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(...) I got around this problem by converting all the images from ldraw\vec to gifs in ldraw\lcat\images. Steve (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Cataloging Program
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[moved to lugnet.cad.dev] (...) use, I think. When I tried to run lcat, the continual re-launching of LDLite hosed my system. I'm running Win98.2, with a 1600x1200 display. I got through 977 parts beore total lockup, but my free system/user (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: META commands ??? (was "Re: new part - 71014 Castle Greatsword")
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <SNIP> (...) <SNIP> (...) MLCad documentation about meta-commands is available in the MLCad help files, included in the program package itself. Michael (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More MPD
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I think this goes back to the discussion (from last week, I think) about the MPD format, and if it does everything needed, and if there should be changes to it, or a new file format. To handle nested files, and sub-mpd files, I'd go for a new (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: META commands ??? (was "Re: new part - 71014 Castle Greatsword")
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(...) CMDLINE is intended to document 'suggested' viewing defaults for a file. So if you make a model that should be viewed from the bottom, at 50% scale, with blue as the main color, you could add those settings to a CMDLINE statement. Right now, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More MPD [DAT]
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Lars: (...) Public. - Mostly due to the need to be able to create a set of LDraw readable files. (...) Since the construction of the MPD files is based on a collection of DAT files, there can only be one "roof.dat" file, ... unless you keep the DAT (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Converting .TRI files procuded by AC3D
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I saw some dat produced with a AC3D converter, but they only containded triangles. My program stl2dat converts triangle to dat files with triangles, quadrangles, edges and primitives. My question is: are persons interested if my converter STL2DAT (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | META commands ??? (was "Re: new part - 71014 Castle Greatsword")
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(notice "follow-up")... (...) Well, I wasn't actually trying to _force_ anyone who wants to use this to use color code # 383 (and only that one), I was just assuming that someone who may be somewhat forgetful (like, for instance, _ME_) :-P might (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More MPD
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(...) This seems similar to the recursive MPD problem. At least with the lich.dat example the files weren't really recursive. It was just a matter of the ring2.dat file in the local MPD scope supplanting the ring2.dat from the global (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | More MPD [DAT]
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1. Are the files in an MPD public or private? Consider this example with three files: town.dat 1 16 -40 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 house1.mpd 1 16 40 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 house2.mpd house1.mpd 0 FILE house1.dat 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3003.DAT 1 4 0 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw extended colors
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(...) During implementation of Gyugyi's Direct Colors, I browsed his LDLite code: | if ((c >= 0x4000000) && (c <= 0x7ffffff)) | { | /Numbers of 0x4000000 to 0x7ffffff are hard coded color values. | zcp->r = 16 * ((c & 0x00000f00) >> 8); | zcp->g = (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New ldraw.org Feature Article
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Greetings I just added a new Feature Article to ldraw.org. Here Jonathan Knudsen, author of The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, explains his techniques for designing building instructions using LDraw, MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray. Check it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hitching
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I must say, TLC has surprised and impressed me with its creativity when it comes to different uses of a part I thought was single-purpose. /Tore (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hitching
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(...) Not to mention <set:6033>. This is pretty different from the other uses mentioned - and still, not a horse hitching. -Shiri (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hitching
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(...) #2397 "Horse Hitching" has been used for (...) Also see (URL) for another model using the horse hitching differently. (...) its main purpose? (...) I don't think there is a *good* name or place for this unusual part, or its counterpart. It (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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(...) First, I agree that parts should be named after their most common use. Second, Isn't the technical name for this structure "Wagon Tongue"? Or am I thinking of something else? Jeff (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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I am fine with any name, but here is a suggestion: Name a part by what it looks like, instead of how it's used. "horse hitching" could be called "two beam offset connector" -Chuck (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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(...) It was also used in the Treasure Transport in the Ninja series. (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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(...) #2397 "Horse Hitching" has been used for (...) Seems just a bit silly to me... I mean, you name a part for the _most common_ use, right? Especially if it's ALMOST ALWAYS used for the same thing, except for once or twice. And it's known that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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(...) #2397 "Horse Hitching" has been used for (...) main purpose? (...) 6579 is essentially a rebuild of 6572 <set:6572> . Alan Random set:<set:3403> (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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