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Hi, I have 2 quick notes on some parts: I was looking at 973p23 and the pattern doesn't match the description (Minifig Torso with 'S' Logo Yellow / Blue Pattern), there's nothing yellow in it. Also, I think that the description for 973p14 (Minifig (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi support, anyone...?
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Tore Eriksson skrev i meddelandet <391EAF34.6F42FEE4@m...net.se>... (...) At last! Feel free to write me directly (you have the address), and I'll answer what I can. I program with Delphi both for a living, and for fun, and have been using it since (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite and Mesa
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(...) libMesaGL is obsolete, you should link programs to libGL instead because some PCs now have OpenGL drivers for the 3D cards and the only way for a program to find them is if you link to libGL. Symlinks should work too, that's not the best (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | ldglite and Mesa
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Hi, For the last week or so, I've been pestering Fredrik with questions on how to make ldglite run on my Linux box, since I've been having problems installing Mesa and glut. I've also been trawling lugnet for any hints, and it looks like newer (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Delphi support, anyone...?
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Yesterday I sat all day long trying to create a very simple procedure with Borland Delphi 4 Standard version. In vain. Today I went to work to look up a PC magazine where I knew the answer is and found at once. Of course, it was very simple: in my (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01
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----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01 (...) OK. If you don't find it I can send you another one, or (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01
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(...) That's odd, I don't think I received it when Terry forwarded everything to me. I'll look for it. Steve (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01
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----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:23 AM Subject: Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01 (...) primitive? (...) I sent a fix to Terry a long time ago (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw CD-ROM - Another Update
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Here's just an update since my last post here. We'll be adding these items to the CD: MLCAD Blockcad Povray (for various OS's, plus libraries) James' Models Ben Whytcross's Database Project (sample) (now all of you can stop emailing me and telling (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: Spring2dat an utility tool to create shock absorber springs
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(...) Hello Marc, Nice work. Would it be a good idea to extend your program in such a way that it is able to generate complete shortcuts for the different parts that contain a spring coil ? I imagine you could pick what type of part you want, and (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Spring2dat an utility tool to create shock absorber springs
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(...) WOW! How can you come up with all those shock absorber parts in such a short space of time. Your spring2dat tools looks like it would work for the pneumatic pump cylinders, which also have springs of this nature. Now finally I can delete the (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Spring2dat an utility tool to create shock absorber springs
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I have developped a new utility tool to help creating springs for shock absorber. It is specially usefull for springs that are outside the part like the 2909 Technic Big Shock absorber. The program is available here (URL) Klein A Mindstorms fan. (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw on Mac (Off Topic)
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(...) Unfortunately VPC is rather processor-intensive. I have a G3 Powerbook 266 and Windows 98 runs pretty dern slow. However it is liveable and I have also ran VPC on my Performa 6400/200 at about 486 speeds. Good luck! (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw on Mac (Off Topic)
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(...) What type of Mac do you have? I hope that VPC isn't too processor-intensive or anything, because I'm running on an older PowerBase 240. Thanks a lot for the help, though! I hope to install VPC either today or tomorrow. Sonny (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01
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(...) It should be 4-4con1.dat. I will make sure this is fixed. In the next update. (...) I haven't seen l3lab complain about 2-4edge. L3lab certainly doesn't like s\973s01.dat, the blank subpart for the minifig torso, because the printed rectangle (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | reminder: bug in piece #2500c01
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I'd like to take this opportunity to note a persistent, unfixed bug: piece 2500c01.dat has a reference to 4-4cone1.dat, which doesn't exist. now, we have two seperate '4-4cone' primitives: 4-4con1.dat (originally 4-4con12.dat, renamed in august 99) (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LCad Parts Update 2000-01 Now Available
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[FUT lugnet.cad] The LCad parts update 2000-01 is now available from ldraw.org. The first update for 2000 has arrived. Finally. :) Get it at (URL). Full details are available there. Steve (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Greetings I've been discussing LDraw CD-ROM issues with Don Heyse, Stephen Bissell, and Steve Bliss over the past couple weeks. Don just sent me a master CD-R in the mail of what we have so far. As of now, install files and HTML pages need to be (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.datfest) !
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| | Re: LDraw extended colors (for Paul Gyugyi)
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(...) I just now noticed the thread. (Thanks for the email). I'll add support for the 24-bit range, it is a good idea. I'll look into the documentation bug. The code is correct and I'll change the docs to match. For the scaling, multiplying by 17 (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L-Draw for RISC-OS?
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Hi was wonering if anybody was working on a version of the folowing for RISCOS? L-Draw Engine (Prefer nice texturing in L3Lab). ML-CAD(But would prefer something like BlockCAD) LDS ( To ease part construction?)- RISC-OS is the operating system used (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MLCAD for Mac??
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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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| | Re: MLCAD for Mac??
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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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| | Re: Anyone modeling the Battle Droid?
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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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| | Re: Suggestions for new primitives: Flex-System hoses.
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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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| | MLCAD for Mac??
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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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| | Re: LDRAW for Mac; was: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
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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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| | Re: LDRAW for Mac; was: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
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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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| | Re: Anyone modeling the Battle Droid?
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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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| | Re: LDRAW for Mac; was: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
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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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| | Re: Suggestions for new primitives: Flex-System hoses.
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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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| | Re: Suggestions for new primitives: Flex-System hoses.
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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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| | Re: Suggestions for new primitives: Flex-System hoses.
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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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| | Re: LDS ver 0.31 - Added PIPE
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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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| | Re: LDS ver 0.31 - Added PIPE
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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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| | Suggestions for new primitives: Flex-System hoses.
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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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