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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Try (URL) and go to (URL) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd start at (URL). Or read through the lugnet.cad.mlcad group. Steve (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Suggestions for new primitives: Flex-System hoses.
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(...) Yeah, I'll run the primitive past the committee. A couple of things stand out immediately: - The primitive's name should be 4-4con8.dat, not 4-4co89.dat. - Primitives (especially the curved variety) should go to 4 decimal places. Actually, I (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'll try shaving off another 1LDU from the edge of the stud. Steve (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've posted these now. The word "primitive" in the subject is probably not the correct term: "sub part" is probably better. Here's the example files with descriptions and the individual sub parts in MPD format: (2 URLs) latter also has an (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve, Where can I find details on MLCAD? I've never used it. -A e. (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAW for Mac; was: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
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(...) There are at least two other people with the source code to LDraw, if I remember correctly. Maybe three. But it seems like I've never heard of James having given the source for LEdit to anyone. Not that it matters -- AFAIK, James only gave out (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) AFAIK, Filip Spacek is the only person who has a copy of the LDraw source, given to him by James before he passed away. His email address is spacek@geocities.com. There might be more people with it, but he is the only person I know of for (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAW for Mac; was: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
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(...) Have you been to the "LDraw for the Macintosh Campaign" website? (URL) don't think they have source to LDraw itself but there seems to be a growing interest in some sort of Mac version. --Todd [followups to lugnet.cad.dev] (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Wow, what a cool Mecha rendering on that page! I'll tinker with the app and see where I get. Usually I'm more inclined to go build something else with real Lego than to sit down and build the same thing again virtually. ~Mark (...) source? (...) (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:li6cgsgmt3bi2um...4ax.com... (...) would (...) That looks pretty close, though on my R2 piece the shaving looks a little more severe. There's actually a small lip where the stud meets the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) \/ Ldlite source is available and has been ported to the MAC. It could use an update though. I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for. If you need LEDIT functionality then you're out of luck. Perhaps you could use this as a starting (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Suggestions for new primitives: Flex-System hoses.
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(...) I can do that, and post the results soon on lugned.cad.dat.parts. Note that you will not find any hoses that are exactly 120 LDU long: They normally come in somewhat "odd" lengths. As for the ribbed tube, the best way to find the length of one (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK. According to Jim Hughes (via the Technica Element Registry) both the flex-system tubing and the corrugated tubing 'are widely available in many lengths'. So should we make a single "Technic Flex Tube" piece, and a single "Technic (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That would be great! I have worked a bit on them myself. Here's what I have done so far: (URL) used two sub parts for the ribbed hose: end and segment parts. Look for "RIBD-END.DAT" and "RIBD-SEG.DAT". These are somewhat modified from Mark R. (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Sounds like a good idea. We should do a similar thing for the ribbed hoses. Steve (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yah, that makes sense. (...) Sort of. Well, not really. I didn't want to ROTATE around Y (although that's a useful function). Well, in my case rotating would work, but only because the objects I was working with were symmetric. I was trying to (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Steve, I don't want to 'fix' it. There are too many applications for the MIRROR function as it works today*). If I read you correctly, you don't want the object mirrored x- and z-way, but duplicated around the y-axis. So maybe I can create a (...) (24 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I think it would be useful to have new primitives for the flex system hoses. I'm talking about the 8 LDU thick flexible straw-like elements which are used as decorative elements or as hoses for the Flex-System. What we would need are two elements: (...) (24 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLITE cache limit bug (Was Apollo lunar module)
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(...) Heh, um, I also use L3Lab nowadays, actually. :) LDLite v1.6 is better than 1.5 at MPD files. (...) [...] (...) You did it the right way. Actually, the log output should show warnings about files not being cached, although it does not mention (...) (24 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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