much room as 650 with cardboard pouches and shipping was in the thirties. (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) And DEFINITELY nix the full-color pouch or whatever it was. Full color anything is too expensive for something like this. Let the programs and the dat files wow people - don't depend on a few pretty pictures on a pouch they'll probably throw (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, that's a good question. There isn't much of anything that better determines who will buy it than asking people to pay for it up front, which is what I was suggesting be done with an X account. That way you don't have checks to worry (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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How about have a submission for the CD to include models (sample models). BTW I like the idea. It would keep that LDraw folder with all the junk down! The only problem is when software is updated. -- Legoer, Adam Ogle Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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(...) And earlier programs. BriCAD, L3G0, Ben's (?) POV library, VBLOCKs (an SGI GL program) and I think LegoPS (postscript) used different coordinates & units. Or at least they were all different from L3G0. (...) L3G0 call a brick a "b2x4"; BriCAD (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) How do you suggest going about determining how many people will buy the CD? BTW - the Jessiman family requested 50 copies already at cost. :) (...) Another good idea I didn't think of. Me also being banking/finance illiterate, would this go (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L-CAD Parts Messages (was: Suggestion for ML-CAD Plug-Ins)
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(...) Nah. The only VB concern is if outgoing messages will be translated down to single-byte codes from the VB default double-byte. But if it doesn't happen automatically, the data can be filtered through a byte array first. Steve (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Paul: [ Tells us that we are behaving a little bit silly. ] You are probably right, but... I think that the main problem is that practically none of us are experienced CAD developers or users. Some of Paul's points: - Different coordinate systems I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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People who find it slow could download a distribution to a local directory. LDRAW tools should have a search path that the user can edit, so local directories could be looked at first. Good point about testing. Mounting a drive (using whatever (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Well, I supposed I asked for it :-)) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L-CAD Parts Messages (was: Suggestion for ML-CAD Plug-Ins)
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <+PCaOHXM4TXRXiZv7pF...ax.com>... (...) assuming (...) only (...) Not really, assuming a very long message *really* works, but I suppose there is no reason why it shouldn't. Multi-message is always more complicated (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Which is why I suggested it. Look, my point is just this: before 1800 is shelled out, make sure that you have some reasonable expectation of recovering all or most of it. I'll gladly put up a hundred bucks to make this happen, with no (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Since they are available with various colors for the cap, it's even more important to do a separate file for each component. But the leaf-files are *parts*, not *sub-parts*. Probably with a tilde on the front of the part-title. Steve (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm. Keep a list of field names in a text file. This list maps the field names in various inventory lists to the actual field names. Ex: Part,Part PartID,Part PartNo,Part Name,Name Desc,Name Color,Color Colour,Color Quantity,Quantity (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The second approach went beyond the event horizon. (...) One long message with line separators. As long as WM_COPYDATA permits, assuming WM_COPYDATA specifies a limit. <reads doc> Yeah, there's a limit. We can only have 2^32 bytes in the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oops. You're right, it's a 4400. Steve (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) As I'm sure a lot of people would do. I don't think we'll charge near that much for the CD, beacuse the goal isn't profit and I told the Jessimans' that we wouldn't collect on it. But I think donations will be accepted to cover up- front cost. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The point of this would be to have manufactured pressed CDs. The original intent of the material is for distribution at .datFest, where attendees will be expecting this quality of work [1]. I think its well worth the extra $1/CD to go with a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd gladly pay 10$ or 20$ for a suite with LDraw and related software, if it is on a pressed CD. I would also pay beforehand if that is what it takes to ensure the project. Why not make a count of who's willing to buy such a CD? It is the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Brian. (...) One is being developed at the moment. It seems to run on Linux, MacOS, and MS-Windows (of some kind). (...) I think there are programs to convert to and from some CAD formats. (...) I don't think we have a program for that yet, but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.faq)
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